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first SVMN meeting: Mike Murray, Unitus

Posted by svmn on October 10, 2005

The first Silicon Valley Microfinance Network meeting was held at Omidyar Network in Redwood City. Our speaker was Mike Murray, Chairman of Unitus.

Mike Murray, Unitus Premal Shah, Tracey Pettengill
Mike Murray Premal Shah & Tracey Pettengill

Mike gave a great presentation on what microfinance is about, and what Unitus is doing to help grow microfinance institutions (aka ‘MFIs’) around the world using the unique Unitus microfinance accelerator model.

Unitus model

To learn more, watch this video about microfinance and Unitus:


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note: here is the first SVMN announcement & invitation on evite. also, here is a short post about the event by Dave McClure, along with some pictures.

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