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Global Poverty on College Campuses: The Two Dollar a Day Challenge
Today, Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, manager of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) presented about Opportunity’s partnership with the Two Dollar Challenge (TDC) organization to the Development Assistance Task Force at the U.S. Summit for Global Citizenship. Here are a few highlights from Sonya’s presentation… At Opportunity, we feel strongly that young adults in the U.S. have the skills, broad Read more…
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U.S. Summit for Global Citizenship Starts Tomorrow!
Tomorrow, the U.S. Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy begins in Washington, D.C. More than 100 NGO leaders working in nine task force groups on a number of topics, including business and development assistance, have solicited and vetted hundreds of proposals from citizen diplomacy organizations, and selected ten top organizations to present in each task Read more…
Tagged 2010 US Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy, Ruth-Anne Renaud, Shawn Humphrey, Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, TDC, Two Dollar a Day Challenge, Two Dollar Challenge, University of Mary Washington, US Center for Citizen Diplomacy, US Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy, US Summit Citizen Diplomacy, Washington D.C., Women's Opportunity Network, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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
