Consider Kiva for Christmas

[Blane]

Hey all,

Just a reminder, think about gift certificates with Kiva.org as christmas presents for your web-savvy friends and family. Kiva's a micro-lending site where you can give loans as small as $25 to help entrepreneurs in the global South with projects that can help them escape poverty. When they repay you the money you've lent them, you can lend it on to somebody else, so that the effect keeps going and going.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way but have been using the site for a few years and really think it's an interesting initiative.

Anyway, off the soapbox now.