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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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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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How Romance Novels Empower Women

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Kiva.org, Maria Rodale, Romance Novel, Women, Lady Jane's Salon, Bookstores, Empowering Women, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, The Girl Effect, Maya Rodale, Women News

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure While as a society we wonder how to motivate girls to reach hig...

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Doing Good!

Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Microloans, Kiva.org, Joinfite, Microloans for Women, Small Business, Microfinancing for Women, Jane Wurwand, Entrepreneurship, Impact News

Looking at the world picture, professional and corporate success must embrace global activism and advocacy for women.

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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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Financial Independence for the World's Women: Jane Wurwand Pays it Forward

Nicole Skibola | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Women, Dermalogica, Fite, Jane Wurwand, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact News

An entrepreneur herself, Wurwand came to the United States with a small amount of money and a dream of independence, and hustled to make it big.

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Kiva.org and the Ripple Effects of Helping Women

Premal Shah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jane-Wurwand, Kiva.org, Dermalogica, Kiva, Premal Shah, Microlending, Impact News

Looking back, I can see now the effect on my life of that moment as a 5-year-old, watching the village woman take my rupee.

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How Will You Show Some Love? Reinventing Valentine's Day

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

It's certainly a special thing when we pause to appreciate our loved ones. But perhaps we can raise our game in 2011 and do a bit more on this date.

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Kiva.org Takes on a New FITE

Premal Shah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jane-Wurwand, Kiva.org, Premal Shah, Kiva, Microlending, Dermalogica, Impact News

Jane Wurwand told me her life story. In many ways, it's a story of entrepreneurship that could go up on Kiva.org alongside the other 480,000 entrepreneurs we've funded over the years.

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Micro-lending Sites Let You Give Gifts and Do Good

Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Microplace, Kiva, Microlending, Technology News

Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of showering friends and family with gifts, whether from local stores or your favorite e-merchants. But as we get ready for the holidays, we should also take time to think about ways we can make a difference.

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Kiva.org Expands Microloans To College Students

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Kiva Student Loans, Student Loans Developing Country, Student Loans, Microlending, Kiva Microlending, Impact News

The world's first microlending website, Kiva.org, believes that a quality education for ambitious students in developing countries may be only $25 awa...

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2010 Phi Theta Kappa Honor's Institute at Chapman University

Critley Lynn King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Jessica Jackley, Jonah Lehrer, Wes Moore, Chapman University, College, Phi Theta Kappa, Honors Institute, Media, Critley King, Dr. William Ferris, Arianna Huffington, College News

The 2010 Honors Institute at Chapman University in Orange, CA was an intense, week-long study of "The Democratization of Information: Power, Peril, and Promise."

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Microlending In America: Can This Third World Success Come Overseas?

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Grameen America, Grameen, Grameen Bank, Kiva, Muhammad Yunus, Microlending, Video, Impact News

With the advent of sites like Kiva, the popularity of microlending is spreading, and may soon rival nonprofit donations as the prominent method of sup...

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Borrowing from Strangers

Liz Hamburg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Peer to Peer Lending, WOR Radio, Upstart Ventures, Lending Club, Liz Hamburg, Alternative Funding, Jimmyjacks, Start-Up Funding, Business News

The web is making it easier to borrow money from a community of strangers using a concept called "peer-to-peer lending." Entrepreneurs are embracing it to find virtual "friends & family" to give them loans.

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International 'Microlender' Sets Sights On Helping Hard-Hit At Home (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Small Business, Microloan, Kiva, Lending, Impact News

You may know the Web site Kiva.org for its groundbreaking use of microloans, which allow Americans to loan as little as $25 at a time to small busines...

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How You Earn Your Living Can Become The Way You Give Back

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

New Radicals are appearing in each field, every sector, and around the world.

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A Near-Zero-Cost Approach to Do-Gooding: My 375th Kiva Loan

Bob Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.

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Be Good for Goodness Sake

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Morality, Microcredit, Atheism, Religion, Charity, Donating to Charity, Giving, Healthy Living News

Nonbelievers are coalescing into moral communities which, when freed from the constraints of dogma or proselytism, invest themselves in doing good for goodness sake.

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CrowdFunding: How to Kickstart Your Business

Juliette Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Wikipedia, threadless.com, Crowdfunding, Juliette Powell, Crowdsourcing, 33 Million People, Perrychen, KickStarter.Com, Small Business, Social Networking, Funding, Business, Crowd Funding, Social Media, Digital Media, Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, Business News

'Crowdfunding', a spin on 'crowdsourcing', is the latest funding opportunity at a time when our funding institutions are failing.

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Kiva.org: Change The World With $25 And A Click

Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Third World Poverty, Kiva.org, Poverty, Kiva, Micro-Loans, Online Donations, Global Banking, Entrepreneurs, Donations, Global Poverty, Online Banking, Premal Shah, World Finance, Healthy Living News

For as little as $25, anyone in the world can log on to kiva.org and loan an entrepreneur somewhere in the world the money to improve their business.

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At Skoll's Annual Oxford Confab, Capitalism In Shift

Tom Watson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiva.org, Philanthropy, Globalgiving, Social Entrepreneurship, Matthew Bishop, Jeff Skoll, Skoll World Forum, Philanthrocapitalism, Causewired, myc4, World News

The world economic crisis tends to sharpen the focus at this year's Skoll confab, nicknamed the 'Davos of Social Entrepreneurship.'

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Don't get crushed at the mall - Create Jobs

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toys, Walmart, Small Business, Microcredit, Santa Claus, Grameen, Holiday Gifts, Jobs, Kiva, Holiday, Kiva.org, Accion, Microfinance, Hannukah, Christmas, China Lead, Stampede, Style News

Think your are helping the economy by buying some holiday gifts? Instead of giving more stuff to your relatives and friends that they don't need, d...

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Charity May Begin at Home, But It's Moving Online

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clean Drinking Water, Myspace, Charity, Google DotOrg, SixDegrees.Org, Charitable Giving, Facebook, Dennis Whittle, Kiva.org, donorschoose.org, Online Philanthropy, Alfred Taubman, The Giving Life, Katrina Relief, American Express Members Project, Goodsearch, Goodshop, Healthy Living News

America's economic downturn presents a daunting double-edged challenge to charitable organizations. Hard times mean that more people than ever will be in need of help -- and that fewer people will be in a position to help.

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