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Honor Opportunity’s Women Clients Today for International Women’s Day 2011

By Opportunity International on March 8, 2011

On this 100th anniversary, we celebrate the significant progress that has been achieved through determined advocacy, practical action and enlightened policy making. Yet, in too many countries and societies, women remain second-class citizens. [...] In the home and at school, in the workplace and in the community, being female too often means being vulnerable. -U.N. Read more…

Posted in Events, Insight Trips, OptINnow, Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Technology, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Africa, Ban Ki-moon, Banking on Women, biometric technology, biometrics, Cell phone banking, Children, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global change, International Women’s Day, Judith Godiah, Kenya, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, mobile phone banking, Mobile Phones, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Kenya, OptINnow, point-of-sale devices, Poverty, Schools, Social Change, Students, Technology, UN Secretary-General, United Nations, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Meeting the Grandfather of Microfinance

By Sonya Perez-Lauterbach on May 25, 2010

Last Friday, YAO-Chicago chair Shannon Leutheuser and I had the chance to not only hear but actually to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs event, “Building Social Business.” Yunus is the founder and manager of Grameen Bank and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and he has written a new Read more…

Posted in Events, Our Mission and Vision, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Bangladesh, Building Social Business, Business, Capitalism, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Economics, Education, Grameen Bank, MFI, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Opportunity International, Poverty, Selfishness, Selflessness, Social Change, Technology, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth

"Building Social Business" with Muhammad Yunus

By Andrew Koehler on May 24, 2010

Last Friday, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs brought Dr. Muhammad Yunus to Chicago for a talk entitled “Building Social Business.” Dr. Yunus, often called the grandfather of microfinance, is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Friday’s talk was attended by an audience that consisted of local Read more…

Posted in Events, Our Work
Tagged Africa, Building Social Business, Capitalism, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Dannon, Education, Grameen Bank, Hillary Clinton, Melanne Verveer, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Social Change, Social Entrepreneurship, Students, Sustainability, Technology, Women

Social Change is the Business of the Future

By AJ Renold on October 28, 2009

As many would agree, we are in a turbulent time. Old business models are breaking down and our future seems a bit more uncertain with each passing day. At the 10th Innovating Social Change Conference hosted last week by the Kellogg School of Management, I learned that now is the time to forget old business Read more…

Posted in Our Mission and Vision
Tagged 10th Innovating Social Change Conference, Acumen Fund, Australasia, CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises, DBL Investors, Dr. Sanjay Sinho, Education, Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, Ethos Water, Jacqueline Novogratz, John Brock, John Wood, Jonathan Greenblatt, Kellogg School of Management, KIN Global, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children, MicroDreams, Nancy Barry, Nonprofit, Room to Read, SeaChange Capital Partners, Social business, Social capital, Social Change, South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Network, The American India Foundation, Youth

Painters, Activists & Engineers at the Clinton Global Initiative

By Rob Meloche on September 25, 2009

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…

Posted in Events, Our Mission and Vision
Tagged Activists, Banking on Education, Clinton Global Initiative, Harlem, Laureate Wangari Maathai, Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan, Poverty, Social Change

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