Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World

  • Alex Counts | President and CEO, The Grameen Foundation

We can understand the true impact of the small loans administered by the Grameen Foundation as we follow “borrowers” in Bangladesh and Chicago, providing a powerful glimpse into the real face of poverty. The success of the Grameen foundation is more than having an innovative business model; it is a business model built on giving hope where none exists. In fact, the foundation is about transformations, not just transactions, and the success of microlending has opened a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and economies everywhere.

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Alex Counts is President and CEO of the Grameen Foundation, a Washington D.C. based nonprofit that has grown to a global network of 52 microfinance partners in 22 countries. Counts became the organizations first Executive Director in 1997 after training under Dr.Muhammad Yunus. Today the Grameen Foundation impacts an estimated 11 million lives in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arab world.

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