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Lifetime Achievement Award: Five Talents Celebrates Impact Makers

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA

Jim Oakes receives the lifetime achievement award.

Over the years, Five Talents has been blessed with a wonderful family of friends and supporters. These faithful friends have helped us to grow Five Talents from a small charity with a big heart to a world class leader in Christian economic development. Recently, we recognized one of these key impact makers during a Twentieth Anniversary Celebration.

Jim Oakes has been a champion of development among the vulnerable poor and and has been actively involved in ministry with Five Talents for over fifteen years.

Lifetime achievement award

Jim has traveled numerous times for Five Talents around the world including 6 trips to South Sudan. As a long-time Board Member and Board Chairman, Jim has volunteered countless hours to build, support, and encourage the ministry of Five Talents, even dedicating an entire year to volunteer as Five Talents acting Executive Director.

Because of Jim’s faithful service, Five Talents is pleased to award him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Five Talents Announces New Office Location

FALLS CHURCH, VA: Five Talents USA, a global leader in catalyzing business among the extreme poor, announces a new office location.

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Starting this week, the Five Talents USA headquarters relocates to a facility near the Dunn Loring Metro and Mosaic District of Merrifield, Virginia. The new office is just outside the beltway at: 2789 Hartland Road, Falls Church, VA 22043.

 

Five Talents' mailing address remains unchanged: PO Box 331, Vienna, VA 22813.  For more contact information, click here.

The move to a new office enables Five Talents to continue to accomodate staff, coordinate operations, and increase support of overseas programs. An open house will be announced at a later date.

Five Talents USA was founded in 1998 to fight poverty, create jobs, and transform lives. Since inception, Five Talents has worked in over 20 countries, helping the vulnerable poor to develop savings groups and community banks, and empowering entrepreneurs to create over 46,000 locally-owned businesses. Currently, Five Talents has full-time offices in the US, UK, and Kenya.