GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100 million in microloans, landing them in our GOOD 100 issue. Next Tuesday, join GOOD and Hub Bay Area at The David Brower Center to celebrate Kiva’s 4th birthday. Cheers to another four years!

Kiva’s Fourth Birthday Party
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. to  9:30 p.m.
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA

There will be live music performances…

Read & Discuss

Microlending, U.S.A.

America is waking up to the power of “micro.” Twitter introduced us to microblogs. President Obama’s campaign demonstrated the collective force of microdonors. And then there’s microlending—using loans as small as $20 to lift would-be entrepreneurs out of poverty. It has been around in the United States for decades, but never really taken off. Now might be the time. After the rousing overseas success of microlenders like the Grameen Bank and Kiva, several giants of international microfinance are…

Read & Discuss

Idea: Health Savings Microphilanthropy. Problem: Help me find an organization to partner with I have an idea to get between 20,000 to 200,000 people baseline funding ($1000) for their healthcare by using a default giving option in health savings accounts. A synopsis of the idea can be found here: http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/20161 Or..
Read & Discuss

So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we’ve killed. Marine Major Meredith Brown put together the “Cows to Widows” program which has so far provided cows to 50 women whose husbands have been killed in the fighting over the past few years. The idea, NPR explained recently,  is to “help the women become self-sufficient, and to keep them from possibly…

Read & Discuss

GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100 million in microloans, landing them in our GOOD 100 issue. Next Tuesday, join GOOD and Hub Bay Area at The David Brower Center to celebrate Kiva’s 4th birthday. Cheers to another four years!

Kiva’s Fourth Birthday Party
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. to  9:30 p.m.
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA

There will be live music performances…

Read & Discuss

Idea: Health Savings Microphilanthropy. Problem: Help me find an organization to partner with I have an idea to get between 20,000 to 200,000 people baseline funding ($1000) for their healthcare by using a default giving option in health savings accounts. A synopsis of the idea can be found here: http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/20161 Or..
Read & Discuss

So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we’ve killed. Marine Major Meredith Brown put together the “Cows to Widows” program which has so far provided cows to 50 women whose husbands have been killed in the fighting over the past few years. The idea, NPR explained recently,  is to “help the women become self-sufficient, and to keep them from possibly…

Read & Discuss

Microlending, U.S.A.

America is waking up to the power of “micro.” Twitter introduced us to microblogs. President Obama’s campaign demonstrated the collective force of microdonors. And then there’s microlending—using loans as small as $20 to lift would-be entrepreneurs out of poverty. It has been around in the United States for decades, but never really taken off. Now might be the time. After the rousing overseas success of microlenders like the Grameen Bank and Kiva, several giants of international microfinance are…

Read & Discuss