Opportunity Collaboration
A four-day problem-solving, strategic retreat for nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers and social investors engaged in poverty alleviation and economic justice enterprises. On World Poverty Day, leverage resources, combine forces, share innovations and operate more effectively. Break down the silos of unproductive competition and go beyond the boundaries of conventional poverty alleviation.
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08-27-10
Independent Study Reveals Real-World Results Of Opportunity Collaboration
The 2010 Opportunity Collaboration-the poverty alleviation "un-conference"-is an anti-poverty catalyst like no other, according to an independent assessment by See Change Evaluation, Inc.
In its review, See Change discovered an overwhelmingly p...
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04-26-10
2010 Opportunity Collaboration Delegates To Explore "Colloquium For The Common Good"
Opportunity Collaboration - the poverty alleviation "un-conference" - announced today the 2010 "Colloquium for the Common Good," the event's signature seminar on executive leadership, economic justice and the good society.
Part and parcel of th...
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03-29-10
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally on Poverty Alleviation -- Opportunity Collaboration Invests In Playa Viva
Opportunity Collaboration-the poverty alleviation "un-conference"-announced today a partnership with the sustainable resort Playa Viva to combat poverty in nearby Juluchuca, Mexico.
"Opportunity Collaboration fosters a unique spirit of coopera...
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03-02-10
Opportunity Collaboration Names Shari Berenbach 2010 Economic Opportunity Achievement Award Winner
The Opportunity Collaboration has selected Shari Berenbach as the recipient of the Opportunity Collaboration's 2010 Economic Achievement Award.
Presented by the Opportunity Collaboration-the innovative, esteemed poverty alleviation "un-confere...
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01-28-10
Emerging Social Entrepreneurs & Nonprofit Leaders To Apply for 50 Opportunity Collaboration Fellowships
50 tuition-discounted Fellows from all over the world will attend 2010 Opportunity Collaboration-the innovative, esteemed poverty alleviation "un-conference"-thanks to generous support from the Cordes Foundation.
Cordes Fellows will attend the...
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09-16-09
National Social Marketing Leaders Serve as Delegates to Groundbreaking Poverty Alleviation Summit
Worldways Social Marketing Co-founders Maureen Cronin and Mark Marosits will join 250 other social venture, Foundation and nonprofit leaders as Delegates to the Opportunity Collaboration. Marosits, a Chancellor of the Collaboration says, "In difficult economic times, it is t...
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08-26-09
John Harrington, President/CEO of Harrington Investments, will lead workshop on High Social Impact Investing at World Poverty Alleviation Summit
The Opportunity Collaboration today announced that John Harrington, President and CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc has been invited to address delegates at their upcoming poverty alleviation summit in Ixtapa Mexico. Harrington will join 250 other social venture capitalists...
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08-05-09
Poverty Alleviation Leaders to Attend Local Economic and Environmental Development Excursion in Juluchuca, Mexico
Davis, Calif., Aug 4 /CSRwire/ - On Oct. 19, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers, grant-makers and agents of change Participating in the Opportunity Collaboration event being held in Ixtapa, Mexico will join the founder of
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07-02-09
Fellowship Program Offers Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders and Social Entrepreneurs the Chance to Participate in Poverty Alleviation Summit
DAVIS, CA - July 2, 2009 -- This fall, 20 college students will have the chance to participate in the Opportunity Collaboration, a four-day, purpose-driven networking and problem solving offsite commencing on World Poverty Day (October 17, 2009).
The selected fe...
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05-20-09
The Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) to Join Senior Poverty Alleviation Leaders at the Opportunity Collaboration, Oct. 17-20, 2009
DENVER, CO. - May 20, 2009 - The Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute, has been selected as a Summit Chancellor of the Opportunity Collaboration - an impartial, non-aligned business summit to creat...