Terry pays tribute to those who showed him the way

Welcome, Terry, to Team Virginia.
Terry is our 48th team member, and he calls Newport News home. I’ll let Terry tell you about himself. Here are his words from the “I loan because” portion of his lender profile.
I loan in honor of those that came before me and the lessons learned from observing their willingness [...]

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Sandy from Cville helps international commerce happen

Team Virginia welcomes Sandy, our 47th team member overall and 8th(!) to call Charlottesville home. She teaches adults working in international companies how to relate to their international business partners.
Sandy tells me she splits her time between Charlottesville and Paris. I told her she could do a whole lot worse than spending part of [...]

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Meet Kiva.org Volunteers Tuesday, September 30th

Kiva.org has a Kiva Fellows program which trains accepted applicants to go work as unpaid volunteers with Kiva partner microfinance institutions (MFI) at their branches in countries around the world. Read all about the Kiva Fellows program here:
www.kiva.org/about/fellows-program/
These are volunteer positions, and their expenses – rent, food, travel, etc. – are also unfunded. Kiva Fellows [...]

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kristina flows in Team Virginia’s direction

kristina joins us from Charlottesville — she’s our seventh Cville team member, and our 46th Team Virginia member overall.
Thanks for joining us.
kristina’s “I loan because” on her lender profile reads
“Money is energy and it needs to flow.”
Sounds good to me — as a group, we’ve flowed $5,450 in portions of loans towards our [...]

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Elizabeth joins us from Martinsville

Here’s a warm Team Virginia welcome for Elizabeth, who hails from Martinsville. Thanks for checking us out and joining the team!
You’re coming on board just in time for our one month milestone as a Kiva.org lending team.
No big celebration — just the quiet acknowledgment that it’s good to be a Virginia Kiva lender, and perhaps [...]

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The Medders make their first loan a Team Virginia thing

Welcome to the Medders from Fairfax, who became Kiva lenders today, joined Team Virginia, and dedicated their first loan to the team.
Thanks for being Kiva lenders — and thanks for joining us here!
   
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The Medders have joined us on Team Virginia’s one month anniversary.
So far we’ve got 44 team members, and we’ve made a [...]

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Elizabeth blogs on books and writing in Cville

Elizabeth joins us from Charlottesville, where she’s a wife, a mom, a writer, and the creator of an excellent blog for readers and writers, Charlottesville Words.
Thanks for joining Team Virginia, Elizabeth.
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Cynthia keeps Virginia close, from Cambridge

Cynthia, our newest member and also a member of the Harvard University Kiva.org lending team, comes to us by way of Cambridge, Massachusetts — where she and her husband are going to law school.
Thanks for being here.
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Taking care of Business in Charlottesville

Darden GBUS-8404 is a team joining Team Virginia, a lender representing students enrolled in the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville.
A quick check of the UVA Darden School of Business course catalog tells us this (among other things) about course “GBUS 8404 – Integration and Innovation in Services: The ‘New’ Economy”:
Students will [...]

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Forrest of Fairfax is 40th

Forrest is the 40th person to join Team Virginia.
Welcome to the group!
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