The Ashby Utting Endowment Fund

In 2006 Professor Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his discourse on microfinancing including making small loans to people below the poverty line to start and operate small businesses thus enhancing their family’s wellbeing and having multiplier effects on whole communities. Established banks would not undertake such lending because of perceived contractual securities risks. He established the Grameen bank which now operates worldwide with great success along with many other similarly operating micro finance institutions. Millions of families worldwide enjoy heightened aspirations and living standards in their daily lives having brought themselves out of poverty with their achievements. 

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