Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world. (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.)
Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people: Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican Republic and Umedjon Nurov who raises beef cattle in Tajikistan. One of the coolest things about the site is that once the loan is repaid (the loans have a 99.7% repayment rate) you can either withdraw it or turn around and loan it to someone else.
I first heard about Kiva via the Bill Clinton book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change The World. There are various other organizations out there that are similar to Kiva but which have different approaches and cater to different needs, groups, countries and so on. Heifer International is one I heard about via Cenobyte for example.
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The Four Generations In Your Workplace
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Jason
on Thu 15 May 2008 10:37 PM CST
As I may have mentioned before, the younger me would probably punch the older me in the mush if he could see how much management theory I'd be reading (and enjoying
 ) at this point in my life. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of management theory today is the interplay between different generations. This article has one of the most succinct set of definitions that I've seen for the defining characteristics for each of the four generations that are currently in the workplace. Wikipedia also has a comprehensive chart listing every American generation going back to 1843 based on the work of Strauss and Howe. Their theory is that there are four generational archetypes that repeat sequentially - Prophets, Nomads, Heroes and Artists. Interesting stuff. |
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