Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 15, 2007

When I loaned her $50 yesterday (my first Kiva loan), only one other person had given her a loan, Sergio from Switzerland. Her loan is now fully funded. Kiva was started by a husband and wife team, Matt and Jessica Jackley Flannery. Two years later, Kiva has taken off. They launched the site in 2005.

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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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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. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

A few months back, Lucy Bernholz introduced me to her book and James Wu from the Acumen Fund who kindly sent me a copy of The Blue Sweater and this profile in the Economist. The Acumen Fund's projects are inspiring and a great model for social entrepreneurs around the world. She wrote up a summary of notes on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

My first introduction to her book was from Lucy Bernholz and shortly after that James Wu from the Acumen Fund gave me a copy of and this profile in the Economist. The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects. And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

Read about that in “ How nonprofits are cashing in on the crytocurrency trend ” 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

For example, World Wildlife Fund wants its employees to feel inspired to save the planet’s natural resources, so, every other week, it gives the staff a day off. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations. It was great to see him.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 25, 2009

As our nation grapples with its problems, American Indians are uniquely situated to lead with finding solutions." --Rick Williams, President & CEO of the American Indian College Fund on his blog, In a Good Way. Kiva is going to be experimenting with loans to entrepreneurs living in the United States. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

And then find people to support and fund; particularly important when funding entirely new things. We do this through scouting and in the weekends as they are high pressure and fund and collaborative so you can really, really see how people work. We also have to find new sustainable ways to fund projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. told me early on that one of the reasons Kiva works is that you see the exact goat herder you’re helping with your loan (not to mention read his story and look at his pictures). From our TwitCause experience, we’ve seen.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Foundations can streamline funding development and partnerships by creating a grant submission and approval process with Box. Embed your quarterly or annual reports stored in Box on an external website or intranet page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

Oxfam America Unwrapped and fund virtual gifts like a pair of school uniforms for $20 , or planting 50 trees for $30. * . * Sierra Club to support wilderness areas like the Giant Sequoia National Monument , Grand Canyon National Park , Everglades National Park and the Arctic National Refuge.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The social side of giving : ow various organisations, from Justgiving to Virgin Money Giving, have made it easier to organise online donations, while new charities like Help4Heroes and Kiva have shown how it's possible to use the web to promote a cause and get funds flowing rapidly and efficiently. BBC News - Charity 2.0:

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

From the Red Cross, which used text messages to raise $5 million in relief funds for Haiti, to organizations like micro-lender Kiva, which wouldn’t even exist without the concept of social networking, altruistic organizations and individuals are finding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Acumen Fund. Jacqueline Novogratz (Acumen Fund founder). and referring to a post last Friday by Sean at Tactical Philanthropy breaking the news that Twitter had added charities to its list of suggested users. Sean listed the new users: The new “suggested users” are: Social Edge. Skoll Foundation. Matt Flannery. charity: water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

According to Mashable , LinkedIn (Myspace for grown-ups) will: announce tomorrow its new LinkedIn for Good , which is a philanthropic initiative for raising awareness and raising funds for nonprofits around the world. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for Doctors Without Borders. hat tip, Dave B.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 29, 2011

I guess Kiva has attained sufficient mindshare to become a phishing tool. Sender: Kiva Micro Financial Loan Company <kiva@yahoo.com> Subject: APPLY FOR YOUR LOAN AS LOW AS 0.2%. of beating your self up, contact Kiva Micro Financial Loan Company now, Loan. Do you seek funds to. We give out loans within the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Let's discuss: join us! Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone. Mobile Fundraising Tools. These mobile tools help you fundraise on-the-go.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

What I didn't realize about Dining for Women, is that they research and choose the organization that will be receiving the funds from that month's gatherings so that all of the Dining for Women groups meeting across the country are donating to the same thing. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Crowdfunding involves a large number of people funding a program, project, or cause. Donors have multiple options in crowdfunding platforms: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Kiva, Crowdrise, GiveEffect — and this list is growing fast. Crowdfunding and Generational Giving.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Facebook's Gift Shop Sings A New Tune - washingtonpost.com: "While you can currently purchase gifts from non-profits, like Kiva, Project Red, TOMS Shoes, Charity Water and the World Wildlife Fund, Facebook is now also including gifts via the Causes application.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 2, 2008

Readers suggested giving to local organizations, food banks, homeless shelters, Heifer International , Building with Books , Global Fund for Women , Planned Parenthood , DonorsChoose , Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking , Modest Needs , Women for Women International , Camfed, and many more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Let's discuss: join us! Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

In the early 1990s the advent of national donor advised funds showed that a huge market existed for unbundled products—donors would eagerly purchase the financial product by itself. And it might be inciting new forms from familiar ones—new roles for community foundations or new services from donor advised fund vendors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well. It is relatively simple to make a donation using Kiva. If you scroll to the bottom of this page on Kiva , you will see the nine people (including me) who made a loan to Beatrices Amoka. Make it creative (ignite their imagination).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Kiva connects individuals with unique small businesses in the developing world, and helps to orchestrate a one-on-one micro-loan. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

How do you transition the ways you fund your mission without cracking the foundation? Kiva breaks it. Some changes happen quickly and others seem to take an eternity. But how do you live between the tides? How do you balance the old way of doing things with the new way of doing things? One day at a time. One tide change at a time.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Let's discuss: join us! Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. By Skylar Woodward.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2006

In 2004, right after the Tsunami hit, she asked a few food blogging friends to help her raise funds to support the Tsunami survivors in Southeast Asia, the region where Pim is from. This year she is hoping to raise $25,000 for the UN World Food Programme. For the past three years, Pim has held a Menu for Hope campaign on her blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Thanks to wonderful organizations like Kiva , and the ONE Campaign , people are becoming more aware of the huge difference a small loan, or donation to an international organization can make to purchase a net to prevent malaria, or help a family start a business. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The five top nominees are Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, and OneLaptop Per Child. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? There is a category for Changing the World. Go vote here. Do you think these are worthwhile pursuits for nonprofits?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the kind of person who makes you feel at home right away, like she is truly happy to meet you, which is why I wasn't surprised when she said, "Kiva started out of relationships and love, ideally I would love for that to be present in every single transaction that happens. What is Kiva? How did Kiva start?

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