Opportunity International reached over 20 million people across 31 countries last year – and our 2023 Impact Report provides an in-depth look at how our work has helped transform communities: ✳️ Smallholder farmers are growing more crops and earning more income. ✳️ More children are attending quality schools. ✳️ Entrepreneurs are growing businesses in a stable and sustainable way. Learn more about how we’re changing lives and hear directly from the people we serve in this year’s impact report today at https://lnkd.in/gbvfeC2s #impactreport #data #impact #endpoverty
Opportunity International
Non-profit Organizations
Chicago, Illinois 40,325 followers
About us
Opportunity International is a global non-profit (with affiliates in the UK, Canada, Germany and Australia) celebrating over 50 years of equipping people with tools and business solutions to work their way out of poverty. Opportunity provides 18.7 million families with innovative financial resources, training, and support to grow their small businesses and send their children to school. Discover more at opportunity.org.
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http://www.opportunity.org
External link for Opportunity International
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1971
- Specialties
- microfinance, microinsurance, savings, loans, training, and global poverty
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101 N. Wacker Drive
Suite 1150
Chicago, Illinois 60606, US
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81 Saint Clement's Street
Oxford, England OX4 1AW, GB
Employees at Opportunity International
Updates
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We are partnering with Opportunity International to find their next Director of Philanthropy (SO CA). You would be responsible for rapidly growing revenues in an assigned territory by meeting and exceeding major gift revenue and portfolio goals. The role will primarily manage a territory in Southern California with additional opportunities in the Pacific Northwest territory. Are you an entrepreneurial self-starter, highly skilled and an experienced fundraising professional with at least seven years of proven success in growing revenues and managing high-value portfolios? Are you in the top 20% of your peers in fundraising performance? Do you possess strong financial acumen, have experience in managing strategic donor relationships, and the ability to develop long-term cultivation and solicitation strategies? If so, we would love to hear from you. Please follow the link to find out more and to apply: https://lnkd.in/dRtX-ibn Closing date: 1st September 2024 Location: Remote in Southern California #recruit #opportunity #globaldevelopment
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Machine learning, #AI, and #fintech can foster investment and partnerships that can drive sustainable development and economic growth – but only if we design these tools through the lens of the most vulnerable. Join Opportunity’s Head of Digital Finance Dr. William Derban at next month’s The 3rd Financial Innovation Forum in the UK as he shares insights on the unique opportunities and challenges faced by emerging economies in an era of radical technological transformation. Learn more about how we are empowering developing markets to attract capital, enhance infrastructure, and improve living standards, and how the future of finance is through inclusion – sign up today! https://lnkd.in/gbPprdPn
QUBE Events | 3rd Financial Innovation Forum - Payments & Regtech
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This truly was a transformational experience consisting of joy, grit, resilience, camaraderie, and gratitude. We whittled away at the mountain step by step on summit night, waiting for the horizon of the sunrise to appear, while also pushing beyond our own mental & physical horizons as the elevation grew and the air thinned. We kept the women of The Rise program on our minds at all times. They were our constant inspiration and we were overcome with emotions to see how them and their families were flourishing during our visits in Malawi. It was an absolute honor and blessing to be a part of and lead this special team over the past six months. Thank you to the OG Kili Quest Crew! “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead Zikomo 🇲🇼 & Asante 🇹🇿
All 8 of our Team Opportunity members have safely summited Mount Kilimanjaro at 10 am on Saturday morning! We couldn’t be more proud of this team, who climbed 19,341 ft and raised over $178,000 to support our programming for women entrepreneurs in Malawi. On the next leg of their journey, Jeff, Steve, Kay, Renee, Greg, Jacquelyn, Laura, and Jim will head to Blantyre, Malawi to meet the women who inspired this challenge – who every day must climb their own mountains, both literally and figuratively, to build their own pathways to prosperity. Congratulations and well wishes, team!
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Opportunity International reposted this
🌟✏️ Project update! With our partner Opportunity International, we’re helping finance and build capacity at 15 financial institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We’ve already invested $20 million so far. It’s part of an initiative to help 2.2 million children in 6,600 schools across low- and middle-income countries. Together, we’re working to close the market gap for school improvement loans, and to bolster affordable schools with they finance they need to accept more children, offer more extracurricular opportunities and increase the quality of their services. However, without sufficient financial and capacity support, they will not be able to meet this need. See how we’re helping create a brighter future for all kids, together with Ed Partners Africa. https://lnkd.in/enk4EZE5 💪🎒 #EdFinance #ImpactInvesting #BeTheChange
Mobilizing Capital in the Low-Cost Private School Sector: Key Insights Two Years into an Innovative Partnership
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Dr. William Derban has dedicated his life to expanding access to opportunity in Africa – and as head of Opportunity’s digital financial services, he has helped pave the way for millions of entrepreneurs, farmers, and school proprietors across the continent to achieve prosperity. Hear Dr. Derban share his thoughts on our human-centered strategies to train, support, and provide financial services to an African future in this month’s Civic Tech in Africa podcast, hosted by the Civic Tech Innovation Network’s Nathi Mcetywa, in the link below. #innovation #fintech #Africa #climatechange #resilience #ai https://lnkd.in/gbky2hCs
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Christina Matsenga had a problem: her goat had stopped eating. Instead of traveling 25 miles to the capital to get help, she used Opportunity's AI chatbot - which gave her answers in her local language within minutes. The future is already here, it's just not equally distributed. But we're on a mission to tear down the barriers to technological progress and bring everyone closer to innovations that can transform lives, economies, and the global food chain. Devex reporter Alessio Perrone spoke with Greg Nelson, Timothy Strong, and Opportunity clients about this transformational tool - read more below. #ai #genai #transformational #agriculture #smallholder #farmer https://lnkd.in/gGcXsWQD
The AI apps helping the world's low-income farmers work smarter
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All 8 of our Team Opportunity members have safely summited Mount Kilimanjaro at 10 am on Saturday morning! We couldn’t be more proud of this team, who climbed 19,341 ft and raised over $178,000 to support our programming for women entrepreneurs in Malawi. On the next leg of their journey, Jeff, Steve, Kay, Renee, Greg, Jacquelyn, Laura, and Jim will head to Blantyre, Malawi to meet the women who inspired this challenge – who every day must climb their own mountains, both literally and figuratively, to build their own pathways to prosperity. Congratulations and well wishes, team!
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Savings groups play a pivotal role in our overall development strategies. Oftentimes a first point of contact with clients, these groups are critical in our efforts to empower communities, foster entrepreneurship, and drive economic growth at the grassroots level. Our experts participated at this week's 4th Annual Agrifinance Conference in Lilongwe to explore how government, financial institutions, and NGOs can work together to expand access to these groups and help those in extreme poverty build pathways to prosperity. Thanks to the Bankers Association of Malawi (BAM) for having us! #villagesavingsandloans #vsla #savings #agriculture #finance
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This month’s e-MFP newsletter highlights perspectives from Opportunity’s own Deborah Foy. A passionate advocate for forcibly displaced people, Deborah shares how microfinance interventions can help prevent forced migration due to climate change – and support those who have already been displaced. More here: https://lnkd.in/eq7n3rJP
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