Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

You can read Matt's account of the taping on his blog, The Kiva Chronicles. Winfrey spent the next few minutes talking about the power of the Internet and "the Kiva model." If you had told me a year ago that I would watch these two people discussing Kiva in front of millions on TV, I would have laughed."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. microfinance kiva internet microloan I just posted my interview with Jessica Jackley Flannery on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

Multiple people had connected me with Kushal, including my brother Tom, who worked at Amazon with Kushal. Kushal described Vittana as "Kiva for educational loans." Tags: Chakrabarti microloans Vittana Kushal Kiva. This loan was the result of a conversation I had with Kushal Chakrabarti, the founder of the Vittana Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. Gansky calls these “Mesh” businesses ([link] that leverage data and social networks to allow people to share resources conveniently (a car sitting idle, an extra room in your house). Flickr by Leo Reynolds.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 25, 2022

This encourages people who may not have visited your site previously, and drives the conversion of people back onto your main website. This is an opportunity to deliver honest that also that makes people smile because they are probably surprised, possibly frustrated not to find what they are looking for. Site : [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Quiet Time: Noisy and busy offices can be stressful due to interruptions that can keep people from getting work done. One example is “ Stop Days ” where there are no meetings and people plan for the next month. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Kiva is probably the best-known example. Kiva lets individual lenders pool their resources and provide substantial loans to entrepreneurial borrowers in the developing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

We do this by highlighting (on Twitter and on our website) a cause every week and encouraging people to follow it, tweet its message, and consider making a donation. My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. Enable People to Pre-Commit their Support: We’re all busy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Across the globe, people like you are appalled by human rights abuses and are standing up for justice and humanity. VolunteerMatch is an award-winning service that makes it easy for good people and good causes to connect – and now their iPhone app makes it even easier. Kiva :: Download. Amnesty International :: Download.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Those of you in the test group will be able to find content from the people, organizations and public figures that matter to you as soon as they share it on Facebook." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. This is a new Croatian company that has developed an affordable device that allow disabled people to control their environment with voice commands like ‘turn on the lights’ Miroslav Vrankic was trolling the conference looking for U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In every one of our projects, a technology’s effects were wholly dependent on the intention and capacity of the people handling it. "How do you get 50 authors prepared to manage 15 Facebook pages in less than 2 months with a team of 4 people? The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity. What about you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 25, 2009

Flipping through the Sunday New York Times earlier this month, I noticed a public service announcement (left) for the American Indian College Fund , with the slogan, "Think Indian: To think Indian is to save a plant that can save a people." Kiva is going to be experimenting with loans to entrepreneurs living in the United States.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

For many people on Facebook, it might be the first time they’re considering a contribution or have discovered the work of a nonprofit. People might know Livestrong or the American Red Cross, said Sarah Feinberg, director of policy communications and run our social good programs, but might be less familiar with the likes of Kiva, Girls Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Britt also mentions that The Extraordinaries was just about to launch its iPhone application to help people find 20-minute volunteer opportunities. It included one of my favorites, The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Guide to help you make, "sustainable seafood choices.". Put another way, an iPhone application to put thumbs to good use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Or, if you're a US blogger and participated in Blog Action Day you be lucky enough to get an email from Kiva B2B that they are giving away 300 hundred copies to participant bloggers. And the lucky winner is Cynthia Hanna from People Helping People.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 17, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week: 1. As part of the Omidyar Network's grant to Kiva, all donations through June 30th will be matched dollar for dollar. I feel so lucky to be able to talk with so many inspiring people! I haven't stopped listening to it since. Soooo good.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Kiva first made its mark by allowing people to make online loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, but the organization has ambitious plans to move beyond its initial mission.The (..)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There are seven free online courses available starting in mid-September by people like Paul Brest, former head of the Hewlett Foundation and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. This is an almost unbelievable offer for everyone in nonprofit-land. He is teaching The Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This session is: Ideas, people and cold hard cash: why the way we make stuff happen is broken and how to fix it, from Anna Maybank at Social Innovation Camp. Think about 5 things: what’s the problem, what technology you’ll use, design sustainability, how will people come to use it and how will you distribute it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I loved what he said about Premal Shah - that he wanted to apply for a job at Kiva after hearing him speak. We assumed that if we created a generic platform that people would start their own actions. It is so easy for people who care about an issue - it is easy to connect. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

on me-too purchases, which are the impulse buys that people make for themselves while they're shopping for gifts. could go towards giving the people you love a gift, and making the world a better place? could go towards giving the people you love a gift, and making the world a better place? This is up a moderate 3.7

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Help people feel powerful. Involve a lot of people. Make people feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance Create an addictive experience. Be passionate. Be transparent. Provide opportunities that create measurable change.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Razoo (iOS) helps you keep track of each donation, track your fundraising progress and thank people when they donate. See Your Impact (Windows Phone) is another microdonation app that lets you directly see the impact you're making on real peoples' lives. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Chelsea Bocci of Kiva.org also hit on this theme as she discussed several social media engagement campaigns Kiva has done in recent years, and how with each campaign they learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategy to better engage their community. Happy People Give More and Giving People Are Happier. every year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well. It is relatively simple to make a donation using Kiva.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Imagine… a humungous aggregator of all the positive good that millions of people have done today. Bloody hell, why can’t those news people get some perspective. For a start, thousands and thousands of people participated in Blog Action Day. There’s a lot of doom and gloom around at the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Is it better to start from scratch? Will new "online" groups drive their predecessors to extinction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

, leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). And in case you’ve missed the debate, I’ve done some of the reading for you…in the true spirit of slacktivism. Ali Cherry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Each business that VEF funds directly improves the lives of at least 15 people. Project Baobob , an organization that provides free education in business skills for Kenyan youth, and Kiva , a web-based organization that allows individuals, like you and me, to make microloans (rather than a donation) to individuals via the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

Mark is fast approaching 100 Kiva loans, so his support of the Sharing Foundation means a lot! I should say that I'm trying to encourages as many people to make their donation through Global Giving. I'm glad we're friends on Facebook and that he reads my status. He knows a good investment in the developing world. That's Adam Nicholson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Here's a few: Jonathan Coleman takes the opportunity to call attention to his organization's work and some great examples on flickr and googlemaps The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. We turn to "web 2.0"

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Crowdfunding involves a large number of people funding a program, project, or cause. Runs, relays and extreme challenges (such as climbing Mount Everest) have already motivated people to collect small sums of money from their peers for years. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. The goal is to match people with video skills (shooting, editing, music, etc.) with nonprofit organizations that could use those skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Bleeding edge technology has allowed for nonprofits to reach millions of people with nonexistent budgets.

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