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What We’re Reading: The Impact of Microfinance at Home and Abroad
Every Wednesday we highlight an article, book or a blog in our “What We’re Reading” series. We feature works that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the work we do at Opportunity. We welcome your comments in the comment field below–-tell us what you’re reading, or respond to the piece we’ve highlighted. The following Read more…
Tagged $2 a day, Community, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, eradicating poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Loans, Media, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, small business loans, Training, what we're reading
What YAO is reading: Portfolios of the Poor
Last night, at Noble Tree cafe in Lincoln Park, YAO-Chicago held a book discussion for Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. If you missed it, never fear. There will be more book discussions in YAO‘s future. In fact, we may have a followup to the discussion of Portfolios, a Read more…
Two Dollar Challenge
This year, Opportunity International is proud to announce our partnership with the Two Dollar a Day Challenge (TDC). TDC is an initiative that began with Shawn Humphrey, assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mary Washington. Shawn charged his students with the very same challenge that people all over the world Read more…
Tagged $2 a day, College, Education, Fundraising, OptINnow, Schools, Students, TDC, Two Dollar Challenge
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
Opportunity LiveBlog: Banking on Africa
Over 75 percent of people in Africa lives on less than $2 per day. So when Opportunity looked at its expansion plan, Africa was the region that began to take priority. In 2008 Opportunity launched an ambitious campaign to make significant impact on the world’s poorest people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015. Building upon its Read more…
