[ SECRET POST #2625 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2625 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Charities

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the advice to give locally - that way it's easier to know how your money is going to be spent.

But I also thoroughly recommend Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/. If you haven't heard of it, basically many people from many different countries have profiles up about the loan they want - it might be for sending their kids to school, or buying supplies for their shop, or upgrading the water system for their village, or a wide range of other things. You can even search by gender, type of loan needed and/or country if that's your thing. And then you contribute towards their loan - minimum $25, with an option to donate to Kiva itself (which is non-profit). The person will get their loan, and will then slowly pay it back (no interest of course). Which means that eventually you will get your $25 back and then can donate that to someone else. And you get updates on the people you've lent to, so you can know how it all went.

I support Kiva because during my undergrad I did some research on a paper about what works and what doesn't in terms of funding development, and it turns out micro-lending does work really well. The way it's set up also means that I'm encouraged to go back to the site to see if I have enough to relend to someone else yet. Also, there are groups/teams you can join and choose to dedicate your loans to, including a Fandom team, so that's fun!

To give you an overview, in the last 4 years or so i have deposited $192 into my Kiva account - but with that $192 I have been able to lend $675 in 27 different loans. And that's while being a poor student. Sounds pretty good, right? /Kiva stanning

Re: Charities

[nyxelestia]

I have never heard of this before but it's awesome, and I think I'll start donating here once I get a job.

Re: Charities

[(Anonymous)]

But it's bisically a way to get a loan interest free. Why would you be interested to fund someone's business? The people there are just the most Internet savy... I feel like I'm missing smething here.