Archive for September, 2008



More on kiva.org

Previously, I asked if there was anything better than Kiva.org.
Kiva allows lenders to organize themselves into groups, or “lending teams.”  When I saw the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious lending team, I was sold.  (There are other groups organized on a full range of interests/issues.)
I am so surprised that it took […]

Recently, I saw Peter Mansbridge interview Muhammad Yunus.  I think I had heard about him a few years ago when his idea of micro-finance was first reported on the news, or maybe when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
The whole idea of lending very small amounts of money to the very poor just […]