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Happy Graduation! Event celebrates the close-out of our pilot with GoK’s PROFIT program
“We started with nothing, and now we are businesswomen!” --PROFIT participant BOMA just successfully concluded its two-year pilot in Samburu County with the Government of Kenya’s Programme for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT). The...
BOMA Campaign with One Day’s Wages Raises $31,500
On March 8, International Women's Day, BOMA launched a fundraising campaign with One Day's Wages, an organization that provides matching donations to nonprofits through their fundraising platform. Our goal was to raise $30,000. The campaign just completed, with the...
Scaling to Reach 1 Million: The BOMA Project and Catholic Relief Services Sign Agreement to Expand BOMA’s Poverty Graduation Program into Karamoja, Uganda
We are pleased to announce the finalization of a partnership agreement with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to implement our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) in Karamoja, Uganda. BOMA is a subrecipient under CRS (prime recipient) in a Development Food Security...
This International Women’s Day, Looking at Gender Equality and Ending Extreme Poverty: You Can’t Accomplish One Without the Other
Ending Extreme Poverty: A Gender Lens Economically empowering women is vital to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Globally, women disproportionately suffer the cascading effects of extreme poverty as they struggle to provide for their families. Gender...
IN THE NEWS
The Power of Hope is Real by Nicholas Kristof
The New York Times
We’ve also been featured in:
Salon – Life Lessons from a Global Poverty Hero by Megan Mayhew Berman, Salon
NextBillion – Climate-Proofing Poverty Graduation Programs by Nicole Mills, the BOMA Project & Alex Russell, AMA Feed the Future at UC Davis
Stanford Social Innovation Review –To Impact Millions, the Social Sector Needs to Scale Scaling Up, by Gregory Coussa
The New York Times – The Power of Hope is Real by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal – On the Joys and Challenges of Being a ‘Temporary’ Expat in Kenya by Megan Mayhew Berman, Wall Street Journal
CGAP – The BOMA Project: Building Resiliency in the Arid Lands by Melissa Victor, CGAP Blog
Benson Rioba – Down to business: Drought-hit Kenyan women trade their way out of poverty, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kevin Starr – Enough Innovation Already, SSIR
Impact Measurement on Salesforce – 7 nonprofits setting the bar for Salesforce-based M&E
The Huffington Post – A Day for All Mothers by Anita Casalina, Huffington Post
Manchester Journal – 10 years after its founding, BOMA wins global acclaim by Kathleen James, The Manchester Journal
The Borgen Project – The BOMA Project: Empowering Women in the Third Worldby Saroja Koneru, The Borgen Project Blog
Kiosks give pastoralist women hope by David Muchui, Business Daily Africa
Rutland Herald – Dorset nonprofit group garners $500k gift, Patrick McArdle, Rutland Herald
Tony Loyd – Poverty Graduation Through For-Profit Entrepreneurship, Tony Loyd Podcast