From: "C. Leigh Anderson" <cla@u.washington.edu>

Date: May 21, 2008 6:08:11 AM PDT

To: <pbaf599r_sp08@u.washington.edu>

Cc: "'Andrew Whitaker'" <andrew@cs.washington.edu>

Subject: FW: GP CEO to Speak at UW's Kane Hall on May 29

Reply-To: <cla@u.washington.edu>

Folks -- from Angie FYI:

Announcement from Global Partnerships:

Please join us on Thursday, May 29, 2008 for a panel discussion featuring

Global Partnerships CEO and President, Rick Beckett. Rick, along with other
leaders in microfinance, will discuss microcredit's role in bringing
opportunity to people living poverty.

U.N. Millennium Development Goals and Microcredit: How Small Loans

Support Sustainable Development

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: University of Washington, Kane Hall 220 and the Walker Ames

Room 225

Panelists include:

*   Rick Beckett, CEO of Global Partnerships

*   Peter Bladin, VP of Grameen Foundation and Director of Grameen

Technology Center

*   Terry Provance, Executive Director of Oikocredit USA

*   Sangita Sigdyal, Deputy Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign

*   Carol Welch, former U.S. Coordinator of the U.N. Millennium Campaign

Moderator: Penny LeGate, KIRO TV news anchor and reporter

The panel discussion is sponsored by the Puget Sound Millennium Goals

Project and the Center for Global Studies of the Jackson School at the
University of Washington.

The event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

Read more about this event on our website

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