The winner of our anonymous donor's $25 gift certificate is #15 on the list, Oriana.

Congrats,

-Scott

Winner of the first gift certificate is #44 on the list, Colette.

-Scott

We got some stragglers, so here is the final list of those who had KivaFriends.org under their lender avatar in this attempt.

Poverty2Prosperity
Poverty2Prosperity
Scott Paterson
Ms. Nonny
Diane R
Kerry
Paul
KIVA Shopping Club #1
carien bitar-boerboom
Will and Edna
Alan
Peter
Mary
Ramona
Oriana
Kay
Laurie
Paula
kathleen
Alexandra
Wolfgang
AccountAbility
Natasha
Laurie
Miji
Margie
John
Marilyn
Dottie
Terry
Brennan
Jim
BLANK
Petra
Jillian
Leslie
closermann
Antonia
Karen and Gery
Amy's mom
Jackie
Tomcat
David
Colette
CherylS

That's 45 people. Way to go folks - that loan was not available for very long so it was great to see so many KFers hop on it in short order! Here's the history so far:

Lily's Loan: 32 (http://www.kiva.org/lend/49888)
July 2008: 62 (http://www.kiva.org/lend/54280)
July 2009: 85 (http://www.kiva.org/lend/120703)
July 2010: 45 (http://www.kiva.org/lend/206884)

I'll be awarding one of the gift certificate prizes later today and the other tomorrow.

Thanks,

-Scott

Wow, that was fast and even though we didn't get close to breaking the record, I am still impressed that we got, by my quick initial count, 42 KivaFriends.org lender avatars. I know there will be a few stragglers who can still put KivaFriends.org under their avatar, so I won't do the final count until tomorrow evening.

Good job folks!

-Scott

In the past I've waited a day for stragglers to add KivaFriends.org to their lender avatar so I assume about the same this time as well.

-Scott

Ah, of course, thanks for the pointer!

-Scott

Nonny (or anyone else), I see now that KivaFriends.org is showing up under your lender avatar. Did you put http://KivaFriends.org in the City field under My Account/Mailing Address? I've put mine in there, but it continues to show my old city info under my lender avatars.

Thanks,

-Scott

Okay, here is some fun news already on our record breaking loan. An anonymous donor has generously donated a $25 gift certificate to be awarded at the end of the attempt to a random KF participant, so look, now this loan might not even cost you!

In addition, I'm going to join in with the anonymous donor and offer my own $25 gift certificate to a random KF participant as well to be awarded at the end!

Woo hoo!

-Scott

Well, I had a hard time finding a nice Bolivian loan with currency protection. I ended up with one from Peru that has a history of 0% currency exchange loss instead. There's space for 147 more lenders on this loan. It's going to be tough to break the current record, but we can try. Here is the loan we'll be using.

http://www.kiva.org/lend/206884

I also noticed that changes to your mailing preferences are not picked up right away so for example, KivaFriends.org is not yet showing up under my lender icon, so I'll keep an eye on that.

Thanks everyone and good luck!

-Scott

I wouldn't be opposed to something like this. Perhaps move it up a few months each year and have it rotate around the calendar.

-Scott