+ Making Good Ideas Work

Very often great ideas and good intentions run into the unavoidable roadblock known as the real world. Without funding it difficult to achieve goals or even begin to initiate realistic strategies. Rather than being defeated by lack of means or fortune, one way that communities with emerging economies are enabled to make sustainable progress is through the use of microcredit. The concept of microcredit began with Professor Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh with a $27 loan. Since then millions of lives have been improved. Dr. Yunus was awarded the Nobel prize in 2006 and his Grameen brand is now grown well beyond banking. The beauty of this amazing story is in it's simplicity and effectiveness:
http://muhammadyunus.org/content/view/93/123/lang,en/

Another trend in effecting positive change is the growing influence of social entrepreneurship. Nonprofit organizations are adopting for-profit business models to become more self-sustaining. These hybrid ventures are able to achieve a greater scale of success.
It is exciting to see how far a good idea can go:
http://muhammadyunus.org/content/view/99/123/lang,en/
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