Thinking about starting your own microinsurance institution? Aris Alip has a few tips.
Alip is the managing director and founder of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutual Benefit Association. CARD MBA is part of a 14-company social business conglomerate — the CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions — that got its start as a microfinancing operation in the 1980s and now boasts 11 million members, mostly poor women.
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Bill Hinchberger is a global communications professional and educator. He studied at Berkeley and has taught at the Sorbonne. Based mostly in Paris, he spends quality time in Brazil and the United States, and works extensively in Africa and Latin America. He has served as an international correspondent for The Financial Times, Business Week, ARTnews, Variety, and others. One current focus of his work is content creation for foundations, NGOs and other organizations, especially those working on issues related to international affairs, the environment and development. He also runs training programs for professional journalists, notably in Africa, and is an associate of Rain Barrel Communications, a leading consultancy for social justice projects.
