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.worldwide 100 Grameen a 230 CIDA 240 LeadIndia2020 430 Grameen Veolia -water 450 Grameen Danone -nutrient milk desert kids 490 rural finance learning | .africa 221 Mountains of the Moon, Uganda 331 Unite for Sight, Africa 821 Fantsuam, Nigeria | .USA 32 10times less costly banking 02 Service is King (j19) 22 MicroUp 102 Grameen America 432 Water Advocates 802 Change.org ideas | .S.America 107 Grameen-Carso, Mexico 117 Pro Mujer | Europe 208 HunterFoundation 418 Fondation Farm | .M.East 105 SanabelNetwork | .India & Bangladesh 104 Grameen 114 BRAC 124 BankaBillion 404 Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh 424 SKG Sangha, Bangalore, India | China 423 barefootpower | Rest Asia 106 Kashf, Pakistan 126 ACBA, Armenia | Rest World | 1 Community Banking a | 2 Education | 3 Healthcare. | 4 Clean energy,food,water | 5 channels/knowledge for community- free markets | 6 Professions 2.0 that do no harm | 7 Right & Government for community/Diversity | 8 Micro Accelerators | 9 M Goals networks for you | Other |
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| Yunus Millennium Goal leader | Bangladesh knowhow shared www thru Microcredit/Microentrepreneur Summits | US Obama Yes We Can |
| Yunus Green Goals leader | Bangladesh solar -year 14 of microinvetemnt cos nation critically impacted by global warming | US Obama 5 million green jobs |
| Yunus End Digital Divides | Bangladesh villages - since 1983 formed 125000+ village hubs for women sustainability entrepreneurs connected by mobile since 1996 | US/California Internet for the poor |
| Yunus Safe banking - sustainability exponential up built on investing in people's productivy curves and community flows | Bangladesh microcredit since 1976- replicable context deep franchises now accessible through 10 world class epicentres on different hemispheres eg Bangladesh Grameen, Kenya Jamii Bora | US Obama Wall Street 2.0 & 100+ members of congress appealing to world bank to communicate 10 epicentre microcredit knowledge www |
| *1 Microcredit | *2 Solar Energy | *3 Free University -Joburg of Taddy Blecher partnered by Branson and in the vocational spirit of Mandela and Gandhi |
| .4 Wholeplanet Foundation =supermarket industry responsibility connecting fair trade, microcredit, and certification of what's in the food chain | .5 Internet Carpet industry chain targeting 0 waste by 2020 | *6 City Montessori (Lucknow India)- the social business of the world's largest school - 31000 childern |
| *7 Mobile leapfrogging and ending of digital divides | 8 The Paris cluster of future capitalists partnering Grameen including danone, Credit Agricole, Veolia and HEC SMBA | *9 The Green Children both as a responsible pop group and funders starting off Dr Yunus big plans for social business of health |
| *10 The 100000 grassroots networkers and sustainability investors connecting Bangladesh's MICRO economics development plan of which BRAC and Grameen in the 1970s started something that my just save the whole planet | .Click
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* denotes heavily influenced by Gandhi - your editor has a certain bias in seconding Einstein's nomination of Mahatma as the only leader of the first half of the 20th century with a complete model for changing a nation ruled by an unhealthy empire - my grandad was mentored for 25 years by Gandhi one Bar of London Barrister enough- intially as the Chief Justice in Mumbai grandad jailed Gandhi; by the 1940s he was transformed into helping write up the legalese for India's Independence. As transparency and Microeconomics/sustainability exponential mapmakers, we hold the view, one accelerated since we first wrote about it, 1984 that today's genertaion today's generation as first to go networked locally to globally has an order of magnitide deeper challenge than even Gandhi's India. That is if sustainability is to be earned for all our future generations. Please feel free to contact us if your change world agendas are that urgent or deep
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Hi Everyone on worldwide learning by doing projects, I never know where maps start about this time last year, Mostofa who has been working with Yunus secretariat for over 2 years on empowering university student clubs to explore the most exciting cases of microcredit and social business collaborations took me to see dr yunus in dhaka; I was doubly privileged as there was a strike that day which jammed up the city so all dr yunus' other appointments had been cancelled Even though our inter-citizens research over several years had shown Dr Yunus to be the deacde's most trusted " number 1 collaboration entrepreneur", I was utterly unprepared because everywhere inside Grameen -and outside in Bangladesh villages - there were extraordinary innovation projects going on: * grameen installs more solar units in bangladesh than the whole of the USA; * mobile technology pratctioners are plotting with an Indian partner to http://bankabillion.org so friends and I asked dr yunus if we could make a cheap dvd with 20 you tube style videos of collaboration-everything inside grameen http://yunus10000.com and give away to 10000 youth and yes we can networkers, which we are now doing with print 1 - we wish print 2 to include insides of all other deepest microcredits as valued by sam daley harris so that students and millennium goal networkers everywhere can be aware of what exists I will bcc you on a mail that shows some very limited knowledge I have of Kenya's Jamii Bora, but enough to convince me we need to include any humanity-moving JB video like yours that we can as fast as possible given that so much is in play in the next 6 months in terms of what obama and youth choose to do and believe is possible I am afraid that by origin I am just a Scot who doesn't deeply understand the sensitivies of national politics at all so please forgive me if I use the wrong language in extending my family's http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html search for *how micro-up economics needs to take over wall street's marcoeconomics *how to redesign media*education so that superpower moves over to superempowerment , irreversibly within 6 months chris macrae washington dc 301 881 1655
Monday, January 12, 2009 Dear Peter R Thanks you for your mail and introduction to your Boston team and usa side of http://www.microloanfoundation.org/ I so hope to meet you all up there 3 February I dont know how to explain what my friends and I are up to , I can tell both a few stories and start up a e-brainstorm - a collaboration treasure hunt to see if it synergizes with audacious goals we all want to connect. (We are currently asking Dr Yunus to edit the first booklet in a genre called Innovating Collaboration since at least 100000 Bangladeshi practice 5 critical collaboration games that now make the web wholly more useful for action and learning sans frontieres. This goes in parallel to a 10000 dvd youth dialogue http://yunus10000.com of what Grameen People love many hundred interns annually to come and experience with them ) LEADERS MICRO QUESTImagine we made a checklist or tickbox survey of stuff that the world's poorest communities could do with at least one replicable franchise of, what's the list look like and which of the franchises do we already have a benchmark of This odd sounding but intensely practical (microentrepreneur & peer to peer) quest needs to flow through education, media, economics, clean energy, health, a social sustainability system of organization model question as well as one that goes into specific needs like do we have an end malaria franchise that local people can empower if we micro-empower them Story 1I have only ever met 2 economists who optimistically ask the MICRO LEADERS question and get more and more of us to collaboratively entrepreneur solutions when we have a skill to do so . Both had formative experiences in Bangladesh at a time when it was probably displaying as desperate community needs as anywhere gets. Unfortunately these people are Muhammad Yunus and my father. I say unfortunately because I have no idea how to introduce either of these people in a short email. What they do have in common is they believe macroeconomics became disgraceful chicanery during the mass/tv age; that free markets are ones that exist when they help all people transparently access lowest sustainable cost in choices made. Clearly wall street banks have become up to 100 times more costly than free market & hi-trust banking needs be - IF we are to give everyone child or human a right to make a difference with life Story 2My dad and I wrote a book mapping 1984-2024 as the future with more connecting worldwide change than one generation ever faced - that turns everything upside down including education, economics, what place if any we want to be governed over by. As we integrate every locality into such a globalization, it is exponentially probable that one of 2 opposite outcomes will compound -one very badwilled like Orwell's Big Brother and one that makes the 21st C better for humanity everywhere. Historically place-tied cultures have bubbled up and down sometines to confine their peoples to many generations of dark age; the globalization difference is we all get to share the better or the worse future. In our book by 2010 a Nobel laureate had inspired the world to hunt out 30000 replicable community-up franchises. That makes Obama's yes we can the last chance to bend the curve of being systematically on time to reach millennium goals and to make resolving sustainability crises not too complex. Story 3There is a risk that eg Obama will be drowned by all the pessimism and media noise on solving wall street not to have enough time to reflect on the optimistic possibilities ahead. Conversely 93 senators & rising share MICRO belief that part of the way out of the mess is to promote 10 true microecredit learning exchanges around the world including eg Jamii Bora in Kenya and Grameen in Bangladesh. 0.5 billion invested in this would be 100 times better for the world economy than a trillion dollar bailout, over a third of which appears to go to CitiBank. I "guess" whose sustainability investment in whole planet revolves round microcredit models first need to map where each other are and confederate into collaborations so that every region is a part of having top 10 access. As well as knowhow , microcredits act as other way round brand channels owned by the poorest and therefore delivering social business services often more than 10 times lower cost and equivalent basic quality to the way that branded markets now operate in big cities with all their image and channel costs. I am very confident that what revolves round Peter Ryan connects with the big picture challenge above as well as offering a few of the unique franchise solutions which Youth's yes we can millennium goal world needs to plug and play - and so unite in ending poverty which is now more important as a collaboration race than ever getting to the moon was in 1960s Story 4 I first met Dr Yunus about this time last year in Dhaka. I wanted to ask him about his blue book : creating a world without poverty, social business, future of capitalism. If everyone networked around what's in there with as much energy as people networked around microcreditsummit how big could the blue book's action networks become over the next 7 years. He instantly replied 7 though I am not sure if it was 7 times or to the power of 7 - why not have 7 summits interacting each other's basic gravities - credit, health, energy, education, media, transparent professions and gov that serves cheers chris macrae http://changeworld.net http://macrae.tv http://yunus.tv http://erworld.tv usa 301 881 1655 hi to marriah one of Boston's hardest working youth educators; and other members of collaboration cafe team that spreads word on franchises communities need to look at replicating who are mainly NY-based with Peter Burgess and Spencer two of the most africa-focused accountants I have ever met Mostofa specialises in interfaces between collaboration dhaka and collaboration any city
From: Peter Ryan <peter.ryan@> Very Importance of Youth Dear Gordon Thank you for your kindness and 25 year focus on helping children explore what the networking world could be if economics had been community liberating instead of command and control imprisoning; what yes we humans can be if media and education had empowered poor people to be communally economic (in the sense of adam smith) with cents, instead of rich people being globally uneconomic with trillions http://changeworld.net Dad's 85 and not at all mobile but is still optimism's economic repository and the 20th Century's remaining encyclopaedic inter-social storyteller of what could have been, what yes we can be. Of the people I have met over the last 25 years including leaders of big companies cos i used to do their market research only Muhammad Yunus keeps the question of what could be open in every conversation. Obama's mother was an early pioneer of Bangladeshi community banking on what women can nurture so in all likelihood 2009 is the networking generation's the last crossroads between choosing to systematically map superpower or supermepowerment. Unfortunately my maths research since 1989 shows that every global profession that uses metrics has been compounding superpower , and monopolies to rule over how organisations with the most resources perform in ways designed to bubble. This is quite a Gandhian and Einstein transformation crisis to find a human way out of The people cc'd either work around Dr Yunus in Dhaka on were at the london lunch 12 momnths ago where dad celebrated Dr Yunus book on what economics could compound if we prevented worst of subprime. Peter Ryan leads a malawi microcredit and will be debating what collaborative community learning can do in Boston on Feb 3 The Yunus book on Future Capitalism which came out 15 months ago http://www.smbaworld.com/id42.html 1 proved that the 20th century lost any organisational system capable of partnering sustanably in what could be (and gee no surprise how many sustainability crises are now emerging with the most disconnected communities first to be lethally threatened by their compoud risks) 2 asks youth not to worry and get on with dreams of audacious goals to action while his infotech group connect such a shared diary space of all the wildest positive ideas people wanted to collaborate around
3 meanwhile Dr Yunus and his network friends knocks on the door of leaders of every big industry sector as well as media and with sam daley harris 91 congressmen nsaying why not do a no loss partnership to prooftest one idea that your sector could liberate worldwide Kazi is charged with applications of the internet for the por which include http://www.bankabillion.org Mostofa is a 25 year old researched who animates forums with his peer age group on what could be. Oddly the forum idea he has been standing up for was first demanded by japanese at the time of Yunus Nobel prize but I havent yet found who Somehow we need to connect a group who are allowed to dream what Obama can connect round yes we can whilst another group tidy up the system mess we are in. One of the great evils is we have been left with so many messes co,apred with the ositive doing things of the 1984 book that almost nobody graduating today in American knows where to connect their most apsiomnate vision with gettin g on and conntining it to happening chris mavcrae 301 881 1655 we could be no carbon by now we could have ended malaria by now we could have been confident that ending poverty was colpaboration practical while
we always forecast (simnce 1970s anyhow) there would be microterrorists to prevent, we could have stopped 20% of
big nation buidets being spent on wars ahainst random masses of people where collaborative action learning could be by now -its irony in 1984 it was easier to imagine than now (never has man and computer interacted so energetically as the 1960s moon race - what flows could that have been collaborated around by now) the common pattern is that anything that needed partners not boxing in TIMES a compound exponential rising focus instead of a quarterly extractive one hasn't even been tried except where banglasdeshi's have reached as they are the only ones who have tried out an organisational model since 1983 aimed at compound collaborative results, focused on open sourcing life-critical innovations, mapped back round inter-generational human's deepest practical goals - and their main bank invests in this with a gandhian love of people's productivity (MICRO's original freedom/happiness of entrepreneurial independemnce) Yes We Can MicroGuide to 5 collaborations to end poverty and sustain humanity We hope you enjoy our MicroGuide to 5 Collaboration Games that Dr Muhammad Yunus, his alumni including the extraordinary mother of President Barrack Obama, and Bangladeshi networkers have been helping people communally practise for a third of a century.
chris From: Gordon Dryden <gordon@ Thursday, January 8, 2009 Dear Mostofa I realise that it may not be possible but here's a wish if I could have several names and emalls - which one person at grameen would be happy to be bcc'd on africa correpondence; who on water; who on health; who on energy; who on agriculture; who on different age groups of education (and links to social action in african communities as an example) what practice circulation lists exist inside grameen and how can we connect for outside where there may be people with deep practice questions or in some cases local experiences that need to flow with yours- obama has made a public pledge to try all the usa can to end malaria deaths by 2015 http://malaria2015.com , so do you have a centre of malaria knowledge in grameen or at brac if you share some priority areas I dont need "top person" as I dont know eg with africa which mails will ultimately matter to be able to search locally in one inbox - but while I know nothing at all about the practices of ending poverty in kenya it is clear to me sitting in washington Dc (where I go to about 2 meetings a wekk where global aid is still discussed top down not bottom up) that what grassroots innovations obama can liberate to happen in kenya can then happen through africa ; obama is seen in kenyan as the nearest they will ever get to having their own preseident of usa; and jamii bora is fortunately one of the microcredits that feels to be up for connecting any flow from the community up in the same way that the great microcerdits in bangladesh are - which is also why we must I think connect around the 91 congress person approach of asking world bank to recognise 10 microecredit epicentres as open for sharing all they know http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3709 which brings us to a need for who is the correspondent between grameen and jamii bora; who is teh correspondent between grameen and branc and so on and that the sort of knowhow that the 25 interviews on the 10000dvd connect must have relevance to people who are trying to community build in kenya and africa my communications flow analogy is very much like newspaper correpondents in the old days when people were assigned to a subject to be inquisitive - when we read through the whole of the blue book of future capitalis and social business we are talking about so many types of vital service franchises that it would help such a lot iof I knew who was grameen's curiosity correspondent on what alternatively if one person wants it all and will then decide how to route it, pelase calrify who chris macrae dr yunus world affairs script N california November Jane Wales: Dr Yunus- because you’re the world’s best problem solver I have ever known , I am going to ask you about some of the things that are in the plate of the next president of the united states. He will come in and he will face
if were you advising the new president, would you urge him to take an integrated approach or to deal with each independently? Muhammad Yunus well I can only tell him of my way at looking at it –first of all if he wants to be serious about poverty – after all, the president of US is de facto the president of the world, so what he does impacts the whole world. So when he talka about poverty he provides the leadership that others take. Now we have the millennium goals which are a wonderful set of goals which inspire all the world but were unfortunately derailed by other things that came up so first of all restore total support for the millennium development goals and withdraw from other stuff united states got involved in such as war on terror, so concentrate on the one of making sure we achieve the millennium goals, achieve them 100% this will be a tremendous achievement for the whole world that we have done something its not some of UN goal setting and forgetting, this is a real goal and a realty to celebrate having done it
and then for this president the best thing is to show total commitment of ending poverty set a new date when the world can be at zero poverty – we have 2015 at halve poverty so why don't we set the next goal zero poverty so that we know this is the direction we need to take,
when we set the date everything else will fall into place: how do you measure, how do you do it there are several things that will play an important part
1 microcredit because it has shown its effectiveness in unleashing the capacity of people
2 technology how to bring technology to the poorest people so that they can change their whole world
3 healthcare
so its nothing separated, its integrated but you cant have one organisation doing everything, you need several organisations but focused so that everything is achieving the same goal to lift the person
and as the president is declaring the date for zero poverty in the whole world at the same time encourage the united states to set their date when their city be zero poverty when their county gets to zero poverty - if someone says well we have no poverty how do you know if you have poverty or not –its very simple the first question I ask is do you have a welfare program, a welfare department? As long as you have a welfare department you have poverty, otherwise why do you have it, poverty means that nobody is on welfare tat is clear sign so you have to close down your welfare department, find something else for those people to do, so all the related things you have to welfare you close down as you have crossed that level and you are never going back- city by city, county by county, state by state, it can be done and it will encourage everyone else – that state can do it, we can do it this is the way to go, so poverty will be the challenge –and once you have solved poverty other solutions come right away, environment will come right away- like in the case of bangladesh environment and our survival is an integrated problem, we are the ones on the front line – eliminated by global climate change because of our flat country, so for us its such an important issue
the united states missed the whole leadership on the global warming issue, never got to the Kyoto protocol and as a result the whole world got derailed, ..so now is the chance to go back to preparing for the 2012 UN binding resolution .. that way you n=know where you are
the moment government becomes serious , technology starts going in, its not a question of it cant be done , simply we have to make a serious commitment that we will do it-the moment we make the serious commitment, technologies will come , how do we replace the things that are causing the problem, replacing them with new technology without harming anyone in any way
the present way of living life in a way which might enjoy life today but may be harming someone else’s life somewhere on the planet, its not a good feeling: I am doing something that puts someone else life at stake because of the way I do things – so the basic principle we should all adopt, every child should be taught, every family be taught my way of living should not harm anyone else , and that’s how I would like to live
its possible once you make that commitment all the environmental problems will be solved Saturday, December 6, 2008 clinton global china news
Monday, September 29, 2008 long debrief on how some friends are tryining to update actions round news of from clinton global last week
12:09 am esthttp://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=2827&srcid=2392 Dear Peter and friends of community-up projects of deep sorts that need careful transparency and awareness building. These do not feel like ordinary times -with eg at Clinton Global last week - Gordon Brown's confessions of broken economic systems -apart from global financial crisis- we must invite youth & peoples everywhere to join in resolving at least 3 other system failures; massive restructuring of jobs all over the world makes people insecure the second problem is the pressure for resources: oil prices, that long-term demand for oil and for food and for basic commodities is exceeding the supply of it and until we solve that problem, then we are going to have volatility which pushes those who just emerged from poverty back into it The third problem is the gap between rich and poor. As Bill Clinton has said in so many occasions that rightly so, we have a world that is unsustainable. We have a world that is unsafe and we have, for many people, a world that is unfair. And it’s more than unfairness. We have a moral problem about the rights and dignity of every child. We have also a security problem. (Probably less than 5% of USA or UK population know about this system problem in a practically urgent way) Parentheis are my words. I have been having a brief email exchange with Michael Maranda (in Chicago) whom we have both occasionally corresponded with at ned or its predecessor omidyar.net I understand that Michael is helping relaunch http://www.catcomm.org Its 5+year history as I recall started by the dedicated Theresa Williamson who have met once (her dad being an DC economist) as a portal for grassroots projects; it then took on a combined life as a physical space in Rio inviting people from the favela to come and organise community building projects. The physical space has now been closed and Michael and Theresa are relaunching it as a virtual space connecting grassroots projects worldwide It feels to me that there may be synergies and mutually win-win intents between catcomm and www.tr-ac-net.org and potentially cataloguing micro and social business projects- and obviously both are resources that have had many years of people time put into them; I expect that there are rather a lot of such jigsaw pieces (it would be sad to see them disappear through failure to connect them though I am not privy to which ones are self-sustaining and which are in need of co-partners) I am writing in case there is a conversation to be had. I am not sure of the different levels that may be relevant 1) directly between what catcomm.org and tr-ac-net want to achieve 2) maybe I am just being a bit dazzled but last week's clinton global had so many opinion leaders confessing to too much global down and the once-in-a-generation need to reunite millennial goals and community -up approaches. I have footnooted obama's 4 pledges if elected as his specific one on ending malarai by 2015 (if we take it seriously) needs a response because that aint going to happen with Peter's malaria networks knowledge being included in the picture; Peter also spent about 20? years of his life stomping round Africa so has a lot of knowledge relationships relevant to transparency conflict subtleties in that continent 3) of course there are potential links between this and what yunus friends and I try to champion both in cataloguing replicable socila bsuiensses and the 10000 youthdvd network dialogue people like mostofa and I aim to be connecting soon http://yunus10000.com http://yunusworld.com Longer-term , if I or we can get there, I wish to encouarge start up teams to imagine wherther the people's summit that networks as http://microcreditsummit.org can be bridged to other vital community-sustaining areas including: http://microhealthsummit.com http://microeducationsummit.com http://microenergy.com and http://micromediasummit.com (to include interent and mobile for the poor) Look forward to these or other potentially relevant ideas. It may be best to focus on 1) first since clearly many years of work have gone in to tr-ac-net and catcomm and if there is a way they could immediately help sustan each other and I dont want my passions for Yunus project mapping to get in the way of any immediate needs your community webs need. Apologies if I may have slighly set up contexts wrongly, please go ahead and re-edit more precisely what the goals of catcomm and tr-ac-net are There is also the issue of whether proprietors of London-based hubs should be included in this conversation. I believe I was the first person to publish a physical directory to hubs around the world about 15 months ago but its an area that has run into 2 kinds of conflict: the north west hubs have first level problems of how to sustain their bricks and mortar so instead of being open colaboratioin hubs to each other they tend to keep their best info for paid up local members. They also seem dominated by social entrepreneurs who I find 90% of muddled where they seem to be beholden to the same models as charities rather than seek to clarify their sustainability the way yunus and social business entrepreneur models map. It seems also that we have 4 East Coast cities: DC, New York, Chicago and Boston -and my old network stomping ground of London - where we know some of the people who have lifelong commitments to collaborating between community-up and in effect my dad's 1984 forecast -as senior European economist - that sustanable globalisation will need such people power networks to win out versus the global-down only be those the deceased wall street banks or the not yet deceased global-down NGOs http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html briefly cc -mostofa at http://yunusforum.net is charged by yunus to start registering people who wish to be knowledge ambassadors for the Bangladshi franchises of community-up- Samira being one of the first people in DC that may be connecting around that; hattori is an old Gandhian friend (veteran of a series of annual 500 person conferences http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/ London Delhi sarajevo) of mine Modjtaba Sadra at london branch of Aga Khan uni whose life long study of cultures is particularly tuned to tryng to bridge east-west conflicts; Patrick and Robert are 2 london co-stompers who I have a long history with - for example in 2005 Patrick and I were applaed by the officail make poverty history years that was all global-ngo down and we convened various 40+ person open spaces on the other system round for ending poverty (which was probably where I first heard of microfinace) marriah helped arrange the cable tv program on collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I which can fill a practical gap if citizens dont altready have their own preferred cafe process chris macrae washington DC 301 881 1655 PREVIOUSLY Michael sent you a message. Re: Catalytic Communities ================================================ Obama's 4 action pledges: 1 And the first commitment that I'll make today is setting a goal of an 80-percent reduction in green house gas emissions by 2050. 2 and that is why the second commitment that I'll make is embracing the millennium development goals which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015. This will take more resources from the United States and as president I will increase our foreign assistance to provide. 3 And that's why the third commitment I'll make is working to erase the global primary education gap by 2015. Every child, every boy and every girl should have the ability to go to school. To ensure that our nation does its part to meet this goal, we need to establish a $2 billion global education fund, and I look forward to signing the Bipartisan Education for All Act that was first introduced by Hilary Clinton, a true champion for children, not just here in the United States but all around the world
4 So today I want to join with the global malaria community that is meeting here in New York to make a new commitment: When I am president, we will set the goal of ending all deaths from malaria by 2015. It's time to rid the world of a disease that doesn't have to take lives. In case anyone is still looking at this flow I found what Hernado de Soto said relevant and of course he is one of the greats of community-up from s. america continment But the message hasn't probably gotten across, that the majority of entrepreneurs are actually poor in developing countries. And they're working outside, and sorry for the silver bullet again, they're working without the tools of the law that allowed them to get capital, get credit, identify themselves, get markets. So, I consider that in spite of all the talk, in spite of the wonderful work of Muhammad Yunus, who is out there and with his microcredit schemes has been able to show that even people needing $10 a month are entrepreneurs. We haven't yet got a world massive program whereby all of these entrepreneurs are seen not only as receivers of charity but actually as actors and give them the tools to actually look at the issue because it's an issue that falls between the cracks of becoming economists and lawyers. Economists understand order and they understand entrepreneurship. But when they are faced with the fact that entrepreneurship actually only thrives when there is the right legal setting that allows you to deal with people you've never seen that are far away in lands you have never thread on because you’ve got documents that are property documents and contract documents that allow you to see facts and people that you can't touch. Until that kind of thing is put into place, it won't work. And on the other side, you have lawyers, who know what you have to do to crack the problem probably but are not aware of the problem of order. So, we've got also even in the west a tremendous division between economist and lawyers. And if we had been like in the old 150 years ago where we’d all been part of the same faculty, we might have put the whole thing together the way the founding fathers of the United States did, where they realize that entrepreneurship was not only a legal problem, it was a political problem. And it was a question of empowering them and it was a question of undoing the feudal system that only focused on those that had success and had the heritage. It's the issue of globalization. President Clinton was saying something very important which we have grown in the last 20 years like never before. But there is another statistic that is also extremely important. We have grown in the last 60 years where we began globalizing more than we have in the previous 2000 years. But the important thing to understand is that globalization is really another word for global contracts 57.14. And if you don't get global law to bring everybody in and 4 billion people in the world are not within the law, you're not going to be able to save globalization which is the engine that's given us prosperity Tuesday, September 23, 2008 please see lower down as this week's Clinton Global Initiative agenda's accelerate - this blog will update on actionable
consequences for citizen networks- meanwhile Clinton family are coming up to their 20th year as microcredit practitioners
and have extraordinay insights into Bangladesh as the sustainable 21st C developing nation mode which the worldwide can collaboratively
win-win-win from exploring
10:40 am estFriday, September 12, 2008 y10000 - good news & social action dialogue 08/09 between Yunus & 10000 Youthversion 0 sneak www preview - target launch Minus 4 weeks
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Here are some action links we are designing to connect the 10000 network of owner of dvd on sustainability happenings which Dr Yunus, Grameen and Bangladesh are inviting people to practice
other videos to come from yunus archives eg the Ning Chinese
youth memorial video nad greenchildren videos if any are in dhaka
Thursday, September 11, 2008 1 microcredit's and bangladesh's 30 year rising exponential - in briefBangladesh - BirthPlace of Microcredit - the banking system that invests in helping people to be productive (find their enetrepreneur
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6:32 pm estIt was the early 1970s; after a bloody war bangladesh gained its independence from Paksitan ; but the country was decimated, there was a terrible famine which killed over a million , and in the rural areas almost half the popuation were prevented from leading a productive or any kind of life. That was the lot of the rural woman until microcredit came along- thanks to what started as a socila action initiative of Dr Ynus and 3 other co-founders It empowered vilage women to generate income; they in turn voted at their 60-oerson centres to invest in their children's health and schooling; cleaning up water, food and energy became other tasks of community sustainability; by the early 1990s microcredit had proved itself nationally to be the best "end poverty" system changing tool the world had seen; it was becoming known internatinally with national leaders including the clintons in the USA and the monarchy in Spain; between 1997 and 2006 the number of people served worldwide by microcredit increased emponetially from about 11 million to 100 million -aking http://microcreditsummit.org the best yet use of networking; meanwhile in Bangladsh a mobile revolution ending digital divides had started thanks to Yunus innovation spirita dn optimism; grameen was developing its 2nd exponentail up for rural peoples;; now there are several more including Bangaldesh being teh world's largest installer of solar energy units. Truly if the planet is to be sustainable it will be the MICRO maps of bangladsh that did as much as anything else for regenerating the human race. Thank goodness teh world's most godwill multiplying brand got an awarenes boost from the Nobel peace prize of 2006 |
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PLENARY SESSION: The Global Impact of Rural Innovation
Friday 9/26/08, 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
Metropolitan Ballroom
In today’s society, where technology enables people to connect with one another instantly, it is hard to understand why poor, rural regions around the world continue to face persistent challenges in isolation. To reconcile these inequalities, many individuals, organizations, and businesses are actively addressing education, economic development, energy opportunities, and other vital needs. From the development of alternative-energy technology to implementation of economic development initiatives, persistently impoverished rural communities are developing in ways that can be scaled to address global challenges. This panel will include leaders who are driving innovations that serve rural communities and can be applied around the world.
Program Participants:
Jacques
Aigrain, CEO, Swiss Reinsurance Company
Steve Gunderson, President and CEO, Council on Foundations
Wangari Muta Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement, Kenya
Elsie Meeks, President
and CEO, First Nations Oweesta Corporation
Rick Warren, Pastor, Saddleback Church
Muhammad
Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
| 5:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. | Giving: A Conversation between President Clinton and Bill Gates | |
Metropolitan Ballroom
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OPENING PLENARY: A Call to Action
Wednesday 9/24/08, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
Metropolitan Ballroom
The opening plenary session will engage a diverse group of world leaders in an action-oriented discussion of the major challenges that CGI is focusing on this year: education, energy & climate change, global health, and poverty alleviation. This session will explore the transformative capacity of business, government, and NGOs to collaboratively develop and implement sustainable solutions.
Special Remarks:
Lance Armstrong, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Lance
Armstrong Foundation
Program Participants:
William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United
States; Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, The Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan
Bono, Lead Singer, U2; Co-Founder, Anti-Poverty Campaign, ONE
Al Gore,
Chairman, The Alliance for Climate Protection
E. Neville Isdell, Chairman of the Board of Directors,
The Coca-Cola Company
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia
Thursday
9/25/08, 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
Metropolitan Ballroom
During the 20th century, more people than ever benefited from clean water, plentiful food, and the mobility and comfort of an oil-based economy. World grain harvests quadrupled and world oil production grew 180-fold during the last century. However, our food, water, and oil reserves are increasingly strained as resources are depleted, natural systems become strained, and world population increases. The rising price of oil and increases in biofuel production are driving up global grain prices. New oil-extraction opportunities are heavily water- and carbon-intensive, and increasing demand for water is lowering water tables around the world. Because water, food, and energy issues are so closely related, solutions addressing one should address all three. This panel will discuss ways to use water more efficiently, expand food security, and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels to create a more sustainable future.
Opening Remarks
John McCain, Senator from Arizona, United States Senate
Program Participants:
Tom Brokaw, Special Correspondent, NBC News; Moderator, “Meet the Press”
T. Boone Pickens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BP Capital
Robert Zoellick,
President, The World Bank Group
Closing Remarks
Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, United States Senate
PLENARY SESSION: Generating Profits, Jobs and Equitable Growth
Wednesday 9/24/08, 4:00 P.M.
– 5:00 P.M.
Metropolitan Ballroom
With the world population growing by more than 200,000 people each day, the public and private sectors must take action to create jobs, provide health and human services, and promote fair and equitable growth. This panel will feature public and private sector leaders and will explore ways the public sector can create policies that encourage investment in high-quality and emerging-technology jobs and promote a fair distribution of wealth, and it will examine ways the private sector can invest in and work with communities to generate jobs and create sustainable and healthy local economies in both developed and developing nations.
Program Participants:
Matthew
Bishop, New York Bureau Chief and American Business Editor, The Economist
John T. Chambers,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco
Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and
Democracy
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, President and Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
Tulsi Tanti, Chairman and Managing Director, Suzlon Energy Ltd.
SPECIAL SESSION: Overcoming Poverty in Challenging Environments
Friday 9/26/08, 12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
New York East and New York West
Despite historic gains in poverty reduction in countries such as India and China, endemic poverty persists as a central challenge in much of the developing world. In many impoverished nations, efforts to stimulate development and to fight poverty are undermined by conflict, disease, corruption, and weak institutions. Overcoming challenges in these difficult environments requires innovative approaches to strengthen governance, empower local communities, and ignite private-sector growth. This special session will feature world leaders who have developed and implemented innovative approaches to poverty alleviation under exceptional circumstances. The discussion will focus on critical areas for engagement and action by CGI members in the midst of today’s most challenging economic and political circumstances.
Program Participants:
Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Helene D. Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA
His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, President, Republic of Sierra Leone
Surin Pitsuwan,
Secretary-General, ASEAN
His Excellency René Préval, President, Republic of Haiti
SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Change and Poverty
Thursday 9/25/08, 4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Empire East and Empire West
Climate Change and Poverty will address the devastating impact of climate change on the world’s poor. Droughts, floods, rising seas, and the spread of infectious disease threaten to push families and communities already struggling for life’s basics to the brink. At the same time, many tools for addressing climate change and its impacts — such as solar power, wind power, water treatment, and sustainable agriculture — can help create jobs and play an important role in fighting poverty. This panel will explore strategies for fighting global warming while lifting poor communities from poverty, examining the role of technology cooperation, carbon markets, philanthropy, public-private partnerships, and other mechanisms. It will also explore the imperative of helping poor communities adapt to the real, everyday dangers posed by global warming.
Program Participants:
H.E. Felipe Calderón, President, United Mexican States
Richard Cizik,
Vice President of Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals
Van Jones, Founder and
President, Green for All
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Director-General, TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute
John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
Judith Rodin, President,
The Rockefeller Foundation
POVERTY
| HEALTH | EDUCATION | energy/Climate |
As the largest international lender for developing countries, the World Bank has an enormous ability to influence whether the world will achieve the MDGs. The Bank’s stated mission is “to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results.” However, the World Bank is investing very little in microfinance for those who live on less than $1 a day.
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has the opportunity to steer the Bank in a new direction and reform policies in favor of pro-poor investments that will align Bank practices with its stated mission of alleviating poverty. The World Bank must increase its investment in microfinance for those living on less than $1 a day.
Fall 2008: House and Senate Letters
Senate Fall 2008: Sens. Enzi (R-WY) and Brown (D-OH) sent a letter to World Bank president Zoellick highlighting possible ways the Bank can increase its investment in microfinance for the very poor. The letter was sent in early December to President Zoellick.
21 senators signed the Senate letter (pdf, with signatures): Enzi (R-WY), Brown (D-OH), Dole (R-NC), Burr (R-NC), Feinstein (D-CA), Durbin (D-IL), Cantwell (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Levin (D-MI), Murray (D-WA), Martinez (R-FL), Menendez (D-NJ), Sanders (I-VT), Inhofe (R-OK), Cardin (D-MD), Johnson (D-SD), Bingaman (D-NM), Isakson (R-GA), Hatch (R-UT), Mikulski (D-MD), Bennett (R-UT).
House Fall 2008: Rep. Holt (D-NJ) and Carter (R-TX) initiated a letter to World Bank president Zoellick highlighting possible ways the Bank can increase its investment in microfinance for the very poor. The letter was sent in early December to President Zoellick.
93 representatives signed the House letter (pdf, with signatures): Holt (D-NJ), Carter (R-TX), Klein (D-FL), McDermott (D-WA), Bordallo (D-GU), A. Smith (D-WA), A. Hastings (D-FL), Shuler (D-NC), Capps (D-CA), Schakowsky (D-IL), Lewis (D-GA), Baldwin (D-WI), A. Green (D-TX), Rothman (D-NJ), Berkley (D-NV), Doggett (D-TX), Hirono (D-HI), Moran (D-VA), Jackson (D-IL), Jackson Lee (D-TX), Wolf (R-VA), Kirk (R-IL), L. Smith (R-TX), Van Hollen (D-MD), Grijalva (D-AZ), McCollum (D-MN), Giffords (D-AZ), Davis (R-VA), Gonzalez (D-TX), Myrick (R-NC), Waxman (D-CA), Blumenauer (D-OR), Young (R-AK), Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Hill (D-IN), Rohrabacher (R-CA), Walberg (R-MI), Inglis (R-SC), Miller (D-NC), DeGette (D-CO), Berman (D-CA), Filner (D-CA), Kildee (D-MI), Conyers (D-MI), Lee (D-CA), Sullivan (R-OK), Inslee (D-WA), McCotter (R-MI), Schiff (D-CA), McCaul (R-TX), Miller (D-CA), Mitchell (D-AZ), Harman (D-CA), Nadler (D-NY), Lewis (R-CA), Engel (D-NY), Wexler (D-FL), Lofgren (D-CA), Loebsack (D-IA), Serrano (D-NY), Moran (R-KS), Brown (D-FL), Eshoo (D-CA), Sherman (D-CA), Johnson (D-GA), Andrews (D-NJ), Bono Mack (R-CA), Payne (D-NJ), Pomeroy (D-ND), Larsen (D-WA), Thornberry (R-TX), Dicks (D-WA), Crowley (D-NY), McNerney (D-CA), Levin (D-MI), Sires (D-NJ), Conaway (R-TX), Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD), Honda (D-CA), Pallone (D-NJ), Waters (D-CA), Pascrell (D-NJ), Maloney (D-NY), Capuano (D-MA), Terry (R-NE), Watson (D-CA), Hooley (D-OR), Clarke (D-NY), Perlmutter (D-CO), Tauscher (D-CA), Wu (D-OR), Kaptur (D-OH), Woolsey (D-CA).
Past Congressional Actions
Senate February 2008: In February 2008, Senators Bennett (R-UT), Durbin (D-IL), Enzi (R-WY), and Brown (D-OH) initiated a “Dear Colleague” letter (PDF) calling on World Bank President Zoellick to meet with the Senate to discuss why the Bank is not increasing its focus on providing the poorest with greater access to microfinance. For background and talking points, please see the December 2007 Action.
30 senators signed the letter, including 11 Republicans: Bennett (R-UT), Durbin (D-IL), Enzi (R-WY), Brown (D-OH), Murkowski (R-AK), Lieberman (I-CT), Cardin (D-MD), Bayh (D-IN), Murray (D-WA), Boxer (D-CA), Stabenow (D-MI), Hatch (R-UT), Lugar (R-IN), Chambliss (R-GA), Levin (D-MI), Coleman (R-MN), Nelson (D-FL), Casey (D-PA), Mikulski (D-MD), Klobuchar (D-MN), Inhofe (R-OK), Isakson (R-GA), Obama (D-IL), Clinton (D-NY), Schumer (D-NY), Feinstein (D-CA), Burr (R-NC), McCaskill (D-MO), Martinez (R-FL), Cantwell (D-WA).
30 senators also signed the last Senate letter in 2005: Bennett (R-UT), Bingaman (D-NM), Boxer (D-CA), Cantwell (D-WA), Coburn (R-OK), Coleman (R-MN), Cornyn (R-TX), Corzine (D-NJ), Dayton (D-MN), DeWine (R-OH), Dole (R-NC), Domenici (R-NM), Durbin (D-IL), Feinstein (D-CA), Inhofe (R-OK), Inouye (D-HI), Jeffords (I-VT), Kohl (D-WI), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Levin (D-MI), Martinez (R-FL), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Reed (D-RI), Salazar (D-CO), Santorum (R-PA), Sarbanes (D-MD), Smith (R-OR), Stabenow (D-MI), and Stevens (R-AK).
House Feburary 2008: During the October congressional meeting with World Bank President Zoellick, members of Congress raised critical points on the need to increase the Bank’s investment in microfinance for the very poor. In response to Mr. Zoellick’s comments, Rep. Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. Carter (R-TX) initiated a follow-up letter to Mr. Zoellick (pdf) that was sent February 2008.
46 representatives signed the letter: Holt (D-NJ), Carter (R-TX), Moran (D-VA), Hastings (D-FL), James McGovern (D-MA), Matheson (D-UT), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Baldwin (D-WI), Honda (D-CA), Bordallo (D-GU), Gonzalez (D-TX), Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Rohrabacher (R-CA), Inslee (D-WA), McDermott (D-WA), Rothman (D-NJ), Harman (D-CA), Waxman (D-CA), Capps (D-CA), Payne (D-NJ), Walberg (R-MI), Conyers (D-MI), Sullivan (R-OK), Kildee (D-MI), Wilson (R-NM), McCotter (R-MI), Berkley (D-NV), Dicks (D-WA), Doggett (D-TX), Inglis (R-SC), Murphy (D-PA), Davis (D-CA), Farr (D-CA), Shuler (D-NC), Souder (R-IN), Filner (D-CA), Larsen (D-WA), Conaway (R-TX), Udall (D-CO), Lewis (D-GA), Waters (D-CA), Smith (D-WA), Saxton (R-NJ), Sires (D-NJ), Ellison (D-MN), Reichert (D-WA).
See also the July 2007 Holt-Carter letter (pdf) to Mr. Zoellick.
October 2007 congressional meeting with Members of Congress and World Bank president Zoellick. Members attending were Kevin Brady (R-TX), John Carter (R-TX), Michael Conaway (R-TX), Susan Davis (D-CA), Tom Davis (R-VA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Michael Honda (D-CA), Jay Inslee (D-WA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Mary Kaptur (D-OH), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Steve Rothman (D-NJ), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Adam Smith (D-WA), John Sullivan (R-OK), Tim Walberg (R-MI), John Yarmuth (D-KY), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY).
House July 2007: In July, Reps. Holt (D-NJ) and Carter (R-TX) initiated a Dear Colleague letter calling on World Bank President Zoellick to meet with the Senate to discuss why the Bank is not increasing its focus on providing the poorest with greater access to microfinance.
71 representatives signed the letter: Baird, Brian (D-WA); Baldwin, Tammy (D-WI); Bartlett, Roscoe (R-MD); Bishop, Rob (R-UT); Bono, Mary (R-CA); Bordallo, Madeleine (D-GU); Brady, Kevin (D-PA); Brown, Corrine (D-FL); Capuano, Michael (D-MA); Carter, John (R-TX); Conaway, Michael (R-TX); Conyers, John (D-MI); Crowley, Joseph (D-NY); Davis, Danny (D-IL); Dicks, Norman (D-WA); Dingell, John (D-MI); Doggett, Lloyd (D-TX); Ellison, Keith (D-MN); Fattah, Chaka (D-PA); Filner, Bob (D-CA); Fortenberry, Jeff (R-NE); Gonzalez, Charles (D-TX); Granger, Kay (R-TX); Green, Al (D-TX); Grijalva, Raul (D-AZ); Hastings, Alcee (D-FL); Herseth-Sandlin, Stephanie (D-SD); Hill, Baron (D-IN); Hodes, Paul (D-NH); Holt, Rush (D-NJ); Hunter, Duncan (R-CA); Inslee, Jay (D-WA); Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D-TX); Jefferson, William (D-LA); Kildee, Dale (D-MI); Kucinich, Dennis (D-OH); Larsen, Rick (D-WA); Lee, Barbara (D-CA); Levin, Sander (D-MI) Lewis, John (D-GA); Lofgren, Zoe (D-CA); Matheson, Jim (D-UT); McCaul, Michael (R-TX); McCollum, Betty (D-MN); McCotter, Thaddeus (R-MI); McDermott, Jim (D-WA); McGovern, James (D-MA); McNerney, Jerry (D-CA); Meek, Kendrick (D-FL); Moore, Gwen (D-WI); Moran, James (D-VA); Murphy, Patrick (D-PA); Oberstar, James (D-MN); Pickering, Charles (R-MS); Reichert, David (R-WA); Renzi, Rick (R-AZ); Rohrabacher, Dana (R-CA); Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL); Rothman, Stephen (D-NJ); Saxton, Jim (R-NJ); Schakowsky, Janice (D-IL); Shuler, Heath (D-NC); Sires, Albio (D-NJ); Sullivan, John (R-OK); Udall, Mark (D-CO); Udall, Tom (D-NM); Walberg, Timothy (R-MI); Wexler, Robert (D-FL); Wilson, Charles (D-OH); Woolsey, Lynn (D-CA); Young, Don (R-AK).
Muhammad Yunus Congressional Gold Medal Award (H.R.1801, S.903)
- H.R.1801 introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX).
- S.903 introduced by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Robert Bennett (R-UT).
What the Muhammad Yunus Congressional Gold Medal Award Would Do:
- It seeks to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and board member of RESULTS, in recognition of his contributions to the fight against global poverty.
Honoring Dr. Yunus before Congress will:
- Raise public awareness of the power of microfinance to change lives and help build congressional support;
- Send a strong signal to the World Bank that the U.S. is committed to microfinance for the very poor and expects the World Bank to do the same.
To cosponsor in the House, please contact Chris Gaston with Rep. Holt (D-NJ) at (202) 225-5801 or Chris Alsup with Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX) at (202) 225-3864
To cosponsor in the Senate, please contact Caitlin Dean with Sen. Durbin (D-IL) at 224-2152 or Nate Graham with Sen. Bennett (R-UT) at 224-5444.
House Cosponsors of H.R.1801 (as of October 20, 2008)
Abercrombie, Neil (D-HI) Andrews, Robert (D-NJ) Baird, Brian (D-WA) Baldwin, Tammy (D-WI) Berkley, Shelley (D-NV) Berman, Howard L.(D-CA) Bishop, Rob (R-UT) Bishop, Timothy H. (D-NY) Blumenauer, Earl (D-OR) Brady, Robert A. (D-PA) Doggett, Lloyd (D-TX) Capps, Lois (D-CA) Capuano, Michael E. (D-CA) Carnahan, Russ (D-MO) Conyers, John, Jr. (D-MI) Crowley, Joseph(D-NY) Cummings, Elijah E. (D-MD) Davis, Danny (D-IL) Davis, Tom (R-VA) DeGette, Diana (D-CO) Ellison, Keith (D-MN) English, Phil (R-PA) Eshoo, Anna G. (D-CA) Etheridge, Bob (D-NC) Farr, Sam (D-CA) Filner, Bob (D-CA) Foster, Bill (D-IL) Giffords, Gabrielle (D-AZ) Gonzalez, Charles (D-TX) Grijalva, Raul (D-AZ) | Hare, Phil (D-IL) Harman, Jane (D-CA) Hastings, Alcee L. (D-FL) Sandlin, Stephanie (D-SD) Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D-TX) Jefferson, William J. (D-LA) Johnson, Eddie Bernice (D-TX) Kaptur, Marcy (D-OH) Lee, Barbara (D-CA) Lewis, John (D-GA) Lewis, Ron (R-KY) Lofgren, Zoe (D-CA) Maloney, Carolyn B. (D-NY) Matheson, Jim (D-UT) McCaul, Michael T. (R-TX) McCollum, Betty (D-MN) McDermott, Jim (D-WA) McGovern, James P. (D-MA) McNerney, Jerry (D-CA) Meeks, Gregory W. (D-NY) Michaud, Michael H.(D-ME) Miller, Brad (D-NC) Moore, Dennis (D-KS) Moran, James P. (D-VA) Oberstar, James L. (D-MN) Pallone, Frank, Jr. (D-NJ) Payne, Donald (D-NJ) Pickering, Charles (R-MS) Rahall, Nick J. (D-WV) Ramstad, Jim (R-MN) | Reichert, David G. (R -WA) Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL) Ross, Mike (D-AR) Rothman, Steven R. (D-NJ) Roybal-Allard, Lucille (D-CA) Sanchez, Linda (D-CA) Saxton, Jim (R-NJ) Schakowsky, Janice D. (D-IL) Scott, Robert C. (D-VA) Sessions, Pete (R-TX) Slaughter, Louise (D-NY) Smith, Adam (D-WA) Solis, Hilda L. (D-CA) Spratt, John M. Jr (D-SC) Stark, Fortney Pete (D-CA) Sutton, Betty (D-OH) Tauscher, Ellen O. (D-CA) Thornberry, Mac (R-TX) Tierney, John F. (D-MA) Towns, Edolphus (D-NY) Udall, Mark (D-CO) Visclosky, Peter J. (D-IN) Watson, Diane E. (D-CA) Watt, Melvin L. (D-NC) Weller, Jerry (R-IL) Wexler, Robert (D-FL) Wicker, Roger F. (R-MS) Wolf, Frank (R-VA) Woolsey, Lynn C. (D-CA) Wynn, Albert Russell (D-MD) |
Senate Cosponsors of S.903 (as of October 20, 2008)
Akaka, Daniel K.(D-HI) Alexander, Lamar (R-TN) Bayh, Evan (D-IN) Baucus, Max (D-MT) Byrd, Robert C. (D-WV) Biden, Joseph (D-DE) Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM) Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) Brown, Sherrod (D-OH) Brownback, Sam (R-KS) Cantwell, Maria (D-WA) Cardin, Benjamin (D-MD) Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE) Casey, Robert (D-PA) Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY) Cochran, Thad (R-MS) Coleman, Norm (R-MN) Conrad, Kent (D-ND) Cornyn, John (R-TX) Craig, Larry E (R-ID) Crapo, Miko (R-ID) Dodd, Chris (D-CT) Domenici, Pete (R-NM) | Dorgan, Byron (D-ND) Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY) Feingold, Russell D. (D-WI) Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA) Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) Gregg, Judd (R-NH) Harkin, Tom (D-IA) Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT) Inhofe, James M. (R-OK) Inouye, Daniel (D-HI) Johnson, Tim (D-SD) Kennedy, Ted (D-MA) Kerry, John F. (D-MA) Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN) Kohl, Herb (D-WI) Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA) Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ) Leahy, Patrick (D-VT) Levin, Carl (D-MI) Lieberman, Joseph I. (I-CT) Lincoln, Blanche L. (D-AR) Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN) Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) | McCaskill, Claire (D-MO) Mikulski, Barbara A. (D-MD) Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) Murray, Patty (D-WA) Nelson, Ben (D-NE) Nelson, Bill (D-FL) Obama, Barack (D-IL) Pryor, Mark (D-AZ) Reed, Jack (D-RI) Reid, Harry (D-NV) Roberts, Pat (R-KS) Rockefeller, John D. (D-WV) Salazar, Ken (D-CO) Sanders, Bernard (I-VT) Schumer, Charles (D-NY) Smith, Gordon H. (R-OR) Snowe, Olympia (R-ME) Specter, Arlen (R-PA) Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) Tester, Jon (D-MT) Webb, James (D-VA) Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI) Wyden, Ron (D-OR) |
Note: The lead sponsors are seeking at least two-thirds of Congress as cosponsors of this legislation in order to build support for Dr. Yunus to receive this award.
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