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What We’re Watching: Bill Gates On Aspirational & Actionable 2011 Annual Letter
I believe it is in the rich world’s enlightened self-interest to continue investing in foreign aid. If societies can’t provide for people’s basic health, if they can’t feed and educate people, then their populations and problems will grow and the world will be a less stable place. –Bill Gates’ 2011 Annual Letter Bill Gates’ third annual Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, food aid, Food security, Gates Foundation, Ghana, Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, Global Poverty, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, Loans, Malaria, Microfinance, Opportunity International, polio, Poverty, strategic partners, Teaching, vaccines, videos, WFP, what we're reading, Women, World Food Programme
ONE Blog: A “Tale of Two Budgets” that Could Help Alleviate Global Poverty
The following post was published today on the ONE Blog, entitled “A Tale of Two Budgets” and written by Larry Nowels, it’s about the budgets currently in Congress that could have a significant impact on the U.S.’s support of programs to reduce global poverty. Read the original ONE Blog post here. Over the past 10 days, Read more…
Tagged afghanistan, Congress, Ending Poverty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global Health Initiative, Global Poverty, Iraq, Loans, Microfinance, Nuulu Nankya, ONE, ONE blog, ONE Campaign, Opportunity International, Pakistan, Poverty, President Obama, Senate, Uganda, US Government, USAID, Women
The Fear That Drove Me to Jump for Opportunity
This guest post was written by Catherine Duclos, YAO Coordinator for Opportunity International Canada. Catherine was one of 29 young professionals and Opportunity supporters who jumped from an airplane at 18,000 feet to raise awareness and funds to help eradicate poverty in Tanzania. Here, Catherine reflects on her incredible experience at the Jump for Opportunity Read more…
Tagged Africa, Blog, Ending Poverty, Financial services, fundraisers, Guest Post, Jump for Opportunity, Microfinance, Opportunity Canada, Opportunity International, opportunity international canada, OptINnow, Poverty, Technology, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Caterpillar Foundation Extends Corporate Giving Challenge, New $1M Match in 2011 to Reach More with Microfinance
This week, Opportunity International and the Caterpillar Foundation, the charitable arm of global equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., announced the successful culmination of its 2010 Corporate Giving Challenge raising $2 million in total donations. The Foundation also announced a new pledge to match an additional $1 million in new business and corporate donations to Opportunity in 2011. These Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Banking on Africa, Caterpillar Foundation, Caterpillar Inc., Caterpillar match, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, strategic partners, Urwego Opportunity Bank of Rwanda, Will Ball
What We’re Watching: Looking Forward to the Jump for Opportunity
Jump for Opportunity is this weekend, and tomorrow morning a group of more than two dozen brave Opportunity supporters are in Orlando, Florida jumping out of a plane at 18,000 feet to raise money and awareness for clients in Tanzania. Among the jumpers are young entrepreneurs and professionals Jason Duff, Sarah Green, Michael Simmons, Ryan Allis, plus Opportunity International Read more…
It’s Coming: Less than 2 Days ’til Jump for Opportunity
It’s less than two days until the Jump for Opportunity in Orlando, Fla., where more than two dozen entrepreneurs and young professionals are jumping out of a plane at 18,000 feet to raise money and awareness for Opportunity’s clients in Tanzania. So, how can you help? There’s still time to donate to one of the Jumpers’ Read more…
Tagged Africa, Blogging, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Florida, fundraisers, Global Poverty, Jump for Opportunity, MFI, Microfinance, Online fundraising, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Orlando, Poverty, Social Media, Tanzania, The Wall Street Journal, Twitter, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth
What We’re Reading: “To Fight Poverty, Invest in Girls” (Time Magazine)
Every Wednesday, we highlight an article, book or a blog in our “What We’re Reading” series, featuring pieces that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the work we do at Opportunity International. 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 post Read more…
Tagged Banking on Education, Children, Community, Dominican Republic, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Girls, India, Investing in Women and Girls, Malaria, Malawi, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Students, Time Magazine, Uganda, United Nations, WFP, what we're reading, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON, World Bank, World Food Programme
Happy Valentine’s Day! Top 3 Quotes About Love
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here at Opportunity, we know that romantic love is not the only form that we should be celebrating. There is also agape love–an unlimited loving kindness, charity, towards all people. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it, it’s “the love of God operating in the human heart.” In that spirit, we wish you love, Read more…
Tagged agape, charity, Children, Clients, Ending Poverty, Events, Faith in Action, Financial services, God, Holiday, love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Microfinance, MLK, Opportunity International, OptINnow, OptINnow gift cards, Poverty, Technology, valentine's day
Ayekoo! Millennium Villages & Opportunity Expand Microfinance in Rural Ghana
Congratulations (Ayekoo) to the clients of Opportunity Ghana. A Millennium Villages Project (MVP) satellite branch has now opened in the small rural community of Datano. The Datano satellite branch is a small outlet located in Ghana’s western region, in the Amansie West District of Ashanti, west of Accra. The branch is staffed by three employees including Read more…
Tagged accra, Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Clients, Community, Earth Institute, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Loan Officer, Loans, MDG, MDG's, MFI, Microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise, Millennium Village, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Satellite bank branch, Savings, Savings account, Training, Trust Groups, UN Development Programme, Un millennium development goals, UN Millennium Project, United Nations
