From the Field Blog

  • Financing for the Poorest, and New Directions for Microfinance

    November 15, 2012

    This commentary by Joanna Ledgerwood, Senior Advisor on Access to Finance for the Aga Khan Development Network, is adapted from a discussion during a visit to the Aga Khan Foundation USA’s Washington, DC office. Her new book, The New Microfinance Handbook, will be published in early January 2013 by the World Bank.

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  • CEO Notes: Creating an Atmosphere for Investing in Social Good

    November 8, 2012

    Dr. Mirza Jahani, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., shares his reflections on several events, including the publication of excellent reports by the Monitor Group (From Blueprint to Scale) and the Omidyar Network (Priming the Pump) and the recent Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP12, noted in an earlier blog).

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  • Helping Malians Cope with Unrest

    November 2, 2012

    In Mali, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has supported the provision of remedial education for children internally displaced as a result of the takeover of northern Mali by fundamentalist Islamic groups. This support came as part of the AKF USA grant to Mali on education, in association with the Mopti Teaching Academy, the main institution for education in the Mopti region, which has been a partner of AKF’s early education activities since 2007.

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  • SOCAP12 and a New Market for Social Investment

    October 25, 2012

    The Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference series, which began in September 2008 in San Francisco, has grown into perhaps the largest and best respected platform for socially minded investors and entrepreneurs. On October 1-4, the Aga Khan Foundation was proud to attend SOCAP12 as a Community Partner.

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  • New Ideas from Rural India: Growing Food without Land

    October 18, 2012

    This post was originally published on InterAction as part of a series in recognition of the UN's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct. 17.
     
    Apoorva Oza, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India, recently visited the Washington, DC office of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., and discussed how good ideas travel, with the example of the landless garden program.

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