Rotarian Action Group for Microfinance and Community Development


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Launch Raleigh - Assessing Community Needs10 days ago
Honduras Insight Tour March 202010 days ago
Loans to Re-Certify in Canada10 days ago
Nudging the Ultra Poor into Savings Groups in Malawi15 days ago
Looking forward with Past Pres Jim Louttit48 days ago
Microfinance Guidebook Introduction55 days ago
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Eliminating Poverty Through Empowering People

RAGM is a group of Rotarians providing leadership and guidance to other Rotarians in the elimination of poverty through microfinance and community development.

Our Publications

What is the real purpose of a business?

More than the Triple Bottom Line What most of us learned in business school was the premise that the primary obligation of a business is to maximize profits and shareholder value for its shareholders or investors. But are corporations or is a business legally responsible for maximizing profits or is this mythology? The late economist Milton Friedman famously wrote...5 days ago by SDR, Category: Economy

Launch Raleigh - Assessing Community Needs

Needs Assessment - Community Development We had a really nice problem: my Rotary Club had $25,000 and was looking for a signature project. So I found myself in Southeast Raleigh on a Friday afternoon in February 2016 strolling with my friend Jeanne Tedrow. I told her that my Rotary club was celebrating our 50th Anniversary and was looking for a special project to...10 days ago by SDR, Category: Microcredit

Honduras Insight Tour March 2020

Explore Honduras MARCH 22 - 26, 2020 Journey with Opportunity to the Honduras to witness first-hand how we are walking alongside Honduran families to create holistic change in their lives. Each year Rotary and our partner in the Honduras Economic and Community Development Project, Opportunity International Canada, arrange a one week Insight Trip to allow Rotarians to...10 days ago by SDR, Category: Microcredit

Loans to Re-Certify in Canada

Windmill Microlending: converting potential into prosperity We offer affordable microloans of up to $15,000 to skilled immigrants who are working to restart their careers in Canada. Windmill Microlending is a Canadian charity that is putting the power of microfinance to work to generate impact here in Canada. Our program is available in every province and territory, helping...10 days ago by SDR, Category: Microcredit

Global Publications

Client appreciation stories from HECD

IDH CLIENT FAMILIARIZATION REPORT - MARCH 2019 by Ed Temple When six Rotarians and friends visited Honduras in Spring 2019 they found a treasure chest of stories about successful, productive and happy microcredit clients. Ed Temple, Director of Philanthropy (Alberta) snapped pictures with more than a...171 days ago by Steve, Category: Microcredit

Rotarians Take an Insight Trip to Honduras

Local Rotarians visit Honduras By Jason Weiler Abstracted from Newspaper Article John Gilvesy and Jason Weiler recently traveled to Honduras as representatives from the Rotary Club of Tillsonburg as part of an Insight Trip organized by our cooperating partner, Opportunity International Canada (OIC), to...192 days ago by Steve, Category: Microcredit

Rotary raises $2.3 M for Honduras Microcredit

Bill Fitzsimmons, Team Leader of Phase V - Honduras Economic and Community Development (HECD) program presents a cheque in the amount of $402,000 to the Coordinator of Philanthropy for Western Canada of Opportunity International Canada, Mr. Ed Temple. ED explained that the money flows from Rotary to OIC and...205 days ago by Steve, Category: Microcredit

Virltual MicroFinance Office in Honduras

PUERTO CORTES BRANCH EXPANSION Puerto Cortes is the largest seaport in Central America. A large, industrial port city on the North-west coast of Honduras, it was also an early centre for banana production in Honduras. Although it is just 52 km north of San Pedro Sula, it has a growing population of over...328 days ago by Steve, Category: Microcredit

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