Recycle Your Phones with the Inventor of the Mobile Phone: and help micro-finance women in poverty

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Join the Heartland Mobile Council and Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, at the Google Chicago to help raise awareness and money for women in poverty. Bring your old mobile phones so that Recycle to Eradicate Poverty can recycle it and send proceeds to the Grameen Foundation which microfinances female entrepreneurs in third world nations.

It will be a night of networking, discussion and possibilities that will help bring the Chicago community together. Through your attendance, the entrepreneurs and businesses of the Second City can help the women entrepreneurs of the Third World.

Early bird registration is $20 and ends May 6th. After May 6th tickets will be $35. The HMC will donate profits from this charity event to the Grameen Foundation.

The Grameen Foundation was founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammed Yunus. It helps the "poorest of the poor" in developing countries. Microfinance is a proven means of addressing and breaking the cycle of poverty in many cases. Their initiative, Recycle to Eradicate Poverty, gives people everywhere a chance to help change lives by recycling used cell phones/PDAs and ink jet cartridges. Something you no longer use can change somebody else’s life, for good!

Event Details:
Topic: Recycle Your Phones with the Inventor of the Mobile Phone: and help micro-finance women in poverty
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Time: 6:00pm - 9:0pm
Location: Google Chicago, 20 W. Kinzie St.

Sponsored by Google and the Chicago Sun-Times

More about Recycle to Eradicate Poverty:

Recycle to Eradicate Poverty energizes organizations to collect used cell phones/PDAs and inkjet cartridges to be recycled. The proceeds from those recycling efforts are used to provide microfinance loans as small as $50 to women entrepreneurs to create a small business, which can eventually sustain her family. For more information, please visit http://recycletoeradicatepoverty.com/

More about the Grameen Foundation:

Today more than 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate microfinance programs based on the Grameen methodology. Dallas based, Chiapas International has contributed over $4,480,000 for microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean in partnership with the Grameen Foundation in Washington.
http://recycletoeradicatepoverty.com/

More about Martin Cooper:

Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone in 1973 in Chicago while at Motorola. As the story goes, the first public cell phone call was made to his competitor at Bell Labs. At the press conference for the launch of the first commercially available mobile phone, he was asked about talk time of the battery; his reply was "It's only 20 minutes, but that's not a problem, it's so heavy you can't hold the phone to your ear that long!" He continues to innovate and publicly speak through, DYN LLC, the company founded by Martin and his wife Arlene Harris. For more information, visit http://www.dynallc.com/.  Follow him on Twitter: @martymobile

More about Heartland Mobile Council:

The Heartland Mobile Council is a Chicago-based non-profit whose mission is to educate brands on how to use mobile marketing effectively. The HMC is a safe forum for marketeres and companies to learn how to use this new marketing channel to grow their businesses and enrich their brands.  For more information, please visit http://heartlandmobilecouncil.org/, or follow us on Twitter @heartlandmobile