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PRESS RELEASE: Microfinance Gateway Launches New Weekly Bulletin
NEWS WIRE: More than 100 Million of World’s Poorest Benefit from Microcredit
NEWS WIRE: Recent CGAP and USAID Publications Show Effects of Food Crisis on MFIs
PRESS RELEASE: CGAP Surveys the Most Important Actors in Microfinance on their Funding Activities
NEWS WIRE: Call for EU Legislation to Encourage Microcredit Schemes
NEWS WIRE: Fitch Sees Microfinance Tested By Crisis
NEWS WIRE: 3 Injured, 160 Arrested in Protests Over Micro-Loans in Nicaragua
NEWS WIRE: A Stimulus Package for the World
NEWS WIRE: Korea: More low-income help on the way
NEWS WIRE: CHF International Announces craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Supports Microfinance in the Palestinian Territories
NEWS WIRE: Swindlers Find Growing Market in Foreclosures
NEWS WIRE: Africa: Which Way for MFI’s
NEWS WIRE: PC viruses plague wire-transfer shops
NEWS WIRE: 3 Injured, 160 Arrested in Protests Over Micro-Loans in Nicaragua
NEWS WIRE: EBRD signed one of the two syndicated loans with Access Bank
PRESS RELEASE: AccessBank Begins Accepting Utility Payments
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MICROFINANCE EVENT: Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) 2009 Fellowship Program
APPLICATIONS BECOME AVAILABLE ONLINE ON JANUARY 15, 2009 AND ARE DUE BY FEBRUARY 22, 2009.
Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) has commenced its second annual rigorous recruitment process to match the most talented ten undergraduate students from fifteen elite Indian engineering schools with partner social enterprises that focus on development by means of sustainable for-profit entrepreneurship. E4SI fellowships promise to be highly entrepreneurial in a way that combines the best of consulting, technology, and social innovation. Fellows will gain unprecedented access to the development sector as they work with leading social entrepreneurs, attend leadership workshops at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, and pitch their ideas to thought leaders as they join an outstanding cohort of exceptional young leaders.
Partner social enterprises for the 2009 edition of the E4SI fellowship program are leaders in microfinance, multiple bottom-line investment advisory, education, energy, and healthcare. Among them are: Ujjivan, Intelicap, iDiscoveri, and Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO India).
For more information on the Engineers for Social Impact fellowship and details on how to apply for the 2009 edition, please visit the E4SI website. Applications are due on February 22, 2009.













