Welcoming a rescue dog into your life actually has a lot in common with crowdfunding a better world. In both scenarios, it’s best to contemplate before committing to such an investment. Of course, it’s easy to get over excited because of all available furry friends and exciting projects. Make sure to ask yourself these six questions before picking one.
The following story is written by Ella van Kranenburg: As one of the supervisory board members of Lendahand, I wanted to witness where crowd invested money ends up. That’s why I joined Lendahand’s Peter Heijen and Thomas Plaatsman together with a few investors on a short, intense and educational field trip to Zambia. Rest assured, both the investors and I bought our own tickets.
Enjoying a cold beer, relaxing with Netflix or simply turning on a lamp. What is normal to us, is a dream to many folks. More than a billion people across the world don’t have reliable access to energy. And of those 600 million people live in Africa. upOwa, partner of Lendahand, makes a big difference in Cameroon with their solar home systems. I visited upOwa and found out the impact of your investment.
Recently, a group of our investors paid their own way to travel to Zambia and visit a few of our projects, guided by Lendahand Founder Peter Heijen and Investment Manager Thomas Plaatsman. We wanted to bring you a few of their stories so you can share in their experience. The following is a guest post written by Heini Withagen.
It’s almost December, so it's getting close to time for New Year’s resolutions. These resolutions are challenging goals that can help you become a better version of yourself, such as quitting smoking, running a marathon, being nicer to the people around you, or maybe even standing up for yourself more.
Read this blog post to find out how inflation negatively impacts your financial returns and what you can do about it.
Last Thursday, In the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Lendahand was once again honored to take home the IEX Gouden Stier Award for Best Crowdfunding Platform of the Netherlands.
What is impact investing, and why should you care? In this post, we dive into impact investing and explain the ins and outs you need to know.
In this day and age of "Fintech" startups, the terminology can be a bit much to keep up with. In this post, I'll explain what we mean when we use the term "crowdfunding project" at Lendahand.
More than a year ago we put our shortcomings on the website and in a previous blog post we set out what we did to tackle them. As we have addressed most of our original shortcomings, others have emerged. They stand in the way of becoming a better company and you can bet that we are going to work on them.
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