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Vote for OptINnow in the Paperless Choice Challenge
’s fundraising campaign, OptINnow, is entered in the Paperless Choice Challenge funded by the Overbrook Foundation. The contest is looking to reward non-profits with innovative digital fundraising techniques. The winners receive $5,000! OptINnow is an innovative, multi-functional digital fundraising campaign. Help optinnow.org win the contest, so Opportunity International can receive $5,000 to help end global poverty. Faster. How Read more…
Tagged Ending Poverty, Facebook, Financial services, Global Opportunity Quilt, Microfinance, Mother's Day, Mothers, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty, Technology, Twitter, Women
YAO Goes to Boot Camp
On Saturday, May 15, 33 young professionals gathered in Minneapolis, Minn. for the first-ever YAO Boot Camp. The group spent the afternoon learning how to turn their knowledge of microfinance into action through a series of discussions and presentations. YAO-Minneapolis member Riley Powell gave a lively, interactive presentation on the ABC’s of microfinance and the work of Opportunity Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Board of Governors, David Makanza, Education, Insight Trip, Liesel Pritzker, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Poverty, Students, Tanzania, Technology, Twitter, YAO, YAO-Minneapolis, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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
A Working Session at CGIU: Alleviating Global Poverty
Recently, I had the privilege of participating in the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) in Miami, Fla. I was a table facilitator at two “working sessions” in which I collaborated with student leaders committed to effecting global change. With me at the conference was Liesel Pritzker, founder and chair of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO), Read more…
Tagged Advocacy and Media, Blogs, CGIU, Change-makers, Clinton Global Initiative, Conference, Education, Facebook, Leaders, Liesel Pritzker, Opportunity International, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Radio, Social Entrepreneurship, Students, Twitter, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Young Professionals
#mifimon: Technology & Microfinance
The following is a guest post from Ben Lyon from FrontlineSMS. You can stay connected and up to date with #mifimon by following @Mifimon on Twitter. Once every two weeks, the microfinance community comes together on Twitter for Microfinance Monday, or #mifimon. Last #mifimon, the use and implications of technology in microfinance took center stage. Questions ranged from Read more…
Tagged #MifiMon, Microfinance, Rural Outreach, Technology, Twitter
Young Ambassador Reporting from Tanzania
On Sunday, Feb. 21, I flew from Chicago, Ill., to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. After almost two days of travel, I stepped out of the Julius Nyerere International Airport into humid, 90 degree weather. I knew I was in Tanzania. Thankfully, my luggage arrived with me and I went on to the Opportunity Tanzania head office. Over Read more…
Introducing #Mifimon 2010!
Interested in learning about microfinance? Follow our biweekly discussion group #mifimon (because Microfinance Mondays was too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit). Our aim is to host an exchange of ideas about issues relevant to the microfinance industry. You’re welcome to lend your voice, whether you’re a practitioner in the field or a newbie just learning Read more…
Tagged #MifiMon, 2010, Define Microfinance, Economic development, Education, Facebook, Holiday, Microfinance, New Year, Social Media, Twitter
#Mifimon: BRAC’s "Microfinance Plus" Approach
The following is a guest post by Jessica Elisberg from Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX). Interested in learning about microfinance? Follow our biweekly Twitter discussion group #mifimon (because Microfinance Mondays was too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit!) The aim is to host an exchange of ideas about issues relevant to the microfinance industry. You’re welcome to Read more…
#Mifimon: Where in the world is microfinance working?
The following is a guest post by Grameen America DC’s Alice Geglio, for Opportunity International Interested in learning about microfinance? Follow our biweekly Twitter discussion group #mifimon (because Microfinance Mondays was too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit!) The aim is to host an exchange of ideas about issues relevant to the microfinance industry. You’re welcome to lend Read more…
Tagged #MifiMon, Accion, Afganistan, ASA, China, Clients, Financial Regulations, FINCA, Gameen Bank, Ghana, India, Kenya, Latin America, Mexico, MFI, Microenterprises, Microfinance Institution, OptINnow, Peru, Rural banking, Southeast Asia, The Economist, Twitter
