I remember hearing about Kiva a long time ago but never really decided to find out more about it, until recently. I was skimming over Dan Martell’s blog who I recently met at Thinktank09 and saw his profile link for Kiva.
I started looking around the Kiva site and thought how awesome it was, being able to help out fellow entrepreneurs all over the world with the click of a mouse.
So I created my own Kiva profile today and started reading peoples requests for loans. I’ve already contributed to about 20 loans so far today, some I found really intriguing.
It’s too bad they don’t translate the ones not in English because it’s hard to donate when I can’t read what they need the money for.
If you’re a fellow entrepreneur do your part and help out others who are less fortunate than us, trust me it feels great!
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You should post some of the profiles of your favorites here.
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How do you know these people are real and not some nigerian scam artist? Are the applicants verified somehow?
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Kiva is a very reputable charity that has been doing this for years…just do some research on them if you’re worried.
Read this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070823064314AAwN6Dq
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Nice. I’d seen the site before but never actually donated, the idea is pretty cool though. I’ll check it out again, thanks for reminding me.
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Someone needs to get it poppin’ for the US! Kiva is cool and all, but anyone who donates even a dime to any of those entrepreneurs needs to keep his f@$kin’ mouth shut about the US financial situation.
It starts @ home b!tches!
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I actually heard about Kiva from an ex and I believe she knows the person who founded it. I used to support her in helping Kiva out and I think she still does.
I help out with stuff closer to home and eventually I’ll expand out sometime.
Jay
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