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Make a Loan to Help a Pittsburgh Business Owner Restore a Historic Building

December 18, 2016 Lindsay

Since election day, I have been thinking about best ways to support a sense of community, especially locally community right here in Pittsburgh. I wrote a blog post the week after election day with ways to support local community, number 1 on the list was shop local. I would like to update that list to include lend local and I think that Kiva loans are one of the best ways to support small businesses by investing and reinvesting funds in local communities. Kiva.org started as a platform to make loans to business owners in developing countries. A few years ago… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Resources Tagged With: Kiva, kiva pittsburgh, lender, loans, small business

Random Acts of Pittsburgh Kindness

July 31, 2009 Lindsay

Here are a few links and websites I wanted to share because Pittsburghers are nice people and a few clicks or dollars can go along way. First, I want to start by linking to this post on BikePGH – R.I.P. William Thomas, kid’s bike mechanic extraordinaire – this is a really nice post about a really nice Pittsburgher who donated his time to fixing bikes for kids. Just Vote to Help a Greenburg Family win a $10,000 Family Room Makeover I have posted about this on twitter but I wanted to give one last link for this one. Today, July… Read the rest

Filed Under: Intl PGH, Links Worth A Look, Pittsburgh Lovers Tagged With: Kiva, Philippines, pittsburgh

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