Tagged: poverty

August 19, 2023 @ 4:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from the Financial Health Network details the perilous financial state of many people with disabilities. The Financial Health of People with Disabilities: Key Obstacles and Opportunities was produced by the Financial Health Network in partnership with National Disability Institute (NDI), The Harkin… Read More

February 4, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Opportunity International, a global nonprofit, today announced the successful completion of its three-year Waymaker Campaign, “raising $101 million of philanthropic capital that will leverage over $1 billion in social impact funding from local banks and financial institutions to provide loans, investments and wraparound services to… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ruben Salazar Genovez, Global Head of Visa Direct, notes that when he was growing up in El Salvador during the 1980s, people living in “extreme” poverty were defined as those “who spend their daily purchasing power on food and still go to sleep hungry.” Now,… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 9:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Financial Health Network today unveiled the Financial Health Pulse: 2021 U.S. Trends Report. The report, now in its fourth year, provides competing narratives of financial health in America as the pandemic “recovery” sits at an inflection point. The Nation’s Financial Health is Slowly Improving Overall… Read More

November 7, 2019 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oxfam’s Sri Lanka division, an organization working to end the injustices that cause poverty, announced on November 4 the success of the first season of its blockchain-powered delivery of microinsurance to Sri Lanka’s smallholder paddy field farmers. Etherisc, an Insurtech firm that’s creating a protocol… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup Eat My Lunch today launched a project crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to support the work it is doing to alleviate child poverty in New Zealand. Eat My Lunch operates a ‘buy one give one’ model for lunches, which has allowed them to provide more… Read More

June 3, 2015 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kicking off its annual Geeks Doing Good crowdfunding efforts, Worldbuilders recently launched the 8-day campaign on Indiegogo to raise $35,000 for Heifer International, an organization that is seeking to put an end to poverty and hunger throughout the world. Worldbuilders, charity founded by author Pat Rothfuss, was… Read More

March 4, 2015 @ 12:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

More than seven billion people live on Earth. That’s seven billion hearts beating. Seven billion bodies breathing. Seven billion minds creating thoughts and ideas all over the world. Yet, so many face struggle everyday all around us. Even so, there is one thing that will… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 4:30 pm By José Francisco Ávila  |  

The following post was submitted to us this week by José Francisco Ávila. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, many have expressed their opinion as to the strides made since then, and how much more work Americans have to… Read More