ACCESS News Episode 102 Maggie Miller.mp4

Maggie Miller, founder of DiscoverHope Fund discusses promoting abundance for women and their families living in extreme poverty through micro-credit and sustainable support systems and her personal philosophy that Life Rocks! Don Miller hosts segments called, "A More Perfect Union" where he discusses the relevance of America's founding documents. Total Accessibility. ASL, English, captioned.

Air date: October 2, 2011 at 1:00pm on KLRU in Austin, Texas

Maggie created DiscoverHope in 2004 after living in the town of Cajamarca, Peru for two years where she spent months listening to women who lived in abject poverty. They shared with Maggie that they wanted a "hand up," not a hand out—they wanted income, jobs, and credit to grow businesses in order to help create sustainable lives for their families. In response, Maggie created the HopeBank, which implemented successful microcredit concepts from other well-respected microcredit institutions such as Grameen Foundation USA.

After nearly two years of living in Cajamarca, Maggie was chosen as a research fellow for FINCA and FriendshipBridge to conduct grassroots research on poverty and the power of microcredit with indigenous communities in Panajachel, Guatemala. Upon returning to the U.S., Maggie transformed The HopeBank project into DiscoverHope in February 2006 and served as the organization's Executive Director for five years until 2011.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• ACCESS News
• Maggie Miller
• Tamara Suiter-Ocuto
• Jennifer Stoker
• civication
• civics
• journalism
• discoverhope fund
• lend hope
• micro loans
• education
• knight foundation
• austin community foundation
• government