Subject: Mandela, Grameen Bank share Gandhi Peace Prize

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Greetings!

We wanted to let you know that the Grameen Bank and Nelson Mandela were joint recipients of the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2000, India's highest honor, given out earlier this year. The Grameen Bank, which makes loans to more than 2.3 million poor in Bangladesh, was founded by Calvert World Values
Fund Board member Muhammad Yunus in 1976. The judges unanimously selected these two winners from more than 90 entrants because they best exemplified "working selflessly toward social, economic and political transformation
through nonviolence and other Gandhian means." We just found out this exciting news and wanted to share this recognition for microcredit and lending with you.

From: Montague, Reed [mailto:Reed.Montague@Calvert.com]