Serving the Underserved: Building Alternative Financial Services in Low-Income Communities When: April 15, 2015 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Westerfield Conference Center | 1800 S. Acadian Thruway Baton Rouge, LA Cost: $45 per person The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, sponsored by …
Investing in Indian Country’s Pine Ridge Reservation
The pioneering Lakota Funds, which brought micro-loans and business training to Indian country, is launching a credit union By Ellie Winninghoff Imagine a reservation the size of Connecticut with 30,000 people living on it who have no access to banking services–and which is ringed by predatory payday lenders. That’s how …
Women on the road to Rio+20 convene at United Nations CSD-19.
Women on the road to Rio+20 convene at United Nations CSD-19 By Martha Shaw After three days at the 19th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19), I began thinking about how important women’s leadership is to the tiered mission of Rio+20 also known as Earth Summit …