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Kiva.org exceeds $25 million in loans from internet community - $25 at a time
April 2, 2008 - Just as YouTube has changed the way we watch video and Wikipedia has changed the way we find information, Kiva.org - the world's first online person-to-person microlending platform - is changing the way we give back.
Kiva.org: One of the Fastest-Growing Non-Profits in History Marks Second Year of Exponential Growth
World's First Microlending Website Accelerates Global Lending Movement
October 17, 2007 - From increasing its total loan portfolio to more than $13 million to reach 20,000 entrepreneurs in developing countries, to an invitation to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, to an endorsement by President Clinton in his new book, "Giving," Kiva.org marked its two-year anniversary today in a very big way.
This Holiday Season Give a Gift that Pays it Forward ... and Back Again
President Clinton names Kiva.org as an ideal way for individuals to make a difference in the world in his new book "Giving"
September 5, 2007 - Want to give a gift that will truly change someone's life this holiday season? Kiva.org, the world's first microlending website, lets individuals purchase gift certificates for friends and family, allowing them to make a loan directly to an entrepreneur in the developing world.
Kiva.org Celebrates First Year of Online Microfinance: First Web site to let anyone with a PayPal account be a "banker to the poor" marks first year with unprecedented success
October 17, 2006 - Kiva.org, the first person-to-person micro-lending Web site that enables an individual to finance a micro-entrepreneur in the developing world, marked its first year anniversary. Since its launch, Kiva.org has become known as "the merger between Microfinance and Web 2.0" due to its ability to create a transparent, connective and affordable option for anyone on the Internet to lend directly to the working poor.
Kiva.org Merges Philanthropy and Venture Capital with First-ever Microlending Web Site
October 12, 2005 - Kiva, the first non-profit organization to enable individuals to make personal loans to microenterprises in developing countries, launched its Web site today. For the first time, Kiva.org opens the Internet to people looking for a personal, high-engagement means of taking steps to eradicate poverty in developing countries by lending money directly to small businesses.
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