Giving Tuesday 2019

Giving Tuesday 2019

Today, Giving Tuesday, your gift to BOMA will have twice the impact. Starting at 8 a.m. on Giving Tuesday your support can go even further to help women like Ntiru Lekatap (left) forge a pathway out of extreme poverty, so she no longer has to borrow food from...

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...
The BOMA Project Welcomes Frank DeGiovanni, Pioneer in the Field of Poverty Eradication, to Board of Directors

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...

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...

BOMA in the Congressional Record

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) entered a statement into the Congressional Record on March 21 that included a great mention of BOMA as a Vermont nonprofit with a “far-reaching contribution” that’s “doing innovative work to improve the...