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Kiva Touches One Million Lives Worldwide With Crowdfunded Loans
Kiva Touches One Million Lives Worldwide With Crowdfunded Loans (via MarketWire) SOURCE: Kiva.org March 18, 2013 05:00 ET Milestone Shows Potential for Crowdfunding to Expand Opportunity, Change Lives SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 18, 2013) – Kiva, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform for social good, announced today that it has reached over 1 million people [...]
President Bill Clinton Helps Launch Kiva City Little Rock to Bolster Small Business Growth
President Bill Clinton Helps Launch Kiva City Little Rock to Bolster Small Business Growth (via MarketWire) SOURCE: Kiva.org March 15, 2013 05:00 ET Kiva, Visa Inc. and Accion Texas Inc. Team Up to Provide Access to Small Dollar Loans Through Proven Crowdfunding Platform LITTLE ROCK, AR–(Marketwire – Mar 15, 2013) – President Bill Clinton today [...]
Kiva City D.C. Launches to Bolster Small Business Growth in Greater Washington, D.C. Area
Kiva City D.C. Launches to Bolster Small Business Growth in Greater Washington, D.C. Area (via PR Newswire) Partnership between Capital One Bank, Kiva and Latino Economic Development Center Provides Small Businesses Access to Capital through Proven Capital One will Match Loans Posted on Kiva by LEDC Crowd-funding Microloan Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – A [...]
Metro Design Consultants Using Kiva To Empower Entrepreneurs
Metro Design Consultants is launching a team lending fund with Kiva to provide support to entrepreneurs worldwide. Here is the press release: London (PRWEB UK) 17 July 2012 – Daniel Taylor, Managing Director of Metro Design Consultants, a leading London design and build firm, will be launching a team lending fund with Kiva the world’s [...]
Kiva City LA Launches
Kiva City LA has been launched to provide a way for anyone to support the small business owners, local economies, and local jobs in Los Angeles. Here is the press release: LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – June 26, 2012) – Kiva City Los Angeles (LA), an initiative that enables anyone with access to the internet a [...]
Kiva And Kashf Foundation Announce Partnership
Kashf Foundation announces that it will partner with global website Kiva to provide loans to female entrepreneurs. Here is the press release: LAHORE (The Express Tribune News) July 25, 2012 – Microfinance Institution Kashf Foundation announced its partnership with global non-profit organisation Kiva, a platform dedicated to connecting global audiences through online lending. The association [...]
Kiva Arab Youth Lending to Young Entrepreneurs Reaches More Than US$1 Million
A new initiative of Silatech and Kiva, called Kiva Arab Youth, has funded US$1 million in loans to nearly 750 young entrepreneurs across the Arab world. Here is the press release: (MENAFN Press) 07/09/2012 – In just 3 months, Kiva Arab Youth has mobilized over US$1 million in loans to more than 750 young entrepreneurs [...]
Peer To Peer Websites, Like Kiva And Prosper, Provide Access When Loans Hard To Obtain
People with excellent credit scores are finding it hard to obtain loans from banks, so peer to peer lending companies have decided to fill the void. Here is the press release: July 04, 2012 (Daily Finance) – Interest rates are at their lowest levels since 1971, but even people with excellent credit scores are finding [...]
Kiva Launches Experimental Direct Microfinance Website
Kiva has launched an experimental website, called Kiva Zip, which will directly facilitate peer-to-peer microfinance loans between lenders and entrepreneurs. Kiva’s original model relies on the use of microfinance institutions, often referred to as MFIs, which serve as intermediaries. MFIs typically serve as a contact person on the ground for a borrower, facilitating the loan [...]
Kiva Celebrates 6 Year Anniversary, Facilitates $250 Million in Microloans
Kiva, a non-profit that facilitates microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, is celebrating its sixth year of operations this month. The company has now setup more than $250 million in business development loans. Here’s a press release Kiva issued to commemorate its anniversary: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Oct 19, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — From a [...]
Kiva.org and Visa Partner on U.S. Small Business Loans
Visa inc. (NYSE:V) and Kiva.org have partnered in a program, referred to as Kiva City, aiming at expanding credit opportunities for small businesses in the United States. The new initiative was announced by former President Bill Clinton last week on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago. The Kiva City initiative aims [...]
Kiva Now Offering Green Energy Loans to Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries
Kiva, a non-profit organization that sets up peer-to-peer microfinance loans, is now offering “green loans” to help borrowers adopt cleaner and safer forms of energy, implement green agriculture techniques and adopt environmentally friendly forms of transportation and recycling. Borrowers are seeking green loans on Kiva for very diverse reasons. International farmers are seeking loans to [...]
Kiva Reaches $200 Million in Microfinance Loans
Kiva.org, a non-profit which facilitates microfinance loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, announced that it had setup more than $200 million in loans to entrepreneurs across the globe. The milestone comes just twelve months after the non-profit hit the $100 million mark in facilitated loans. The microfinance non-profit has seen significant growth since its launch [...]
The Best of P2P Lending Community Content
What is it about social lending that inspires people to write music and create videos promoting their favorite services? Okay, sometimes it’s just cold, hard cash, as in Lending Club’s $3,000 or Zopa UK’s £500 prizes for the top video posted on YouTube, or it’s a trip around the world, as with Zopa Italy’s launch-focused [...]
Kiva Launches Lending to U.S. Borrowers
Microlending darling Kiva has announced today that they will start allowing lenders to fund loans to Americans. Although Kiva has facilitated over $75 million in loans to entrepreneurs (Kiva calls them “the working poor”) in developing nations since 2005, this is the first time that American residents have been able to take advantage of the [...]
P2P lending is heating up! These early companies exploring the platform will be very successful. I'm Impressed 
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