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October 2009: CowFund enters new era with Grameen Foundation of Australia

Mark Ashcroft — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:02:27 +0000

As of 2010, CowFund will be fully-fledged program of the Grameen Foundation of Australia (GFA). CowFund is proud to strengthen its relationship with GFA, which will be coordinating its activities through the GFA secretariat.

Help Steer The Cow!!!

Danny Russell — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:13:31 +0000

The CowFunders would appreciate your input.

We’re currently kicking around some ideas to kick up a dust-storm! But we are the first to acknowledge that we don’t have a monopoly on ideas.

Please use the comments box below (and encourage your friends and other contacts to do so) to suggest your wild and whacky ideas for the CowFund team to make a splash.

We want every computer-literate person we can reach to visit this site and think about the issues we raise here. But we need to get noticed.

No idea is too ridiculous (you should hear some or ours!)

We’re waiting to hear from you…

CowFunders convene in Sydney to organise Next Big Thing

Fiona Higgins — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:01:23 +0000

Putting our heads together for the next big thing

You have been warned… there’s a major event in the pipeline. It involves bike pants and chafing in October 2008. Watch this space for updates.

CowFunder Nathan Fabian meets with Kantha Shakti in Sydney

Fiona Higgins — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:01:03 +0000

Rohini Weerasinghe and CowFunder Nathan Fabian

CowFunder Nathan Fabian met with Rohini Weerasinghe, the Executive Director of Kantha Shakthi, in March 2007 to discuss delivery of CowFund-supported programs. Nathan observed: “Rohini was very grateful for the involvement of Cow Fund in KS’s revolving loan funds. The funds have operated successfully according to Rohini. We can expect some further reporting soon.”

CowFunder Fiona Higgins visits MBM programme in Indonesia

Fiona Higgins — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:00:43 +0000

Farmers Meeting Bali Program

Read the report(65kb download) or download the PowerPoint Presentation ( 1.1MB).

CowFunder Michael Murray visits Grameen Kootha in India

Fiona Higgins — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:00:22 +0000

Mike Murray with GK client

In January 2007, CowFund Mike Murray had the opportunity to visit one of CowFund’s supported programs in India, Grameen Koota. Based on the Grameen model, it is now run separately to Grameen and Koota means ‘gathering’. The organisation is based on the outskirts of Bangalore and has about 44 branches throught the state of Karnataka.

Mike Murray writes:
‘I visited two of their branches, one in a rural area and one in an urban area. They were quite different in terms of the uses the loans were put to, obviously more livestock based in the rural area whereas the urban dwellers used the monies for sewing machines and other small business enterprises…

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