Happy Birthday, Hank!

Today (just today!) nerdfighters around the world have loaned more than $50,000 to entrepreneurs throughout the developing world, from Rwanda to Kosovo.

That’s more money than the kiva nerdfighter group loaned in its first YEAR. Happy Birthday, Hank!

If you want to join the lending binge, check out the nerdfighter kiva group!

Norwegian nerdfighter Ole created this infographic to explore where the kiva nerdfighters live, where their loans are going, and why we lend. Repayment day (the 15th-ish of every month) was yesterday, so if you’re a member log in to kiva and see if your repayments will allow you to make another loan. If you aren’t a member, JOIN NOW and make your first loan for free.
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Norwegian nerdfighter Ole created this infographic to explore where the kiva nerdfighters live, where their loans are going, and why we lend.

Repayment day (the 15th-ish of every month) was yesterday, so if you’re a member log in to kiva and see if your repayments will allow you to make another loan. If you aren’t a member, JOIN NOW and make your first loan for free.

Join Kiva and Get a Free Loan (Seriously)

The kiva nerdfighters are already at $1,008,000. 

A MILLION DOLLARS.

I mean, I will get over this at some point, but a million dollars is a lot of money. And we’re doing it $25 at a time.

If for some reason you haven’t already joined us, click Paige’s link above and become part of the awesome.

A MILLION DOLLARS. I AM SO HAPPY. I’M GOING TO DO A LIVE SHOW TOMORROW. THAT’S HOW HAPPY I AM.

The nerdfighters of kiva have revived the Brotherhood 2.0 celebration of wearing something on your head: Today, they’re loaning thousands of dollars to entrepreneurs in the developing world with a special emphasis on those who share our values. Specifically, our value for putting something on our heads. So today I’ve made loans to, among others, the farmer in Peru pictured above, a pub owner in Uganda, and a grocer in Rwanda to help them grow their businesses. You can make loans of your own for as little as $25, and you’ll be paid back 99% of the time. I’ve made more than 1,000 loans, andI’ve had exactly 0 people not pay me back so far. Want to join us? It’s easy and in many cases GENUINELY FREE.  If you’re not a member of kiva, you can follow my invite link here (or find another invite link among the tumblr reblogs below) and make your first loan for free.  If you’re already a member, go log in, make sure you’ve joined the nerdfighters group, and make some loans today. And right now, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous rich person, every time a friend you’ve invited makes a kiva loan, you get a free loan for yourself, too! So use your invite links! Happy Something on Your Head Day!
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The nerdfighters of kiva have revived the Brotherhood 2.0 celebration of wearing something on your head: Today, they’re loaning thousands of dollars to entrepreneurs in the developing world with a special emphasis on those who share our values.

Specifically, our value for putting something on our heads. So today I’ve made loans to, among others, the farmer in Peru pictured above, a pub owner in Uganda, and a grocer in Rwanda to help them grow their businesses. You can make loans of your own for as little as $25, and you’ll be paid back 99% of the time. I’ve made more than 1,000 loans, andI’ve had exactly 0 people not pay me back so far.

Want to join us? It’s easy and in many cases GENUINELY FREE. 

If you’re not a member of kiva, you can follow my invite link here (or find another invite link among the tumblr reblogs below) and make your first loan for free. 

If you’re already a member, go log in, make sure you’ve joined the nerdfighters group, and make some loans today. And right now, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous rich person, every time a friend you’ve invited makes a kiva loan, you get a free loan for yourself, too! So use your invite links!

Happy Something on Your Head Day!

This is pretty amazing. Stop scrolling for a second.

For a limited time, thanks to the generosity of a donor, kiva is offering free loans BOTH to new members AND to the people who invite them.

So if you’re already a member, go log in to kiva and INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, and you’ll get to make free loans. (As will your friends!)

And if you aren’t yet a member, you can follow my invite link here to make a free loan!

ALSO: Remember to join the nerdfighter kiva group. It’s a great community committed to offering entrepreneurs in the developing world access to the same kind of inexpensive credit we take for granted here so that they can grow their businesses.

Kiva works closely with all the microfinance organizations they partner with to ensure maximum transparency, and you can do lots of fascinating research into both the businesspeople you’re loaning to and the organizations that administer the loans. Kiva has the highest possible rating at charitynavigator, and again, inviting your friends means FREE LOANS FOR EVERYONE!

In the three hours since I posted the video above, the nerdfighter kiva group has passed both the atheists and the Christians, by the way. We’ve now loaned more than $300,000, and nearly $90,000 in the month of March alone, which I will remind you is not yet half over.

This is crazy and wonderful. (Like, I am getting emails from kiva and they are also like, “This is so crazy and wonderful what is even happening?”) 

If you’re not yet a kiva member, make your first loan for free. If you are a kiva member, and you can scrape together $25 to loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world with a ~99% chance of getting paid back*, well, now’s as good a time as any.

OH MY GOSH FREE KIVA!

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Astonishingly, kiva.org is offering free trials to the next several thousand new kiva members—this means your first $25 loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world will be totally free.

This is great news. So click here and hurry while the credits are still available, and be sure to join…

I can’t do this because I already have a Kiva account, but gosh! Guys, do this! Free money for good causes! Yay!!!

I JUST DID THIS. YOU SHOULD TOO!

UPDATE: In the last 12 hours, more than 1,500 (!!!) people have joined the nerdfighter kiva team. If you are not yet a member of kiva, click here to claim your $25 credit and make your first loan for free! (The loans are funded by a generous cofounder of the web site linkedin.) Then find the nerdfighter team under the community tab and join. Yay!

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OH MY GOSH FREE KIVA!

Astonishingly, kiva.org is offering free trials to the next several thousand new kiva members—this means your first $25 loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world will be totally free.

This is great news. So click here and hurry while the credits are still available, and be sure to join the nerdfighters group so your loans bolster the lending arm of the Bank of Nerdfighteria.

(Kiva is a microfinance site that connects well-run microfinance organizations from around the world with lenders like you and me. I’ve been very impressed with the way that kiva is run and with their transparency, and it has a four-star rating on charitynavigator.)