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About Global Partnerships

Global Partnerships creates economic opportunity for people living in poverty, helping them access the resources they need - capital, healthier, education, and infrastructure - to generate their own sustainable income and positive momentum in their lives. Global Partnerships believes that business leaders and business-based approaches are a key ingredient to making this happen. It identifies, invests in and orchestrates business-like poverty alleviation approaches in Central America. A central component of each of these approaches is microenterprise-businesses started by making small loans to people in poverty. Global Partnerships engages the business community in becoming advocates for and supporters of policies and programs that create economic opportunity for the poor. The success of these solutions, and similar successes all over the world, convince us that eliminating extreme global poverty is within reach during our lifetimes. Founded in 1994, Global Partnerships is based in Seattle with a program office in Nicaragua.

International Voluntary Service Activities

Global Partnerships is looking for volunteers to help with extensive support of the expansion of its Clear Vision Network initiative, which aims to integrate microfinance with sustainable eye care. They are also seeking help with business issues associated with the expansion of an IT system developed by one MFI to other MFIs.