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Opportunity International in Today’s USA Today
We are so excited to announce that Opportunity International has been featured in a special supplement in today’s edition of USA Today entitled, “Investing in Women and Girls: 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.” This is a great opportunity for you to read all about our Banking on Women initiatives that help women gain financial freedom and change Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Women, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chicago, Christy Turlington Burns, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Gates Foundation, Kenya, Loans, Mary Robinson, Melinda Gates, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, New York, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity International, Poverty, San Francisco, USA Today, Washington D.C., Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
In Support of Muhammad Yunus
The following post was written by Opportunity International’s CEO Bill Morgenstern. Earlier this week, the Bangladesh central bank took steps to remove Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen, citing a mandatory retirement age of 60 for managing directors. Members of Grameen’s board and Professor Yunus, who turns 71 this year, have filed Read more…
Tagged Ending Poverty, Grameen, Grameen Bank, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Opportunity International, Poverty, what we're reading
Video: Young Entrepreneurs, Opportunity Supporters & YAO Jump for Opportunity
Watch a great recap of YAO‘s Jump for Opportunity skydiving event on Feb. 19, 2011 in Orlando, Fla. The dedicated young professionals, entrepreneurs and Opportunity supporters who jumped have already raised over $100,000 to empower Opportunity’s microfinance clients in Tanzania and their online fundraisers are still open. Watch the video above, become a member of YAO, and support Read more…
