Guilty! I often forget to focus on the lifestyle part of this blog. Let me share a huge "it" thing to do to make the world a better place.

My NY galpal,  Andrea shared with me a great cause www.kiva.org. It’s a program to give interest free, micro loans to entrepreneurs around the world trying to change their lives and lift themselves out of poverty.

Read the story behind the person, and what the business is they’re trying to do. See how much money they have raised towards their goal. Then you get emails updating you as the person is paying back their loan. Caution: they do warn you to diversify - so give to a few different people to hedge your odds of getting paid back.

Right now the loans on the site are mostly for Norweigan and Samoa projects, but that changes all the time. We helped a woman in Ghana with her farm, and today we added to this woman’s shop. (I’m prone to giving woman power!)

Helping others, help themselves. And feeling damn good about how you empower them.  That’s a cause I’m all about, and really an "un"guilty pleasure.

Read the New York Times Article