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rzc24-nftbbg
Cent
2025-02-04 13:47
Faith, Finance, and the Future: Leveraging Hive for Mission and Ministry
It is time to write the proposal I have in mind. Of course, this proposal is addressed not to request a fund from DHF but to NCR South Metro Presbytery. 😄 After publishing this article, I am thinking
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trostparadox
Spring 2021 Seminar
2021-02-12 04:31
Week 01 -- Sometimes Operating a Charitable Business ‘For Profit’ is a Better Way to Help Hurting People
Not-for-profits operate under a divided focus. For-profit charitable businesses can scale organically and thus serve far more people.
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sme
enterprise
2017-11-08 10:23
Crowdfunding/micro-lending in India
The Indian sub-continent is not only vast geographically but has a huge diversity of people, cultures problems and solutions. When I reviewed kiva a couple of months ago it became clear that many of the
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sme
enterprise
2017-11-06 11:42
The Microloan Foundation
Malawi is one of the poorest nations in the world. A visit to this country inspired Peter Ryan to start the Microloan Foundation which is aimed at poverty alleviation and improving gender equality in countries
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ashokcan143
Actifit
2026-04-07 16:33
Promoted
My Actifit Report Card: April 7 2026
Having to balance between work and personal life is difficult sometimes. Today even though I woke up early in the morning, I had to attend the office work. Then I came to home just to freshen up and get
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microinvestment
micro-finance
2017-09-27 17:14
HOW DO I BENEFIT FROM MICRO-FINANCING?
What is 'Microfinance?' Microfinance, also known as microcredit, is a type of banking service offered to unemployed people or low income people or groups that do not normally have access to financial services.
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-28 13:59
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab assessment of microcredit
Most countries have poverty alleviation policies. However poverty alleviation is a very challenging and diverse problem to tackle. Not every policy or strategy dreamed up is going to be successful. Different
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-26 11:48
Why I love this blog - connecting and J-PAL
I set up this blog to create awareness around challenges for micro, small and medium sized enterprises, in the hopes of discovering like minds on steemit. It is doing that, from the comments, I am getting
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-25 13:59
Kiva loans at 0% interest
Up till now, in reviewing Kiva I have focused on loans with field partners. They do have an experimental model that they are currently operating in the US. These are direct loans without a field partner
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cliffblank
worldautismawarenessday
2026-04-02 09:22
Promoted
World Autism Awareness Day 2026
It’s “World Autism Awareness Day 2026” and I minted another NFT to celebrate. Past NFTs: 2025 2024 2021-2023 #autism #WorldAutismAwarenessDay
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-24 14:35
Bitbond.com - the catch
Bitbond is great on paper, all the principles are solid. But then there is this tiny little catch, which has nothing to do with the idea or its implementation. Image Source The catch is Bitcoin and its
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-23 13:04
A Kiva great lend.
Up till now I have been looking at the pros and cons of kiva.com. Now its time to look into an actual lending scenario indepth. There are some real gems there if you dig around, take a look at this one.
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-22 12:10
Bitbond.com - lending for cryptoheads.
Today we take a look at bitbond.com. Yesterday, we had a comment from @ebargins which prompted today's review. In short, the answer is they are very different. Kiva.com is for "do good'ers" whereas
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-21 11:52
Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - Due diligence and risks.
Kiva makes it clear that they take due diligence and monitoring very seriously but in the end all the risk lies with the lenders. This is understandable since they are only the facilitators of the lending
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darth-cryptic
genealogy
2026-04-03 21:17
Promoted
Genealogy: James T Foley (1832-1900)
I am posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. Subject: James T Foley (1832-1900)
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-19 16:06
The Kiva Team Steemit
Based on the last two posts I did on Kiva.org I was able to discover there are a number of Steemians on Kiva and there is already a Steemit Team there. I definately plan to sign up there next week and
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gavvet
enterprise
2017-08-19 15:28
Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the discerning lender perspective.
Based on the screen grabs @sme did yesterday, we could see that there were some very interesting details available for those who dig deeper. Basically Kiva.org gives a very limited amount of information
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-18 12:53
Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the borrower perspective.
Yesterday I looked at Kiva.org from a lender perspective and it all seemed quite rosy. A couple of clicks as a lender and you are done. There is more to this than meets the eye though. If you click on
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-17 11:23
Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the lender perspective.
Today I start to look at Kiva.org. It can be found following the URL below. It's simple to use and its mission is “to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.” According to Wikipedia: Since
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vil-br
postpunk
2026-04-04 20:27
Promoted
Written Stone Found - A Minha Paz
Projeto Musical / Music Project PT-BR | Esse é um projeto musical que uso IA no vocal e instrumental, porem as letras são todas escritas a mão. US-EN | This is a musical project that uses AI for vocals
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-16 15:07
Micro-lending and crowdfunding via the web
The internet has been a marvelous invention, with the way it is able to link people and information around the world. A number of experiments and even operational entities have been established to facilitate
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-15 16:46
Stokvels
This is a very intriguing form of fund raising practiced in South Africa. It dates back to the rotating cattle auctions of English settlers in the Eastern Cape in the 19 century and is derived from the
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-15 08:52
Self Help Groups or SGH's
After Bangladesh's successes with Grameen Bank, some of India's micro-credit has been structured around Self Help Groups or SGH's. Image Source Many SGH's were primarily started by poor women getting together
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sme
enterprise
2017-08-13 14:19
Modern microcredit and micro loans
You can't really talk about micro-lending and microcredit with out mentioning Grameen Bank and Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus would later receive a Nobel Prize for using his own money to launch what would
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