50 Weeks of Opportunity
Each week for the next 50 weeks, we will share a piece of Opportunity’s history—major or minor, sobering or inspiring, we have gotten where we are today by facing some of the world’s greatest challenges, with you by our side. Please join us in celebrating the many impactful moments that have built the foundation on which we will embark on our most audacious vision yet: ending extreme poverty.
Atul’s Year-In-Review 2023
As we look excitedly to the year ahead, set bold goals, and dream up new innovations, it’s so important that we take a moment to pause and reflect. Our global community—a community that includes you—has accomplished so much in the last 12 months. What’s more, our clients have built their businesses, grown their savings, and achieved countless milestones, resulting in remarkable transformation for themselves, their families, and their futures. When our global team, donors, and partners come…
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SDG Action: Opportunity International at the United Nations
“The SDGs are not about checking boxes. They’re about the hopes, dreams, rights and expectations of people and the health of our natural environment. They’re about righting historic wrongs, healing global divisions and putting our world on a path to lasting peace.” – UN Secretary General Antonio Guitierrez. This year’s United Nations General Assembly was more than a convening of leaders, it was a clarion call for action. With data showing a slowdown in progress for the UN Sustainable…
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Staff Spotlight: Camilo Garcia
Leadership in Colombia Anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Camilo Garcia knows the warmth of his smile and the kind gleam in his eyes. Camilo has been with Opportunity for the past 12 years, and he has served as the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in Latin America for the past three years. He is an experienced businessperson motivated by a desire to lift up the people of his birthplace and strengthen opportunities for current and future generations. Like so many fathers across the…
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2023 Goalkeepers Report: A Reason for Hope
Opportunity International CEO Atul Tandon reflects on the 2023 Goalkeepers Report from the Gates Foundation.
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Changing Lives, 10 Cents at a Time
What does it take to change a life? To change a community? Part of this work requires us to constantly ask ourselves truly difficult questions.
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Staff Spotlight: Lucy Kabalisa
Lucy Kabalisa has worked for Opportunity International for over 6 years in a number of capacities – and her passion for economic and community development has driven her work for 20 years. Her work has helped countless students receive a quality education. See what makes her tick in this Spotlight interview.
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CATALYZE: Improving Schools & Empowering Learners
Opportunity International’s Education Finance team is dedicated to supporting education leaders, providing them with linkages to capital to invest in their schools, and delivering professional development training to improve the educational experience for learners.
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All good things must come to an end
Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or jumped in somewhere along the way, it’s been an enormous joy getting to read alongside you. But now it’s time for us to finish this chapter and close the Opportunity Book Club.
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Governor Spotlight: Rita Ullom
Rita is a member of Opportunity International’s Board of Governors; thanks to her energy and advocacy, our clients are working their way out of poverty to live with dignity and purpose.
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Ready to travel this summer? (No transportation required!)
Whether you have a summer vacation planned or not, you can explore the world through the pages of a great book! Join the Opportunity Book Club as we travel between Accra, Lagos, London, and New York in Taiye Selasi’s celebrated novel, Ghana Must Go. The captivating story opens with the death of a renowned surgeon in suburban Accra—an event that calls his five children home to Ghana from their homes across the globe. As the narrative unfolds, Selasi weaves the children’s perspectives together…
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