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Nobel Peace Prize recipient allies with 捆绑SM社区 World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence

Throughout the world, social businesses have emerged to tackle problems in sectors such as health care, education, affordable housing, clean technology and finance. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has been the leading figure in this movement.

Dr. Yunus founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide micro-loans to the poorest people of Bangladesh. Grameen now has 8.3 million members, and has provided a total of US$9.7 billion in loans since its inception. Around the world, microcredit programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming.

Dr. Yunus will visit 捆绑SM社区 from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 to share his vision of social business and the financial institutions needed to support it. His visit is made possible by the 捆绑SM社区 World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence as part of its ongoing collaboration with the Grameen program and the Desautels Faculty of Management. The MWP, an initiative led by 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Medicine, seeks to harness the best minds and leading organizations in the health, business, and scientific fields to ensure sustainable health and wealth for all members of society.

Media are invited to attend the following events:

WHO: Dr. Muhammad Yunus

WHAT: 捆绑SM社区 World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence

WHEN: 鈥� Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 鈥� dinner presentation followed by a panel on the theme 鈥淐an a Social Wall Street Become a Reality?鈥�, including Emmanuel Faber, Deputy Director General of Danone and Alban D鈥橝mours, Former President and Director of Desjardins Group

鈥� Friday, Oct. 1, noon - 2 p.m. 鈥� luncheon presentation on the theme 鈥淪ocial Business: The Positive Impact Business Can Have in the World鈥� (hosted in collaboration with the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations and the Montreal Millennium Summit). Media scrum after presentation.

鈥� Friday, Oct. 1., 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. 鈥� Social Business Lab, a one-day workshop designed to accelerate the spread of social business (hosted in collaboration with the Grameen Creative Lab)

WHERE: Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 Mansfield St., Montreal

In addition, Dr. Yunus will deliver the Beatty Memorial Lecture on the theme 鈥淏uilding Social Business - The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs鈥�, Saturday, Oct. 2, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Centre Mont-Royal.聽 The lecture will be .

Media interested in attending any of these events should contact the 捆绑SM社区 Media Relations Office, as indicated below.