Kiva Mastercard (Advanta) Rocks!

kivacard

I try to regularly review products or services that help my business or are just plain good representatives of the business values I espouse. Well the latest is the Kiva Mastercard from Advanta. I’ve mentioned kiva.org before. You make a $25 micro-loan that is combined with other microloans and used to fund a small entrepreneur [...]

Unpopular Comments on Unpopular People

One of the things that a business can do is sustain the very notion of what work means. It can use its resources to uphold the meaning of work itself, and so its own meaning, and the meaning of the myriad of endeavours on which its participants spend the vital years of their lives. Image [...]

Selecting Charities

This is an excerpted letter of response I wrote to the COO of globalgiving.org — she’d written to thank me for participation, mention some web traffic coming from my site, and ask how I’d learned of their organization. I responded to explain how, personally, I select the charities that suit my interests. Hi Donna, Here’s [...]