3
2008
Kiva and Social Responsibility
I don’t know anything about Kiva. Or, at least, I didn’t. I still don’t know that much, but from what I have learned, I believe Kiva.org is making a huge difference in the lives of people all over the world.
One of the largest questions I had when I first started researching was, “How does Kiva [...]
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12
2008
Ebay & Kiva
Ebay
What principles did we learn from eBay?
User driven content
They’ve made it really easy to buy and sell
PayPal
What makes eBay successful
A global audience
Empowers the average person to buy and sell
They’ve created an [...]
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12
2008
the Kiva Community
Not only does Kiva offer information about the lender, exchange of money and field partners, but the organization also allows you to see the profiles of the other lenders. Thus building on the idea of community that we’ve already discussed. In addition, they have a website - kivafriends - which allows lenders to communicate with one [...]
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11
2008
Microloan Mayhem: Kiva Vs. MicroPlace
In the world of Microloans two notable players have arrived Kiva and Microplace. At first glance no reasonable distinction can be made between them, but after a little digging some differences in both “how” and “why” they function emerge. In terms of a business model, the Flannerys founded Kiva as a non-profit internet microfinance investing site [...]
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11
2008
Kiva has now lent $11 million in Microloans
In the two years since it’s founding, as of this September, Kiva has distributed $11 million dollars in the form of 17,000 microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
It took Kiva.org just over a year to lend out their first million but they’d lent their second only a month later. The average size of a Kiva [...]
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11
2008
The future of Kiva
Since Kiva is a non-profit organization, their focus is obviously self-sustainability. Kiva sends 100% of the loan to the Field Partner, so how are they able to sufficiently support themselves? According to Kiva’s website, they support themselves principally on “optional fees” their lenders voluntarily pay in addition to loans they make. However, as the company [...]
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11
2008
From Statist to Neo-Classical Regimes, Kiva rides the wave.
The past century has exhibited a dramatic shift in the political and economic ideologies which predominate the global marketplace. World War I and the years following exhibited a very statist approach to management of the marketplace and world economies. It was believed that governments could more effectively manage markets than those in the marketplace. Although [...]
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11
2008
reminds me of prosper.com
The Kiva concept reminds quite a bit of the website prosper.com, which also allows individuals to act as lenders over the internet. However, it seems (based on my wikipedia search) that with kiva, you have a much better chance of getting paid back. Reportedly, kiva has a loan default rate of a few [...]
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11
2008
Kiva
I particularly liked the fact that Kiva passes 100% of all funds on to those in need. The interest gained while that money sits in Kiva’s accounts is kept, however there seems to be a very low overhead cost associated with this. I like this idea better than just giving money straight out. [...]
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11
2008
KIVA
I think want Kiva is doing in 3rd world countries is a good thing. It is stimulating the world’s economy and giving people chances who normally wouldnt have them. I saw on wikipedia that the 99.7% of the people who take out loans with KIVA are repaying them. Which shows that they are [...]
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This is the collaborative class blog of Entr-409 at Grove City College.