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Accion’s Michael Schlein, David Roodman and More at Friday’s Chicago Microfinance Conference
On Friday, I attended the 8th Annual Chicago Booth and Zell Center Microfinance Conference along with . It was my third consecutive year attending this conference, and this year’s topic was “Micronext: Strategies and Challenges of Social Impact.” The day-long conference was hosted by the Emerging Markets Group at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Read more…
Tagged 2012 Chicago Microfinance Conference, Accion, Booth School of Business, Center for Global Development, Chicago Microfinance Conference, Conference, David Roodman, Emerging Markets Group, Ending Poverty, Financial services, FINCA, Harris School of Public Policy, Kellogg School of Management, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Open Book Blog, northwestern university, Poverty, Savings, Smart Campaign, Technology, University of Chicago
Top 5 Creative Fundraisers by International Nonprofits
Last February, 29 super-dedicated young professionals and entrepreneurs went to Orlando, Florida to jump out of a plane, skydiving to raise funds and awareness for Opportunity Tanzania‘s microfinance initiatives. Inspired by our supporters’ fundraiser at 18,000 feet, we entered Jump for Opportunity as the “Most Creative Fundraiser by a Charity” in this year’s Classy Awards. Read more…
Tagged Classy Awards, Clients, contest, Creativity, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Florida, fundraisers, Jump for Opportunity, MFI, Microfinance, Nonprofit, Online fundraising, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Orlando, Stay Classy, Supporters, Tanzania, Twitter, University of Chicago, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, young entrepreneurs, Young Professionals
Chicago Microfinance Conference: Technology Innovations and the Future of Microfinance
At Friday’s Chicago Microfinance Conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, I had the opportunity to attend the morning breakout session, “Innovations in Microfinance.” In the past 40 years, the microfinance industry has grown to its current level whereby MFIs are operating in virtually every country. In this dynamic and rapidly growing Read more…
Tagged 2011 Chicago Microfinance Conference, ATMs, biometric technology, Booth School of Business, CARE, Cell phone banking, Chicago Microfinance Conference, Clients, hub-and-spoke model, Kenya, Malawi, MicroDreams, Microfinance, mobile banking vehicle, mobile phone banking, OIBM, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, Opportunity Malawi, point-of-sale devices, POS devices, Poverty, Rural banking, Rural Outreach, Rwanda, Satellite bank branch, Savings account, Technology, University of Chicago, Women
Faith in Action: Nonprofit Microfinance in the News
The following is a post written by Professor Emeritus Martin E. Marty for Sightings, a blog from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. A prominent interpreter of religion and culture, Marty is the author of more than 50 books, as well as a speaker, columnist, pastor and teacher, and was a professor Read more…
Tagged 2009 annual report, Africa, annual report, christian, christianity, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, faith, Faith in Action, Financial services, FINCA, Guatemala, India, Insight Trip, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Nonprofit, Opportunity International, Philanthropedia, Poverty, Religion, Savings, The Economist, Training, Trust Groups, University of Chicago
Why should you attend the Chicago Microfinance Conference next year?
This year, five of us from Opportunity International attended the 6th Annual Chicago Microfinance Conference at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Alongside other microfinance professionals, as well as educators, graduate and undergraduate students, we delved deep into the topics and discussed the ever-evolving microfinance industry. But there’s still more to cover. The topics Read more…
Does Microfinance Break the Cycle of Poverty?
The story of microfinance has always been compelling in its simplicity: A poor entrepreneur receives a loan. The loan enables her to purchase equipment or goods. She is then able to sell or increase sales of homemade clothes or fresh fruit. The new or increased sales bring in more income which she uses to pay Read more…
Tagged Calvert Foundation, Chicago Microfinance Conference, FINCA, Loans, Mennonite Economic Development Associates, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty, Savings, ShoreCap Exchange, Students, University of Chicago, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
Opportunity Partners with Two Dollar Challenge: Student Program Makes Poverty a Reality
Opportunity International is pleased to announce our partnership with Two Dollar Challenge (TDC), an organization based out of the University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg, Va. The program, where students live or eat on just $2 per day for one week, raises money for Opportunity Trust Groups in Kenya and Colombia through our peer-to-peer lending website, OptINnow. This initiative Read more…
Tagged College, Colombia, Education, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Fundraising, Hunger, Indiana University, Kenya, ohio northern university, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty, Schools, Students, TDC, Trust Groups, Two Dollar a Day Challenge, Two Dollar Challenge, University, University of Chicago, University of Mary Washington, westminster college, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth
