{"id":595,"date":"2009-09-10T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.yola.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2013-02-21T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:37:22","slug":"yola-needs-your-help-with-kiva-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/yola-needs-your-help-with-kiva-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Yola Needs Your Help with Kiva Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fantastic event at SOCAP09<\/a>, we’re pleased to share that Yola’s Kiva Lending Team<\/a> contributed $7,500 to support entrepreneurs around the world.\u00a0 Starting today, Yola will be matching that amount and we need your help to identify great Kiva entrepreneurs who need funding.\u00a0 Here’s the plan:<\/p>\n

Yola will be accepting Kiva loan recommendations via Twitter so start following @yola<\/a> today.\u00a0 To nominate an entrepreneur, post a message like this one from your Twitter account:<\/p>\n

@yola fund this Kiva entrepreneur: Beatrice is a 25-year old dress maker in the Ashanti region of Ghana bit.ly\/8Safr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Twitter only allows 140 characters but that should still leave enough room to share something interesting about each of the entrepreneurs. Don\u2019t forget to include a link to each entrepreneur’s page and @yola so we see your recommendation.<\/p>\n

For more information on Kiva, read about them here<\/a>.\u00a0 And for an interesting article on SOCAP – which Yola and Kiva co-sponsored last week – take a look at this article<\/a> from the Economist.<\/p>\n

Now let’s get lending!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a fantastic event at SOCAP09, we’re pleased to share that Yola’s Kiva Lending Team contributed $7,500 to support entrepreneurs around the world.\u00a0 Starting today, Yola will be matching that amount and we need your help to identify great Kiva entrepreneurs who need funding.\u00a0 Here’s the plan: Yola will be accepting Kiva loan recommendations via… Read MoreYola Needs Your Help with Kiva Loans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n