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June 19th SVMN: Maria Otero, ACCION Intl

Posted by svmn on May 7, 2006

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The next Silicon Valley Microfinance Network meeting will be held on Monday, June 19th in Redwood City at Omidyar Network. Our speaker will be Maria Otero, President and CEO of ACCION International. Maria will discuss how to scale microfinance quickly and most effectively.

Going BIG on Getting Small:

Keys to Scaling Microfinance

ACCION took 20 years to reach its first million microfinance clients — but only three more years to reach the second million. Ms. Otero will discuss ACCION’s experience in developing commercially viable microfinance: the how, the why, challenges & implications for reaching global scale.

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