Please join us on October 30th as iZōsh welcomes Margo Day as our featured speaker. Ms. Day — Microsoft Corporation’s Vice President of U.S. Education — has more than 28 years of experience in high-tech software sales, marketing, business development, and partner and channel management. In 2012, Ms. Day began her focus on U.S. education…
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We’re delighted to introduce you to a new book, which we’ll be using for our book discussion at our next iZōsh event on October 30th! From Outrage to Courage is a wonderful resource written by Anne Firth Murray. This insightful and thought provoking book begins with an overview of the challenges facing women in extreme…
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Hopefully you already have October 30 highlighted on your fall calendars for our next iZosh event. If you’re having trouble waiting that long for an outstanding opportunity to do good, we encourage you to join us at Q Commons Ann Arbor on September 24 Please join us to hear Robin, along with other local and…
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Last Friday night, March 20th, 150 Ann Arbor area women assembled at Huron Hills Church for an evening to gather, learn, give, and celebrate the joy of empowering women in extreme poverty. The theme for the event was Art and Global Women’s Empowerment (pictures are on our facebook page). Our new, beautiful iZōsh sign exemplified…
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Join iZōsh Friday, March 20th, 2015 from 7:00 to 9:00pm at Huron Hills North for an exciting event where we gather, learn, give and celebrate the joy of empowering women. Our next event will address “The Role of Art in Global Women’s Empowerment.” Together we will experience firsthand the impact that art can have…
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Did you watch the premier of A Path Appears, the new series on PBS by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (authors of Half the Sky)? It’s about sex trafficking here in the United States and features some courageous people who are doing something about it. The stories are unbearably heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. Today, however,…
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Excitement is building for our March 20th iZōsh event at Huron Hills Church. We are eager to welcome our speaker, Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Sophia Kruz, to share her latest film project about empowering women. Our book for this upcoming event is photojournalist Paola Gianturco’s compelling work: Women Who Light The Dark. In addition…
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On October 24th, we held our seventh iZōsh event, which was one of the most successful to date. Over 150 women from around Ann Arbor gathered to gift a record $13,345 to 39 entrepreneurial women in extreme poverty. That brings our total to $74,864 to 182 women who are making a difference in their lives.…
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The upcoming iZosh event on Friday, October 24 will take us back to our roots and provide a powerful reminder of the impact of micro loans in the lives of women. For part of the evening, we will “become” women in a Zambian women’s savings group as each table participates in a realistic role play.…
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For our October 24, 2014 iZosh event book discussion, we will revisit Half The Sky’s chapter 11: ” Microcredit: The Financial Revolution.” A compelling quote from Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, opens this chapter: “It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us,…
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