Intersect Fund Executive Director Rohan Mathew appeared with colleagues today on CNN’s American Morning to talk about campus-based microfinance.

The conversation, which included Mathew’s counterparts in Providence, R.I. and New Haven, Conn., focused on the efforts of the Campus Microfinance Alliance, a group Mathew co-founded to help college students develop their local economies.

Watch the video here and check out Lend for America, a new initiative to give college students hands-on experience with local microfinance this summer.

For years, the Intersect Fund’s Holiday Bazaar has been our signature event. I hope you’ll join us on Dec. 20th to shop and celebrate our entrepreneurs’ hard work.

See the links below for a vendor list and the chance to RSVP.

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The Intersect Fund’s first-ever Gourmet Food & Art Expo was a huge success. Get a taste (pun intended) of what went on by having a look at the above video by Will Ferguson.

Don’t tell me you went to a chain-store yesterday!

Shopping small is in this season.

Efforts like“Indie-Shopping” campaigns and Small Business Saturday (that’s today), mark a conscious effort by more Americans to patronize local businesses.

In addition to quality and customer service, economic benefits draw folks into mom-and-pop operations: small businesses keep a larger portion of their dollars in the local economy than their big-box counterparts do.

Lavon Jackson, who co-owns the Somerset clothing boutique Style & Swag with his wife Carol, cites prospect of creating jobs and reinvigorating his local economy as big motivators.

“When you shop small, you get big things,” Jackson said.

To get into the small-shopping swing of things, join the Intersect Fund at one (or both) of our upcoming Holiday Bazaars.

We’ll host one on Tuesday, Dec. 13th and another on Tuesday, Dec. 20th – both at New Brunswick’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. Click on either date to RSVP.