Microfinance and leadership change
- Bangladesh Supreme Court to Hear Muhammad Yunus Appeal (BBC): The hearing will likely resume tomorrow.
- Microfinance Under Fire (New York Times): For context on the situation of Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, and a caution: “When an organization has a founder who is intimately associated with it (as Jobs is at Apple), the leadership transition needs to be handled with great care.”
Tim McNichol, "White Males and Diversity" consultant and coach. Photo credit: OregonDOT (Flickr/Creative Commons).
Diversity at work
- Diversity is Inefficient (New Organizing Institute blog): Ashindi Maxton writes, “With demographic realities and righteousness on our side, we strive to build diverse movements and organizations. My sense – and tell me if I’m wrong – is that mostly we fail…I’d like to make a few concrete suggestions for how any of us can start right now treating inclusion as a part of our purpose rather than a diversion.”
- Design Gets More Diverse (New York Times): Hey designers, are you seeing evidence of this out in the field?
Relief for Japan
- LivingSocial offered a unique coupon after the earthquake and tsunami: if subscribers donated $5 to the Red Cross to help with relief work in Japan, the company would match it. Total raised: more than $2 million.
- The “coupon” has expired, but they’re still linking to a GlobalGiving page full of relief efforts you can support.
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