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1. SquidKiva - A Kiva Community for Squidoo Lensmasters SquidKiva is a Kiva Community of members from the Squidoo community. Kiva facilitates micro-loans to individuals worldwide that would otherwise not be afforded the opportunity to open or expand their small business. All squidoo lensmasters are welco...
2. KIVA: For The Love Of Kiva! About an hour ago I was checking out the Philanthropy blog here on Squidoo and discovered a cool charity called Kiva. They match YOU (and your spare dollars) with people in poorer countries looking for loans to start businesses. So I decided to lend...
3. Which Charity Would You like to Support? Here you will learn about 4 that have a long term benefit of helping people help themselves. One charity that is passionate about ending animal cruelty. You can make your personal donation by clicking the word Donate and follow the instructions. Than...
4. Kiva.org Microfinance - Help an Entrepreneur Escape Poverty by Starting a Business How would you like to be a part of a cool non-profit that is doing great things?  If so then, Kiva is for you. Kiva.org allows individuals to make $25 loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). By doing so, individu...
5. The Advantages of HE Front Loading Washers Just keep saving! High Efficiency, or HE, washing machines save so much money in the long run - they use much less water, less electricity, and save you $ on detergents. Lots of money.
6. Cas Haley & Woodbelly - Virtual Concert When I first heard about the virtual concert for charity, I couldn't decide which musical talent to feature. I like a lot of different music, spanning various genres. Talking with my husband, I thought of the perfect musician - Cas Haley. My family...
7. Five Kernels of Corn I discovered a moving story of the five kernels of corn working on Thanksgiving lenses. This story is a wonderful tradition to include with your family as you sit down to eat your holiday meal. The legend also worked well as a concept for the Squidoo...
8. Kiva- My Absolute Favorite Charity I discovered Kiva.org almost one year ago through in article in Glamour magazine. I looked it up that day and made my first loan within an hour. Kiva is a revolutionary new website that lets you make loans as little as $25 to people in developing cou...
9. Top 20 microphilanthropy sites As part of Charity CHAMPS I have done a lot of research on microphilanthropy sites that allow you to do good with very little. Practically everything that you do online, from shopping to sending email and doing web searches, can be done on sites (or...
10. A Thanksgiving Bowl One valuable way to help everyone in the family remember that Thanksgiving is about giving thanks is to include a tradition of a Thanksgiving bowl, jar, box or wreath. Using some kind of object helps family and friends pause for a moment to be grate...
11. A Squid Angel Blessings Log (Blog) This is the current list of lenses that I have blessed during my tenure as a Squid Angel. I knew once I heard about becoming a Squid Angel, that I would want to follow in the angel steps of my Squidoo pals and Angel Mentors, Kim Giancaterino and Che...
12. Debt Negoiation is Right For You? Have you been paying minimum payments for over 6 months? Are you sick of wasting your money on minimum payments? Want to reduce your monthly credit card payment up to 70%? Want to stop wasting your money on interest and late fees? and much more... I...
13. Kiva - Loans That Change Lives Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through loans for the sake of alleviating global poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as US$25 t...
14. Mind Their Business and Win! "Mind your business" are words you hear from a well-meaning parent, the kindergarten teacher or a disgruntled associate. You can almost sense the "or else." To challenge this advice, a well-known safety net, would seem absurd. ...
15. Plant A Seed of Change in Food Distribution In my efforts to make a change in food distribution, I have decided to help local farmers to supply their produce within their neighborhoods, one at a time. To decrease the distance between producer and consumer by trucking for example, is to dec...
16. Shake the World Virtual Concert Welcome to the "Shake the World" Virtual Concert. Mahatma Gandhi once said "In a gentle way, you can shake the world". That's just what this virtual concert is about - Shaking Up the World and raising money for KIVA, a non-profit organization that fa...
17. Making Money with Microfinance Microfinance Investing is coming your way. Why? Because you can make money by helping people around the world get money. Not brain surgery. Donation dollars are not meeting the $40 billion gap in funding (CGAP). Giving money away is a good start and...
18. Giving Without Expecting Anything in Return Love to Give
19. Support Kiva On Blog Action Day, October 15 2008, all Bloggers were asked to write on one subject - Poverty. Rather than just write, I have also chosen to take action. My action against poverty is to set up this account. I have committed to make at least one len...
20. Michelle Branch Virtual Concert I love Michelle Branch. I also love the nonprofit Kiva. This charity virtual concert is a dream come true for me. I get to listen to and share some of my favorite songs while raising money for my favorite charity. It can't get better than that. So li...