Arlo Washington is one of those inspirational men who believes that the best way for a community to help itself is, well, for it to help itself. To that end he initially set up a hairdressing college offering training before he realised there was potential to set up a community banking operation that could lend to local people to help them get their business off the ground - without making through-the-nose interest payments. It's a serious enterprise, they don't just give money away - those applying need to have a proper business plan and a strategy for repaying those loans so they can be reinv... read the rest.