Posts Tagged ‘microplace’
‘Tis The Season…
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Times are tough for everyone at the moment. As a result, my mother has instituted a one-gift per person rule at Christmas this year for everyone in the family (both Brewer and Hay) with a price limit. So please don’t think me presumptuous for writing a post about charity heading into the season of giving [...]
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Nobel Laureate Celebrates MicroPlace One Year Anniversary
Monday, November 17th, 2008
I was lucky enough to attend an invitation-only event for the investors of MicroPlace last week as they celebrated their first year anniversary. MicroPlace was created to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor. Learn more about microfinance and MicroPlace here.
To help celebrate the occasion, Nobel [...]
Small Change. Big Change.
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
According to the MicroPlace Small Change Big Change site, the piggy bank pictured below holds about $100 in small change and that is about what it takes for a poor person to start a business and work his/her way out of poverty.
