Mega-Millionaire Gives Back 5% to Charitable Causes

Maverick Business Adventures® is Also About Giving Back!

Nearly all the successful people I know give back. It's long been a rule in my previous companies that 5% of all gross revenue goes to charitable causes. And Maverick Business Adventures® will donate 5%+ of all gross revenues paid to the entrepreneurial and self-sustaining charities members help select.

And the plus part?

On many trips there will be an optional time set aside to teach the next generation of Maverick Entrepreneurs entrepreneurship to children and young adults in the community we are guests of during our adventures. This will have a major impact on the local areas that may not have the resources or real-life successful examples to learn business from.

At our most recent Ultimate Baja Experience nearly half the members generously gave their time and insights to help business students from the local Tecnologio De Los Cabos get real-world, practical advice for a head start in the real world.

Here's what Maverick Member Drew Kossoff said about this...

"The session we did for these young students here in Baja to teach them about entrepreneurialism was tremendously rewarding, to be able to share all these insights and knowledge that we all have with some people who are just starting out. I want to do more of that when I go back. I'm going to take that home with me and continue it."

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Friends - this is a great example of The Double Bottom Line. Great stuff.

SMARTSTART Giving 2.7 Million Dollar Giveaway Expands!

By Alex Mandossian on November 7, 2008

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Well it started as a $2.7M Giveaway but we have since expanded our list of winners and, instead of having just 9 people in the SMARTSTART Business Success Program receiving a year’s worth of management consulting and coaching, we’ve doubled the number of winners to 18 lucky entrepreneurs!

Listen to Alex explain why he’s doing this and more!

For example, he’s willing to pay more per month than you will just so you can be in this program. That’s how much he wants you to have this opportunity to succeed in creating your business dreams.

(A seat in the SMARTSTART Business mentoring program costs $99. You pay $49 and Alex will pay the other $50 for you. How many teachers do you have that would be willing to do that just to help you succeed hmmmmm?)

Kiva - Innovative Approach to Helping Entrepreneurs

From Gina: Kiva.org is one of the coolest concepts I've ever seen. Lots of people contribute a small amount of money (each) to help entrepreneurs in third world countries. It is not a handout; it is a loan. This is very exciting for world peace. As I always say:

"Where there is Prosperity, there is Freedom. Where there is Freedom, there is Peace."

What Is Kiva? (from KIVA.org)

We Let You Loan to the Working Poor

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money.