Timeline

2011

January
Kiva and Dermologica launch microlending platform joinFITE.org to fund women entrepreneurs

2010

November
The Kiva Gift Card is named one of Oprah's Favorite Things of 2010
Johnathan Stalls completes his KivaWalk Across America, his cross-country trek by foot on behalf of Kiva
October
Kiva and Visa Partner to Expand Microloan Opportunities for U.S. Small Business and Extend Reach to Gulf Coast
Kiva celebrates its 5 year birthday
The first Water loan is posted to Kiva.org through long-time Kiva Field Partner Fundacion Paraguaya
Kiva launches a Partner API
September
The first student microloans are offered on Kiva.org
August
Omidyar Network awards $5 Million Grant to Kiva to spur growth of microfinance in underserved markets
May
Kiva wins $1 million grant through Sam's Club Giving Made Simple campaign, selected by member vote

2009

December
Kiva launches in Colombia
November
Kiva reaches 100 million in loans!
August
A 2009 Index Award is given to Kiva, focusing on designs with a social impact
Kiva launches in Armenia
July
Campus Kiva launches
June
Kiva launches in Liberia
Kiva launches loans to U.S. microentrepreneurs
February
Kiva launches its API.
Premal Shah announced as one of World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.
January
Kiva partners with Intel for the Small Things Challenge.
Kiva launches in Mongolia.

2008

December
Kiva facilitates a record $3,827,400 of loans in one month.
Kiva is nominated for a Crunchies 2008 Award for Most Likely To Make The World A Better Place.
November
The 50 millionth dollar is loaned through Kiva.
October
Kiva marks its 3 year anniversary.
Kiva joins 41 microfinance investor institutions to sign on to the Client Protection Principles.
August
Kiva launches Lending Teams and Partial Repayments.
June
Kiva makes TIME's "50 Best Websites 2008".
May
Kiva.org is awarded the Webby People's Choice Award for Charitable Organizations / Nonprofit.
Matt Flannery attends Google Zeitgeist Europe to join a discussion panel on technology, new business models and change behaviors.
April
Advanta launches the KivaB4B Project.
March
The $25 millionth dollar is loaned through Kiva.
Kiva is awarded a three-year, $1,015,000 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation.
Leslie Crutchfield, managing director of the Ashoka Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and co-author of "Forces For Good: The Six Practices Of High-Impact Non Profits," joins Kiva as Board Member.
February
The 250,000th user signs up.
Kiva launches in Southern Sudan.
January
Kiva facilitates $2.8 million in loans to the developing world in one month.

2007

December
Kiva sells $2.2 million in gift certificates during the month of December, over $250,000 of which were sold December 24.
October
Kiva marks its 2 year anniversary.
Matt Flannery is announced one of Smithsonian magazine's "37 Under 36: American Innovators in the Arts and Sciences."
September
President Clinton's book "Giving" is released, which profiles Kiva as a way to give back.
Kiva Co-Founders Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show with President Clinton.
The 100,000 Kiva user registers.
For the first time, the total funds being loaned through Kiva is greater than the total loan requests being received, and the Kiva site is temporarily "sold out" of loans for funding.
Kiva is announced a winner of the World Summit Award 2007 for "e-Business", and The Tech Museum Awards 2007 Economic Development Award Laureate.
Kiva president Premal Shah attends the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
August
Matt Flannery participates in the 2007 Brookings Blum Roundtable.
Kiva Loans top $10 million.
July
The Kiva headquarters moved to 3180 18th Street, San Francisco.
June
Kiva Loans top $8 million, and the 75,000th user registers.
May
Kiva announces its 50th Field Partner, and the first Field Partner in Iraq, Al Aman Microfinance.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation awards Kiva a grant to fund the due diligence program.
April
Kiva Loans top $5 million, and the 50,000th user registers.
March
Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times and Kiva Lender, visits an entprepreneur he loaned to in Kabul, and writes about the experience. The article becomes the 3rd most emailed article of the day, and in three days over $250,000 is loaned.
February
The Draper Richards Foundation awards Kiva $300,000 for scale and expansion. Jenny Shilling Stein joins the Board of Directors of Kiva.
January
The first Kiva entrepreneur in Afghanistan is fully funded, through Field Partner Ariana Financial Services Group.

2006

December
Kiva Loans top $2 million and Kiva is featured in the New York Times Magazine "Year in Ideas".
November
Kiva Loans top $1 million and 20th Field Partner comes online.
October
Kiva marks its 1 year anniversary.
Frontline/WORLD airs a documentary on Kiva, and the resulting traffic explosion promptly crashes the Kiva website for three days. Once the website is back online, over $250,000 is loaned in the week following.
September
Premal Shah, Kiva President, is a guest panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.
July
CEO and Founder of Linked-In, Reid Hoffman, joins Kiva's Board of Directors.
February
Kiva launches its MFI (microfinance institution) partnership strategy and posts loans for funding from the first Kiva Field Partners.
January
Premal Shah leaves PayPal to become Kiva President.

2005

October
Kiva is Founded as a non-profit. A blog about Kiva is featured on Daily Kos, and in a matter of hours all loans listed on Kiva are funded. Matt Flannery leaves his job at Tivo.
September
Each member of the "Dream Team" fully repays their loan.
April
The first 7 Kiva Loans are funded, for a total of $3,500. These original entrepreneurs become known as the "Dream Team".

2004

April
Matt Flannery & Jessica Jackley start working on Kiva

Research

"Kiva and the Birth of Person-to-Person Microfinance" is an article narrating the birth of Kiva and the growth which resulted in the organization as it stands today. Authored in February 2007 by Kiva Co-Founder and CEO, Matt Flannery, the article was published in Innovations, Winter/Spring 2007 by MIT Press.

"Kiva at Four" is a sequel to "Kiva and the Birth of Person-to-Person Microfinance", discussing the evolution of the organization and a snapshot of it at age four. Also authored by Kiva Co-Founder and CEO, Matt Flannery, the article was published in Innovations, Skoll World Forum 2009 by MIT Press.

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP): Key Principles of Microfinance