Lewis Library

Obama Calls Out Microfinance: Taking the Measure of Microfinance

Unitus, We Stand; Divide Us, We Fall: Nonprofit leadership is foremost about trusteeship.

Markets & Missions: Keynote speech about social investing.

Microloan Sharking: Article about predatory microfinance interest rates charged the poor.

World Clock: Fascinating, mesmerizing and constantly updated statistics about the global condition

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Jonathan C. Lewis is the founder/CEO of the Opportunity Collaboration, a global gathering of 300 social investors and nonprofit entrepreneurs who annually attend a strategic offsite on World Poverty Day to leverage resources, combine forces, share innovations and operate more effectively. He is also the founder/Chair of MicroCredit Enterprises which, using a unique guarantee social finance model, finances microloans for deeply impoverished women in 15 nations on 4 continents.

Jonathan is a recipient of the Social Venture Network Innovation Award. He blogs regularly at the Skoll Foundation's Social Edge and the Huffington Post. He is a frequent public speaker on economic development issues, social entrepreneurship and social change.