Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 10, 2013

I liked the idea of giving a Kiva loan as a wedding gift because once the loan is repaid, it can be re-loaned to another entrepreneur, and another and another, so it''s a wedding gift that will keep on giving. As a Kiva lender, I can invite new lenders to make a free $25 loan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The Field Museum. GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Greenpeace Brasil. Habitat for Humanity Ireland. KQED Science. Monterey Bay Aquarium. New England Aquarium. National Public Radio. Rotary International. Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

With the assistance of dedicated volunteers, Kiva also maintains a presence on different social networking sites and has recently established a presence on Second Life through the Techsoup Nonprofits Commons Project. Kiva is not a charity. I sat down with to learn more about their efforts on Kiva's behalf in the virtual world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2014

The History of Crowdfunding in the Nonprofit Sector: 2000: @DonorsChoose 2002: @GlobalGiving 2005: @Kiva || #CMF2014 pic.twitter.com/MltUrTCoG6. — @NonprofitOrgs (@nonprofitorgs) May 28, 2014. . — @NonprofitOrgs (@nonprofitorgs) May 29, 2014. 22 Retweets, 13 Favorites. 17 Retweets, 15 Favorites.

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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. Kiva was started by a husband and wife team, Matt and Jessica Jackley Flannery. Two years later, Kiva has taken off. Ryan Gunderson of Riches for Good also made his first Kiva loans last week.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 3, 2009

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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 10, 2009

This is the fourth loan I've made to an entrepreneur using Kiva, but the first one to an entrepreneur in the United States. Kiva facilitates regular people, like you and me, making micro-loans to entrepreneurs who aren't able to get a loan from the bank. In the past, Kiva only worked with entrepreneurs outside of the U.S.,

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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." Yay, Matt and Jessica!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Water.org. Survival International. Nature Conservancy. Museum of Modern Art. Jane Goodall Institute. Human Rights Campaign. Goodwill Industries. Communities in Schools. Animals Asia. American Heart Association. Related Links: Free Webinar on June 6: 10 Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make in Social Media.

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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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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Welcome Kiva International, DonorsChoose, University of California San Francisco’s Brain and Spinal Injury Center, Anacostia Riverkeeper, and Medical Faculty Mannheim - Heidelberg University to the DataRobot family! We are excited to announce the first round of program participants in AI for Good: Powered by DataRobot.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Kiva applies the power of AI to make financial support accessible. Through their crowdfunding platform, the nonprofit Kiva makes it possible for more people to access loans to start a small business, invest in their farm, or pay for school. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Kiva :: Download. 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. Loan requests on Kiva.org get fulfilled very quickly and we update open loan requests every few minutes so that you can find the loans of your interest quickly as they appear.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Community Building – Kiva Award: $10,000 Kiva is an international nonprofit that expands financial access to help underserved communities thrive. By connecting people through crowdfunded loans, Kiva supports business owners, farmers, students, and social enterprises with the funding they need to thrive.

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DataRobot

MARCH 2, 2021

During our first enrollment period, we received dozens of applications from ten countries and selected five participants: Kiva, DonorsChoose, Anacostia Riverkeeper, UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center, and Mannheim University Hospital. Other participants, like Kiva, have a team of engineers. The First Round.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2009

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. The Acumen Fund's projects are inspiring and a great model for social entrepreneurs around the world.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Changing the Conversation About Overhead , by Rick Cohen, National Council of Nonprofits Bitcoin: A Fundraising Digital Disruptor , by Jason Shim, Pathways to Education We also go behind the scenes with Kiva , GlobalGiving, Urban Ministries of Durham , and FundsforNGOs , and the Surfrider Foundation reveals the key ingredient that''s needed to complement (..)

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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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

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. The Value of Specificity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is also a board member of Lemonade and Kiva. Building two-sided networks businesses, like Deputy, Affirm and Kiva, is really hard, but once that business model is built, and both sides of the network reinforce each other, these are lasting businesses,” Martincevic said. “I million shift workers.

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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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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2012

TripAdvisor Combines Philanthropy And Marketing By Letting Reviewers Give A Free $25 Kiva Microloan | TechCrunch : TripAdvisor is demonstrating what Shah calls a “a very big trend”. In March 2012, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman put up $1 million to let other people try Kiva.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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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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. Find me on Delicious for more! Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

One sector is “Money” which includes crowdfunding, micro lending, and crypto currencies. We’ve witnessed how crowdfunding and micro lending has been a huge trend in the nonprofit sector – think Kiva for micro-lending, GivingTuesday, Give Local America, and the many nonprofit crowd funding platforms. But could cypto currencies, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That is, versions of their Web site content on a iPhone. A couple of examples: California HealthCare Foundation. American Cancer Society More Birthdays App. New York Philharmonic. What iPhone apps have you come across from nonprofits or charities or help raise money?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s not quite the all-in acquisitions of companies like Kiva Systems that have formed the foundation of Amazon Robotics, but it’s clear now that Walmart has determined commitments to robotic fulfillment centers to be a necessary step toward its future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Few people are as well suited to overseeing Nuro’s high-stakes robot rollout as Jones Satrom, who started her career as a nuclear engineer on an aircraft carrier and previously managed the integration of Kiva Systems’ robots into Amazon’s warehouses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

And while Pete Cashmore announced that he would be doing a charity event in September around his 24th birthday, I'm wondering what charity wedding registry Sharon and Adam will register with? ( Kiva ?) Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote. Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Amazon’s huge bet on robotics dates back to its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. with Kiva Allgood (Sarcos) and Robert Playter (Boston Dynamics). Their automation is working to improve delivery times, manage inventory, assist their human counterparts and stay competitive. Automating Amazon. with Joseph Quinlivan (Amazon).

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2012

I also greatly admire Kiva for using technology to bridge the funding gaps facing many entrepreneurs in developing countries. I love She’s the First , an organization using online tools and technology to give girls around the world the opportunity to receive an education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For many, it’s as simple as finding a way to stay competitive with the likes of Amazon, which has massively bolstered its own robotics efforts through acquisitions like Kiva Systems. It certainly points to big potential for growth among retailers looking to streamline fulfillment, logistics and the like.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The company’s founding team also includes Kevin O’Brien, former chief technology officer of non-profit lending platform Kiva, and Thomas Schumacher, who co-founded emerging market microloan platform Tala. Before founding Fairbanc, Haque worked at companies including Google, Adobe, McKinsey and Deutsche Bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Geek+ produces a variety of different robotics systems, though at its core, the company offers a Kiva-style wheeled robot designed to cart around inventory shelves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Founding partners include United Nations Foundation, DonorsChoose.org , Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and VENTURE3Capital.

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