The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship will host a free lecture this week titled, “Getting Ahead with Almost Nothing: What Immigrant Communities Can Teach Us About Achieving the American Dream.”

Jeffrey Ashe, a scholar and international microfinance expert, will deliver the lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, in Sussman Theater in the Olmsted Center. The talk is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Solidarity Foundation, a nonprofit, which is based in Des Moines and operates savings groups in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Des Moines. These savings-based microfinance tools, designed by Ashe in the early 2000s, provide vulnerable populations with safe and affordable ways to save and borrow money. For more information, visit the Drake Newsroom.