{"id":217,"date":"2008-01-01T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fleeep.net\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-01-01T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:43:51","slug":"kiva-micro-lending-non-profit-coming-to-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/kiva-micro-lending-non-profit-coming-to-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiva:  Micro-Lending Non-Profit Coming to SL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just the other day I watched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/frontlineworld\/stories\/uganda601\/index.html\">PBS Frontline episode about Kiva<\/a>, a micro-lending non-profit that uses the web to connect lenders and borrowers.  Individual lenders can see pictures and stories of loan applicants, choose which projects to fund, and track the borrowers progress on loan repayment.  Even small dollar amounts can have a tremendous impact and as one lender said in the PBS segment, if their business fails or they don&#8217;t repay the loan, it&#8217;s such a small amount that I just consider it a donation.  If they do repay the loan, then I can lend that money out again and feel like I am helping make a difference in someone&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>I thought to myself, now this is a model that makes sense, I need to add this to my list of charities to check out for 2008, and then lo and behold I see that they will be opening an office in Second Life next week!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garbtheworld.com\/julia\/sl\/kiva\/flyer2.jpg\" alt=\"Kiva opening in Second Life - flyer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to find a slurl the next time I&#8217;m in-world, but the office will be opening on the Non Profit Commons island on plot #23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the other day I watched a PBS Frontline episode about Kiva, a micro-lending non-profit that uses the web to connect lenders and borrowers. Individual lenders can see pictures and stories of loan applicants, choose which projects to fund, and track the borrowers progress on loan repayment. Even small dollar amounts can have a tremendous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-deep-thoughts","category-politics","category-second-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}