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I just made an educational microloan!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Multiple people had connected me with Kushal, including my brother Tom, who worked at Amazon with Kushal.

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Congrats to “Lethal Sheethal” Shobowale: Winner of The Blue Sweater Book Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She was recently accepted to be a Kiva Fellow and starting this October, and will be volunteering in Latin America for 6 months with two of Kiva's partner. Tags: Books. The Acumen Fund's projects are inspiring and a great model for social entrepreneurs around the world.

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Peer-to-Peer Funding Portals

Tech Soup

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. Tags: Donors Grants for Technology Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Grantseeking Running Your Organization.

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The Blue Sweater 500

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Tags: Promotions. After reading it, I did a book giveaway on my blog asking readers to suggest ways they might apply the ideas in the book.

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Great reads from around the web on June 19th

Amy Sample Ward

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Find me on Delicious for more! Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!) " Anyone in the test group want to share your review?

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Kiva :: Download. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Mobile Websites Smartphone Apps Text Alerts iPhone Apps Smartphones Apps. App Name: KivaAlerts. Updated: May 6, 2009. KivaAlerts is a super quick App that allows you to check the latest loan requests on Kiva.org. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Great reads from around the web on November 11th

Amy Sample Ward

From Charity: Water and Alex’s Lemonade to Kiva and Tom’s Shoes, the authors tell the stories of how these organizations are using social technologies to engage and inspire people to participate in movements for change."

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