As of 2010, CowFund will be fully-fledged program of the Grameen Foundation of Australia (GFA). CowFund is proud to strengthen its relationship with GFA, which will be coordinating its activities through the GFA secretariat.
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We’re currently kicking around some ideas to kick up a dust-storm! But we are the first to acknowledge that we don’t have a monopoly on ideas.
Please use the comments box below (and encourage your friends and other contacts to do so) to suggest your wild and whacky ideas for the CowFund team to make a splash.Â
We want every computer-literate person we can reach to visit this site and think about the issues we raise here. But we need to get noticed.Â
No idea is too ridiculous (you should hear some or ours!)
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You have been warned… there’s a major event in the pipeline. It involves bike pants and chafing in October 2008. Watch this space for updates.
CowFunder Nathan Fabian met with Rohini Weerasinghe, the Executive Director of Kantha Shakthi, in March 2007 to discuss delivery of CowFund-supported programs. Nathan observed: “Rohini was very grateful for the involvement of Cow Fund in KS’s revolving loan funds. The funds have operated successfully according to Rohini. We can expect some further reporting soon.”
Read the report(65kb download) or download the PowerPoint Presentation ( 1.1MB).
In January 2007, CowFund Mike Murray had the opportunity to visit one of CowFund’s supported programs in India, Grameen Koota. Based on the Grameen model, it is now run separately to Grameen and Koota means ‘gathering’. The organisation is based on the outskirts of Bangalore and has about 44 branches throught the state of Karnataka.
Mike Murray writes:
‘I visited two of their branches, one in a rural area and one in an urban area. They were quite different in terms of the uses the loans were put to, obviously more livestock based in the rural area whereas the urban dwellers used the monies for sewing machines and other small business enterprises…
Read a summary (3MB PDF) of progress of all four CowFund programmes as at December 2006.
Read a summary(1.7MB Word) of progress of all four CowFund programmes as at December 2005.
Proof that we’re a bunch of lunatics - read the diary of CowFunder Danny Russell and view the photo gallery of the 500-km journey.
Day One - Sydney Harbour to Cobbitty
Day Two - Cobbitty to Mittagong
Day Three - Mittagong to Goulburn
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