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  • Microlenders jump-start entrepreneurs

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    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…

  • Kiva in the New York Times

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    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…

  • Is Microfinance Changing the World?

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    Is Microfinance Changing the World? Broadcast on KUOW in Seattle yesterday. (Note that Matt Flannery of Kiva is one of the guests.) Poor people in the developing world have limited access to basic financial services like credit and insurance that Americans take for granted. Microfinance promises to change all that, and in the process fight…