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Rachel Cook

Nairobi, Kenya

Rachel Cook has studied film at The University of Southern California and Duke University, and Economics and Business at Duke and The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She worked for awhile as an Equities and Eurodollar Futures Trader in C... view more

  1. Funded!

    The Microlending Film Project: Helping Women Help Themselves by Rachel Cook

    The Microlending Film Project tells the story of mothers, wives, daughters - and entrepreneurs. Watch what they can do with $25.

    • 100% funded $5,999 pledged
    • 43 backers
    • Funded Feb 29, 2012
  2. Funded!

    The Microlending Film Project - Saving the World's Women by Rachel Cook

    An independently produced feature documentary exploring microlending to women as a tool for alleviating poverty and changing the world.

    • 126% funded $9,189 pledged
    • 127 backers
    • Funded Dec 01, 2011
  3. Finishing MFP (The Microlending Film Project) by Rachel Cook

    Our global documentary has taken us to South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, and now we're filming in Detroit!

    Funding Unsuccessful (08/22/2011)
  4. Microlending Film: A Documentary About Enterprising Women by Rachel Cook

    We want to continue filming our global documentary in Bangladesh, the home country of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus.

    Funding Unsuccessful (01/28/2011)
  5. Funded!

    We're making a film about Microlending! by Rachel Cook

    Our documentary will span three continents as we follow women using microloans to try to pull themselves and their families out of poverty.

    • 105% funded $7,919 pledged
    • 99 backers
    • Funded May 17, 2010