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Applications for YY Goshthi Fall 2021 Cohort are open now!
CALL FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS!Applications for YY Goshthi Fall 2021 Cohort are open now! As the prime Social Business incubator in Bangladesh, YY Goshthi’s goal is to support young social entrepreneurs while they transform their communities by building Social Businesses. Apply to the YY Goshthi Incubation Program by YY Ventures, Powered by Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland - RVO, and commit your consciousness to be advocates of social change. Learn more and apply now at&n...
Yunus receives Olympic Laurel at Tokyo Olympics 2020 inauguration: Nobel Laureate urges athletes to create a world of “Three Zeros”
Photo Caption: Professor Muhammad Yunus holding the Olympic Laurel. Photo Credit: Lamiya Morshed/Yunus Centre Economist, civil society leader and Nobel Peace Prize awardee Professor Muhammad Yunus became the second recipient of the Olympic Laurel. He officially received the trophy during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, on 23 July 2021. The distinction was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to honour outstanding individuals for their achievements in educat...
11th Social Business Day held
Yunus Centre Press Release ( 08 July 2021 ) The 11th Social Business Day, hosted by Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, took place from 28 June-2 July 2021, brought together more than 2,300 participants, globally from more than 110 countries ---with over 10,000 viewers on average per day on social media platforms and in some cases exceeding 20,000 viewers.The primarily virtual event, hosted live for 5 days on social media platforms also had on the ground sessions at Kampala Inter...
Grameen America Announces Programme to Achieve Racial Equity Through Investing $1.3 Billion in Loans to 80,000Poor Black Women Entrepreneurs
'ElevatingBlack Women Entrepreneurs' Initiative Will Leverage Leading MicrofinanceOrganization's Unique Group Lending Model and Infrastructure Built Over Morethan Dozen Years; Alethia Mendez to Lead Elevating Black Women EntrepreneursDivisionGrameenAmerica to Launch Initiative in New York City, Newark, NJ and Memphis, TN withFurther Expansion to Underserved Communities Across the U.S. NEW YORK, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Grameen America, the leading microfinance nonprofit organizati...
Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok Launches “Yunus Professional Masters Degree”
Yunus Centre Press Release ( April 02, 2021)April 2, DhakaThe Yunus Professional Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand was launched yesterday, March 31, in a global virtual ceremony organised by AIT. The programme was addressed by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and AIT President, Professor Eden Woon. Professor Faiz Shah, Director of Yunus Centre at AIT, the Academic Head of Yunus Professional Masters Programme presented the deta...
It is Time to Redesign Economics
It is Time to Redesign EconomicsMuhammad Yunus The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the Corona-virus pandemic. Day after day all the failures in our economic and social system, and in our thinking process are being revealed. We were aware of these failures all along, but we ignored them, and we let them grow worse each day. We knew about global warming, and that it is worsening as well as about wealth concentration, and that it is getting worse. We knew about the problems of pov...
Future of Mobility
Muhammad YunusI vividly remember one of my most memorable trips I ever made. In the year 1955, I was part of the boy scout group who got the chance to travel to Europe and North America to the 10th World Jamboree of Boy Scouts held in Canada. I was fifteen years old. It was an unforgettable journey full of inspiration that left a lasting imprint on my mind. For instance, it was quite an experience crossing the Atlantic both ways in luxury liner ships, watching the emergence of countries in Europ...
Pandemic has given us an opportunity to protect the world from its suicidal path – Muhammad Yunus
English translation of an interview originally published in Brazilian newspaper, 'Estado de Sao Paulo' on 18 December 2020.Q. You wrote that we were on the brink of the abyss before Covid 19. Why do you think this? How and why did we get to this point?A: I am trying to point out the situation of the world as it existed in the pre-pandemic time. The pandemic has stopped the economic machine. So, the world has slid behind economically since pre-pandemic time. Now a strong effort is being made by a...
করোনা আমাদেরকে আত্মনিধনের পথ ত্যাগ করে একটি নতুন পৃথিবীর দিকে এগিয়ে যাবার সুযোগ তৈরী করে দিয়েছে - মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস
১. আপনি লিখেছেন যে, কোভিড-এর প্রাদুর্ভাবের আগে আমরা খাদের একেবারে কিনারায় পৌঁছে গিয়েছিলাম। আপনার কেন এমনটা মনে হলো? আমরা কীভাবে এবং কেন এ জায়গায় পৌঁছালাম?মহামারীর অব্যবহিত আগে পরিস্থিতি ...
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' Profit - An Op-Ed by Professor Muhammad Yunus
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' ProfitProfessor Muhammad Yunus Nobel Laureate for Peace, 2006History of human beings is a history of being driven basically by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximization. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses to serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of ...
Nearly One Million Reached : Yunus' petition reaches close to one million signatures, urging global leaders to put people ahead pharma patents
Yunus Centre Press Release (11 December 2020) Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus launched a call for Covid-19 vaccines to be declared a Common Good in June 2020, which has been joined by 24 other Nobel Laureates and 125 former Presidents, Prime Ministers, and eminent global figures. With the upcoming EU Council Meeting of the European Heads of State, The TRIPS Council, WTO General Council and the African Union meetings, nearly one million, that is 913,453 people as of December 11, 2020...
Grameen America Inc. receives $25 million grant from MacKenzie Scott
Transformational Gift will Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Low-Income Minority Women EntrepreneursNew York, NY, July 28, 2020 —Grameen America Inc., the leading microfinance nonprofit organization focused on low-income minority women in the United States, today announced the receipt of a $25 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. This transformational investment in Grameen America’s proven social capital model will accelerate the organization’s strategic initiati...
Grameen Yemen launches Microcredit and Social Business in Yemen Disbursing its First Microloan
Grameen Trust Press Release (07 July, 2020)The first Loan Disbursement Ceremony of GYF was held at Az Zuhrah branch, the first Microcredit Branch of Grameen Yemen in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen on July 5, 2020. Twelve women received micro loans for Sheep rearing, clothing, vegetables, transport and perfume businesses. Thirty six women already joined the borrowing groups. Grameen Yemen will be an all-women programme.Three fourth of the population of Yemen are under the poverty line...
Social Business Day 2020
Yunus Centre Press Release (25 June, 2020)Social Business Day will be observed globally this year as well, on June 26-28, mostly in the virtual space.The Live segment of the 10th Social Business Day 2020 will be held as the “Summer of Purpose” at Messe München, Munich, Germany, organized by Yunus Centre and Grameen Creative Lab. It will be a physical event in Munich hooked up with virtual events globally. It will bring change makers from politics, business, science, sports...
Grameen Telecom provides Personal Protective Gear and and Safety Equipment to Al-Markazul Islami Bangladesh and Dhaka Metropolitan Ambulance Owners Cooperative Society
Press Release - Grameen Telecom - 19 June 2020Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Bangladesh, Grameen Telecom has been distributing personal protective gear and safety equipment to doctors, nurses and other health workers in hospitals and to members of various organizations engaged in coronavirus treatment. So far, protective equipment have been provided to more than 50 hospitals and institutions.Al-Markazul Islami Bangladesh has been playing an important role during the coronavirus pande...