Please join WCCN for the 2010 Annual Meeting: Voices from the Ground
Featuring special guests:
José Antonio Lanusse, of INSOTEC in Ecuador. INSOTEC works in remote rural areas not served by any other financial institutions.
Carlos Felipe Tzoc, of ASDIR in Guatemala. ASDIR primarily lends to the Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands.
Zobeida Hernandez, of PRODESA in Nicaragua. PRODESA provides microfinance, business development, housing, and youth programs in the southeastern part of the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast.
Our invited speakers will tell their stories about microfinance and the beneficial impact it has on the lives of the poor and marginalized families in their country. They will transform microfinance from an abstract concept to something that has real impact on real people.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
United Way Building, 2059 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI
$10 suggested donation
To RSVP, please call Jeanne Duffy at 608-257-7230
or e-mail jeanne@capitalforcommunities.org
or register online at http://www.CapitalForCommunities.org/2010RSVP
Give a Free $20 Investment through MicroPlace
MicroPlace has added the ability to give microfinance investments as gifts to friends or loved ones.
MicroPlace.com Now Offers Capital for Communities Fund Notes!
WCCN is pleased to announce that Capital for Communities Fund Notes are now available online through MicroPlace.com. This technology allows for investments in the Capital for Communities Fund as small as $20. Interest rates range between 2% and 5%, and terms vary by Note.
Internships with WCCN
2010 Internship Opportunities with Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN)
(formerly the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua)
WCCN interns work in a productive capacity while furthering knowledge and skills in the field of international development. Internships are uncompensated and require onsite commitment. Internship terms are offered Spring, Summer and Fall.
Give a Free $20 Investment through MicroPlace
MicroPlace has added the ability to give it's microfinance investments as gifts to friends or loved ones.
Travel to Nicaragua with WCCN!
Join Working Capital for Community Needs as we visit Nicaraguan organizations that empower communities and improve the quality of life of thousands of people through alternative economic projects. Witness the effect of providing microcredit to small urban and rural producers, cooperatives involved in the fair-trade coffee movement, and organizations working with the urban poor.
On Facebook? Win a trip to Nicaragua!
Our partner, MicroPlace, is giving away a WCCN study tour as the grand prize in its Facebook sweepstakes!
Become a fan, then take the quiz!
There will also be a weekly prize of a $250 gift certificate to eBay.
Seeds of Change: an exhibition of photography by Michael Kienitz
Opening 5:30 p.m Friday, October 16th, 2009.
Runs through Nov. 15th , 2009
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon St., Madison, Wisconsin (Note: Langdon St. will be closed on 10/16 for UW's Homecoming parade. Please plan accordingly.)
$10 suggested donation
$5 student suggested donation
WCCN is now Working Capital for Community Needs!
As you may have heard, the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua is now officially Working Capital for Community Needs. The name change comes at a poignant time in WCCN's history, our 25th anniversary. In 2009, we invite you to look for exciting changes as we begin lending capital to microfinance institutions in additional Latin American countries.
From WCCN's Executive Director
I just returned from our June study tour of Nicaragua, which focused on women’s empowerment. While there, we witnessed the deterioration of the political situation, as it becomes more and more polarized. In fact, the institutional pact between the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) has continued to erode state institutions and is severely damaging the democratic gains Nicaragua has made over the last 18 years. The latest action by the FSLN-PLC pact has resulted in the cancellation of the legal status of two political parties, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) and the Conservative Party (PC).
