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Conference Insights: Cracking the Nut 2023
Inflation, the war in Ukraine, and climate-related disasters have placed incredible strain on the global food system. For the world’s smallholder farmers—who make up two-thirds of those experiencing extreme poverty—these international events wreak havoc on their day-to-day lives. Opportunity International representing at Cracking the Nut 2023 At Opportunity, we see the positive impacts of investing in the world’s smallholder farmers. By expanding opportunities through…
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Building Safe Futures for Refugees
Over the past 18 months, building on the initial success of Opportunity’s refugee pilot program in Uganda and the insights gathered from extensive listening, our work in Uganda has grown exponentially. We have much to celebrate…
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Staff Spotlight: Jim Delaney
Jim Delaney’s new role as Director of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising combines three of his favorite things: making an impact, tackling big challenges, and rallying new friends around a common goal. First up: the New York City Marathon this fall in support of Opportunity’s incredible clients in Malawi. And this is just the beginning.
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Governor Spotlight: Jeannie Burns Buckner
First introduced to Opportunity International through friends, Jeannie Burns Buckner serves as a member of our Board of Governors and has been deeply involved—on the ground and from afar—with projects in Nicaragua and Uganda. Her latest accomplishment is raising nearly $896,500 for the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda.
Read MoreView from the Field: Updates from Our Latest Webinars
In the spirit of our collaborative efforts, Opportunity International recently hosted two insightful webinars spotlighting urgent global issues: tackling gender disparities in education, and promoting regenerative agricultural practices for smallholder farmers.
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Honor World Refugee Day with the Opportunity Book Club
June 20 is World Refugee Day—an annual reminder to pause and reflect on the enormous challenges that refugees around the world face and the incredible resilience they demonstrate in the face of uncertainty and upheaval. This month, in honor of this important day, the Opportunity Book Club is reading a collection that illuminates the wide range of refugee experiences. Pick up a copy of We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala…
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Check out a genre-defying memoir this month
This month, we’re checking all of our genre boxes with a lyrical memoir that blends one family’s stories with Columbia’s turbulent political history. It’s a nonfiction reflection that reads like a fiction novel—so we think every reader will find something to enjoy! Join us as we dive into Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ The Man Who Could Move Clouds! Raised in Colombia in the 80s and 90s by a fortune-telling mother, Rojas Contreras (who also wrote our 2019 Book Club selection, Fruit of the Drunken…
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Lessons Learned from Jimmy Carter
As a leader, neighbor, father, citizen, humanitarian, and friend, I am always looking for inspiring people who have run the race well before me—people whose stories and experiences can serve as encouragement or education as I continue my own work. And for years, I’ve been inspired by the legacy of President Jimmy Carter. Carter is one of my personal heroes. An uncommon man, he has lived a life dedicated to the common good—and has taught me so much about leading from a place of deep faith,…
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Creating Sustainable Communities through Climate Resilience
In March 2023, Cyclone Freddy hit southern Malawi, creating floods and landslides that tragically caused over 1,000 deaths—including one of our clients—and displaced over 500,000 people. An Opportunity client in the aftermath of the cyclone. It was one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. At about the same time, California declared a state of emergency after a brutal winter storm knocked out power and trapped some residents inside their homes.…
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Staff Spotlight: Luke Coulson
Committed to Opportunity’s agriculture finance overarching mandate to enable farmers to grow more crops and increase their income, Luke Coulson puts his personal, educational, and professional experiences to work every day.
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