First 100% funded by Internationals? NO

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[simba]

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=16621

UK, Iceland, Australia, Iceland, Sweden + Beth from Florida

I hope domestics don't ruin it.

Well, it did not happen

[wind5001]

Hey simba,

look at Robert's portfolio: Many loans with ZERO US involvement... 

But I also am on the lookout for loans with few US-Amercians on it. So thanks for opening this thread!

Oli

[RichardF]

But I also am on the lookout for loans with few US-Amercians on it. So thanks for opening this thread!

Oli

Huh!!!???  

[wind5001]

Sorry, Richard,

I didn't mean to be rude...  It's just, that you guys are SO dominating Kiva, it's high time that the rest of the world show, that we're here to do it, too. That's why a 100% non-American loan funding would be nice... 

Oli

[RichardF]

Look at these numbers Oli.  We Yanks are in the Minority!   
How Tough can it be to get your own loan?! 

Kiva.org users come from these countries: (bottom of page)

United States 48.4%
Canada 5.5%
Germany 5.4%
United Kingdom 3.1%
India 2.6%
Spain 2.2%
Philippines 2.2%
Switzerland 1.8%
Sweden 1.6%
Turkey 1.5%
Israel 1.5%
Iran 1.5%
Australia 1.3%
Malaysia 1.2%
Italy 1.2%
France 1.2%
South Africa 1.1%
Denmark 0.9%
Singapore 0.9%
United Arab Emirates 0.7%
Belgium 0.6%
Czech Republic 0.6%
Japan 0.5%
Norway 0.5%
Finland 0.5%
Other Countries 11.5%

[Dottie b]

RichardF, are those people who make donations or people who view the web site?

[Henry]

United States 48.4%

We Yanks are in the Minority! 

huh? 

[RichardF]

Those numbers are "viewers."  Maybe we're just more active "doers"!   

[wind5001]

Henry, to make you understand:

100% (total of viewers)  - 48.8% (American viewers) = 51.2% (non-US viewers)

That makes you less than half the amount of viewers and therefore, technically speaking, a minority. But a very strong minority indeed! And certainly a majority if you subdivide "the rest of the world" into its pieces.

Oli

I'm the Explainor here!   

[Henry]

Me think's one of us had school with Jethro Bodine of the Beverly hillbillies!   

[wind5001]

HUH? 

[Robert]

Something is going on in Iceland. When I was just sneak-lurking here  before being registered, there was only Ari the violonist, but this week several Icelanders registered with Kiva and make heavy lending.  I found a few loans with 2 Icelanders, and here are 3 from Iceland. The word is spreading!

[wind5001]

Robert,

I wonder why you, from an also somewhat "insular" grand-duchy, don't achieve something similar!!?? If the Icelanders can spread the word across their island, you should be able to do it, too! 

By the way: I noticed you have "European Union" now under your lending name (which changed also)...I know we are citizens of Europe and I am a proud one, but I simply prefer the notion of European states...so why not leave Lëtzebuerg? I am very fond of your home!

Oli

[Dottie b]

Something is going on in Iceland. When I was just sneak-lurking here  before being registered, there was only Ari the violonist, but this week several Icelanders registered with Kiva and make heavy lending.  I found a few loans with 2 Icelanders, and here are 3 from Iceland. The word is spreading!

You looked at all the borrowers looking for Icelandic lenders? Or is there a quicker way to do that?

Dottie B

[Robert]

Oli, I can't convince all my fellow citizens, there are just too many of them, nearly twice as many as Icelanders.

Regarding the country's name: I'm an advocate of a close union. And regarding my own one: until the solution of the debt forgiveness issue by Kiva, this is a joint undertaking, so that there will always be a survivor (Henry's suggestion).

[Robert]

You looked at all the borrowers looking for Icelandic lenders? Or is there a quicker way to do that?

Dottie B

I had a feeling that there are several such loans, so I started from an Icelander's lender page.

[Jill]

Dottie and Anybody Else Who Wants to Know " HOW TO FIND ALL THE LENDERS FROM A PARTICULAR PLACE OR IN A PARTICULAR GROUP"
     
      Dottie had asked how a person could find "lenders from Iceland."

     This has worked (too) well for me:
   
       If you haven't already found enough ways to dillydally around KivaLand....

1-- Go to Google
2-- In the search area, type in the following:
       site:kiva.org/lender/                    Hit "return" or "enter"
   
        That will take you to one of the two following.
                   
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Akiva.org%2Flender%2F+&btnG=Google+Search

                        or

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Akiva.org%2Flender%2F+++++++++++++++++++++&btnG=Google+Search

That page will have                   site:kiva.org/lender/
in the search rectangle.

       Bookmark or Mark as Favorite that page as you will be able to use it for a million things.

b) After the diagonal following the word, "lender,"
      hit space bar once, then add            +Iceland
       and hit "search."

       When I did it, it got me 13 lenders from Iceland.
    I don't know if that's all there are or not.

After that search, just for totally fooling around,   

      Instead of putting:   a space, then             +Iceland 
     after         site:kiva.org/lender/

   
      you can put:   +Poulsbo       or   +"truck driver"       or   +teacher        or  +justice      or    +peace          or  +military  or     +scientist
 +farmer         or     +Dubai         or   +almost anything

to find whatever collection you want to find of Kiva lenders
and to stay with Kiva-related things, forever.

     Also, FYI:     As the threads proliferate and as it becomes harder and harder to find things,
                        I only recently noticed  the little "spotlight" feature near the top of the Forum page. 
                        It has a search area next to it,
                        and to me, the spotlight looks like a magnifying glass.
                        It's incredibly helpful.                           Thanks again, Joe.

                        I'd seen this query from Dottie, sometime earlier this morning, but when I came back to try to answer it,
                        I must have read through 7 or 8 threads and still couldn't find it.
                        Then I did what I should have done, first.  I went to the Spotlight space, typed in the key word, "Iceland,"
                        and I found this thread and the right location in the thread, immediately.

[Dottie b]

From Jill:   I'd seen this query from Dottie, sometime earlier this morning, but when I came back to try to answer it,
                        I must have read through 7 or 8 threads and still couldn't find it.
                        Then I did what I should have done, first.  I went to the Spotlight space, typed in the key word, "Iceland,"
                        and I found this thread and the right location in the thread, immediately.
 
 
-- I was getting so frustrated trying to remember where I'd seen a message. I have used that searc feature to good advantage, and often when I know the message was recent, I skim through the "Recent Messages." Matter of fact, I've been doing most of my forum reading from the Recent Messages in the last few days. That way I don't miss any thing!

And thanks for that search formula, Jill! I can't begin to imagine how you figured it out!

Dottie B