19. Oktober 2016PLEASANTON, Calif.—October 19, 2016—Retrospect®, Inc., makers of Retrospect Backup & Recovery Software announced today the successful launch of an initiative to offer financial support to small businesses in need through Kiva.org.
Retrospect launched their initiative at two ASCii Group SMB Success Summits in Toronto, Canada and Columbus, Ohio. Rather than offering promotional items to event attendees, Retrospect made a $5 donation toward micro loans for each attendee who stopped at their tradeshow booth during the Success Summit events.
Through Kiva.org, that money was lent in sums of $25 to small business owners around the world to fulfill varying needs. Once loans are repaid, the money will be re-lent to other businesses.
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, anyone can help a borrower start or grow a business, go to school, access clean energy or realize their potential.
“Every year we spend thousands of dollars on promotional items to give out at trade shows—pens, snack foods, etc.—things that are engaging, but don’t necessarily help anyone. I decided that this money could be put to be better use if we loaned it out through Kiva.org, and as a small business ourselves, we like that we can help to support other small businesses around the world,” said Kristin Goedert, Director of Worldwide Marketing.
“This is a great way for us to make a huge impact not only in someone’s life, but in their community as well, since most of these businesses support a community. Plus I really like that a person attending a trade show in Columbus Ohio can help fulfill a $275 loan to a woman in India so that she can buy a buffalo just by stopping by a trade show booth to say ‘hi!’”
To date Retrospect has helped to fund 13 loans, including,
All of Retrospect’s loans can be viewed on their Kiva donor page at www.kiva.org/lender/retrospectinc.
Retrospect Backup- und Wiederherstellungssoftware bietet kleinen und mittelgroßen Unternehmen die Zuverlässigkeit, Einfachheit der Nutzung, Power und Flexibilität, die benötigt werden, um kritische Daten auf Netzwerken mit unterschiedlichen Plattformen zu schützen. Retrospect bietet lokale und Offsite-Backups, präzise, zeitpunktgenaue Wiederherstellungen, Deduplizierung auf Datei-Ebene, iOS-Fernverwaltung von mehreren Backup-Servern, vom Endnutzer initiierte Wiederherstellungen und einen in der Branche führenden Kundensupport. Mit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten praxiserprobter Expertise und Millionen von Nutzern weltweit erfüllt Retrospect die Bedürfnisse von Organisationen, die den höchsten Level an Wiederherstellbarkeit benötigen.
Retrospect entwickelt plattformübergreifende Backup- und Wiederherstellungssoftware, die dazu designt wurde, den Bedürfnissen von Fachleuten und kleinen bis mittelgroßen Unternehmen gerecht zu werden, welche präzise, verlässliche Wiederherstellungen sowie den bestmöglichen Kundensupport benötigen. Für zusätzliche Informationen besuchen Sie bitte retrospect.com.
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Kristin Goedert, Direktor Weltweites Marketing und Kommunikation
Director, Worldwide Marketing
sales@retrospect.com
