Author: mole333

A couple of days ago I posted a diary about new businesses being featured on the Kiva microlending site, urging people to fill the loan need in record time once again and suggesting many other ways of helping East Africa. Since...

Awhile back there was a wonderful outpouring of support from the blogshpere for a microlending group called Kiva, which, at the time, was connecting microlenders (that’s us) with small businesses in Uganda that need small...

Howard Dean has been pretty serious about a 50 state strategy, raising money to put into some of the reddest states before he even starts on bluer states. But the strategy of running in every district is still about 70...

I have an idea that actually brings together a few ideas that have been percolating through my mind for a few months. In part this stems from my experience being filmed by a documentary film crew from Spain for a documentary...

On Daily Kos and My Left Wing there is a wonderful diary that I don’t see here. There is a company called Kiva that does microloans to small businesses in Uganda. You can loan directly to a particular individual through Kiva and since they pool people’s money, you can loan as little as $25 at a time. On dKos people have been going crazy and have been filling up the loans needed to the point that the person who runs the site can barely keep up. More below.