By james m nordlund (Professional in the field)

Hiya All,

Happy holidays.  Thanx for the efforts, friends, your work here is impressive.  An injustice to any is an injustice to all, "we, the people...", can't allow it  :)   For e.g., the fundamental thing taught by Jesus was destruction and murder are of no profit or pleasure, something almost all supposed Christians are anti-thetically opposed to, as is your gov't; and a gleaning from Native American teaching, et al, all life are needed threads in the fabric of life.  Put your shadow behind you, give the gift that keeps on giving, a hand to a sister and/or brother :)  The more art is given, the more it is, as is life.  Very cool site, I like it, even though I've only been on it for a couple days, and, unlike many others that are similar, this one's 'buzz' seems to be keeping it growing; which is necessary.  A twig of poetree :)  


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(*Sky*Star*)

Put your shadow behind you, give the gift that keeps on giving, a hand to a sister and/or brother. Yet, that will not be enough to realize the possibility of the stopping of the extinction of humanity and large mammals we can see racing towards us from the future, on the horizon; we must change everything   :)

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/all_changing_everything

I look forward to hearing from you. Goodbye. For those interested :) "of or pertaining to the morning, day: relating to or happening in the morning or in the early part of the day (formal), (Mid-16th century, from late Latin matutinalis, from Matuta, goddess of the dawn.)". 

Matutinally Yours, 

james m nordlund    reality (aja) :)

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By Peter Casier (Individual Donor)

Trying to make a difference, I kicked off a social project on my blog in this post, raising funds for several Kiva projects.

To my surprise and delight, plenty of colleagues, friends, family and readers from the blog participated and in a month, we raised close to $4,000...

This shows that a blog can make a positive difference.

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By Bud Carlson (Individual Donor)

I've been a member, supporter and lender of KIVA for the past year.  It is a brilliant concept for helping to finance the hopes and dreams of people all over the world.  I particularly like the interest free strategy of this plan.  Not only is it the right way to do this, it makes it much more acceptable and accessible to countries with large Islamic populations, where the concept of interest is not embraced.

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By kivaB4B * (Professional in the field)

kiva,

You guys are the best!

As a token of our support, we launched the KivaB4B Project, a joint initiative between Kiva and Advanta, one of the nation's largest credit card issuers for the small business market.

With the KivaB4B credit card, Advanta matches each Kiva grant - dollar for dollar - up to $200 per month per account. We call it: "double the capital, double the impact." Both new and existing cardholders are eligible.

Cheers
kivaB4B

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By Spy Kitten Miranda (Professional in the field, General public)

I just started using the site and it is amazing. I love being able to help in any way that I can...and being able to loan as "little" as $25 is huge for me. I don't enjoy feeling as I have to wait for my multipling abundance before sharing abundance with others. We all have the ability to live the life we dream of and Kiva is helping everyone to be who they want to be in this world. I love it!

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By Kathleen Lambert (Individual Donor)

Once you go to this site and look around, you will find it difficult to leave without lending to someone.  Plus the money you lend recirculates.  The person you lend to pays it back, and then you can either take your loan money back or lend it to someone else.  It can keep working for years!  I love this place.  I have six lendees currently, and look forward to getting more every month.

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By Elliotte Bowerman (Professional in the field)

I work on the KivaB4B project, and I think it's a really wonderful program. Kiva is working with Advanta to create KivaB4B (www.kivab4b.org). Advanta will match the Kiva contributions of its customers dollar for dollar, up to $200 a month. That means every KivaB4B participant has double the impact on developing world entrepreneurs.

If you have a small business, I hope you'll check it out.

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By Rachel Gearhart (Individual Donor)

I love giving Kiva gift certificates for birthdays and holidays like Father's Day and Mother's Day.  It's the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving and giving.  All the recipients of the gift certificates has been so grateful that I have given them a way to give rather than clutter up their lives.

Don't waste what you'll spend on your mother in flowers this Mother's Day, get her a gift that she can give that will continue to do so and will have ripple effects we may never see.

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By Jean Lowery (General public)

You know you are onto a good thing when you go to Kiva's website and the name Oprah Winfrey is mentioned and the site is so busy it asks you to check back later. Well I did and I was hooked. What an amazing idea. It gives you the chanceto do something "concrete" to help and at the same time have a name and a face and a situation to go with it.
Thanks Kiva for giving me this opportunity.

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By Mark Wilson (General public)

Not just a great idea...it's a fantastic idea. I am able to give a little to have Kiva work with others to add a little more and come up with a lot to help someone change his/her life (and maybe family members too). This is one I would like to give to again and again. I first heard about the organization via a line of text in an email signature. I was curious, checked it out and now the ball is rolling. I encourage you to look at what $25 can do!

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