My favorite gift to give & receive this year was a microlending gift certificate from Kiva. So I go on last night to pick out a business entrepreneur from around the world- and to my chagrin, it’s fully funded. I guess they got a lot of press in the last week or so and record amounts of membership, which totally depleted their international business partners. Oprah, Clinton & “the Today Show” all took the non-materialist bent this Christmas to offer up the Kiva gift. Anyways, an inspiring success story- it was founded by ex-PayPal folks, and it’s in the Mission.

Photo: courtesy of Kiva, featuring Anoko Lawson-Savadoi, photo credit Dalia Palchik

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