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• Contingency Planning for Crises Unimagined (Part 1)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Mohammed Al-Shawaf, KF9 Palestine Before proceeding, let me first state that this is not a political blog.  I neither have the expertise nor desire to engage in the complex web of conflict–latent or otherwise–that surrounds the major events of the last decade in Palestine.  I will attempt to reference and ...
  12 hours ago

• Kiva’s Claims Of Money To Blind Indian Questioned

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  They have been on the Oprah show, telling big stories like helping poor Africans find drinking water or giving money to a blind Indian with one leg to start a software company. Kiva has prided itself on connecting people with money with people who want money. In fact the master connector – LinkedIn founder Reid ...
  15 hours ago

• Kiva Confusion

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  The New York Times  just picked up  on the buzz caused by David Roodman’s blog post  pointing out that Kiva  doesn’t lend directly to poor borrowers. Likening the revelation for many individual lenders to the scandal in the 1990s when many child sponsorship organizations amended their disclosures after the ...
  21 hours ago

• (New) Kiva Cycle

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 141
  Kiva changed the cycle of loan disbursals : they can happen up to 30 days before a request is uploaded ; http://j.mp/a5kC4
  1 day ago

• Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Premal Shah, left, the president of Kiva, and David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development.
  1 day ago

• Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 439
  Image via Wikipedia Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country’s latest celebrated charity, Kiva.org . Oprah Winfrey extolled ...
  1 day ago

• What a Loan Smells Like:

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Brian Kelly, KF9, Armenia Not very good, at least in some of these Armenian villages I’ve been dropping in on lately.  Have you smelled a chicken coop, or a sty filled with 20 pigs lately? It’s tough to carry a conversation in there.  Visiting borrowers, at least in Armenian villages is quite the sensory ...
  1 day ago

• Spreading the word: MFIs and Publicity

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Julie Pachico, KF9 Mexico A big part of the loan officers’ work load at FVP is “ prospectando ,” or heading out into the field and reaching out to potential clients. When I was first invited to come along I was a little nervous, as my career as a canvasser lasted for all of one day and I hate pushy sales ...
  2 days ago

• Cuenca-stic Times!

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Zal Bilimoria, KF9, Ecuador Over the past four weeks here in Ecuador, I’ve had the opportunity to see much of the country, starting out in Quito working at Fundacion ESPOIR’s administrative office, and now in Portoviejo near the coast to conduct borrower verifications and write journal updates, among other ...
  2 days ago

• CCT Borrowers Often Work in the Sidelines

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Prem Thomas, KF9, Manila, Philippines After visiting many Kiva CCT borrowers, I noticed a trend that the primary business requiring a loan is not the only source of income. In the Philippines side jobs are referred to as “sidelines” or “extra income”. I have met a teachers who also sell clothing, farmers ...
  3 days ago

• The Most Bizarre Client Interview (Part 2 of 2)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Eva Wu, KF9 Philippines Bizarre is probably not the best word to describe this client interview, but without a doubt we were intrigued and utterly fascinated by the alien-looking blob we saw sitting pretty before us. Corroi, HSPFI ’s Kiva Coordinator and I found ourselves staring at a live (or semi-live) sea ...
  3 days ago

• My Motorcycle Diary from Guayaquil

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Kimia Raafat, KF9 Ecuador Last week, I blogged about D-MIRO’s influence in the peri-urban zones of Guayaquil.  There is no way to describe the dedicated D-MIRO staff members and the lengths they go to reach those marginalized from the traditional financial system. So I opted to film a sample day! Here is ...
  3 days ago

• Verb rules and road duels

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Rob Packer, KF9 Kyrgyzstan As anyone who’s had a brush with Russian will tell you, going somewhere and using the Russian language to describe it is traumatic. It’s a nosy language I feel likes to keep tabs on me and wants to know all kinds of personal details like if I’m walking or running, driving or ...
  4 days ago

• A Slice of the Pie

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Victoria Kabak, KF9, Nicaragua Before I left for my placement as a Kiva Fellow in Nicaragua, I was browsing my microfinance institution’s web site , trying to see what I could learn from it and to familiarize myself with the organization, AFODENIC, a bit more. I clicked on a link in the left sidebar called ...
  4 days ago

• Hey, Joe

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  I have been mistaken for this guy a lot since Ive been here By Adam Preston, KF9, Philippines The Filipinos are a very generous people.  So generous, in fact, that if they don’t know your name, they will even give you a name – and that name is Joe.  I am greeted in this way no less than 3 or 4 times in a ...
  5 days ago

• I might be falling for microfinance.

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  Alana Solimeo, KF9, Costa Rica I realized after letting the excitement of Kiva, Costa Rica, and research topics (exhibited in previous post Rice, Beans and an Inspired Hypothesis) settle that I might want to take a step back.  The thing is I hit the ground running here, thanks to the great work of my ...
  5 days ago

• the people who borrow

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Jane Lim, KF9 Mongolia today my envy of other kiva fellows faded because i finally, finally got to meet kiva borrowers. there is a certain sadness that most of these borrowers have. for some it’s buried deep beneath stoicism and the victories of subsequent success, but for others it’s brimming at the ...
  5 days ago

• The Most Beautiful Client Interview (Part 1 of 2)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Eva Wu, KF9 Philippines I experienced a lot of firsts during my week in the field visiting HSPFI ’s Camiguin Branch. Some good, some intense, all of it exciting. Amongst all these firsts, I’m convinced that I witnessed on Camiguin Island both the most beautiful and the most bizarre client interviews that ...
  6 days ago

• A Quick Break in the Oasis of America

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru Taking a brief recess from borrower profiles and repayment schedules at Kiva’s MFI pilot partner Caja Rural one weekend in Ica, Peru, I escaped to visit the small town of Huacachina, the “oasis of America”, located just a few miles outside the sandy metropolitan hub of Ica. Having ...
  6 days ago

• TBD: Do More Good

  
  One Size Fits One — Authority: 118
  If you believe in the power of good, you may enjoy TBD – a newsletter that, much like Good Magazine , shares positive news about our world. A welcome change from the doom and gloom most newspapers bring, for sure. One of the interesting companies I learnt about from TBD is Vittana , which is a sort of Kiva for ...
  1 week ago

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