The Unlocking ¢hange Challenge: Shifting Society Towards Financial Wellbeing
BNY Mellon and Ashoka are looking for promising social entrepreneurs working toward financial wellbeing
Return on Equality: Investment Opportunities that Help Close the Global Gender Gap
The potential economic and development gains from gender equality are vast and well-documented — and yet they are currently being bypassed.
Powering Potential: Increasing Women’s Access to Financial Products and Services
A spotlight on the opportunity to realize gains — in both gender equality and market returns — by increasing women’s financial inclusion around the world.
Inaugural Grunin Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Awarded at NYU Law
NEW YORK, June 6—At a ceremony at NYU School of Law yesterday evening, a project submitted by the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) was named winner of the inaugural Grunin Prize for social entrepreneurship. The prize recognizes the variety and impact of lawyers’ participation in the ways in...
For over 25 years, Carmen has dedicated her life to ensuring that women at the base of the pyramid have access to the capital and support needed to transform their lives and improve their families’ standard of living. As the cofounder of ProMujer, a pioneer organization in the field of microfinance...
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For over 25 years, Carmen has dedicated her life to ensuring that women at the base of the pyramid have access to the capital and support needed to transform their lives and improve their families’ standard of living. As the cofounder of ProMujer, a pioneer organization in the field of microfinance...
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Through BanQu, a disruptive innovation in the digital identity and financial inclusion spaces, Hamse and his co-founders Ashish Gadnis and Jeff Keiser are creating a paradigm shift in the way individuals and organizations (large and small) engage with refugees.
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Monish has built a new system to capture the creditworthiness of individuals from underserved and unserved markets and is using this system to rebuild the trust deficit that exists between these eluded citizens and the banking sector.
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BNY Mellon and Ashoka:
37 Social Innovators Driving Financial Wellbeing Across the United States
Dr. Darin Gunesekera’s stock exchange market offers slum dwellers the opportunity to trade in the land they occupy and then choose from new apartments available, making them proud and responsible homeowners.
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