In the rural town of Pucará in northern Peru lives Avelino, a 62-year-old coffee farmer. As our fellow in Peru Gordon Thompson puts it... Continue Reading >>
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In the rural town of Pucará in northern Peru lives Avelino, a 62-year-old coffee farmer. As our fellow in Peru Gordon Thompson puts it... Continue Reading >>
This post is the second of a 3 part series highlighting some of the innovative loans that the Kiva community has helped us test and scale.
...
Continue Reading >>Beautiful and other-worldly: the Fukang Meteorite is a wonder to behold.
Continue Reading >>
Millions of young women and girls around the world are denied the right to get an education, and denied the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Cultural norms, shortages of teachers and the costs of tuition and books all contribute to keeping 63 million girls out of primary and secondary school.
Photo courtesy of EarthSpark International.
This post is the first of a 3 part series highlighting some of the innovative loans that the Kiva community has helped us test and scale.
There are 1.3 billion people worldwide who live without access to electricity. What does that mean exactly? It means that those 1.3 billion individuals experience limited, if any, access to clean...
Continue Reading >>
Kiva's Speakers Program | Helpful tips and information for speakers
Thank you for joining us to speak at an event and spread Kiva's work and mission to a larger community. The Speakers Program is a way to connect and reach out to individuals and communities interested in microfinance, poverty alleviation and the role Kiva plays in the global community by...
"This past Friday was the local "... Continue Reading >>
The Kiva staff celebrating a decade of impact outside Kiva's headquarters in San Francisco.
In October of 2005, Kiva was founded as a nonprofit and an incredible journey began. Ten years later, Kiva has grown into a global force for good and a place where acts of mutual respect, kindness and faith occur every hour of every day.
We’ll be celebrating a decade of impact over the next year and have so much in store to share with you. But we wanted to take this moment to extend a very sincere thank you to all Kiva borrowers, lenders, Field Partners... Continue Reading >>
Health tips: Elephants have a secret weapon to staying cancer free in their genes.
This is a guest post written by Chris Buccella, a dedicated volunteer who runs KivaStore to help share Kiva with the world.
What's geocaching you ask? Geocaching is a global treasure hunt! A “cache” is a hidden container, containing a logbook and perhaps some small “treasures” for the taking. There are over 2 million caches, hidden all over the world. Visit geocaching.com for more information, and to see how many caches are hidden near you.
Any one can take or contribute items to a cache, but one of the more interesting items are trackables. Custom-...
The joys of traveling are limitless, especially when your journey is for a good cause. The people you meet, the relationships formed, the new scenery, the street art, and, of course, the local cuisine are just a few things that make adventures in unfamiliar places so exciting. This week, our Kiva fellows shared...
Continue Reading >>Meet Kristina!
She is the Kiva Coordinator at Bai Tushum, one of Kiva’s Field Partners in Kyrgyzstan. Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Kristina in her office and walk through her process for posting a loan.
Getting the info she needs
Kristina relies on about 190 Loan Officers who are spread out amongst Bai Tushum’s 7 branches and 40+ sub-branches to find the borrowers that she will post and collect the correct information about each of them.
Keeping this many people up to speed on Kiva... Continue Reading >>
Making strides: Global poverty predicted to fall below 10% for the first time.
Kiva U welcomed a very special guest to Kiva headquarters this week...author and activist Chelsea Clinton!...
Continue Reading >>
**UPDATE**
Oct. 22 -- We did it! Thank you to all the Kiva supporters who voted in the Google Impact Challenge. Because of you, Kiva was awarded the grand prize of $500,000! We are so excited to continue growing our impact locally and globally with the Kiva community.
Oct. 5 -- Exciting news! Kiva Oakland is a finalist in the Bay Area Google Impact Challenge and could win $500,000 to grow more neighborhood businesses. Please vote to support Oakland's small business owners. Voting takes just 2 clicks and requires no...
Continue Reading >>This story is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
San Francisco native Danny Paz Gabriner left his job in the tech industry 6 years ago with a dream to start his bread baking company, Sour Flour in the Mission district.
“There are 4 reasons why I chose to focus on bread,” Danny says. “Bread has been around for a really long time as... Continue Reading >>
This post is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
Azar’s training as a barbeque master started at a very young age. Growing up in East Palo Alto in the 1980s, he was a fixture at his parent’s restaurant, Goldie’s Barbeque.
Goldie, Azar’s mother and the namesake of the restaurant, taught Azar how to prepare food and run the business....
This post is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
Turtle Tower is a popular Vietnamese restaurant renowned for their Northern Vietnamese style chicken soup. Started by a Vietnamese immigrant couple, Turtle Tower has become a staple of the Tenderloin district over the last 15 years and attracts San Franciscans from all walks of life to the area.
Thao is the family’s eldest daughter and began working at Turtle Tower from an early age.
“We have been here for 15 years and... Continue Reading >>
Moving: Follow these photographers as they journey to a new place.
Double bottom line: Kickstart become a public benefit corp.
Kiva Volunteer of the Month, May 2015
"I've been a Kiva member/funder for years. I really appreciate the microfinance model both functionally as a way to get money out to people who need it and in terms of marketing and getting donors engaged."
City: Toronto, Canada
Language: Russian
Team: Russiva
Time with Kiva: 1 year, 8 months
Outstanding Contributions to Kiva: Kat has been very communicative and active on the Russian Board of the Forum providing valuable knowledge to other translators. She is very... Continue Reading >>
I carefully choose the filters for the Kiva loan I am about to make: Female, check. Underfunded areas, start-ups, green, vulnerable groups. Check, check, check, check. Groups or individuals? I’ll check both. I scroll through the hundreds of matched borrowers Kiva presents to me. I am drawn to those who seem innovative, hardworking, and have children they are trying to send to school. When three friends and I started a microfinance club in our town in 2010, we made a... Continue Reading >>
Newton news: Gravity-powered lamps for when the sun goes down.
Kiva has been called the “hottest non-profit on the planet,” by Fortune and a top 50 website by Time. Not only is Kiva an awesome place to work, it also is the world’s pioneering crowdfunding for social good platform and is devoted to strengthening individuals and their communities through lending. Here are some reasons why Kiva’s 15th Intern Class...
Kepler
Rwanda
Who are they?
Kepler is a non-profit higher education program that brings together innovations in learning and technology. ... Continue Reading >>
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Blog posts tagged with lending
In the rural town of Pucará in northern Peru lives Avelino, a 62-year-old coffee farmer. As our fellow in Peru Gordon Thompson puts it... Continue Reading >>
This post is the second of a 3 part series highlighting some of the innovative loans that the Kiva community has helped us test and scale.
...
Continue Reading >>Beautiful and other-worldly: the Fukang Meteorite is a wonder to behold.
Continue Reading >>
Millions of young women and girls around the world are denied the right to get an education, and denied the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Cultural norms, shortages of teachers and the costs of tuition and books all contribute to keeping 63 million girls out of primary and secondary school.
Photo courtesy of EarthSpark International.
This post is the first of a 3 part series highlighting some of the innovative loans that the Kiva community has helped us test and scale.
There are 1.3 billion people worldwide who live without access to electricity. What does that mean exactly? It means that those 1.3 billion individuals experience limited, if any, access to clean...
Continue Reading >>
Kiva's Speakers Program | Helpful tips and information for speakers
Thank you for joining us to speak at an event and spread Kiva's work and mission to a larger community. The Speakers Program is a way to connect and reach out to individuals and communities interested in microfinance, poverty alleviation and the role Kiva plays in the global community by...
"This past Friday was the local "... Continue Reading >>
The Kiva staff celebrating a decade of impact outside Kiva's headquarters in San Francisco.
In October of 2005, Kiva was founded as a nonprofit and an incredible journey began. Ten years later, Kiva has grown into a global force for good and a place where acts of mutual respect, kindness and faith occur every hour of every day.
We’ll be celebrating a decade of impact over the next year and have so much in store to share with you. But we wanted to take this moment to extend a very sincere thank you to all Kiva borrowers, lenders, Field Partners... Continue Reading >>
Health tips: Elephants have a secret weapon to staying cancer free in their genes.
This is a guest post written by Chris Buccella, a dedicated volunteer who runs KivaStore to help share Kiva with the world.
What's geocaching you ask? Geocaching is a global treasure hunt! A “cache” is a hidden container, containing a logbook and perhaps some small “treasures” for the taking. There are over 2 million caches, hidden all over the world. Visit geocaching.com for more information, and to see how many caches are hidden near you.
Any one can take or contribute items to a cache, but one of the more interesting items are trackables. Custom-...
The joys of traveling are limitless, especially when your journey is for a good cause. The people you meet, the relationships formed, the new scenery, the street art, and, of course, the local cuisine are just a few things that make adventures in unfamiliar places so exciting. This week, our Kiva fellows shared...
Continue Reading >>Meet Kristina!
She is the Kiva Coordinator at Bai Tushum, one of Kiva’s Field Partners in Kyrgyzstan. Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Kristina in her office and walk through her process for posting a loan.
Getting the info she needs
Kristina relies on about 190 Loan Officers who are spread out amongst Bai Tushum’s 7 branches and 40+ sub-branches to find the borrowers that she will post and collect the correct information about each of them.
Keeping this many people up to speed on Kiva... Continue Reading >>
Making strides: Global poverty predicted to fall below 10% for the first time.
Kiva U welcomed a very special guest to Kiva headquarters this week...author and activist Chelsea Clinton!...
Continue Reading >>
**UPDATE**
Oct. 22 -- We did it! Thank you to all the Kiva supporters who voted in the Google Impact Challenge. Because of you, Kiva was awarded the grand prize of $500,000! We are so excited to continue growing our impact locally and globally with the Kiva community.
Oct. 5 -- Exciting news! Kiva Oakland is a finalist in the Bay Area Google Impact Challenge and could win $500,000 to grow more neighborhood businesses. Please vote to support Oakland's small business owners. Voting takes just 2 clicks and requires no...
Continue Reading >>This story is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
San Francisco native Danny Paz Gabriner left his job in the tech industry 6 years ago with a dream to start his bread baking company, Sour Flour in the Mission district.
“There are 4 reasons why I chose to focus on bread,” Danny says. “Bread has been around for a really long time as... Continue Reading >>
This post is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
Azar’s training as a barbeque master started at a very young age. Growing up in East Palo Alto in the 1980s, he was a fixture at his parent’s restaurant, Goldie’s Barbeque.
Goldie, Azar’s mother and the namesake of the restaurant, taught Azar how to prepare food and run the business....
This post is part of a series celebrating San Francisco small businesses as part of the Kiva SF launch. Learn more>
Turtle Tower is a popular Vietnamese restaurant renowned for their Northern Vietnamese style chicken soup. Started by a Vietnamese immigrant couple, Turtle Tower has become a staple of the Tenderloin district over the last 15 years and attracts San Franciscans from all walks of life to the area.
Thao is the family’s eldest daughter and began working at Turtle Tower from an early age.
“We have been here for 15 years and... Continue Reading >>
Moving: Follow these photographers as they journey to a new place.
Double bottom line: Kickstart become a public benefit corp.
Kiva Volunteer of the Month, May 2015
"I've been a Kiva member/funder for years. I really appreciate the microfinance model both functionally as a way to get money out to people who need it and in terms of marketing and getting donors engaged."
City: Toronto, Canada
Language: Russian
Team: Russiva
Time with Kiva: 1 year, 8 months
Outstanding Contributions to Kiva: Kat has been very communicative and active on the Russian Board of the Forum providing valuable knowledge to other translators. She is very... Continue Reading >>
I carefully choose the filters for the Kiva loan I am about to make: Female, check. Underfunded areas, start-ups, green, vulnerable groups. Check, check, check, check. Groups or individuals? I’ll check both. I scroll through the hundreds of matched borrowers Kiva presents to me. I am drawn to those who seem innovative, hardworking, and have children they are trying to send to school. When three friends and I started a microfinance club in our town in 2010, we made a... Continue Reading >>
Newton news: Gravity-powered lamps for when the sun goes down.
Kiva has been called the “hottest non-profit on the planet,” by Fortune and a top 50 website by Time. Not only is Kiva an awesome place to work, it also is the world’s pioneering crowdfunding for social good platform and is devoted to strengthening individuals and their communities through lending. Here are some reasons why Kiva’s 15th Intern Class...
Kepler
Rwanda
Who are they?
Kepler is a non-profit higher education program that brings together innovations in learning and technology. ... Continue Reading >>