Sunday, December 27, 2009

MODEL: Carolyne S.
PHOTO: Erin Sturga
FASHION STYLIST: Justice Kwesi Kwarteng
HAIR & MUA: David/ At the OXFORD Salon, Denver, CO
WHEN DISCOVERED/SCOUTED: September 2009
PERSONAL TALENT/MODEL COACH: Justice K.
PHOTO PRODUCER: The JTA Model Mngmt
AGENCY: JTA MODEL Management

DIVISIONS:
* high-fashion editorial
* advertorial campaigns
* swimsuit + lingerie
* glamour/beauty
* spoke-models
catalogue













CAROLYNE S.: a JTA Management Board PROFILED:
Carolyne came to the JTA from Chicago in September 2009 and
has since been in intensive pre-professional grooming and development/
Carolyne is one of the smartest
new face models we've scouted recently/

we, at the JTA, are very excited about Carolyne/
our hopes are very high for her career as a professional Model/
a very hard-worker and genuinely passionate about Modeling,
our vision is to groom her to become the strongest and most
successful Model she permits herself to become.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

The MODELS OF JTA | 2009 Series

MODELS PROFILED:
Who: LizLowe R.
What: A Professional Modeling Portfolio Shoot
When: December 5th, 2009, Saturday
Where: Denver, CO USA | Hotel de Teatro, Museum of Contemporary Art
Photography: Erin Sturga [for the justice talent agency , jta]
Fashion Stylist: Justice Kwesi Kwarteng [for the jta]
Hair & MU: Guillaume
Agency: JTA Model Management | Justice Talent Agency




Slow Economy Survival Strategies : Small Business Resources : ACCION USA

Slow Economy Survival Strategies : Small Business Resources : ACCION USA

Basil in the Grove : ACCION USA Small Business Loan Client : Miami

Basil in the Grove : ACCION USA Small Business Loan Client : Miami

a KIVA Micro Loan Story | kiva.org

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.

MICROLOANS + LENDING Resources | source: kiva.org / inc.com

How Kiva Works


1) It all starts with our Field Partners, which are microfinance institutions operating around the world. Our Field Partners approve and disburse a microloan to an entrepreneur in their community. They take a picture of the entrepreneur and write down the entrepreneur’s story.


2) The Field Partner uploads the entrepreneur’s profile to Kiva’s website. The profile, if it’s not in English, is translated by one of our hundreds of volunteer translators. After translation, the profile appears live on Kiva.org


3) Lenders like you browse the entrepreneurs’ profiles and choose someone to lend to, using PayPal or their credit cards.


4) Kiva provides the funds to our Field Partners by aggregating the loan funds from all contributing lenders. Most Field Partners then use the Kiva lender funds to backfill the loan they’ve already disbursed to the entrepreneur. Disbursals can happen up to 30 days before, or 30 days after a loan request is uploaded to the Kiva website.


5) Over time, the entrepreneur repays her loan. The Field Partner collects those repayments and lets Kiva know if a repayment was not made as scheduled. We give Field Partners the option to cover both currency losses and entrepreneur defaults.

To speed things up and to minimize the number and expense of wire transfers, Kiva works on a net billing system. This means that, for any given month, we subtract the amount of repayments that a Field Partner owes to Kiva lenders from the amount that a Field Partner fundraises for entrepreneurs on Kiva.

If the balance is positive, that means that the Field Partner has raised more than they need to repay, and we use those funds to credit your lender account with the repayments due to you. Tell me more

If the balance is negative, then the Field Partner has 30 days to send us a payment for the balance. As soon as we receive that payment, we use those funds to credit your lender account with the repayments due to you.

Repayment and other updates are posted on Kiva and emailed to lenders who wish to receive them.


6) When lenders get their money back, they can re-lend to

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Eco-Chic Fashion an UP-CYCLING Way | Source: ODEMAGAZINE.COM

http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/64/six-eco-fashion-trends-reshaping-the-industry/