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« Reply To This #20 on: September 01, 2007, 08:04:40 PM » |
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S is for Status.
Is the loan in need, raised, paid back or defaulted?
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« Reply To This #21 on: September 01, 2007, 09:07:47 PM » |
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T is for Tremendous
The impact the loans are going to have on the entrepreneurs lives and the fun the lenders have doing it.
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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. (Chester Bowles)
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« Reply To This #22 on: September 01, 2007, 09:09:28 PM » |
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U is for Unique
There is no other website than Kiva (at least that I know of)
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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. (Chester Bowles)
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« Reply To This #23 on: September 02, 2007, 05:19:26 AM » |
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V is for variety as in variety of opportunities, countries, lenders BTW: Ulli, you're not supposed to make to posts in a row!   |
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« Reply To This #24 on: September 02, 2007, 06:38:36 PM » |
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W is for World
and helping to make it a better place with KIVA.
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« Reply To This #25 on: September 03, 2007, 12:08:20 AM » |
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X is for xenophobia
from which some people suffer and run away as fast as they can when they see what's going on here.
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« Reply To This #26 on: September 03, 2007, 01:03:28 PM » |
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Y is for You
and why you loan. The people you loan to Thank You.
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« Reply To This #27 on: September 03, 2007, 01:24:42 PM » |
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Z is for zero
as in interest rate Kiva pays lenders - but that doesn't stop any of us!!
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« Reply To This #28 on: September 05, 2007, 08:23:42 PM » |
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First Round of the
ABC’s of KIVA
A is for Advance – "to loan"
B is for Borrow – “what the Entrepreneurs need to do”
C is for Cycle – “the KIVA loan cycle”
D is for Duration – “the time for the loan to be repaid”
E is for Everyone – “everyone can make a difference with a KIVA loan”
F is for Fertile – “money spent on KIVA is fertile for a specific reason”
G is for Good – “good deeds, good feeling and a whole lot more”
H is for Horizontal Growth – “growth based on replicating a standardized retail model in new
geographic areas”
I is for Inventory – “what so many borrowers want to increase”
J is for Journals – “as in the journal entries that keeps the lender informed about his/her loan”
K is for KIVA Friends – “a great place to be KIVA”
L is for Lender – “as in big spender”
M is for Microfinance – “as in Microfinance Institutions which are the Field partners of KIVA”
N is for Nil – “as in the interest rate charged by KIVA lenders”
O is for Opportunities – “which we lenders find sometimes insufficient when we select an entrepreneur”
P is for Portfolio – “as in a listing of loans by each lender”
Q is for Quick – “as in how fast loans get funded”
R is for Risk Rating – “as in the new star system for Field Partners”
S is for Status – “of the loan ie: in need, raised, paid back or defaulted”
T is for Tremendous – “ the impact the loans are going to have on the entrepreneurs lives”
U is for Unique – “There is no other website than KIVA”
V is for Variety – “Variety of opportunities, countries, lenders”
W is for World – “and helping to make it a better place with KIVA”
X is for Xenophobia – “from which some people suffer and run away as fast as they can when they see
what’s going on here”
Y is for You – “and why you loan”
Z is for Zero – “as in the interest KIVA pays lenders-but it doesn’t stop us”
Great job everyone, I'm sure each word meant something special to each of us.
Henry
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