News Media Coverage
Opportunity CEO Atul Tandon joins Cisco and Ideagen to discuss COVID-19 Response
Opportunity’s CEO Atul Tandon and Deputy Director of Cisco Foundation Charu Adesnik were featured on LinkedIn Live with Ideagen to discuss updates from the field, maintaining hope during COVID-19, and how technology is helping us support and prepare the most marginalized. Host George Sifakis, Global CEO of Ideagen, led the conversation. Ideagen is a thought-leadership organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on building and enhancing cross-sector collaboration between nonprofit, corporate, and public sector entities for collective impact.
Head of Education, Andrew McCusker, Interviews with Ideagen
Opportunity's Head of Education Finance, Andrew McCusker, joined Ideagen® President George Sifakis to discuss the global education crisis, how Opportunity's Education Finance team is designing and scaling solutions, and the top three lessons he's learned that have the potential to change the world.
Michele Sullivan highlights Opportunity in Looking Up
Former president of Caterpillar Foundation and long-time friend of Opportunity, Michele Sullivan, is releasing her first book next week called Looking Up: How a Different Perspective Turns Obstacles into Advantage. Watch Michele talk about traveling with Opportunity to Uganda on C-SPAN2’s Book TV segment here and learn more about her upcoming book at lookingupbook.com.
Modern Ghana
Opportunity International Joins Akropong School For The Blind To Celebrate International Day Of Persons With Disability
The Management and staff of Opportunity International Savings and Loans (OISL) organised a 5 kilometer health walk and spent the rest of the day with students and staff of Akropong School for the Blind to celebrate the International Day for Persons with Disability.
BBC
Jobs for the World's Young
Young people make up 35% of the world's unemployed, and it's a global problem. Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Amy Goldstein, author of Janesville: An American Story, tells us how retraining doesn't always work when it comes to finding people new jobs in the rust belt of America. Rahul Tandon reports on India's unemployed youth contending with a slowing economy. And John Magnay from Opportunity International, a network of banks and micro-finance institutions, tells us why farming can still be the solution for Africa's unemployment problem.
CGTN America
Atul Tandon on why the world gives big on Giving Tuesday
CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo spoke with Atul Tandon, Opportunity International CEO, about why online donations are increasing.
Forbes International Magazine
How Opportunity International is Working to End Poverty in our Lifetime
Forbes International Magazine
Combining Capitalism and Charity: MyBucks Spreads Financial Services Across Africa
International Policy Digest
Opportunity International - A Graduation, A Benchmark for Empowerment in Nicaragua
Voice of America’s Africa News Tonight
We are investing in schools and we’re ensuring that schools can scale to meet the demand in their local community and can get every child in their community into school so they have an option to pursue an education
Forbes International Magazine
A Conversation with Vicki Escarra, Global CEO of Opportunity International
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Charity fundraiser at Lake Minnetonka mansion sealed with a Kiss concert
KEYC-TV, the Mankato FOX affiliate
Gene Simmons of KISS Participates in Mankato Charity Event Before Concert
KTOE News Radio in Mankato
Kiss legend Gene Simmons swoops into charity function in Mankato
The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2
The Power of Microfinance on Educating Children in the Developing World
Huffington Post
New Three-Year, $1.8-Million Partnership With MetLife Foundation Will Create Jobs, Transform Lives in China
Microcapital.org
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: EFSE Lends $7.8m to Microfinance Institutions Mikrofin of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Opportunity Bank Serbia
The Sais Observer
Three Times Strong: SAIS’ “Global Women in Leadership” Talks Women Entrepreneurship
Biz Journal's "Biz Women"
On a rooftop in the slums of Delhi, Carly Fiorina beefs up her international resume
The Washington Examiner
Carly Fiorina discusses nonprofit work and faith ahead of National Prayer Breakfast
The Chicago Tribune's Blue Sky Innovation
Steps that women entrepreneurs can take to help cut the gender gap
The Economic Times
What Opportunity International's Vicki Escarra & Carly Fiorina are doing to empower Indian women
Africa Agribusiness Magazine
Opportunity International Ag Finance: helping smallholder farmers grow out of subsistence
Microcapital.org
Opportunity International Buys Mambu Cloud Banking Software to Support Lending to Small, Medium-Sized Enterprises
Half the Sky Movement
Mother's Day: Moving the Apostrophe to Help Mothers Around the World
Julia Campbell Social Marketing
5 Very Inspiring Nonprofit Fundraising Campaigns for Mother's Day
Insurance News Net