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Happy New Year! Thanks For a Great 2010
At Opportunity International, we’re grateful for an exciting and productive year for our efforts to alleviate global poverty. In 2010, thanks to supporters and staff around the world, we achieved many of our goals and were able to serve even more clients working their way out of poverty. Just a few highlights from 2010: Meeting the experts Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Caterpillar Foundation, Colombia, Conference, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Gates Foundation, Holiday, Insight Trip, Kenya, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, New Year, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, spring 2010 microfinance conference, The UPS Foundation, Uganda
News: Community Development in Nicaragua
To combat poverty in the second poorest country in the Western hemisphere, Opportunity has implemented a community economic development initiative in Nicaragua. Our programs provide training and finance for small and medium enterprises in Granada’s most promising industries—tourism and agriculture. Opportunity is helping individuals like Silvia Elena Canda, who learned how to hand-filigree jicaro gourds Read more…
Tagged Agriculture, Children, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Granada, Latin America, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mother, Nicaragua, Opportunity International, Opportunity Nicaragua, Poverty, Training, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
What We’re Reading: The Impact of Microfinance at Home and Abroad
Every Wednesday we highlight an article, book or a blog in our “What We’re Reading” series. We feature works that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the work we do at Opportunity. We welcome your comments in the comment field below–-tell us what you’re reading, or respond to the piece we’ve highlighted. The following Read more…
Tagged $2 a day, Community, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, eradicating poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Loans, Media, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, small business loans, Training, what we're reading
A Fun Way to Fight Poverty: Host a Chili Cook-Off
Allison Bearden, an Opportunity intern and chili cook-off co-host, shares how easy it is to host a small event like this at your work, school or church, raising awareness and funds to help eradicate poverty. Do you want to make a difference in the life of an individual living in poverty? Virtually anyone who wants to contribute to poverty alleviation can Read more…
Tagged Ending Poverty, Events, Financial services, fundraisers, Internship, Microfinance, Online fundraising, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty
Meet Opportunity: Minnesota College Students Get to Know Microfinance
The following post was contributed by YAO core member Nolan Soltvedt. This fall, I spoke to a class at the University of Minnesota about Opportunity International’s work and about my involvement with Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO). The students were asked to write a one-page reflection paper on the topic, which gave me a great insight into a college student’s first impressions Read more…
Tagged Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Campus, campus coordinators, College, Education, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Nonprofit, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, Savings account, Schools, Students, Training, Two Dollar a Day Challenge, Two Dollar Challenge, University, Weather-index crop insurance, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Opportunity Mozambique Is on a Roll with Three New Mobile Banking Vehicles
Last week, Doug Pond, head of operations for Opportunity Mozambique, announced the Mozambique Central Bank’s approval of our three newest mobile banking vehicles. Opportunity plans to deploy all three mobile banking vehicles in the coming weeks to significantly increase its outreach to families living in Mozambique’s rural villages. With the rollout of its agriculture finance Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, ATMs, banco oportunidade de mocambique, Bank Building, Banking on Africa, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, mobile banking vehicle, Mozambique, Opportunity International, opportunity mozambique, Poverty, Satellite bank branch, Savings, Technology
Leading Researchers in Support of Microfinance
This week, nine leading economics researchers–from MIT, UC-Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Boston University and the Chicago Booth School of Business–co-wrote a piece for the Financial Times entitled, “Microcredit is Not the Enemy.” In it, they support the principles of microfinance, defend it against the extreme attacks being leveled at the sector, and caution against undermining the Read more…
Tagged Ending Poverty, Financial services, Financial Times, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International
