About this trail:
This is an open wiki trail to collect links to ideas and organizations that have promise for positively addressing world issues such as poverty, environmental, war/peace, gobal warming, energy, in ways big and small. Websites, blogs, news stories.
Perhaps over-general, but can always be sub-divided later. Lets see how the Trailfire community responds.
I started small, with something about an interesting organization that someone sent to me, and a blog that referred to it.
Perhaps over-general, but can always be sub-divided later. Lets see how the Trailfire community responds.
I started small, with something about an interesting organization that someone sent to me, and a blog that referred to it.
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I've heard good things about microlending as a way of helping people to gain a foothold in providing for themselves. And as a way of appealing to individual donors, I think a site where you can "shop" for things to invest in, seeing people's names and faces, like buying something at Amazon, could be very effective.
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The whole microlending thing of course relies on efficient and reliable middlemen, so establishing reputations of some good organizations is vital.
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Rebecca Kousky graduated with a master's degree in social work from Washington University in May 2006. Two weeks later, she founded a program to fund modest loans for women artisans in developing countries. She solicited female artists, fashion and graphic designers to sell their goods on her website and donate a portion of the proceeds to her loan program. The recipients of the loans can either make monetary repayments or pay with the goods they produce, which are then sold on buildanest.com. The proceeds are then recycled into more loans.
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Storefront site for Rebecca Kousky, microlender reported in St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5-5-07
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Blog of Rebecca Kousky, microlender reported in St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5-5-07
but I'll just add a couple marks here where more people might see them and comment