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Opportunity International joins forces with Carly Fiorina’s One Woman Initiative
Opportunity International today announced a dynamic partnership with Carly Fiorina and the One Woman Initiative to empower an additional two million women living in poverty through financial resources, education and training to build sustainable futures. As a Global Ambassador to Opportunity International, Fiorina will lend her voice and influence to Opportunity’s efforts to build a Read more…
Tagged Carly Fiorina, Education, Financial resources, Global Ambassador, One Woman Initiative, Partnerships, Training, Vicki Escarra, Women
Six Questions with Opportunity International’s Technical Proposal Writer Allison Bearden
How long have you worked at Opportunity? I began in August 2010 as an intern and I accepted my current job in May 2011, so I’ve been in this position for a little over one and a half years. What career path led you here? I went to Westmont College, back home in California (I Read more…
Tagged Interview, proposals, six questions, staff, strategic partners, Technical Writers, Technology, Travel
First Day with Vicki Escarra, Our New CEO
Watch our video with Opportunity‘s new CEO Vicki Escarra. Get to know Vicki and welcome her in comments below or on Facebook.
Tagged CEO, Ending Poverty, Facebook, Financial services, Ghana, Global Microfinance Operations, international staff, Investments, Meet Our Staff, Microfinance, Mission, Opportunity International, Opportunity-US, Oxford, Vicki Escarra, videos
Meet Our Staff: How World Travel Brought Me Home to YAO
For the past month, when people have asked me how I am doing, I have answered, “I’m living the dream!” As the new manager of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, I spend my days interacting with smart, motivated, and fascinating individuals, travelling around the country strengthening communities of like-minded people in YAO chapters, and developing plans Read more…
Tagged Africa, chapters, Clients, Community, donor, El Salvador, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Insurance, Loans, Meet Our Staff, Mexico, Microfinance, Nicaragua, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, south america, Tanzania, Training, Travel, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Meet Our Staff: Starting a New Chapter with the Governors
In October 2011, I took a leap of faith leaving some amazing friends and the fast pace of New York City to come back to my sweet hometown of Chicago. I achieved wonderful things in my career, coordinating conferences for 150-2,500 people, special events, outings, and managing a state of the art conference center for Read more…
Tagged 10000 women initiative, Board of Governors, Conference, Director of Donor Experience, Empact, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, Events, Goldman Sachs, International Visitor, Meet Our Staff, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Tanzania, The Opportunity Summit, Women, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, young entrepreneurs
Meet Our Staff: Join the Online Conversation
My first real experience with microfinance was in a Rwandan hospital. It was a little over a year ago, and I was on a three-week educational trip to Rwanda. One of our first days there, my group and I were introduced to a Trust Group of about eight women, all of whom had been widowed, Read more…
Tagged Africa, Community, Ending Poverty, Facebook, Financial services, Global Poverty, Loans, Meet Our Staff, Microfinance, Online Community Specialist, Opportunity International, Pinterest, Poverty, Rwanda, Social Media, Trust Groups, Twitter, widows, Women
Meet Our Staff: Our New Head of Education Finance, Nathan Byrd
This May, we welcomed Nathan Byrd as our new head of education finance. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, and reporting to Colin McCormack, managing director, Africa, Nathan will provide strategic direction and leadership for our education finance program, developing specialized financial tools for schools and families and forming strategic partnerships in the education sector. Nathan is currently Read more…
Tagged afghanistan, Africa, Banking on Education, Children, Colin McCormack, Education, Education finance, Financial services, Ghana, Global Microfinance Operations, India, Kenya, Loans, Malawi, Meet Our Staff, Microfinance, Nathan Byrd, Opportunity International, Rwanda, School fee loans, school tuition loans, Schools, Students, Uganda
