{"id":4619,"date":"2016-06-24T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/24\/nasha-lendings-microloans-curate-local-entrepreneurship\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:52:17","slug":"nasha-lendings-microloans-curate-local-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nasha-lendings-microloans-curate-local-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasha Lending\u2019s Microloans Curate Local Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the mother of invention. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, loans to small businesses plummeted, leaving would-be entrepreneurs few options for startup funds. Enter Nasha Lending, a nonprofit that collects funds from investors and issues those funds as microloans to under-resourced entrepreneurs. The company, whose name is derived from the Hebrew word <em>nasha<\/em>, &#8220;to lend,&#8221; is directed by Taylor Beard, a 2011 political science and Spanish graduate of Furman University. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/news\/nasha-lendings-microloans-curate-local-entrepreneurship\/\"><em>Upstate Business Journal<\/em><\/a> piece by Andrew Moore, Beard says, &#8220;All of our programs build a solid foundation for aspiring entrepreneurs. We want to be the place that launches people into entrepreneurship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the mother of invention. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, loans to small businesses plummeted, leaving would-be entrepreneurs few options for startup funds. Enter Nasha Lending, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}