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Muhammad Yunus @ Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (Jan 17)

Posted by Dave McClure on January 5, 2008

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner & founder of The Grameen Bank, will be speaking about his new book Creating a World Without Poverty at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday Jan 17th.

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty

Registration & additional info is available here on the Commonwealth Club website.

6 Responses to “Muhammad Yunus @ Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (Jan 17)”

  1. Chris Muth said

    Do you have transcrips ,CDs or online access to Unitus speach ?
    please let me know, thanks

  2. G. krane said

    I was totally inspired by Yunus as well. I would love to find out how i can get a downloadable podcast to send to friends i would like to inspire. His source of inspiration is the same as mine in developing the Smarter Ways to Organize Project. I especially loved his simple discovery for how to make people more courageous–talking only to groups of five or more, as his unit to communicate to! Genius and simplicity.

    –G. Krane

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  4. Angie Christmann said

    Please! post a transcript and podcast of Muhammad Yunus’s address to the Commonwealth Club on Jan. 17, 2008!

  5. I don’t have the podcast but for those of you interested in sharing Yunus’ inspirational story, there is a video interview with him on Social Edge that you can forward to friends. http://socialedge.org/blogs/global-x
    -Jill

  6. We are aiming to connect 1000 readers of Dr Yunus book who trust that it changes, economics, governance, everything global , business and to do with capitalism more than any other text. If that’s your sort of thing, please contact me chris macrae practice@smbaworld.com

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