Two awesome microenterprise sites

I just discovered 2 awesome sites:
http://www.kiva.org
Kiva is an online microcredit service. Now anyone with $25 and Paypal can become a microcredit lender. Sign up with this site and lend money to the microentrepreneurs of your choice.

http://www.nextbillion.net
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Create an account today and start sharing your thoughts. Read more...

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This works great for 1 day trips somewhere if you have a fridge and laptop plugged in.

Explaining the Financial Crisis and the Bailout

Pat Dorsey is a pretty smart guy, Director of Equity Research at Morningstar. He explains why the bailout is a safety net for Main Street not a bailout for Wall Street. I understand this I just wish there was a better alternative like getting loans from www.prosper.com. Unfortunately Prosper.com only allows loans of $25,000 which just isn't enough for a lot of companies. Maybe Prosper will expand soon to ease the short term credit crisis. Well here's Pat Dorsey's take on the credit crisis:

the latest from Darian Hickman

Praise Reports: Thanks to an anonymous donation my financial support is up to $600 now! Thank you Mr/Ms Anonymous! A childhood friend of mine contacted me out of the blue to let me know he's in Orlando, too. I haven't seen him since 1997 so hopefully we can get reaquainted next weekend. He Googled my name and found my address. God Bless the Internet! The first two groups of students got back from their trips to Key West and Brazil this past Friday. Seeing how much these young people have matured spiritually gives me more confirmation that I'm in the right place. I can see the changes in attitude towards their faith and increased priority to follow Christ and it makes the 14 hour days worth the effort. Also Getting 90 minutes a day of prayer and reading is a lot easier than I thought it would be with our 14 hour days. Being in a community that supports that kind of thing is so awesome! I'm reading a great book called "Intercession: Thrilling ...

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