Aaron Yu wants to share his enthusiasm for Kiva, a nonprofit microfinancing organization. He sees Facebook as a prime way to do that. But instead of posting his own notes or linking to Kiva’s Web site ...

I recently heard about a 4-year-old organization that has inspired me. Kiva is the first person-to-person microfinance Web site and as stated on www.kiva.org their mission is “to connect people ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Uruguayan immigrant Enrique Cantua has a maintenance company ...

Based in San Francisco, California, Kiva is an international nonprofit organization that provides services of microloan disbursal through crowdfunding. The founders of Kiva, Matt Flannery and Jessica ...

In 2006, when we first broadcast our story about Kiva's first micro-lending experiment in Uganda, the San Francisco-based nonprofit was already a modest success. The concept was simple: web surfers ...

Kiva was a big hit out of the box, spreading virally and winning praise from mainstream media outlets like Oprah, NPR, and Nicholas Kristof in The Times. The idea -- which has been described as ...

Kiva uses the Internet to match entrepreneurs in developing countries with people who want to loan them money to build their businesses. Now the San Francisco charity is asking programmers to develop ...

Aaron Yu wants to share his enthusiasm for Kiva, a nonprofit microfinancing organization. He sees Facebook as a prime way to do that. But instead of posting his own notes or linking to Kiva’s Web site ...