June 7 Women Advancing Microfinance event - Self Funded Communities

Check out this event with an Ashoka Fellow in NYC!
-Katharine
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Women Advancing Microfinance - New York (WAM-NY) invites you to an evening of cocktails and conversation on June 7th with Jean Claude Rodríguez-Ferrera Massons, Founder and Director of the Association for Self-Funded Communities (ACAF). ACAF is an NGO founded in 2004 that aims to contribute to local community development through the creation of Self-Funded Communities (SFCs).        The SFCs are groups of 10 to 30 low-income people that buy shares to create a credit fund to finance themselves. There is no external money involved. Only members can invest in the group. As owners, they decide the credit conditions - interest rate, terms, collateral - and they receive all the benefits of the credit activity. It is completely self-managed and self-funded. Join us to learn first-hand about the Self-Funded Communities Model and how a savings group is created. Date:  Thursday, June 7th 2012     Time: 6:00 -6:30pm Registration           6:30 -8:00pm Featured Speaker/Q&A     Venue: Roosevelt Island Apt (easily accessible by the F train, details to be provided to registrants)                                    Fee: $10 for non-members/Free for WAM-NY members Other: Light refreshments will be served

Register Now! Please register by June 6th.

We look forward to seeing you on the 7th!  Sincerely,  WAM-NY Steering Committee wamnewyork@yahoo.com