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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
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
STORIES
Are we making progress on global poverty?
At the BOMA Project, our mission is to help vulnerable people in some of the world's poorest and most remote regions--the drylands of Africa--become self-sufficient and forge their own paths out of extreme poverty. Our proven poverty graduation model has already...
The BOMA Project Welcomes Frank DeGiovanni, Pioneer in the Field of Poverty Eradication, to Board of Directors
Manchester, VT, September, 2018-- The BOMA Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit that implements a high-impact, gender-focused poverty graduation program in the drought-threatened arid lands of eastern Africa, announced the election of Frank F. DeGiovanni as a member of the...
Building Trust, and Tailored Financial Products, Help Women on the Margins
Did you know that women comprise 56% of the 1.7 billion adults globally without access to formal financial services? The gender inequality is more pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 30% of women have an account versus 39% of men. Low incomes, illiteracy and...
Change and Growth on the Road to Reaching 1 Million Women and Children
When an organization experiences significant growth, transitions are inevitable. The BOMA Project continues to build capacity to achieve our goal of helping one million women and children overcome extreme poverty by 2022. In just the past six months, we have welcomed...
We are in #timessquare today for #internationalpovertyeradicationday Please help us this season of giving to empower women and families to forge a path out of extreme poverty and achieve… https://t.co/tkyiUlvu3Z
Want to learn more about Savings-Focused Financial Inclusion? check out this upcoming webinar from our partners @theSEEPnetwork #globalgoals #endpoverty #financialinclusion
Upcoming webinar! Interested in Navigating the Evidence on Savings-Focused Financial Inclusion? Register now for the official launch of the Savings Evidence Map: https://t.co/zsmwHLa77K