Wednesday October 15th is “Blog Action Day: Poverty” and so far 11,211 blogs/websites have participated in this massive awareness campaign, including your friends here at Site-Reference. We hope you can join us! Simply post a comment below and Site-Reference will donate $1 (per comment) to Kiva.org.
What is Kiva and why are we supporting it?
Well, a lot of us here are self-starters and while we’ve worked hard, we were given opportunities the majority of the world’s population simply don’t have.
You know, little things like quality education, the proper infrastructure (access to the computers, internet, etc), and most importantly financing. No matter what, it takes $$$ to make $$$. Whether its a few bucks to keep you fed while you get going, or a few million to create the next great piece of software, all entrepreneurs need some money to start with.
With Kiva, fortunate entrepreneurs such as us are able to make small loans to those in the developing world that can then turn them into profitable businesses and sustain themselves, their families and in some cases their communities over the long run. And the best part- once these loans are repaid they go to help the next guy/girl.
For more on Kiva checkout their page here: http://www.kiva.org So if you’re reading this- leave a comment- it’s the least you can do and we’ll donate $1 to Kiva.
Or if you have more than the 2 seconds it takes to leave a comment, get involved yourself at Kiva.org or go help out that charity you’ve always told yourself you’d get involved with.
On Monday Ocotber 20th, we’ll tally up all the comments and we will make our donation at that time.
Many thanks for your continued support, Nic, Dave and the Site-Reference crew
69 Comments on "Leave a Comment & We’ll Donate $1 To Fight Poverty"
Sweet. I love the organization you are donating to. Thanks for raising awareness. I am going to read into this organization when I have more time!
I think it’s cool that you took this opportunity to raise money for a cause. I hope your efforts are a success!
Cha Ching
This is awesome guys, hope you pay out BIG 
in the name of charity of course.
Oh definitely we’re all for it!
You’re the man Nic! I hope this costs you a small fortune (but its its for a good cause).
A great way to get people involved even if it takes no real involvment.
Cool! My old business started up with just a little money, so I know how far the concept can go! Thanks SR for helping others.
Keep ‘em coming peeps… and please promote it far and wide so we can get OODLES of comments.
Thanks to all that commented so far!!
Dave- what are you doing?!? You realize your comment just cost me another buck?
Oh crap…what am I doing? See what you did…now replying to your comment is costing me even more!!!
But in all seriousness- we really appreciate the support here and hope to get this page filled with comment by the week’s end. Blog Action Day is today, but we’re going to keep this Site-Reference drive open all week- so please do help spread the word.
Thanks everyone!
Hi Nic,
You asked for it so here is my comment and for such a great cause.
Micro loans are a great way for those less fortunate to get a little help to pursue their dreams, take care of their families and prosper. http://www.kiva.org is a wonderful organization that is helping many people throughout the world.
Warmly,
Mitch
Heya there. Just thought I’d drop a line in the name of the dollar
Great cause, even greater that you’re supporting it. Thumbs up
Just so everyone knows, we are part of the “Bloggers” group on Kiva (signed up under my name: Nicolas) so if anyone wants to join our group please do so! Here is the link for it: http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=62
well played!
Wonderful!!! Makes me want to comment, like, another 125 times!! =)
P.S. I LOVE Kiva… as soon as I get any money paid back, it goes right out to another person… I recommend it to EVERYONE!
This is great Nic. Glad SR joined this one.
There are a lot of people in this world that needs help and it’s good to know that you are getting involved in such a great cause just to give someone else a “hand”! Very proud of you and very proud of this site!
I hope a lot of members leave a comment!
HEY HEY U GUYS ROCK!
I was so very happy to find Kiva. It makes donating to help change someone’s life painless, and you feel so good afterward.
My only wish is that more people get involved in this. More comments please.
I am glad to see that you are making people more aware of KIVA. It an organization that is getting great results. Keep up good work.
Kiva is great – some great entrepreneurial spirit in evidence there. Support the third world applicants Nic!
I can’t pass up an opportunity to do my small part to help out others that are less fortunate. Another dollar from you Nic. LOL
Great thing you are doing here.
Thank you for doing this! I loaned $250 to entrepreneurs on Kiva as part of Blog Action Day as well.
-Erica (entrepreneur blogger; erica.biz)
It’s a great idea to help someone who need that. And I want to appreciate for this to all of you.
We took part in Blog Action Day as well. This is great idea, I hope you get lots more comments.
Awesome job yalls. Keep up with all that hard work and money stuff.
Hey there, ka-ching. I also participated: http://saabnet.vox.com/library/post/blog-action-day-2008-poverty.html
What a wonderful idea – we need more of these sort of collaborative and resource-pooling schemes to the greater good of all.
hello. cool idea!
have a great day!
great idea…
Fantastic idea and well done for getting involved.
I also took part in Blog Action Day by posting on my blog and discussing it at social network sites. I’m still reading what other bloggers have posgted about it and I think supporting Kiva is a great way to help.
No doubt that you guys are doing a great job. So in this way I am also adding a small contribution by commenting here.
Take Care my friends.
No doubt that you guys are doing a great job. So in this way I am also adding a small contribution by commenting here.
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We just got a dollar in the mail from a company with a vague note attached. It’s amazing the power of a dollar has to this day.
What a nice thing to do. You have my support.
Good idea! Keep it up
The only way to become a whole person is to help others first. “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” You are doing great work, Kiva!
In these tough economic times, it’s nice to see that you are doing this. Here’s my dollar and my continued support of your organization.
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Stay Positive.
Thank You to all that have participated. As promised we sent the money we raised to Kiva.org today – helping 4 people reach closer to their goals. If anyone wants to join us please do so here: http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=62
Many, many thanks again to everyone!
This is great! Keep it up!
a great idea and i would like to join more thing to help pepole i am free any time if you need my services feel free to mail
Good work! I generally love to do this kind of work.
Keep it up!
plz make comment, for the first time in our life we’ll do something good
This is great! good luck!
Amega Mobile Homed
Yay! thanks for doing this.
I like this idea a lot I am happy that people are willing and able to try something like this.
Well I’m pretty busy but this caught my eye so good on you guys
Same here. Too busy. Sorry dudes.
This is very cool. Are you doing any advertising to promote it? It really deserves the attention.
Well that’s great.
My self and few of my friends have started a blog, what ever we’ll be earning from that blog will be donating it to educate unprivileged children here in India.
http://poorchildedufund.blogspot.com/
I totally totally agree on that! You couldnt have said it with a better way..
stsi@mdi.gr
i think this is a great idea.
every little bit helps.
nice work
=)
Thanks for imvolving us in your donation.
Keep the good post.
Cheers,
Bob.
Way to go! Hope this raises a fortune.
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Suhail
nice cool Thank you very much
I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
Great stuff as usual….
for me just submit..submit..submit
Alright! I hope this more traffic and donations come to this site.
I think it’s cool that you took this opportunity to raise money for a cause. I hope your efforts are a success!
Good on you for supporting Kiva with the donations. Looks like a great organisation, doing a lot of good.
How’s it going – This is a great place
Just registered and wanted to say hello.
Nice..to hear. .
1$ from my side.
Glad to hear of your support for Kiva! Will you be doing this again soon?