Good afternoon,
First off, THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the annual raffle that I run to support Kiva.org.
This year our community raised $1,420, which meant we were able to support 56 small businesses around the world. (I have already made the loans!)
For those of you unfamiliar with how Kiva works, they provide loans to small business owners all over the world who would not be able to get funding from local banks. The
recipients pay back the loans over time and we then get to lend the money out to another small business owner, and so the process is repeated again and again.
This week we supported 56 small businesses AND over the next months and years that number will grow as the money is repaid and loaned out to other small businesses.
In addition to these raffles, the classes that I have offered for Kiva support, and a percent of the monthly support to the Tapping Q&A Podcast going to Kiva, we as a community have supported over 2,900 businesses!
If you would like to support small business owners directly through
Kiva, I encourage you to join the Tapping Q & A Team on the Kiva website where you can see the impact of our support as a group.
You can join us here: https://www.kiva.org/invitedto/tqa/by/gene5846
If you have any questions about Kiva, just let me know by replying to this message and I'll get right back to you.
Finally, special congratulations to the winners of the raffle for one-on-one sessions:
Thank you so much for being part of this community!
Gene
