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Why We Learn, Why We Work

Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Joinfite, Dermalogica, Microfinance, Kiva, Women's Interests, Global Motherhood, Education for Women, Impact News

What did my mother want most for me? Prestige? No. She wanted me to be strong, free, independent, and happy. Being productive was the first and defining priority. Should it not still be?

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eBay Founder's Annual Forum Unites Business Leaders Investing In Social Change

Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Reid Hoffman, Omidyar Network, Video, Social Change, Social Entrepreneurship, Code for America, Couch Surfing, Social-Entrepreneurship, Pierre Omidyar, Kiva, Donors Choose, Omidyar Network Executive Forum, Impact News

One network of top executives is proving that good business means wise investments -- specifically investments in people who have the power to create ...

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VOTE! Webby Awards Nominates 5 Sites For Social Change Award

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Webby, Video, Twitter, Social Change, Activism, Webby Awards, Online Activism, Youtube, Facebook, Kiva, Slidepollajax, Social Activism, change.org, Impact News

Nothing will replace the immeasurable power of a protest that gathers thousands of people in a city square. But a number of organizations and social n...

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'How Stuff Works': Making An Impact With Microlending

Josh Clark | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Kiva.org, Jeri Rowland, Chuck Bryant, Microlending, Korea, Americans, Stuff You Should Know, Kiva, Mohammed Yunus, Spring Into Action, Impact News

My Stuff You Should Know podcast co-host Chuck Bryant, our producer Jeri Rowland and I aren't completely unaware of ourselves. As such, we do feel a b...

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LinkedIn Founder Puts His Fortune Up For Grabs Online

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Kiva.org, Microloans, Video, Linkedin, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn IPO, Small Business News and Trends, Kiva, LinkedIn Reid Hoffman Kiva, LinkedIn Reid Hoffman, Small Business News

Didn't get in on the LinkedIn IPO last year? Here's another way to get your hands on the proceeds: Sign up for Kiva, a Web site that lets people make ...

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Banks Could Learn a Thing or Two

James Perry | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Big Banks, Bank of America, Bank Lending, Kiva, Banking, Banks, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, Kiva New Orleans, Kiva Detroit, Business News

The principled belief that a stronger local, state and national community results in a stronger more consistent bottom line for lending institutions is not just feel good chatter. In fact, their existence relies upon this business principle.

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Amazon's New Buy To Put Robots To Work

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Amazon Kiva, Video, Kiva, Kiva Amazon, Reuters, Amazon, Technology News

* Kiva robots move products around e-commerce warehouses * Will make Amazon warehouses more efficient - analyst * Amazon...

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TAG You're It!

Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Joinfite, Dermalogica, Small Business, Finance Independence, Microfinance, Kiva, Female Entrepreneurs, Tagurit, Impact News

Our digital world creates distance instead of closeness, but this month can be an exception. "Tag" a friend with "#tagURit," and joinFITE will contribute $1 towards a microloan that will empower a woman entrepreneur.

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Crowdfund Investing: How We Can Tweet and Facebook Our Way to Economic Recovery

Lisa Curtis | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Crowdfunding Law, Startups, Solar Energy, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Kiva, Crowdfunding Bill, Kickstarter, Small Business News

The potential for crowdfund investing to transform the way startups access capital is staggering.

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Creating a Cycle of Sustainable Change

Reid Hoffman | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Developing World, Microloans, Sustainable Development, Microfinance Lending, Microfinance, Kiva, Microlending, Impact News

In Silicon Valley, we deploy technologies and networks to change the world. Can we deploy these techniques in an effort to break the worldwide cycle of poverty at a scale in the millions?

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EXCERPT: The New Rules Of Global Innovation

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Google, Jessica-Jackley, New Rules of Global Innovation, Global Innovation, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Innovation, Need Speed and Greed, Kiva, Vijay v. Vaitheeswaran, Video, Books News

Excerpt taken from "Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World'...

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5 Ways To Empower Women And Girls This International Women's Day

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Microloans, Women's Empowerment, Say No Unite to End Violence Against Women, Women's Equality, Video, Girlup, United Nations, International Women's Day, Slidepollajax, Kiva, Join Me on the Bridge, Impact News

International Women's Day is not only a celebration of gals all over the world -- it's also a call to action. First celebrated in 1911, Internatio...

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International Women's Day In The Participation Age

Premal Shah | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Kiva.org, Small Business, Microfinance, International Women's Day, Impact News, Kiva, Microlending, Women News

"A rising tide of women in an economy raises the fortunes of all families and all nations ... we don't have a person to waste and we certainly don't have a gender to waste."

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Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise

Jack Hidary | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Robin Chase, Kleiner Perkins, Venture Capital Funding, Women Entrepreneurs, Glass Ceiling, Founders, Women in Business, Entrepreneurs, Hunch, Task Rabbit, Female Entrepreneurs, Kiva, New York, Bay Area, Video, Tech, Nyc, Gilt, Foodspotting, Microfinance, Women 2.0, Caterina Fake, Tinyreview, Startups, Angel Funding, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Docpons, Women News

What else can the tech world do to engage more women to start and lead companies?

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Creative Sites For Giving, Volunteering In 2012

Amy Neumann | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Crowdrise, Kiva, philanthroper.com, Give.Mobi, Sparked, Guidestar, Social Good, charitynavigator.org, Volunteermatch, Catchafire, Karmagoat, Online Volunteering, Volunteerguide, Sixdegrees, Charity, Impact News

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." ~ Aesop A question often asked: "What are some helpful sites for helping online?" There are s...

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The Gift of Connecting

Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Joinfite, Entrepreneurism, Small Business, Microfinance, Jane Wurwand, Kiva, Women Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment, Female Entrepreneurs, Helping Women Entrepreneurs, Impact News

I encourage you to find a philanthropic cause that provides meaning in your life. For Dermalogica, and for me personally, it has always been about women entrepreneurs.

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Thrive Detroit Newspaper Gives City's Homeless A Chance To Succeed

HuffingtonPost.com | David Sands | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Homeless Newspaper Detroit, Kiva Detroit, Detroit Impact, Micro Finance, Thrive Detroit, Homeless Street Paper, Kiva, Microfinance Detroit, Detroit Street Paper, Street Paper, Detroit News

Delphia Simmons had never heard of a street newspaper until her supervisor at the Coalition On Temporary Shelter, an organization that supports the ho...

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Why 'The PayPal Mafia' Is Killing It

Eric M. Jackson | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Peter Thiel, Linkedin, Small Business, Paypal, Entrepreneurs, PayPal Mafia, Facebook, Reid Hoffman, Startup, Kiva, Youtube, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Small Business America, Small Business News

It was a unique combination of circumstances, talent, and audacity that would make PayPal an incubator for so many successful entrepreneurs.

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The Life Out Loud: Mama Hope Wants to Change How Aid Is Delivered

MeiMei Fox | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Mama Hope, Microfinance, Africa, Philanthrophy, Kiva, Non-Profit, Development, Ngo, Humanitarian Aid, International, Activism, Philanthropy, Impact News

Most NGOs operate according to a top-down model, Nyla and Amy explain. Officials decide what the locals need. The NGO builds the project and then leaves. But Mama Hope works in just the opposite way.

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Lance Armstrong, Facebook & Mashable Founders Discuss Social Media

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Aspen Ideas Festival, Mashable, Denver News, Facebook Co-Founder, Matt Flannery, Aspen News, Pete Cashmore, Aspen Colorado, Denver Colorado, Chris Hughes, Jumo, Lance Armstrong, Kiva, Colorado, Denver News

Aspen Ideas Festival hosted a handful of social media gurus that are focused on socially beneficial work to talk about the new technology and its impl...

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Kiva's Microloan System Expands For U.S. Small Business Owners

Premal Shah | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Microloans, Kiva.org, Microfinance, Kiva Detroit, Kiva, Kiva City, Small Business, American Economy, Recession, Video, Impact News

So who can play a role in helping these businesses? The answer is actually quite simple: the American people.

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The Real Motivation Behind Going Public in Philanthropy

Suzanne Skees | Posted 07.31.2011

For Warren Buffet and me, giving feels really good, because the truth is, we receive more than the supposed recipient. This thing we call "love of humankind," philanthropy, infuses our whole being with love of self.

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Honoring All Women On Mother's Day

Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 07.03.2011

joinFITE.org (Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship) is a new microlending website by Kiva.org to benefit women entrepreneurs in low income areas of the U.S. and 56 other countries.

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Truth Teller or Bank Teller? Which Are You?

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Microcredit, MicroCredit Enterprises, Accion, Microfinance, Economic Development, Banks, Kiva, Impact News

I wanted to tell my disgruntled microfinance detractor that in a world plagued with 3 billion poor people, there are no easy answers.

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An Update on the Muhammad Yunus Situation

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Supporters of microfinance around the world stand in support of Dr. Yunus and are doing their best to help resolve this situation.

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