links for 2008-06-19
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“People in need of support, meet others who want to help. One to one. Worldwide.” - anyone know how this compares to something like Kiva?
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making sense of one’s phonebill (I haven’t signed up, but bookmarking for future reference)
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aggregates Twitter tags (to tag in Twitter, use the # sign before the tag word)
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(USAToday) impressive accomplishments
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Betterplace is from Germany and at least half of the information and responses are in German. Otherwise it is much the same as Kiva. Kiva seems to be a much bigger site in terms of donors and recipients too.
Both make it easy to give small loans of say $25 to individuals or groups around the globe who have requested a loan for a specific purpose. Recipients are expected to pay back their loan amounts, then the return can be re-loaned to someone else.
Both are great ways to expand the participating bases of micro-credit.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I agree, Roy, Kiva is great. I’ve been using it for about a year now.