Kiva is the world leader in providing crowdsourced and peer-to-peer microfinance. Foundation Beyond Belief has joined forces with the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists, and the Non-Religious (A+) lending team at Kiva to create a micro lending fund that makes Kiva loans and attributes those loans to the A+ Team.
Mission: Support and empower people around the world, by helping them attain the financial capital and tools they need to succeed.
Purpose: To motivate concerned citizens of the world to support the fund, to distribute and accumulate funds to make loans to the working poor on an expedited basis while empowering lenders to give, care and share.
The "plus" in A+ reflects the fact that our team includes Atheists, plus Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists, and Non-Religious members. A+ is also a symbol of excellence!
Step 1: You donate to the Impact Fund here via Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB). FBB is a 501(c)(3) organization, making your donations tax deductible if you are an eligible U.S. resident.
Step 4: Repayments to the A+ Team Impact Fund are quickly reinvested in other microloans. Your donations harbor the potential to support numerous borrowers over many years to come.
Loans will be made to Kiva Field Partners with a 3 or 4 Secular rating in the A+ Team’s Field Partner List.
Preferred Field Partners will have been active on Kiva for at least one year, and have posted at least 1000 loans.
Goals are to make loans of $25 for each borrower and attempt to ensure that no loan to one borrower will exceed $100.
Avoid loans to entrepreneurs that plan to repay more than 50% of their loans in the final repayment month.
The Impact Fund’s “Secular, Safe, Short-Term” guidelines support its goal of making the most of the funds donated:
Don't need a tax deduction receipt for your donation? You may choose to give a Kiva Card to the Impact Fund via the Kiva website. Simply click on the “Send a Kiva Card” link on the Impact Fund’s Lender Page. Then send a Private Message to Captain Craig of the A+ Team with the Kiva Card code and amount. These funds will immediately be put to use for the benefit of borrowers and credited to the A+ Team.
There may be times that the loans that are made do not fit all of the criteria we hope to achieve, either by sheer mistake or to forward an additional goal at the discretion of the A+ Team Captains and volunteers as well as Foundation Beyond Belief staff.
At no point shall the purpose of collecting funds for the Impact Fund be to beat or to disparage specific Kiva teams. The A+ Team Impact Fund of Foundation Beyond Belief does not discriminate against ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, or sexual orientation.
Funds raised through the A+ Team Impact Fund of Foundation Beyond Belief will be distributed quarterly to the Impact Fund’s Kiva account.
Your scruples on that part of the answer which denies your having in your hands effects of any the defendants except Messrs. Conyngham and Nesbitt, are just. The circumstance of your holding any thing of Mr. McCaul’s was unknown to me. I now send you two answers. The one admits effects of Conyngham and Nesbitt and also of McCaul, and denies it as to the others. The other answer admits as to Conyngham and Nesbitt and is silent as to the others. Yet I must inform you that the latter is for that very reason insufficient. It may perhaps be looked over; but if excepted to, you must hereafter answer as to the other defendants and pay costs of the exceptions. You will use whichever you think proper. As to the answer of Messrs. Conyngham and Nesbitt I shall prepare such an one as can be drawn on the papers in my possession. This I will send you either during or immediately after the court: so that it cannot be sworn to and returned to me till the April court. In the mean time you know a motion is to be made during the present court to have the attached effects delivered up to the plaintiffs. Thus therefore I shall conduct myself unless you advise to the contrary. I shall first endeavor to get further time till the April court to file our answers. If that is granted it will stay all further proceeding till that time. If it is refused I will then plead to the jurisdiction of the court. The plea I know will be overruled, because our act of assembly gives express jurisdiction but it will give me an opportunity of urging the objections of Messrs. Conyngham and Nesbitt; and will answer the purpose of a dilatory so as to give us time for the return of the answers. The overruling the plea will be attended with an expence of £5. to Messrs. Conyngh. & Nesb. but that I expect is preferable to a delivery of the attached effects. Your particular answer you will be pleased to return by the earliest opportunity as I know not the day on which the motion will be made, and the want of it might involve you in the same difficulties which arise from a want of the answers of the other gentlemen. Your attendance in person I suppose would be inconvenient, and is not necessary. I am Dear Sir Your friend and sert.,
The addressee has been identified from internal evidence; see Case No. 546 in TJ’s Case Book; also TJ’s letters of 11 May 1771 and 11 June, 4 July 1772.