Yola matches your kiva loans!

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[cjp1973]

Yola matches your Kiva loans!
Aug 31, 2009

Posted on the kiva blog:  Join the Yola team and help them match up to $10,000 in loans. This will only be happening until the 3rd of September.

Thanks to Yola.com, Kiva will have a presence at SOCAP09 this week and we’re thrilled about the opportunity!

Kiva is proudly partnering with both Yola.com and ACCION USA to help talented entrepreneurs get online and grow their businesses.  Since 2007, Yola has helped more than 2 million people build websites to grow their businesses and achieve their social goals.  And now, with support from ACCION USA, Kiva entrepreneurs will benefit from their service! 

To celebrate this partnership, Yola will be matching all loans made on their Kiva Lending Team – up to $10,000 – between now and the end of SOCAP09 (Sept 1-3).  And we want to invite you, as part of Kiva’s growing community, to take part in this matching program!  Please go to yola.com/kiva.html to learn more. Yola Lending Team

For more information on the conference this week, check out the SOCAP09 website here.
-- posted by Chelsa Bocci at 05:08 pm PDT

[greg3912]

This is a pretty special situation and seems like a real easy way to raise an additional $10,000 in loans.

So far 56 folks have joined the Yola Lending Team and funded 84 loans. Should generate about $2,100 of matching lending.

I hope this gets passed around to some of the other teams before Thursday.

Greg

[ulrike]

just posted a message on following teams:
 kiva friends
 team europe
 women empowering women

so if you are members of other teams, please post a message to achieve the 10000 before thursday   

Unfortunately I spent all the money on my kiva account before I saw this thread   

[linaka]

I posted this message to these teams - Single Parent Loans, KivaFriends, 14 Cows for America, Late Loaning Lenders, Teachers Rock!, Teachers for Change and Three Cups of Tea/CAI Supporters - I hope we reach the $10k level 

[marilyn386]

I posted this message to these teams - Single Parent Loans, KivaFriends, 14 Cows for America, Late Loaning Lenders, Teachers Rock!, Teachers for Change and Three Cups of Tea/CAI Supporters - I hope we reach the $10k level 

Linaka,

Thanks for letting us in on this project.  I'm in!

Marilyn

[Mona]

We are now exactly at $5000 of loans dedicated to the new Yola team. 

If you are thinking of making loans today, please consider to join this team before and dedicate your loan to them so that they can match them.

http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=8223

[ulrike]

we arrived at $6,950.00!  That's great! 

Some more hours to go and to join Yola and  to have the maximum match of 10K.

[ulrike]

Finally we arrived at

  $7,500.00


Thanks to everybody who joined us for this action on the Yola team   

and naturally I'm waiting on the 7500 $ loans of Yola to the enterpreneurs

[ulrike]

Hi,

Just got the following message from Yola:

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for joining Yola's Lending Team.  We're thrilled that so many of you (117 people!) have come together to lend $7,500 to entrepreneurs around the world. 

Yola will be matching that amount starting next week and we need your help.  Look for @yola on Twitter and let us know what entrepreneurs you'd like us to support.  Yola will be making loans throughout the week based on your suggestions.

Thanks again,
Bryan


A nice idea to ask the team members to choose the entrepreneurs.

[cjp1973]

Yola has started funding their $7500 worth of kiva loans today.  So if you twitter make your recommendation..

@yola fund kiva entrepreneur, brief description, and then the link....

they seem to have gotten started and loaned the the recommended loans so far.

[ulrike]

For those who discover twitter like me:

- create an account on twitter
- to suggest a loan:
    leave a message like
     @yola fund kiva entrepreneur, brief description, and then the link...
  to create the link:  copy the link of the Kiva loan  on the site bit.ly to shorten the URL (because you have only 140 characters on twitter)


to see the proposals that have been made on Twitter: 
twitter.com/#search?q=@yola

And last not least enjoy yourself on selecting loans and help Yola to assign 7500 $ !!!   

[ulrike]

Hi,

my loan suggestion has worked !!

 @yola a Kiva group in bolivia who wants to buy shoes, candles, potatoes, cheese, bags, oranges, fabric http://bit.ly/crvAs

just try on twitter: Yola has still a lot of money to  lend!

 

[Kestrel]

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=126977


...She has a "Brevet de Technicien" diploma in accounting and teaches the subject on a radio station in the city of Koutiala...

Good news! I suggested this one for yola, too (I finally had to joinTwitter to do so), and they have helped fund her loan! Way to go, yola! 

For those who discover twitter like me:

- create an account on twitter
- to suggest a loan:
    leave a message like
     @yola fund kiva entrepreneur, brief description, and then the link...
  to create the link:  copy the link of the Kiva loan  on the site bit.ly to shorten the URL (because you have only 140 characters on twitter)


to see the proposals that have been made on Twitter: 
twitter.com/#search?q=@yola

Thanks to Ulrike and cjp1973 for pointing the way. Try it, you'll like it...still two days to credits! 

Laurie