Great thanks to Silco Oil Company for their generous contribution to help bring 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus to the Conference.

Silco Oil Co. is a Colorado company doing business in both Colorado and Arizona.  The Company operates 20 truck stops and convenience stores, sells fuel on a wholesale basis to locally owned small businesses and employs approximately 275 people.  The Company is a long time supporter of RESULTS and is honored to sponsor Mohammed Yunus for the Microcredit Summit.  Sue Vanderberg is the President and CEO.

Public Relations efforts for the conference have been donated by, Linhart, PR 

As one of the largest and most respected public relations firms in the Rocky Mountain region, Linhart Public Relations is all about results.

Founded in 1996, our Denver firm has cultivated a reputation for excellence and results. Led by managing partner Sharon Linhart, Linhart PR attracts top notch, award-winning communications specialists and was recently Named Boutique Agency of the Year by the Holmes Report.

Gold Sponsor, Adelante Foundation is a Grameen Foundation Partner/Replicator program that has been in operation in Honduras for almost 8 years.

The solution to poverty and hunger isn’t charity but opportunity. Adelante provides very poor women in rural Honduras the opportunity they so desperately seek – the opportunity to work to build a better life for themselves and their families. By providing women with the small loans as little as $50, Adelante helps change lives.

The Mission of the John J. Sullivan Endowed Chair for Free Enterprise at Regis University is to create a public sphere where businesses, nonprofits, academics, students and citizens can discuss and debate the theories and practices of a free enterprise system. In the classroom and the community, the Sullivan program will ensure the discussion of free enterprise explores value-based solutions, advocates socially conscious business practices and represents the points of view of under served communities.

Friendship Bridge is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides microcredit and educational programs so women and their families can create their own solutions to poverty. The Friendship Bridge blends the short-term economic development needs of women through access to credit and education, and the long-term goal of breaking the generational cycle of poverty by providing educational opportunities for their children. Friendship Bridge has affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of rural people by investing in women entrepreneurs, first in Vietnam and now in rural Guatemala. – women who become leaders and agents of change for themselves, their families and communities.

Micro Business Development (MBD), a Colorado non-profit organization, was founded in 1993 to eliminate barriers to economic independence for community entrepreneurs, both youth and adult, through access to markets, resources, and business capital.  These underserved populations include, but are not limited to youth, entrepreneurs with disabilities, refugees, women, non-native speakers and individuals facing the challenges of poverty.

Colorado Lending Source is a private, community-based, nonprofit economic development corporation that assists small business owners in Colorado access attractive, long-term, fixed-rate financing on (primarily) owner-occupied commercial real estate and capital equipment acquisition projects.

Thank you to the City of Denver for their generous financial support

CHFA’s entire organization is focused on helping people and businesses succeed. We’ve seen the positive effects of homeownership and business expansion reverberate throughout communities. One success leads to another, as families become financially stable and companies add more jobs. For CHFA, every happy ending is really a new beginning. 

CAMI develops networks, coordinates resources, and advocates to strengthen microenterprise, the economy, and communities.

Thank you to Dave Stephens for providing transportation for Dr. Yunus

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