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ONE Blog: A “Tale of Two Budgets” that Could Help Alleviate Global Poverty

The following post was published today on the ONE Blog, entitled “A Tale of Two Budgets” and written by Larry Nowels, it’s about the budgets currently in Congress that could have a significant impact on the U.S.’s support of programs to reduce global poverty. Read the original ONE Blog post here. Over the past 10 days, Read more…

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Mourning with World Vision

Opportunity International mourns with World Vision for the loss of six staff members who were killed by gunmen in an attack on their office in Pakistan yesterday. The office focused on providing continued relief to the Mansehra District, where a devastating earthquake killed 80,000 in 2005. These World Vision staff members were local citizens who Read more…

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Painters, Activists & Engineers at the Clinton Global Initiative

On the last evening of The Clinton Global Initiative, I ended up chatting with the following three people: a painter who uses his art to teach children in Mexico about tolerance and peace, a small business loan officer who works for a community development organization in Harlem, and an engineer who is piloting a solar Read more…

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