Kevin Tordoff, HOPE's marketing director, issued a Facebook fundraising challenge. Some of my friends Facebook more than I – because I don't – so maybe you'd be interested in sharing this with your friends:
"Thanks for joining on in support of HOPE International on our Facebook cause. We're celebrating 10 years of Christ-centered microfinance this year. In ten short years, we've been blessed by God as our work has expanded to 14 countries and reaching more than 220,000 entrepreneurs. If you're not yet familiar with microfinance, in short, it is making available small loans, sometimes as small as $50, to the working poor. These entrepreneurs use the access to our capital to fund their business needs often buying inventory and raw materials. The funds are paid back with interest enabling us to re-loan to more people for larger sums. We do all of this while administering the love of Christ in specific ways.
We can't wait to impact more people in more places, so we came up with a radical idea and that idea involves you. We are asking all of our Facebook friends to make a minimum donation of $10 directly on our Facebook cause page and invite ten of your friends to our cause. Just think, if all 1,700 cause members donated at least $10, we would raise $17,000 for HOPE. What can be done with $17,000? We can open 3 new Bank of HOPE branches in the Dominican Republic. These three banks would provide funding to support the loan requirements of more than 150 new businesses. These businesses would impact the lives of more than 600 family members and in future loan cycles even more people would be affected.
There is one small catch though. We want to fund these new banks this year to bring even greater HOPE to the people of the Dominican Republic this year. This is why we are asking you to make your $10 contribution by December 31, 2008. Don't forget, please invite 10 of your Facebook friends to our cause and share this message of HOPE with them because ten can make a difference."
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