Microcredit, pioneered by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, is one of the most effective tools to fight poverty. Muhammad Yunus is founder of Grameen Bank and The Grameen Family of Companies and is a founding member of Ashoka’s Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Ashoka has a large number of Fellows who work in the field of microfinance and has sparked an innovative series of collaborations between Ashoka Fellows and Grameen in the past few years. Professor Yunus is featured along with Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton on Ashoka’s film series, “The Social Entrepreneurship Series".

Ashoka’s Susan Davis also serves as Chair of the Board of Professor Yunus’s Grameen Foundation. She collaborated with leading venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, himself a vocal proponent of microfinance, to describe its successes and the important role of social entrepreneurs in the global fight against poverty.

Hear Ashoka’s Global Academy Chair Susan Davis describe attending the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Awards on Democracy Now! Read more here

Academy Chair Susan Davis and Vinod Khosla on “Taking Stock of the Microcredit Summit Campaign” Read more here

Academy Chair Susan Davis and Vinod Khosla discuss “Microcredit As A Global Model” Read more here

Vinod Khosla discusses microcredit and social entrepreneurship on PBS “A Nobel Cause” Read more here