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Kiva on FRONTLINE World & the Big Vision Podcast

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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. Here's a link to a brief preview of the October 31st show on Google video. microfinance kiva internet microloan

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Free Videos for Nonprofits

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Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. As part of the All For Good effort, YouTube has launched a new project called YouTube Video Volunteers. with nonprofit organizations that could use those skills.

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Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Video streaming by Ustream. 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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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Watch captivating video stories produced by HSUS award-winning videographers on their HumaneTV App. With built-in sharing functions, a web view for more details on each story, and a simple, no-nonsense interface, HumaneTV offers animal lovers the most useful and informative video experience in the App Store. Kiva :: Download.

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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. 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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A Kiva.org for Native American Entrepreneurs?

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As far as I know, nothing like it exists, although it could, now that Kiva has opened its API so that developers can build their own tools to fund entrepreneurs. Kiva is going to be experimenting with loans to entrepreneurs living in the United States. Plus, according to a March 23rd article on CNNMoney.com, Micro-loans for Americans?

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. 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. The website is not even up yet for this social enterprise business.