John asks Nerdfighters to make loans through Kiva.org (2007)
ask · status: reported back · last event: reminder (2015-12-08) · owner: John and Hank
In June 2007 John proposed that he and Hank make loans through Kiva.org over the next week and hoped the Nerdfighters would join; within days the Nerdfighters had lent many thousands of dollars, and John kept pointing viewers to Kiva loans later that year and again in 2015.
Part of: Bank of Nerdfighteria: the Nerdfighters' Kiva lending team
Parts: Hank: link his Kiva borrower on Brotherhood2.com so viewers complete her loan (2007) · John asks Nerdfighters to recruit more nerdfighters and more Kiva lenders (2007)
Told alongside: Hank asks Nerdfighteria to discuss online video and better ways to fund it than advertising (2013)
About: Kiva
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-06-28 | asked | John proposes that he and Hank give several gifts to Kiva.org over the next week, and hopes Nerdfighters will join. (hedged) | June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier 00:03:05 |
| 2007-06-29 | result reported | Answering John's proposal, Hank lends $200 on Kiva.org to a clothing saleswoman who needs $575. | How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 00:02:31 |
| 2007-06-29 | reminder | Hank's excited closing pitch urges Kiva.org lending: not donating but loaning, and 'it's that easy'. (playful) | How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 00:03:00 |
| 2007-07-02 | result reported | John reports that he, Hank and the Nerdfighters raised many, many thousands of dollars for Kiva.org over the weekend. | Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting 00:00:29 |
| 2007-07-03 | result reported | Hank reports that a new Kiva loan Brotherhood 2.0 sponsored was fully funded by nerdfighters almost at once. (playful) | July 3: Decepticons 00:00:37 |
| 2007-10-24 | reminder | After Kiva briefly ran short of listed borrowers, John tells Nerdfighters, who have supported Kiva for months, that they can all go back to making loans. | October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING 00:03:12 |
| 2013-03-20 (happened 2007) | result reported | John recalls that in 2007, with a few hundred regular viewers, the Nerdfighter community did interesting things: Nerdfighters made their first thousand dollars in Kiva loans with under a hundred subscribers. | Ads Work...but for Whom? 00:01:53 |
| 2015-12-08 | reminder | John tells viewers they can make Kiva loans of as little as $25 to an entrepreneur of their choice, with a link in the description. | The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report 00:00:25 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — Hank: On camera Hank goes to Kiva.org and lends $200 to a clothing saleswoman who needs $575, leaving $375 to raise. — 00:02:31
- 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — ask: Hank enthusiastically promotes Kiva.org: it is loaning, not donating, yet feels like donating, and you get your money back; 'It's that easy!' (playful) — 00:03:00
- 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — announcement: John says they have funded many loans and will keep funding loans 'like crazy' over the next week, for bakeries and shoe stores; they recently helped a man start a lasso factory. — 00:01:28
- 2007-10-24 · October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING — ask: John tells viewers that borrowers are back on the site, so everyone can go back to making loans at Kiva.org. — 00:03:12
- 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says Kiva loans can be as small as $25 to an entrepreneur of your choice, with a 99% chance of repayment, playfully likening it to a savings account at -1% interest. (playful) — 00:00:25