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“Is Your Nonprofit Blog a Snoozer?” Find the Solution at SXSW Interactive 2011
Ever wonder how nonprofits write successful blogs, turning high readership into active support? Believe me, it’s a challenge. No matter how interesting your nonprofit’s work, if you don’t offer a variety of content on your blog–a range of technical, informative and human interest stories–it won’t engage supporters. If you’re the editor of a nonprofit blog–or even Read more…
Tagged blackbaud, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Conference, Donations, Donations 2.0, Donors Choose, Interactive, Jonathan Neddenriep, life after blackbaud, Nonprofit, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Ruth-Anne Renaud, Social Media, Supporters, SXSW, sxsw interactive, Technology, Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit
What We’re Reading: “Reaching the Unreachable” on Hunger & Undernutrition Blog
On Thursday, we wrote a guest blog post on The Hunger and Undernutrition Blog, talking about the impact of innovations in agriculture finance, including crop insurance, savings accounts and lending–which all mitigate the challenges and risks of lending to smallholder farmers. But we are not the only organization to want to discuss agricultural sustainability. Go deeper and check Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, agriculture finance, Agriculture Microfinance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Blog, Blogging, Bread for the World, Education, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Food security, Food Sustainability, G8, Hunger, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Technology, the micronutrient initiative, Un millennium development goals, United Nations
The Top 5 Opportunity Blog Posts
Revisit Opportunity‘s five most popular blog posts from the past month. Got a comment? Share it with us in the comment field below. 1. UN Secretary-General Visits Opportunity Malawi Mobile Bank (6/02/10) 2. Food & Microfinance: Helping Farmers Reap Rewards (6/02/10) 3. Meeting the Grandfather of Microfinance (5/25/10) 4. Cell Phone Banking Technology Comes to Read more…
Tagged Blog, Microfinance, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International
Why we’re excited about the Tanzania launch on OptINnow…
Now that Opportunity has launched Tanzanian clients on OptINnow, participants from last September’s YAO Insight Trip to Tanzania want to share the good news. Here, they tell us what excites them most about the launch of Tanzania on OptINnow. “I’m excited to tell my family and friends, because they all know how much Tanzania means to me. Read more…
Tagged Africa, Blog, Facebook, Insight Trip, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Poverty, Tanzania, Technology, Twitter, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth, YouTube
Malawi 2010
Recently, Maria Largey, director of philanthropy at Opportunity UK travelled to Malawi with Deborah Foy, director of programs. They went to meet with current clients, assess the situation in Nsanje (the region with one of the largest unbanked populations in Malawi), and to see firsthand the effectiveness and success of Opportunity Malawi’s POS devices, mobile Read more…
Tagged Blog, Clients, Education, Financial literacy programs, Malawi, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Mozambique, Opportunity UK, POS devices, Trust Groups
