Microlending Videos

Meet Willy Foote. William Foote was an investment banker during the Latin American growth years of the early 1990s. After the peso was devalued in 1994, he spent two years in rural Mexico studying and writing about the financial crisis and its effects on rural people and the environment. He founded EcoLogic Finance (now Root Capital) to provide loans of between $25,000 and $500,000 to small and medium-sized enterprises working in sustainable agriculture and fisheries, wild-harvested products, certified wood and ecotourism. Since inception, Root Capital has made 550 loans valued at over $120 million to rural producers in Latin American, African and South Asian countries, with a 99 percent repayment rate. Its has also provided financial training to 55 grassroots businesses representing 27,000 small-scale producers. Learn about his story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.

Microlending is a practice that provides funds for entrepreneurs in developing countries who couldn't normally get loans. Tune in as Josh and Chuck discuss the pros and cons of microlending in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

http://www.kiva.org - Kiva lets you make a loan to a specific low-income entrepreneur -- empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. Author: kivavid1 Keywords: Kiva kiva.org microfinance micro-lending micro-loan poverty Added: July 7, 2009

Author: kivavid1 Keywords: Kiva kiva.org microfinance micro-lending micro-loan poverty Added: June 29, 2009

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Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan sounds off on whether executive compensation limits are fair game or off limits.

Web site popular in developing countries hits the U.S.

Daily Grommet covers Kiva, the world s first micro-lending website that lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in an impoverished community around the world. Browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan for as little as $25. The company creates a personal connection between lenders and entrepreneurs, allowing lenders to witness the impact of their loans through email journal updates and to track repayments. An interesting choice for investing your money and a whole new way of thinking about your personal finances. http://www.dailygrommet.com

In this TV Commercial, a real Prosper.com borrower gets a loan for her small business from a Prosper lender. Prosper is a person-to-person lending community.

In this TV Commercial, a real Prosper.com borrower gets a loan for home improvement from a Prosper lender. Prosper is a person-to-person lending community.

In this Prosper.com TV Commercial (15s) Lara gets a loan on Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer (P2P) Lending website. John, also in the commercial, is one of the lenders who bid on her loan.

A borrower gets a loan using a peer-to-peer lending (P2P) website called Prosper.com for his home improvements.

Behind-the-scenes footage from the Prosper Television Commercial shoot where two real customers meet on set for the very first time after helping each other get a great loan and a great return on Prosper.com

Several Borrowers from Prosper.com share their experience at a P2P Lending Conference in San Francisco. Prosper is a community where people come together to borrow and lend money from each other.

Real Prosper Lenders discuss their experience at a P2P Lending Conference in San Francisco. Prosper.com is an online marketplace where borrowers and lenders come together.

Behind-the-scenes footage from the Prosper Television Commercial shoot where two real customers meet on set for the very first time after helping each other get a great loan and a great return on Prosper.com

Produced, edited, and reported by Jessica Hagerty, Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa. 19087 USA, with assistance from Christina Michaluk, Vickie Papageorge, Grayce Turnbach, and Diana Vilares. Soundtrack by Amani (www.amanikids.org). Microfinance or microlending is one of the key vehicles by which poor people around the world obtain fair financial services in order to promote individual and community development. This video reports achievements by Catholic Relief Services (crs.org), Kiva (kiva.org), and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (Cabrini sisters).