MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Women’s World Banking Hosts International Women’s Day Breakfast: Investing in Women for a Sustainable Future, March 8, 2012, New York

Event Name: International Women’s Day Breakfast: Investing in Women for a Sustainable Future

Event Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012

Event Location: The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York, USA

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Cost: The ticket costs USD 105, and an early-registration fee of USD 85 is available.
Summary of Event: Organized by the US-based nonprofit organization Women’s World Banking, this summit will bring together representatives of microfinance institutions (MFIs), investors and philanthropists. Panelists are to include:

• Pat Mitchell, the president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, a US-based cultural institution
• Julia Chu is a director in the wealth planning group at Private Banking USA, which is based in New York
• Melinda Wolfe is the head of professional development at Bloomberg LP, a US-based financial news corporation

Event Website: http://www.swwb.org/content/celebrate-international-womens-day

For additional information, you may contact Womens World Banking via email at development-at-swwb.org or via telephone at +1 212 556 3129

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About Women’s World Banking (WWB)
Women’s World Banking (WWB) is a nonprofit microfinance organization that was founded in 1976 and is based in the US state of New York. WWB provides technical and advisory services to a network of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in an effort to alleviate global poverty by expanding the economic assets, participation and power of poor people, especially women. As of November 2011, WWB had 39 member institutions working in 27 countries and serving about 26 million microentrepreneurs.

By Ariana Malushi, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Resources

Women’s World Banking: “International Women’s Day Breakfast: Investing in Women for a Sustainable Future”
http://www.swwb.org/content/celebrate-international-womens-day

MicroCapital.org: “MICROFINANCE EVENT: The Eighth Annual Women’s World Banking (WWB) Microfinance and the Capital Markets Conference, March 23-24, 2010, New York, New York”
https://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-event-the-eighth-annual-womens-…

MicroCapital.org: “MICROFINANCE EVENT: A Discussion of the Women’s World Banking Study “Stemming the Tide of Mission Drift””
https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-a-discussion-of-the-women…

MicroCapital Universe Profile: Women’s World Banking
https://www.microcapital.org/microfinanceuniverse/tiki-index.php?page=Wom…

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