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Website Endorsements

Press Kit NOTE: includes those sent when this was known as the 'Informal Credit Homepage'

  • "Checked out your web page and wanted to congratulate you. It's terrific and found the section on CU-TALK. The layout is clean and well organized and the information and links look to be very useful. Thanks for sharing this with us."
    Chuck Bruen, President, First Entertainment FCU, Hollywood, CA
    CABr@aol.com
  • "Hi - Just thought I'd drop you an electron to compliment you on your web work. And an ulterior motive - I am working on a magazine for our local internet usergroup, and would like to print some of the abstracts. We have our own web pages and the links to full articles will be there, so the article will be available for those who wish to read it. Good work!!"
    Don Robertson Planet Wellington
    don@squeak.wgtn.planet.co.nz
  • " I accessed the information on the Virtual Library on Microcredit through that web and I must say I was extremely impressed. I teach compliance classes for many credit union leagues and for several of the CUNA Schools. "
    Woody Hodgdon, Loveland, CO 80539
    e-mail woody_hodgdon@hp-loveland-om2.om.hp.com
  • "I've just discovered your Virtual Library on Microcredit and wanted to write and let you know how much I appreciate same. I'm a Canadian living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa, having been seconded from CCA (Canadian Co-operative Association) to work with SACCOL (Savings and Credit Co-Operative League of South Africa). We are developing new credit unions here - mostly work place based - challenging and frustrating work, but find your homepage a ready reference for development of my work!"
    Bruce Bjornson
    bjornson@wn.apc.org
  • "I want to complement you on your very nice home page. There are a number of things I really like about it: It's VERY fast. I'm using Netscape 1.2 on a 14.4 modem and it screamed. All of your graphics came in very quickly. Your content was excellent. I gave a presentation at Ohio State University last spring and mentioned to Prof. Richard Meyer how good it would be for them to put their ACTS development finance database on the Web "
    Russell P. Mask
    mask@arn.net
  • "I am very impressed with your web page. Let me introduce myself. I am a professor of political science at the University of Utah and the Chairman of the Board of the organization called CHOICE. We are presently seeking to set up a number of micro credit systems in Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya, India and Vietnam. We do hope that you are successful in creating more interest in micro saving programs. "
    Professor James B. Mayfield.
    University of Utah
    james.mayfield@m.cc.utah.edu
  • "I checked out your sites and I have to say you are one busy fellow and doing very nice work.! I work for the Washington DC office of the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) of Japan ... Keep up the good work!"
    Peter Ide
    OECF - Washington DC
    future@DGS.dgsys.com
  • "I'm an undergraduate student at Vassar College, New York, USA. I'm currently working on a thesis on informal credit in Nicaragua (where my family resides). Congratulations on the Informal Credit Home Page, it has lots of great information. "
    Ron Garcia
    ROGARCIA@vassar.edu
  • "I wanted to thank you for the Informal Credit Home Page. It has been a great help to me and I really appreciate all the information you pulled together. I am a research assistant with the Johns Hopkins Comparative Non Profit Sector Project. The project is assessing the impact of the nonprofit sector, especially economically, in thirty countries."
    Rebecca Vilkomerson
    beccav@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
  • "The documents in the Virtual Library on Microcredit are extremely informative. I work for the World Bank and am personnally interested in the micro-financing activites around the world. The data provided by you prove to be very substantive and is a very highly admirably piece of work. I feel very unfortunate to come across such comprehensive data. I am currently compiling some information on micro- financing activities."
    Choon Lim
    CLim@ifc.org
  • "I have just come across your home page and am delighted to see such a forum. I am based in Australia but work in South, South-east and Northern Asia in association with development projects focusing on financial services for the poor. I find your pages very useful indeed "
    Robert Hickson
    Robert_Hickson@msn.com
  • "Great site on microcredit! You are blazing a new trail. My name is Stephen Valk. I'm a volunteer with RESULTS, a grassroots citizens lobby generating the political will to end hunger and poverty. Much of our work is dedicated to the promotion of microcredit as a tool for poverty eradication. To that end, RESULTS is sponsoring the Microcredit Summit in February 1997. "
    Stephen Valk
    steve_valk@ajc.com
  • "Great Home Page! Well designed and fascinating content. I am a pediatrician who works in Port Orchard, Washington, USA (near Puget Sound). I am looking at the great numbers of American children who do not have access to health care (close to 40%, I believe). "
    John Taylor
    taywill@u.washington.edu
  • "You have a great initiative going and I believe a great service to people like myself and foundations that we work with. Our HFF Foundation is starting, in association with Womens' Union of Eritrea, a credit program for the poor rural women of that 30-year-war-ravaged country. Your homepage will be very usefl for this program"
    Janez Hacin
    jhacin@iprolink.ch
  • "I must congratulate you on your Informal Credit Homepage. I have used it regularly in researching certain issues and have recommended it to a number of local microfinance institutions that operate in the Caribbean. "
    James Owens
    USAID, Washington DC, jowens@usaid.gov
  • "Congratulations!! I am responsible for microfinance at the United Nations Capital Development Fund, an affiliate of UNDP. UNCDF has more than 20 year experience as a Donor involved in microcredit and I am trying to develop projects, especially in the Least Developed Countries. I am impressed by your site. Tell me if I/UNCDF can contribute in any form to what you are doing. I will be glad to participate and ask our projects/correspondents to participate"
    Jose Garson, UNCDF
    jose.garson@undp.org
  • "We are in the process of evaluating Personal Finance sites on the World Wide Web and have selected your site for possible inclusion in our upcoming book Click Here: The Interactive Guide To Personal Finance on the Net. Due out in December, 1996, from America's oldest independent book publisher, John Wiley & Sons, this project will encompass both a printed guide book and a supplemental World Wide Web site that works in conjunction with the printed material."
    James Goodchild
    jgoodchild@cableregina.com
  • "I am writing to you from the Department of Food Economics, University College Cork, Ireland. I am researching a MSc thesis on the development role of informal credit organisations in LDC's. I have found your web site very informative and I have used much of the information to supplement my primary research. I conducted field work in Zimbabwe assessing the success of rural savings clubs run by the Self Help Development Foundation (SDF) "
    Brenda Sinnott.
    University College Cork
    DYDA6038@bureau.ucc.ie
  • "I love the webpage you have created on microfinance programs. It is truly a great resource. I work on a NGO program in the West Bank/Gaza which is specialized in microfinance. We have been involved in microenterprise start-ups for youth in the vocational field for a few years, basically through capital equipment rental which rotates into a lease-to-own program for successful youth entrepreneurs."
    Janna Brooks
    brooks@inter.net.il
  • "I've been browsing your Virtual Library on Microcredit with much interest, especially including the summary of your thesis. I am working with a US-based NGO to establish a private counterpart to the UNCTAD initiative, which would provide both direct finance and a secondary market in loans from Grameen banks"
    Samuel M. Goldberger, Ph.D.
    President, Spherical Solutions
    smg@orb.com
  • "I find the Informal Credit Homepage a very useful and well laid out information database. It will be a valuable service for us working on microcredit and related issues. Thank you for making it available to us. If there is any way we can help, please do contact me "
    McDonald Benjamin
    The World Bank
  • "I have just discovered all the information on informal credit that you made available on the internet : it is really great, and very helpful for people like me working on credit issues ! I really admire such a huge database and want to thank you for organizing it."
    Laurence ALBERT
    laurence.albert@fundp.ac.be
  • "I just came across your Web site and I was impressed by it, especially the "inspiring ideas" concept. I'm establishing contact with people who may have an interest in Community Economic Development, and I think you may have a lot to offer."
    Peter Heffernan
    peter@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au
  • "I think your web site is great. I am sending you a copy of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, a new journal we are publishing at Norfolk State University. If you do not object, I will list your web site in our next issue."
    Lew Randolph
    Managing Editor
    wrandolph@vger.nsu.edu
  • "I just finished reading your page on the micro-bank cyber course. What a great idea ! I look forward to reading the material you have put there !
    Robert Earle, Ph.D.
    Department of Operations Research, Stanford University
    earle@causeway1.com
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