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Cassie McGurk

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://www.poverup.org
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Portuguese, Spanish
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Interested in: Finding team mates, Getting press, Growing my group, Meeting new people, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: economic development, Microfinance, microfinance student initiative
Schools: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College

FULL BIO

I'm a senior at Wellesley College majoring in Latin American Studies and Economics with an emphasis in economic development.

Co-founder of PoverUP- a student microfinance initiative.

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, 2011 "PoverUP Your World"

* Students worldwide will fight poverty by donating $5 to $10 at a time through mobile giving.

EDUCATION

University: Wellesley College
Time period: 2006 - 2010
Degree: Latin American Studies & Economics, BA

University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period: 2009 - 2010

INFORMATION

Hobbies: running, traveling, reading

Cassie's Startups (1)

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  • PoverUP

    PoverUP is a student grassroot movement created to raise students' awareness on the power of microfinance in high schools and universities on a global scale. PoverUP is an Ashoka Youth Venture!

Cassie's Contacts (3)

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  • Hillary Clevenger

    Studying in Boston. I have a passion for social impact investing. Co-founder of PoverUP, a student microfinance initiative focused on raising student awareness on the power of microfinance and its ability to alleviate poverty.