Topic: Paying for College

Kiva Lets You Fund a Student's Education, $25 at a Time

The pioneer in micro-loans expands beyond business and applies its crowd-funded model to education.READ MORE›

How to Prevent and Treat Student Loan Debt

Thinking about going back to school for a new career? It's a tempting option during tough economic times. But if your career path doesn’t work out as planned, your resulting debts may end up limiting your options instead of widening ...READ MORE›

MyRichUncle is Out of Cash

MyRichUncle was an intriguing startup student loan company with an innovative, white-knight approach when I wrote about them in the 2006 Fast Company 50. When I talked to them, the two 20-something founders seemed cocky, but sincere. ...READ MORE›

Financial Aid for Moms Going Back to School

Single moms must not drop their dreams of a career or returning to school. But one thing that makes moms drop this issue is the bureaucracy and the tons of papers that need to be filled in. That paper is required in order to get a student loan. But this should not be like that. Things should go much smoother.READ MORE›

George Bell - Fast 50 2003

MAKE A FAST-GROWING IDEA GROW FASTERREAD MORE›

Financial Aid

Mark Kantrowitz knows all the tricks when it comes to increasing your family's share of federal student aid.READ MORE›

Habitat for Humanity Announces New MicroBuild Microfinance Fund

Microfinance just got sexier.READ MORE›

For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap

The Student-Loan-Default GapREAD MORE›

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NetWork 7

The resolve you need to clean up your life.READ MORE›

Education: When Business and Education Collide -- The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Recent grads entering the workforce have gotten accustomed to hearing bad news about their prospects with increasing frequency. The rising costs of higher education means graduates pay for college much longer than four years. Young ...READ MORE›

Sunday, April 19, 2009 Cocaine, Pot, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide...All together now

f it is going to be legal in Orgeon the Hemlock Society (I’ve read their foundation’s material), can legally offer drugs assisting persons’ in taking their own lives, and, the drug recipes thereof implicit for cooking up ones’ own suicide, why ought cocaine and pot be illegal in Oregon then (?) I want to know lawmakers (please); this comment doubly applies to all you left leaning liberals considering the idea of instituting the idea into law in other states in America. READ MORE›

Think of Change as the Constant - Not the Variable...

 Now Online...www.financialconservation.comThere has been for some time a disconnect between the financial markets and the real economy which they are suppose to reflect.An infinite amount of resource and focus is given, from the ...READ MORE›