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On Black Friday, Avoid the Malls and Fight Global Poverty
Today, avoid the long lines at the mall, and give the gift that keeps on giving with a holiday gift card from OptINnow. Gift cards start at $10 and come in holiday packaging. The recipient goes to optinnow.org, chooses an entrepreneur and then uses the gift card to fund a microloan. When the loan is Read more…
Tagged Board of Governors, Christmas, Christmas cards, church, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Get involved, Honduras, MFI, Microfinance, Nonprofit, Opportunity International, OptINnow, OptINnow gift cards, Poverty, South Africa, Supporters, Uganda, Volunteers
Conference Breakout: Investing in Half the Sky
The panelists at the breakout session, Investing in Half the Sky. From left to right: Diana Negroponte, Alice Gasatura, Julie Hindmarsh and Ruth-Anne Renaud. The following post by YAO member and Opportunity supporter Sonja Egeland Kelly is one of the many blog posts we published from the 2010 Fall Microfinance Conference. Click here to read all Read more…
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LiveBlog: Plenary Session III: Will Ball, Knight Kiplinger and more
This Friday evening plenary session features Opportunity CEO, Bill Morgenstern; chair of the Opportunity Board of Governors, Mary Lynn Staley; director of credit support at Opportunity Rwanda, Alice Gasatura; vice president of the Caterpillar Foundation, Will Ball; economic journalist and editor-in-chief of The Kiplinger Letter, Knight Kiplinger; and Dale Hanson Bourke, president of the CIDRZ Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, alice gasatura, Bill Morgenstern, Board of Governors, Cargill, Caterpillar Foundation, CIDRZ Foundation, Clients, Dale Hanson Bourke, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, knight kiplinger, Loans, mary lynn staley, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, Rwanda, Will Ball, William Ball
LiveBlog: Plenary Session II-Richard Leftley, Claudia Kennedy and Sheryl WuDunn
This plenary session, featuring Richard Leftley, president of MicroEnsure; Claudia Kennedy, the first woman to achieve the rank of three-star general in the U.S. Army; and Sheryl WuDunn, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, discussed microinsurance, global security, and the empowerment of women through access to education and microfinance. Richard Leftley, president and CEO of Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Board of Governors, claudia kennedy, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Half the Sky, International Women’s Leadership Award, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, OptINnow, Poverty, pulitzer prize, Richard Leftley, Sheryl WuDunn, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
3 Breakout Sessions Not to Miss at Fall Microfinance Conference
At Opportunity’s Fall Microfinance Conference, Oct. 8-9, in Washington, D.C., the days will be packed with breakout sessions and presentations from microfinance experts, international visitors and globally-minded individuals passionate about eradicating poverty. For me, this will be my first Opportunity microfinance conference[/intlink], and I’m really looking forward to hearing from guest speakers[/intlink] like Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheryl Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Banking on Education, biometric technology, biometrics, Board of Governors, Board of Governors Conference, Cell phone banking, Clients, Community, Conference, Daryl Skoog, Dominican Republic, Education, educational finance, educational microfinance, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Ghana, Global Philanthropy, IDP Foundation, IDP Foundation Rising Schools Program, John Magnay, Loans, Malawi, Maria Otero, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, Mobile Banking, Mobile Phones, Nobel Peace Prize, Opportunity International, opportunity microfinance conference, Philanthropy, Poverty, pulitzer prize, Roger Thurow, Savings, Schools, Sheryl WuDunn, Students, Technology, Tony Hall, Uganda, Washington D.C.
Top 3 People Not to Miss at the Fall Microfinance Conference in Washington, D.C.
Twice a year, Opportunity hosts a big microfinance conference, bringing in experts in microfinance, poverty eradication and global development to share their knowledge and experience with Opportunity staff, supporters and people interested in learning more about microfinance. This fall, our conference in Washington, D.C. promises to be as inspiring and engaging as ever. Get to know three Read more…
Tagged Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Board of Governors, Board of Governors Conference, Clients, Community, Conference, Education, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Food security, Gates Foundation, Global Poverty, Half the Sky, Hillary Clinton, Loans, Maria Otero, MFI, new york times, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, opportunity microfinance conference, Poverty, pulitzer prize, Secretary Clinton, Secretary of State, Sheryl WuDunn, Speakers, spring microfinance conference, tamara cook, Trust Group Exercise, Trust Groups, Washington D.C., Women, Women's Philanthropy
An Unforgettable Family Trip to Kenya and Malawi
Opportunity supporter and member of the Board of Governors, Rich McClure, writes of his experiences on the July 2010 Family Week trip to Kenya and his visits to Malawi: Visiting eastern Africa, we met women and men who have enterprises fueled by , who are selling their goods in crowded, dirty marketplaces in Nairobi and Lilongwe. Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Board of Governors, Clients, Education, Education finance, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kenya, lilongwe, Loan Officer, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Nairobi, Opportunity International, Orphans, Poverty, Schools, Trust Groups, Youth
Can you have fun when addressing global poverty? YAO says YES!
Can you have fun when addressing global poverty? YAO says YES! This past month, 30 YAO (Young Ambassadors for Opportunity) members gathered at the Board of Governors conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. For some of us who had traveled to Tanzania and Rwanda together last fall on the YAO insight trip it was a sweet reunion. Read more…
Tagged Arizona, Board of Governors, Board of Governors Conference, Creativity, Insight Trip, Passion, Rwanda, spring 2010 microfinance conference, spring microfinance conference, Tanzania, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Young Professionals
An armchair tour of Tanzania at Opportunity’s Spring Conference
The following is a guest post by Ed Kashmarek Opportunity’s Spring Conference, hosted last weekend by the Board of Governors in Scottsdale, Ariz., included a breakout session on Tanzania. Attendees were immediately transported to the country by a giant image of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro towering over bright yellow giraffes, accompanied by the soulful, seductive sounds of Tanzanian music. Read more…
Tagged $2 a day, Banking, Board of Governors, Clients, Conference, Independence, Insurance, Liesel Pritzker, Loans, Mount Kilimanjaro, Poverty, spring 2010 microfinance conference, spring microfinance conference, Tanzania, Training, Trust Groups, Unity, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
