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Read With Us! December Book Club Selection
Winner of the National Book Award, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and more, Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a slum community near the Mumbai…
Read MoreOpportunity International Honors 2018 WeGo Award Winners
Chicago – October 31, 2018 – Opportunity International is pleased to announce the winners of the Women and Girls Opportunity (WeGO) Awards. The inaugural WeGO Award seeks to highlight and honor…
Read MoreA New Way to Move Families From Poverty to Prosperity
Before anything else, Marites is a mother. The first thing she asks herself every morning is how she will get food on the table for her children that day. She is learning better ways to answer that question…
Read MoreKnowledge Management Update - October 2018
The October 2018 KM Update touches on a number of recent research studies and activities, including the development of a new research approach to help organizations optimize their interventions, a rigorous…
Read More“Top 5 Fintech & Banking Trends” with Atul Tandon…
https://medium.com/@breanapatel36/top-5-fintech-banking-trends-with-atul-tandon-ceo-opportunity-international-496535650316
Read MoreMeet Erin Dowland Kabwe
In August, we welcomed our new Senior Director of Volunteer Engagement, Erin Dowland Kabwe. As Mother Teresa says, “It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.” …
Read MoreThe Power of Education in Nicaragua
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” In Nicaragua, we saw first-hand evidence of that truth. With its magnificent geographic setting…
Read MoreAnnouncing Our September Book Club Selection
Here at Opportunity International, we have so many wonderful friends. These are people who provide us with invaluable strategic direction, encourage us as we tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges,…
Read MorePowering Educational Change-Makers Like Grace
A native of Bogotá, Grace remembers wanting to become a teacher when she was as young as the students she teaches today. As a child in school, she was accustomed to knocks on the door from classmates…
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