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Unbound’s Global Insight Series

Wednesday March 29, 2017 • 5:30 • Unbound International Headquarters • Free

1 Elmwood Ave (on Southwest Boulevard by 31st Street), Kansas City, KS, 66103
5:30
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K.C.-based Unbound launches Global Insight Series

Kansas City, Kansas – Unbound, the international charity founded and based in Kansas City, is opening its doors to the public March 29 for a special new learning opportunity. Every spring and fall, Unbound brings three of its top leaders from program sites around the world to Kansas City to learn and to teach headquarters staff about key innovations and learnings from their work challenging poverty in communities around the globe. The presentations had been exclusively for Unbound staff – until now.

 

 

 

Featuring remarkable stories and on-the-ground perspective, the Global Insight Series will give people who want to make a real difference in the world a chance to hear from leaders at the heart of the work.

 

 

 

WHAT: Premiere of Unbound’s Global Insight Series, with presentations, panel discussion, live musical performance and interactive audience discussion

 

WHO: Leaders of independent, nongovernmental anti-poverty programs, Unbound supporters and community members.

 

International presenters:

 

  • Saritha Mendanha – India
  • Liva Rajaonarisina – Madagascar
  • Risa Vereña – the Philippines

 

Live musical performance from Barclay Martin, a Kansas City-based musical artist who has produced projects around the world, including a multimedia project for Unbound in Madagascar and a concert attended by 10,000 people in a conflict zone of the southern Philippines


WHEN: Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Program runs from 6-7:30 p.m.

 

WHY: More than 1.3 billion people around the world live on less than $1.25 per day (United Nations Human Development Report, 2014). With so many divisive issues in the news around the world, this is a chance to go beyond the headlines and learn about advancements everyday families are making in their efforts to overcome the challenges of poverty.

 

People want to know if the support they send overseas makes a difference. This is a key chance to meet on-the-ground experts who are helping to innovate remarkable solutions to some of the toughest challenges children and families around the world face.

 

 

BACKGROUND: Unbound brings people together to challenge poverty in new and innovative ways. Founded 35 years ago in Kansas City and headquartered in a converted warehouse on Southwest Boulevard, Unbound partners more than 310,000 children and elders around the world with 260,000 sponsors. For more information, visit www.unbound.org.

 

 

 

Quick Facts About Unbound:

  • Global anti-poverty organization founded by five Kansas City Catholics in 1981, today works in 19 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia
  • Serves 310,000 children, youth, elders and their families, and is supported by more than 260,000 sponsors and donors
  • Has sent more than $1.5 billion to field programs, mostly from small-dollar individual donors, and sends more than $100 million to the field every year without government funding or grants from corporations or foundations
  • The only major U.S.-based sponsorship organization that also sponsors the elderly
  • Maintains an exceptional level of financial responsibility: 92.6 percent of expenses go to program support
  • Based on the state line in Kansas City, with more than 180 staff members working out of a converted warehouse on Southwest Boulevard and 31st Street

 

 

 

LEARN MORE:

 

  • Website: Unbound.org
  • RSVP and more info: Unbound.org/InsightSeries