The Fashion Design and Lifestyle team on Etsy ,that I belong to, is proud and excited to announce their new lending partnership with Kiva (http://www.kiva.org/), a charitable organization who lends money, donated from individuals and groups, to small businesses throughout the world. The fantastic thing about Kiva is that, once the loan is repaid, the lender gets to allocate the money to another small business. It is the gift that keeps on giving!We decided to invest in Kiva as it helps small businesses like ours and it is international, just like our team. It is our way of reaching out to the larger world.
Sellers on the Fashion, Design and Lifestyle Team, lovingly referred to as FDL, have decided to contribute 10% of the sale price on items marked “fdlkiva” in the tags. Once the fund reaches $25.00, we will allocate these proceeds to help support an international small business whose market is similar to ours. For every $25.00 that we collect, we will continue to contribute towards as many businesses on Kiva that we can. Once loans are repaid, we will reinvest in another Kiva business.
To help us achieve our goals and help the world, please search http://www.etsy.com/ for keyword “fdlkiva”: 10% of the sales price will go towards our Kiva fund!
Watch here for our progress towards our goals, as well as information on the businesses that we invest in.
For more information about the FDL team on Etsy, visit us at:
Blog: http://www.fashiondesignandlifestyle.blogspot.com/
Etsy Team Page: http://team.etsy.com/profilest/fashion.shtml
Team Shop: http://fdlteam.etsy.com/
2 comments:
I'm very proud too!!! It's beautiful what we are doing!
Our team is such a group of awesome artists with huge hearts, I'm proud to be part of it :)
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