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Look Good, Do Good
This week only, the social entrepreneurs at Sevenly selected Opportunity International as their featured nonprofit, designing t-shirts and a hoodie for sale to benefit our work. They were especially inspired by our work in India, focusing their week-long campaign on our microfinance there, especially health insurance through our microinsurance subsidiary MicroEnsure. After all, our financial services Read more…
Check It Out! Credit Suisse Reports on the Impact of Microfinance & Technology in Malawi
We’re pleased to announce that Opportunity International is featured in this month’s Credit Suisse Bulletin. The four-page article, which was the result of Credit Suisse’s visit to Opportunity Malawi last year, is located on pages 42-45. Click here to see a complete copy of the Bulletin or read the story online. In addition, Credit Suisse has Read more…
Tagged Africa, ATMs, biometric fingerprint technology, biometric technology, Cell phone banking, Clients, Credit Suisse, Electronic wallet strategy, Financial literacy programs, financial literacy training, Loan Officer, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, mobile banking vehicle, mobile phone banking, Opportunity International, Opportunity Malawi, Poverty, regional manager, Rural Outreach, Savings, Technology, Training, Trust Groups, Women
Today, Opportunity International and Empact’s Young Entrepreneurs Are at the White House
Today, Opportunity International and Empact visit the White House. Empact, formerly known as Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, is honoring the country’s top 100 young entrepreneurs on their Empact 100 list at a White House event with senior administration officials from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Opportunity staff member Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, the manager of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO), Read more…
Tagged Empact, Empact 100, Future of Entrepreneurship Summit, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Kaufmann Foundation, Opportunity International, Poverty, Startup America Partnership, Washington D.C., White House, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
What We’re Watching: Top 3 Conference Videos on Technology
Check out our top 3 videos on technology from our fall conference in San Francisco–click on the speakers’ names to watch. Steven Levy Senior writer at Wired; Author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Steven Levy: “The most prominent leaders in the technology world today believe that the first step in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Aleksandr-Alain Kalanda, and Shapes Our Lives, Banking on Africa, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Kevin Compton, Malawi, Microfinance, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Malawi, Steven Levy, Technology, Trust Group, videos, Wired magazine, Works
Conference LiveBlog: Jeffrey Spector, Chief of Staff at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
This Saturday morning plenary session continues with a presentation by Jeffrey Spector, Chief of Staff for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Highlights from Jeffrey Spector’s Presentation Innovations are not only happening in labs or on computers. I’ll give two examples: A few years ago, I was tasked with scaling up Gates’s organizations. We made Read more…
Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ending Poverty, Financial Services for the Poor initiative, Gates Foundation, Global Poverty, Jeffrey Spector, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, strategic partners
Breakout Session: Developing the Next Generation of Microfinance Bankers
Recruiting, hiring and retaining key staff–from loan officers to CEOs–who are technically excellent and who embrace a culture of serving people living in poverty with client-centered products is critical to our success. Find out more about Opportunity International’s partnership with Credit Suisse to build a comprehensive leadership and staff development initiative across our operations in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Anessa Chui, Credit Suisse, Democratic Republic of Congo, DR Congo, DRC Grand Opening, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Hire Right Train Right Treat Right, Loan Officer, Microfinance, Nadine Pembele, OIC2011, Opportunity DRC, Opportunity International, opportunity international canada, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Training
Conference LiveBlog: Ambassador Tony Hall of the Alliance to End Hunger
Ambassador Tony Hall is a long-time and tireless advocate for issues of global hunger and poverty eradication, serving as executive director of the Alliance to End Hunger. This morning, Dennis Ripley, Opportunity’s senior vice president of international business development, interviewed Ambassador Hall from the main stage at Opportunity’s conference, sharing his story and how we Read more…
Tagged Africa, Alliance to End Hunger, Ambassador, Ending Hunger, Financial services, Microfinance, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Tony Hall
Conference LiveBlog: Reeta Roy Accepts the 2011 International Women’s Leadership Award on Behalf of The MasterCard Foundation
Today, Betsy Perdue, co-chair of the Women’s Opportunity Network (WON), presented Reeta Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, with WON’s 2011 International Women’s Leadership Award. Roy accepted the award on behalf of the Foundation, honored for its role in supporting and inspiring global women entrepreneurs. By increasing access to microfinance and youth education in developing Read more…
Tagged Africa, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, International Women’s Leadership Award, MFI, Microfinance, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, Reeta Roy, Technology, The MasterCard Foundation, United Nations, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
Conference LiveBlog: Anessa Chui of Credit Suisse
This morning, Anessa Chui–VP of Human Resources-Onboarding and Program Management at Credit Suisse–spoke from the main stage at Opportunity’s annual conference. Credit Suisse, a strategic partner to Opportunity International, is the generous sponsor of our conference this year. Anessa visited Opportunity’s operations in Uganda as part of Credit Suisse’s Global Citizens Program, examining the branches’ Read more…
Watch it Live! Opportunity International Conference Video Stream Starts Friday 8:30 a.m. PST
Unable to join us in person for the Opportunity International Conference? No problem. Just tune in tomorrow-Friday, Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. PST–as we stream live video from the conference until Saturday, Oct. 15 at 12:00 p.m. Go to opportunity.org/live to watch it live. Here are just a few of the plenary and breakout session Read more…
Tagged Africa, Alliance to End Hunger, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Draper, Board of Advisors, Daryl Collins, Dikembe Mutombo, dikembe mutombo foundation, Feed the Future Guide, Jeffrey Spector, John Ortberg, Julie Howard, Laura Pincus Hartman, OIC2011, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Reeta Roy, Steven Levy, The MasterCard Foundation, Tony Hall, videos
