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ACCION Newsletters 

Go in-depth with ACCION's newsletters, and learn more about our work to help alleviate global poverty through microfinance. Ventures, our biannual publication, offers reflections on ACCION's work, regional news highlights, first-hand accounts from staff in the field and individual stories of the working poor succeeding with the help of microfinanceACCION eNews is our online, monthly newsletter that highlights recent microfinance news and events, as well as reports on ACCION's initiatives around the world.

Ventures Archive

2010
2010 Spring/Summer Ventures
"Rising from the Wreckage"

2009
2009 Fall Ventures
"Keeping Clients First with Smart Microfinance"

2009 Spring Ventures 
"Weathering the Storm"

2008
2008 Fall Ventures 
"Mumbai's Millions Help Themselves"

2008 Spring Ventures 
"A Model for Social Change"

2007
2007 Fall Ventures 
"The Home Stretch"

2007 Spring Ventures
"Agents of Change: Microfinance in 10 Years"

2006

 

2006 Fall Ventures 
"Reflections on ACCION's 45 Years"

2006 Spring Ventures 
"María Otero reflects on her visit to Africa with Melinda Gates"

2005
2005 Fall Ventures
"'El Merengon' Makes Life Sweeter"

2005 Spring Ventures
"Success Selling Seafood in Mozambique"

 

eNews Archive

2010

July: A New Frontier in Microfinance

June: Interest Rates 101, MicroBike 2010 and More

May: Michael Schlein Reflects on a Recent Trip to Haiti

April: Help ACCION USA Win $1 Million!

March: New Online Headquarters for Client Protection

February: Haiti Update - How Your Gift Is Helping

January: ACCIONista Recounts Devastation in Port-au-Prince

2009

December: Our Doors Are Open in Inner Mongolia

November: ACCION Invests in India's Poorest

October: Why we find microinsurance and investment funds so exciting.

September: New Leadership, New Opportunities

August: Pedal Against Poverty This Fall

July: Engaging the Base of the Pyramid in Honduras

June: Microfinance - Bearing Fruit in Bolivia

May: ACCION President Nominated to Senior State Department Post

April: Join Us in Colombia!

March: Let's Keep Microfinance Strong

February: Stimulus for the Self-Employed - Collective Energy in Mali - Video: A World Without Poverty

January: Send a Message to Davos - Insurance for the Poor - Hats Off to a Microentrepreneur in Bolivia

2008

December: Meaningful Giving - A Good Year in Ghana - Memo to the President Elect

November: Help for Haiti - Holiday Gifts that Change Lives - Big Praise for a Tiny Business

October: Introducing LendToEndPoverty.org

September: ACCION Enters Accra - 1 Million Supported in Mexico - Meet Microentrepreneurs in Nigeria

August: Individual Lending in India - Consumer Protection Webinar - Myths and Realities of Commercial Microfinance

July: Four Stars for Fiscal Efficiency - Expanding Rural Microfinance - Diana Taylor Joins ACCION

June: Bottom Up Development in Tanzania - FT Names Sustainable Bank of the Year - Meet Lesly Noemi Ramos

May: Explosive Microfinance Growth in South Asia - ACCION on Forbes.com - Build Your Credit

April: 3 Million and Counting - Microfinance Goes Green - Meet Shade Okins

March: ACCION in Ghana - Nicaragua Delegation - Dialogue on Business

February: Bancovelo – Voices from the Field – HBS-ACCION MF Program

January: Thank You - MF Rankings - Win Latin Reggae CD - CREDO Members Support ACCION

2007
December: Model for Social Change - Social Capitalist Award - Clean Energy - Happy Holidays!

November: New Website - Holiday Shopping - Social Performance in Microfinance

October: Movers, Shakers and 'Powering Connections' in Microfinance

September: BancoSol Award - 2.5m Clients - New Business Model for Microfinance

August: Peruvian Earthquake - United Villages - Reconnecting Remittance Clients

July: Partner in Panama - Annual Report - Microfinance Technology

June: Sustainable Banking - Web Conference - ACCION Network

May: Nigeria Launch - Housing Microfinance - Latest 'Ventures'

April: Gateway Investment - Elite Women - Board in Bogota

March: Five New Films - Testifying Before Congress - 8000 Women

February: Microfinance Brings Social and Financial Returns

January: 2007 Conferences, Seminars and Delegations

Since her first loan, Bilikisu Opeloyeru Adunni has referred well over 50 clients to ACCION Microfinance Bank (AMfB) in Nigeria, earning her a new nickname in the marketplace: "Now," she says proudly, "I am Mama ACCION."

Bilikisu Opeloyeru Adunni
Client of ACCION partner AMfB in Lagos, Nigeria