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
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 making economic strides
Kiva helps entreprenuers in developing countries. Through Kiva, an individual can loan money to these entreprenuers and help poor individuals through their work make economic strides. An individual can also email the person they loaned money to and receive updates on their progress that they are making. An individual can also pick the business they [...]
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10
2008
The Kiva.org Founders
From what I've been able to gather, Jessica Flannery (a co-founder of Kiva) experienced the power of "micro-loans" to help impoverished people create their own business startups and in a way take their lives into their own hands when she was doing various philanthropic projects. Inspired, she parterned with her husband Matt Flannery (a [...]
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