Education
Woodworth graduated from South High School (Salt Lake City) in 1960. Woodworth holds Bachelor of Science and Mississippi degrees from Brigham Young University and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan.
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Career
He is a leading advocate of development of micro-cr and has been involved in researching as well as developing such programs. He has also held various visiting scholar appointments including as the first Peter Drucker Centennial Scholar at the Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University. Among other positions, Woodworth has served as co-editor of the Journal of Microfinance.
Among the organizations Woodworth has helped to found have been Enterprise Mentors International, Unitas Microcr and HELP-International.
Woodworth currently serves as chairman of the board of HELP International. HELP International was an outgrowth of HELP Honduras, which was an organization formed to provide aid in Honduras in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.
Among the books Woodworth has co-authored are Small Really is Beautiful (1997), United Foreign Zion: Principals for Uniting the Saints to Eliminate Poverty and Working Toward Zion co-authored with James West. Lucas (1999). In the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Woodworth was involved in forming the group Sustain Haiti.
Woodworth has been a consistent and vocal critic of the growing trend of for-profit organizations entering into operations that they have claimed constitute micro-financing.
