"Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious" Team are the problem because they are questioning the new program and asking hard questions, and because they find the partnership seriously offensive. I started this blog because many members of those lending teams fear that Kiva will shut down the teams' message boards in retaliation for our challenging the Kiva-Opus Dei partnership at Strathmore. Here is the content of the survey that was sent to some of the GLBT team:
1. Have you been a part of the recent conversation about Strathmore University on the GLBT team message board?
2. How would you characterize the tenor of the dialogue on the GLBT team message board? (select all that apply)
3. How do you feel about Kiva's response to lender concerns surrounding the partnership with Strathmore University?
(select all that apply)
(select all that apply)
4. Has the conversation on the GLBT team message board impacted your overall experience on Kiva? (select all that apply)
5. Let us know if you have any additional thoughts.
I have been following the message board about Strathmore since the beginning, including Kiva's awkward responses to the Atheists etc. team.
ReplyDeleteI am not adversarial toward the Catholic church or faith, and had a wonderful Marianist undergraduate education in Ohio. I don't believe that college tuition is microlending.
But this survey ticks me right off. Partially because there are clear ways to say "the conversation on the message boards makes me cranky and I am going to leave Kiva" or "the conversation on the message boards makes me cranky and I am going to leave the group but not Kiva" but NOT a clear way to say "very happy that I am not just a single lender who would be unaware of what is happening and part of a like minded group who is keeping me informed about this ridiculousness."
The "additional comments" are not enough. It's clear the answers they expect to receive by the way the survey is written.