-
My Ventures
About Drew Meyers
Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
Follow Me!
Past Projects
Category Archives: Microfinance
It’s Amazing to See What is Possible
You should all watch this video. It’s crazy impressive what Kiva.org has accomplished in just 6 short years.
Congrats to Lumana Credit for Making Their First TV Appearance
Lumana (I volunteered with them for a month in Ghana last year) just got their first television appearance — they were featured on KCTS 9 Connects on Friday. You can view the segment here.
Congrats to Cole, Samantha, and the entire Luman… Continue reading
The State of Microfinance Investment 2011 – From MicroRate
MicroRate.com recently released their State of Microfinance Investment 2011 report. Here are a few key findings from the press release: Low-priced, domestic funding in key countries has been crowding out foreign private capital. Latin America & the Caribbean is now in second place behind Europe/Central Asia in terms of the geographic investment distribution – receiving [...] Continue reading
THE DUDE FEST benefitting Lumana Credit
A few friends and I are attending the DUDE FEST next Saturday, August 27th in Fremont to raise some money for Lumana Credit by watching the Big Lebowski in an outdoors showing. I’m stoked! Here are the logistics for those in the Seattle area who are interested: What: Join Lumana and the Fremont Outdoor Cinemas [...] Continue reading
Vittana’s 1,000 Student Summer Bash – August 25th in Seattle
For those in Seattle’s microfinance scene (or looking to get involved), there’s a microfinance event on the 25th of the month worth attending. It’s Vittana’s 1,000 Summer Bash! What: Party to celebrate Vittana funding 1,000 students from around the globe! Where: 2030 First Avenue, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98121 When: August 25th from 5:30-7:30 Hope to see [...] Continue reading
Matt Damon, A Celebrity I Respect
This video is from October, so a little dated, but I just saw it via Jerry’s post on myKRO.org. It’s a video of Matt Damon on the David Letterman show, and he talks a bit about Water.org and microfinance. If only all celebrities spent their time on stuff that matters rather than on fancy cars and partying.
