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Six New Year’s Goals for Us All

At Opportunity, we are putting the finishing touches on our personal resolutions and our big organizational goals for 2013. Here are six goals — both small and big — that will inspire us all. Feed more...

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Opportunity Ghana Innovates to Reach More Marginalized Clients

Opportunity Ghana is using innovative technology to provide financial services to a greater number of impoverished people in remote and rural areas of the country, many of whom have never before had...

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Uganda Clients Increase Savings

Leveraging creative community outreach, Opportunity International Uganda is helping clients invest in their own futures through savings accounts. In just a few months in 2012, a savings drive launched...

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$1.2 Million Raised, 8,000 Women Empowered in One Woman Holiday Challenge

A big thank you to the hundreds of amazing people who joined Opportunity International’s One Woman Holiday Challenge. At the end of 2012, we contributed more than $1.2 million in just 45 days to...

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What We’re Reading: Vicki Escarra in the Harvard Business Review,...

At Opportunity International, we see our experienced, resourced entrepreneurial supporters as a major asset to the organization that has led to ground-breaking innovations in our work. Today, in the...

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What We’re Reading: Council on Foreign Relations, “Five Development...

MicroEnsure, the microinsurance subsidiary founded by Opportunity International, was recently recognized by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a “development innovation to watch in 2013.” James...

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Microinsurance Expanded through New Strategic Investors

Opportunity International announced today that it had divested its majority stake in microinsurance organization MicroEnsure. This will bring additional capital and relationships in order to scale the...

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The Power of Technology to Eradicate Poverty

Technology efficiently and cheaply brings financial services to people in remote or rural areas. It breaks through barriers throughout the developing world, where people are excluded from financial...

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“The Chronicle of Philanthropy” Spotlights Opportunity International as an...

“The Chronicle of Philanthropy” featured Opportunity International‘s microinsurance work with subsidiary MicroEnsure and our CEO Vicki Escarra in an article published today. As part of Opportunity...

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“I Have a Dream” for an End to Poverty: Martin Luther King’s March on Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr. led 250,000 people in the “March on Washington” in August 1963. On the national mall, Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. In it, he called for an end to inequality...

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