by Natalie | Aug 8, 2015 | Ann Arbor Chapter
World Vision recently posted a success story about a girl from Kenya and how she was rescued. As you probably know, World Vision is one of the organizations iZosh® works with to grant loans to women in extreme poverty. What you may not know is that Margo Day, the...
by Leslie | Nov 2, 2014 | Ann Arbor Chapter
On October 24th, we held our seventh iZōsh® Event, which was one of the most successful to date. Over 150 women from around Ann Arbor gathered to gift a record $13,345 to 39 entrepreneurial women in extreme poverty. That brings our total to $74,864 to 182 women who...
by Leslie | Apr 30, 2013 | iZōsh: Women Investing in Women
Once again, On Saturday, April 26, almost a hundred women gathered to learn about the oppression of women today. We helped lift women around the world out of extreme poverty by reducing their risk of oppression through the granting of micro-loans. It was another...
by Leslie | Jan 17, 2013 | iZōsh: Women Investing in Women
Congratulations to all on a great iZōsh event! More than a hundred women gathered together on Friday, January 11th, for the purposes of granting loans to women in extreme poverty, discussing the book Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus and learning more about...
by Leslie | Dec 7, 2012 | iZōsh: Women Investing in Women
Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in eradicating poverty. This is an...