Tag: Jessica Flannery
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Pop!Tech – Interview With Kiva’s Jessica Flannery
WorldChanging.com: Pop!Tech – Interview With Kiva's Jessica Flannery Jessica Flannery is, in many ways, an accidental entrepreneur. Had she not met a guy named Matt at a DC conference in 1999, the entire enterprise she's known for (Kiva.org) might not exist today. I was fortunate to be able to sit down with Jessica for an…
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Microlenders jump-start entrepreneurs
Kansan.com: Microlenders jump-start entrepreneurs (You have no idea how objectionable it is for me to post a story from a University of Kansas newspaper, but this should symbolize to you my deep devotion to Kiva. 🙂 ) Nonprofit group Kiva lets volunteers lend money to small business owners in developing countries. After Clinton and the…
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Kiva in the New York Times
New York Times: Web-Based Microfinancing The idea of microfinancing — small-scale loans to the entrepreneurial-minded poor — reached the front page this fall when the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize. But now the San Francisco-based nonprofit Kiva.org may have taken the idea a step further: with just…