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Starting a business takes blood, sweat and tears.
We’ve been blessed with amazing support along the way from friends, family and fellow entrepreneurs. The least we can do is try to give a little back.
Which is why we love Kiva – the world’s coolest micro-lending site. It’s capitalism at its best: lending to micro businesses that use the money to expand their market stall, or buy another sewing machine, or an extra oven etc, and then pay the money back with the profits generated.
In this way, one donation can be used over and over again! The default rate at Kiva is exceptionally low. For as little as $25, you can lend directly to a budding entrepreneur to help them lift themselves out of poverty. Check out www.kiva.org for more.
We also participate in various fundraising events.
One in particular changed our perception of homelessness in Australia: CEO Sleepout (www.ceosleepout.org.au) organised by St Vincent de Paul Society and held at Luna Park.
On a chilly and wet winter’s night, 220 CEOs spent a night roughing it with only a sleeping bag and a sliver of cardboard.
It was an exceptionally effective way to create change. You could feel the CEOs’ mindsets changing as we listened to homeless people sharing their stories. Knowing we were all about to experience one night of “homelessness” ourselves made the stories much more real.
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