Charlie Javice

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"We didn't want a 50-yearold white guy telling us what we're interested in," says Charlie Javice, 19, of her socially conscious contemporaries. So the University of Pennsylvania sophomore founded PoverUP, an online platform designed to help interested students learn more about starting microfinance clubs, getting social-enterprise internships, and supporting microfinance organizations. The not-for-profit, which launched in April, has already partnered with groups at 50 schools worldwide.

PoverUp

"Students are the next wave. It's really them that are going to create change."

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Founder, PoverUP | Greater New York City Area

Summary:

PoverUP is a student grassroot movement created to raise student's awareness on the power of microfinance in high schools and universities on a global scale. Dedicated to lifting people living on less than $2 a day out of poverty through micro-credit funding. Mission: * Mobilize and unite students around microfinance and its power to fight poverty. * Launch a major eCampaign committed to lift over 1 million people out of poverty within the next 10 years. * Plant the seeds of a student microfinance grassroot movement PoverUP eCampaign: 1st Student Microfinance Global Day: April 22, 2010 "PoverUP Your World" * Students worldwide will fight poverty by donating $5 to $10 at a time through mobile giving.

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