I happened to hear about this webpage from Mr. Clinton last night on late night TV. I'm very happy that I did. My story is similar to Leola. I live in the US and have all of my life. I was a single mother that raised a beautiful & successful daughter that I love dearly. She is married with a family of her own. I am 51 years old and have worked at the same job for 24 years. I have three grandchildren and would love to open my own business, but because I don't have a degree(you have to sacrifice a lot when you decide to have a child out of wedlock) (or perfect credit), this seems like an almost impossible dream for me. Like most people in this country I am facing hard economic times, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to own my own home or business, so that I could leave something and do more for my grandchildren. I don't have a clue where to even begin. Whenever I've tried to look into different ventures( I have plenty of ideas), it always requires way more capitol/collateral than I have. If there is someone that can help to at least point me in the right direction, I would truly appreciate it.

The impacts are great.Not only do you create jobs and opportunities, but you attract additional capital into a deal.
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Small loans are essential, especially now that the economic situation has called for more belt-tightening policies. More loan organizations should make loans more accessible to a wider range of people in a community.

I live in the United States of America, and I am a 5th Generation in this country, but I am facing some severe economic hardships and now I see it going Globally all over the world in fact. I would love to have a small business loan so that I could help myself, and not depend on this Disablity Check that I receive for $624 a month. It never pays the bills and I always have to find other means to make ends meet each and every month. I am 54 years old, and my life is three fourths over, but I would love to go into my own business and leave something for my grandchildren to live off of after I depart from this earth. I am the mother of 7 children and 4 grandchildren. I have always been poor, and never have had an opportunity to enjoy the finer things in this life, but I did work, but it was all on low paying jobs. Can you help me to find out about a loan for someone with dreams and aspirations so that I can get on with my life?

I have been President of ACIM Indian Communities in Madagascar from 1989 till 2000

and we have successfully supported many

projects in health care, poverty and others.

for a microcredit project we have bring

small support for 10.000us$, and it is

running very well since 1996.recovery is more

than 95% run now by APEM PAPEM SIPEM.

I am always ready as to participate for

better world. my preference area now is Asia.

I'm from the UK but it was a former Democrat researcher who introduced me to social enterprise and a new paradigm for business which he took to Russia to leverage a project to created 14,000 loans for new businesses,

http://p-ced.com/Projects/Russia/IntroductiontoTomsk/tabid/295/Default.aspx

Since then we've worked together, applying the same principle to a Marshall Plan for Ukraine and having delivered it 2 years ago, launched a project for models of care for disabled orphans just a week ago

http://p-ced.com/Projects/Ukraine/MarshallPlan/tabid/122/Default.aspx

The key, as I've heard President Clinton say himself, is the Grameen model that loans to poor people without requiring collateral.

We're ready and we've begun.

I am a consultant to The Grameen Foundation here in Washington DC. I just returned from conducting a business process management workshop for a growing MFI (micro finance institution) in North Africa.

The success of the MFI movement in measurably reducing abject poverty is unquestioned. However most of these are subsitance loans. The loans are used to support an improved standard of living for a family or extended family. This is a good thing. What seems missing is the next stage, beyond lending. Investment in those few micro business that have the capacity to grow into full fledged commercially viable businesses is generally not available. The gap between the MFI and the commercial banking sector is still far too wide in most areas of the world to provide any real capitalization.

What is needed is a new paradigm, one that melds business development and investment. A Micro Venture Capital effort ... anyone interested?

September 28, 2007

This is a great initiative of Bill Clinton's. I admire his vision and unwavering dedication to make a 'difference.' The past six years I have coordinated, taught micro finance and Native Entrepreneurship to member of California's American Indian tribes. Entrepreneurship is an important avenue to self-reliance; not only, but self-respect as a contributing member of the community.

G. David Singleton