Category: Work
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Pausing to Reflect
This has been… a big year. While the Futures Initiative team and I formally reflect on the past year through the exercise of writing and designing our annual report, and while we plan for an unusual year ahead, I’d like to take a moment and offer a more personal reflection as well. In working on our […]
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Kiva: Using Crowd Sourcing to Serve the Underbanked
I chose to support non-profit micro lender Kiva by participating in a syndicated loan. The recipient, Milka, is a Kenyan corn farmer and mother of four who was looking to expand her farming operation buy purchasing hybrid seed corn, fertilizer and a solar lamp. https://www.kiva.org/lend/1214525 There are two primary reasons I chose this effort. I […]