Microfinance Practice: [MFP] SMDP June Webinar on Microconsignment:

Microconsignment: Enterprise Development and Good Living at Your Door Step

Friday June 21st 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT (-5 GMT)

Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/707526422

The SMDP Webinar in June will be a unique event for two reasons: First we will welcome Greg Van Kirk of Community Enterprise Solutions (CES) as our guest presenter. Greg and the CES team have developed a fascinating model of social enterprise which gives business opportunities to local first-time women entrepreneurs selling products which promote healthy living such as solar lighting, fuel efficient stoves and water purification devices to families and individuals living in rural/isolated villages. Second, the June webinar will also take place in the classroom of the annual Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program New Hampshire Certificate here at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH USA.

In his book "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas", Author David Bornstein describes the microconsignment model as "an amazingly simple and effective idea. It is demonstrating how to provide economic opportunities, and health benefits, to people in extremely isolated and impoverished communities without forcing them and their families to assume undue risk -- people who are currently beyond the reach of conventional micro-finance. It is an idea with enormous potential for impact because it can be readily adopted by anti-poverty organizations around the world".

Along with students in our SMDP class room you will have an opportunity to ask Greg questions after his presentation. For more information on the CES microconsignment model visit the web site http://www.cesolutions.org/

The June webinar will be co-hosted by Fiona Wilson, Assistant Professor of Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability, Paul School of Business, University of New Hampshire

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/707526422

Visit teh SMDP Webinar web page at

http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/smdp/2013-webinar-series