Blogs about: Microlending
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Change.org & iGive.com
Today, I invested some time on KivaFriends.org and located a couple of great programs for marketing and fundraising. Change.org has 466 Kiva supporters and has raised $203 dollars in direct donati… more »
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Kiva -- Small Loans Alleviate Poverty Worldwide
Bruce wrote 1 week ago: Loans that Change Lives I just made a loan to someone in the developing world using a revolutionary … more »
Swipes at a sacred cow
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Nonprofiteer wrote 2 weeks ago: It used to be said–may still be said on the fringes of the Right–that foreign aid was a … more »
Microcredit: Lending to Entrepreneurs
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digitaleconomy wrote 2 weeks ago: U.S. banks have been quietly considering getting into the microcredit market in the effort to be mor … more »
Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs
Josh Kutticherry wrote 2 weeks ago: “The Kiva B4B Project is based on the principle that the simple actions of few can change the … more »
Is Credit a Human Right?
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digitaleconomy wrote 3 weeks ago: U.S. banks have been quietly considering getting into the microcredit market in the effort to be mor … more »
New York Times, April 5 2008 - Microfinance’s Success Sets Off a Debate with Dr Yunus disagreeing
lilashana wrote 1 month ago: Microfinance’s Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico - New York Times By ELISABETH MALKIN Published: … more »
what microloans miss, the business in the middle
Lucy wrote 1 month ago: From the New Yorker “The cult of the entrepreneur that the microfinance boom has helped foster … more »
Fynanzing Education
Josh Kutticherry wrote 3 months ago: The world of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending keeps getting better. The latest entrant: Fynanz, a site d … more »
Kiva humanizes microlending to third-world entrepreneurs
mjsmith79 wrote 3 months ago: For $25, you can get four collector’s stamps, 25 moving boxes, or a Care Bear cuddle pillow on … more »
Change.org & iGive.com
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ifly4kiva wrote 3 months ago: Today, I invested some time on KivaFriends.org and located a couple of great programs for marketing … more »
Field Partner Risk Rating
ifly4kiva wrote 3 months ago: Kiva’s Field Partners, also known as micro-finance institutions (MFI’s), all receive a … more »
Wanna Help Buy a Goat?
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Kim S. Clune wrote 3 months ago: Last week, I visited Kiva.org in search of a Kenyan business to support. If you haven’t yet he … more »
Fully Funded!
ifly4kiva wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday, I made two separate $25 loans to groups of women in Uganda. One group is starting a p … more »
Prosper Update
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Monica wrote 4 months ago: In an earlier post, Be the Bank, I was fascinated by Prosper.com. It took a while but I finally got … more »
Checkout Promotions to Raise Money for Causes: Whole Foods and the Whole Planet Foundation
Susan Hyatt wrote 4 months ago: When standing in the checkout line at Whole Foods, I periodically see a display with tear off tags ( … more »
Changing the Face of Money
Josh Kutticherry wrote 4 months ago: Virgin Money officially launched in the US recently with its acquisition of Massachusetts-based Circ … more »
Kiva growth - check the metrics
blueprintrd wrote 8 months ago: As they say, a picture is worth a lot of words - 11 million in this case. The graph shows Kiva … more »
Kiva's $10 Million Giveaway
Kim S. Clune wrote 8 months ago: Newlyweds Matt and Jessica Flannery mesh different life desires into a workable solution - for th … more »
