Articles by David Lehr
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Monday
October 20
2008Social Capital Markets: The Informal Sessions
The final day of last week’s SoCap event was, for me, the best of the 3 days.? It was the chance to meet with lots of other participants, hear their ideas, and get actively involved in the things that I really cared about and wanted to discuss.? The “strategically...
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Wednesday
September 17
2008The Missing Middle
Every few weeks, members of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) converge in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about microfinance, microcredit, and related finance and economic topics. The last session, Fueling the Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES), was led and hosted by...
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Thursday
August 21
2008Sustainability for ICT Offerings
A recent report, “Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use,” by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation highlights emerging trends by NGOs in the use of mobile technology to affect social change in global public health, humanitarian...
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Friday
August 8
2008A Heretic in Our Midst
Last month, the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network cosponsored “Microfinance West: The Investment Opportunity Conference.” This event, which brought together some of the leading commercial players in the microfinance field, was heavily geared towards institutional and retail...
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Friday
June 20
2008Online Mentoring: Can It Go International?
As the search for developing market-based solutions for poverty alleviation continues, adequate entrepreneur training and support has been an ongoing issue. In fact, the Aspen Institute estimates that in the United States, half of the 21.5 million micro-enterprises (capitalized with US $35,000...
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Thursday
May 22
2008Microfinance and the Rule of Law: From the Coffeehouse to the Credit Bureau
A recent Forbes publication, “Microfinance Fights Growing Pains,” examined the rapid growth and associated challenges of the microfinance field. As noted in the article (and thanks to Vital Wave Consulting for highlighting this), the explosion of new entrants and the overall rapid...
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