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Books by Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus, Public Affairs Books, 2003)
Building Social Business – The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs (Muhammad Yunus, Public Affairs Books, 2010)
Creating a World Without Poverty – Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Muhammad Yunus, Public Affairs Books, 2008)
Articles by Muhammad Yunus
Alleviation of Poverty is a Matter of Will, Not of Means (Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, 1993)
Halving Poverty By 2015 – We Can Actually Make It Happen (Muhammad Yunus, Commonwealth Institute, 2003)
Information Technology To Eliminate Global Poverty (Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, 2002)
Microcredit: Banking With the Poor Without Collateral (Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, 2006)
Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution (Muhammad Yunus, Skoll World Forum, 2006)
Some Suggestions on Legal Framework for Creating Microcredit Banks (Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, 2003)
Other books on Grameen Companies
Cloning Grameen Bank – Replicating a Poverty Reduction Model in India, Nepal and Vietnam (Helen Todd, Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., 1996)
Empowering Rural Women – The Impact of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (Rahnuma Shehabuddin, Grameen Bank, 1992)
Give Us Credit – How Muhammad Yunus’s Micro-Lending Revolution is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago (Alex Counts, Research Press 1996)
Grameen Dialogue: Newsletters 1-50 Volume 1 – Emerging Ideas, Concepts & Theories (Khalid Shams, Grameen Trust, 2005)
Grameen Dialogue: Newsletters 1-50 Volume 2 – The Replication Experience (Khalid Shams, Grameen Trust, 2005)
The Grameen Reader (David S. Gibbons, Grameen Bank, 1992)
Green Energy For A Billion Poor – How Grameen Shakti Created A Winning Model For Social Business (Nancy Wimmer, MCRE Verlag, 2012)
Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Grameen-Style Microcredit Programs (M. Nurul Alam and Dr. Mike Getubig, Grameen Foundation, Grameen Trust 2011)
Introduction to Grameen II (Abdul Hai Khan and Md. Abdul Wahab, Grameen Bank, 2003)
The Poor Always Pay Back – The Grameen II Story (Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua, Kumarian Press, 2006)
Poor, But Strong – Women in the People’s Economy of Bangladesh (Karl Osner, Grameen Trust, 1997)
The Price of A Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank (David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2005)
Replication of Grameen Bank Financial System (David S. Gibbons, Grameen Bank, 1991)
Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World (Alex Counts, 2008)
Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh (Aminur Rahman, Westview Press, 1999)
Women at the Center – After One Decade (Helen Todd, The University Press Ltd, 1996)
Other books
Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All (Robert Egger)
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Jacqueline Novogratz, Rodale Books, 2010)
Building Wealth: The New Asset-based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems (Aspen Institute of Human Studies)
Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact (Andrew Wolk)
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life (Giving Something Back) (Bill Shore)
Creating a New Civilization through Social Entrepreneurship (Patrick U. Petit, Transaction Publishers, 2010)
Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs (J. Gregory Dees)
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Non-Profits (Leslie Crutchfield and Heather Mcleod Grant)
Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies from Jossey-Bass (Editors: Sharon M. Oster, Cynthia W. Massarsky, and Samantha L. Beinhacker of the Yale Schoo of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation)
Half the Sky (Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Random House, 2009)
How to Change the World – Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2007)
In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobari-Rose, and Elizabeth Hooper, Templeton Press)
Lasermonks: The Business Story Nine Hundred Years in the Making (Sarah Caniglia, Cindy Griffith)
Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives (J-B Warren Bennis Series) (Christopher Gergen)
Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary (Bill Strickland)
Making Ideas Happen-Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality (Scott Belsky)
Melwood: A Story of Empowerment (Earl Copus Jr.)
Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency (Jerr Boschee)
Mission, Inc.: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise (Kevin Lynch, Social Venture Network)
Partner to the Poor (Paul Farmer, University of California Press, 2010)
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paul Farmer, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan, Harvard Business School Press)
Screw Business as Usual (Richard Branson, Portfolio/Penguin 2011)
Selling Social Change (Without Selling Out): Earned Income Strategies for Nonprofits (Andy Robinson, Kim Klein)
Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) (Janelle A. Kerlin, Editor, Tufts)
The Social Enterprise Sourcebook (Jerr Boschee)
Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (David Bornstein, Oxford University Press, 2010)
Social Entrepreneurship : The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development (Peter C. Brinckerhoff)
Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Warren Tranquada; John Baker & John Pepin)
Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit (J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy)
Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World (Wilford Welch)
Transformational Philanthropy: Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits (Lisa Dietlin)
Transformative Entrepreneurs: How Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Other Innovators Succeeded, (Jeffrey A Harris, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) (Dan Pallotta)
Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization (Rolfe Larson, Fieldstone Alliance, 2002)
You Can Hear Me Now – How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy (Nicholas P. Sullivan, Jossey-Bass, 2007)
Read More…
TIME Magazine’s 10 Questions for Muhammad Yunus
How Capitalism Failed by Muhammad Yunus (The Daily Beast)
Muhammad Yunus’ Wikipedia page
Grameen Bank II (Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank)
Links…
Yunus Networks by Chris Macrae
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
Social Business on Wikipedia
Social Enterpreneurs Listserv (nPEnterprise Forum)
Feel Good World – University students committed to ending Hunger
My friend, photographer Larry Dattilio took these photos of the Microcredit Program in Vietnam that the Places.
Universities offering Social Business
California State University – Channel Islands – Social Business Institute
Meridian University – Creative Enterprise
If you know of others, please contact us and we’ll add them here.