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...

United Nations Honors BOMA for Women-Led Climate-Change Solution

The BOMA Project has been named one of 17 “Lighthouse Activities” worldwide by the United Nation’s Momentum for Change initiative. The winners will be honored at a November 20 ceremony in Warsaw, Poland during the UN’s annual climate-change conference.   “These...

Colson Wins Prestigious Fellowship

Big news from BOMA! CEO and founder Kathleen Colson has been selected as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow. Each year, this prestigious fellowship is offered to 16-20 social entrepreneurs around the world who have promising solutions to the biggest problems facing developing...

Kathleen Colson at TEDx on June 22

  BOMA founder and CEO Kathleen Colson will take the stage tomorrow to talk about BOMA’s innovative approach to helping women graduate from extreme poverty in Northern Kenya during a daylong TEDx event in Manchester, Vermont. A series of speakers will address...