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Last Weekend of Willow Creek’s 2012 Celebration of Hope
This weekend marks the end of the three-week Celebration of Hope for Her event at Willow Creek Church in Barrington, Ill. Opportunity was one of over 40 ministries and organizations–and the only organization–represented, with booths set up in the megachurch’s lobby after Sunday services. The booths inform worshippers about different global initiatives all related to the empowerment of Read more…
Share the National Day of Prayer with Us
Today is the National Day of Prayer, officially marked as a day to “mobilize prayer in America and to encourage personal repentance and righteousness in the culture,” and listed on nationaldayofprayer.org alongside the scripture, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” (Psalm 33:12) At we’re celebrating the day by sharing our prayers–for our loved Read more…
Tagged Community, Facebook, National Day of Prayer, Opportunity International, Pinterest, Prayer, Psalm, Social Media, staff, Supporters
Grandmas, Friends, Wives and Mothers: A Tribute to Important Women in Our Lives
(YAO) members and staff weigh in on the important women in their lives and what they mean to them: My Grandma is one of my soulmates. Her heart has always understood mine and I have always understood hers. Ever since I was a child we have been able to talk for hours about life, relationships, Read more…
For Mothers Like Adwoa, Opportunity Changes Everything
“These loans have transformed my life and that of my family. I no longer have to beg people for food, and I can provide for my family. The community has come to respect me as a hardworking woman.”Throughout the world, all mothers want to give their children everything, and they sacrifice in countless unseen ways Read more…
Tagged Africa, Clients, Ghana, Global Opportunity Quilt, God, gratitude, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mother's Day, Mothers, Opportunity International, Poverty, small business loans, Trust Groups
At Lent, How Do You Recharge to Find Purpose?
As we near the end of winter and enter spring, many of us celebrate Lent, the six weeks leading up to Easter. It’s a time of quiet and peace, as winter leaves a stillness in the air, as if the earth itself is holding its breath waiting in anticipation for new life in the Easter Read more…
Tagged Client, Easter, faith, Faith in Action, God, Lent, Opportunity International, Prayer, reflection, Trust Groups
Meet Client Monica: She is Clothed with Strength and Dignity
When I’m having a rough week, I take a quick break to remember Opportunity‘s clients, like Monica Koranteng, who is most definitely a Proverbs 31 woman. Meet Monica: she watches over the affairs of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Before being introduced to Opportunity Ghana, Monica worked as a “hawker,” Read more…
What We’re Reading: A Microfinance, Poverty, Empowerment Reading List
Looking for your next big read? We’ve put together a list of compelling books we’re reading, running the gamut from microfinance and international development, to global aid and putting your faith into action. Check out our list and let us know what you think in the comment field below. What would you add, and what Read more…
Tagged Banker to the Poor, Daryl Collins, Dead Aid, Ghana, Global Poverty, Half the Sky, Jacqueline Novogratz, Katie Smith Milway, Kojo, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nicholas D. Kristof, One Hen, Opportunity International, Portfolios of the Poor, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Poverty, Sheryl WuDunn, The Blue Sweater, unpoverty, unpoverty rich lessons from the working poor, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
What We’re Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1964 Nobel Lecture on Racial Injustice, Poverty, and War
On December 11, 1964, the day after he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave this lecture at the University of Oslo in Norway. In the lecture, he discussed what he said was “the most pressing problem facing mankind today,” which is a moral and spiritual poverty. As King put it: This problem of Read more…
Tagged agape, Ending Poverty, Faith in Action, Financial services, Fundraising, Get involved, Global Poverty, God, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Microfinance, Nobel Peace Prize, Opportunity International, Poverty, racial injustice, War
Christmas Blessings from Opportunity Colombia
The clients and staff of Opportunity Colombia have prepared a special Christmas message. The Opportunity family wishes you a joyous Christmas and a new year full of hope.
Tagged Advent, Christmas, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Hope, Loan Officer, MFI, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, scripture, The Bible, videos
