By: Caiden Kippnick, BA in Accounting

On April 3rd, Spartan Global Development Fund attended the Broad Gala presented by the Broad Student Senate. Many of our members were present, and we had a wonderful evening celebrating the achievements of our fellow Broad organizations.

We are so honored to have won Social Contributor of the Year, as it is a testament to our dedication to creating awareness around microfinance and improving social and financial equity around the world. SGDF received this award due to the commitment to using microfinance to promote financial equity that we have demonstrated in the past, as well our plans to continue and expand our microloans. In fact, we recently lent a substantial amount of money on the Kiva microfinance platform. Our most recent Kivapalooza on April 9th brought our total amount lent on Kiva for the academic year to $22,580. This is the largest amount of money we have ever lent in a given academic year since the organization’s founding. We are hoping to bring this total to over $30,000 by the end of the academic year in August.

The incoming e-board of the RSO looks forward to making more ambitious goals for lending and fundraising for the next year. They cannot wait to see what we will accomplish as an organization! As this academic school year comes to an end, we would like to thank our co-presidents Zoe Linko and Kyleen Hall for their hard work and dedication to our organization throughout this year. It was due to their leadership that we were able to win Social Contributor of the year and lend out as much as we were able to. Furthermore, we would like to extend our gratitude to our faculty advisor, Professor Stenzel, for continuously supporting the organization since its inception in 2009. Finally, we would like to acknowledge all of our RSO members for their contributions, as they also played a vital role in our organization's operation. We all look forward to accomplishing even more in the coming years!