Posted on 09/01/2004 1:14:32 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
When Keith Taylor was barely making ends meet as a financially struggling college student, he could always count on the generosity of his friends and family to help him get through the tough times.
The memory of those lean days — and the small loans that helped him get by — stayed with him for more than a decade, eventually inspiring him in March 2002 to found Modest Needs, an innovative philanthropic organization that uses small donations to help people facing short-term financial problems.
Now a professor of medieval British literature at Middle Tennessee State University (search), Taylor said it occurred to him that there were likely many people out there who, as he had been, were just getting along but who, unlike him, may not have friends, family or neighbors to turn to in a crunch.
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