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	The Company: Founded in 1998, PayPal, an eBay company, enables any individual or business with an email address to send and receive payments online securely and easily using a bank account, credit card or stored balance. Because PayPal allows customers to shop online without sharing their financial information with merchants, privacy is built into the service. PayPal has more than 114 million accounts and is available to users in 55 markets around the world. The Partnership: PayPal is a proud supporter of Kiva's mission and organization. As an official partner, PayPal provides Kiva with access to technology, research, workplace resources and employee volunteers. Additionally, PayPal provides Kiva with free payment processing - Kiva's largest variable cost - thus enabling 100% of the loaned funds to reach entrepreneurs in developing countries. Kiva uses PayPal's innovative payment solutions to securely and seamlessly distribute funds around the globe.
	The Company:YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be rated; the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published. Founded in February 2005, the company was named TIME magazine "Invention of the Year" for 2006. The Partnership: YouTube has generously donated 120 million free banner placements to Kiva. The banners increases Kiva's exposure to web users and gives those searching through videos on YouTube the opportunity to link directly to the Kiva website.
	The Company: Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. One of the early Google.org projects was to create the Google Grants program, which gives free advertising to selected non-profits. To date, Google Grants has donated $33M in advertising to more than 850 non-profit organizations in 10 countries.} The Partnership:* Kiva is a Google Grants recipient, receiving free advertising through Google Adwords. This partnership allows Kiva to attract new lenders by promoting the website at the moment an internet user is looking for more information on poverty alleviation, and is invaluable to Kiva's continuing success.
	The Company:Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities and world's knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The Partnership:Yahoo! provides Kiva with free Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords that enable more internet users to become aware of Kiva and the opportunity to lend to a developing world entrepreneur online. In addition, various Yahoo! employees are helping Kiva develop a more robust online platform towards the aim of creating a long lasting internet public good.
	The Company: With nearly 3,000 professionals in over 40 offices around the world, Oliver Wyman (OW) is a leading management consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation and leadership development. The firm helps clients optimize their businesses, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. We work collaboratively with our clients to ensure our recommendations are driven by real insights that ultimately create sustainable shareholder value growth. The Partnership: Oliver Wyman has entered into a strategic partnership with Kiva as part of the firm's industry-leading Non-Profit Fellowship (NPF) program. The Oliver Wyman - Kiva partnership provides Kiva with dedicated, on-going support from Oliver Wyman consultants, who spend between 4-6 months at Kiva's San Francisco office working alongside Kiva staff to tackle pressing business issues. Oliver Wyman's work has been invaluable in supporting Kiva's continued growth, improving key aspects of Kiva's operations including marketing, risk management, and microfinance partner support.
	The Company: (mt) Media Temple, Inc. is an industry-leading, privately held, profitable web hosting and software application services company based in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, (mt) Media Temple has provided businesses worldwide with reliable, professional-class network environments to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich media content. The Partnership: (mt) Media Temple hosts the Kiva website and has gone out of their way to help keep our website up and running through periods of incredible traffic and press attention. With their expertise and generous help, we have been able to build and scale the web's #1 rated microcredit website to a user base which is growing at an exponential rate.
	The Company: Lenovo is dedicated to building the world's best-engineered personal computers. The company develops and manufactures reliable, high-quality, secure, and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo is committed to supporting 100,000 entrepreneurs by 2010 through its Hope Through Entrepreneurship program. The Partnership: Lenovo helps support Kiva's mission by donating PC products, primarily laptops, to Kiva. Kiva distributes some of the laptops to equip Kiva's qualified microfinance partners, and uses the other laptops to support Kiva staff and field representatives. Lenovo also provides Kiva with grants for operational expenses and to fund an engineering employee.
	The Company: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm with 980 lawyers in North America, Europe and Asia. The firm focuses on litigation, complex and novel finance and innovative corporate transactions. Orrick clients include Fortune 100 companies, major industrial and financial corporations, commercial and investment banks, high-growth companies, governmental entities, start-ups and individuals. The firm's 18 offices are located in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Moscow, New York, Orange County, Pacific Northwest, Paris, Rome, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Taipei, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. The Partnership: Orrick is providing Kiva with pro bono legal services and advice on entry into new countries, including capital restrictions, foreign exchange restrictions, and other relevant taxes and tariffs. This information is invaluable as Kiva continues to grow its microfinance partnership network across the globe.
	The Company: The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation calls upon Lex Mundi's unique global network of 160 top tier business law firms, with more than 560 offices in 100 countries and over 20,000 lawyers, to provide pro bono legal assistance to select social entrepreneurs. By providing social entrepreneurs with access to critically needed legal assistance, the Foundation joins the global social entrepreneurship movement for positive social change. The Partnership: The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation member firms serve as local counsel and work with Orrick lawyers to provide pro bono legal advice on Kiva's entry into new countries. The Foundation provides valuable local legal resources that serve to supports Kiva's growth and expansion.
	The Company: LinkedIn's simple philosophy: Relationships Matter Your professional relationships are key to your professional success. Our mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have. This isn't networking — it's what networking should be. Forget exchanging business cards with acquaintances that don't know your work, or trying to renew professional ties when you need a favor. The Partnership: Besides having LinkedIn founder, Reid Hoffman, serve Kiva as a member of the Board of Directors, LinkedIn supports a Kiva group and has led to many connections that have resulted in bringing on new Kiva lenders, donors, volunteers, and even full-time staff. Thanks, Reid!
	The Company: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. The Partnership: Kiva partners with Facebook to reach thousands of Kiva community members through Facebook Causes and Beacon. Causes allows Kiva supporters to connect with each other on Facebook; Beacon gives Kiva lenders the option to spread the word about Kiva and their activities on Kiva to their Facebook network.
	The Company: Advanta Corp. was founded in 1951 by Jack Alter, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania schoolteacher, to provide loans to fellow teachers based on their individual needs. Today, Advanta is a highly focused financial services company dedicated to providing funding and support to small business owners and business professionals through innovative financial product offerings and services. This commitment has established Advanta as one of the nation's largest issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) of credit cards to small businesses. The Partnership: The KivaB4B Project is Advanta's most recent endeavor to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs. The Project encourages U.S.-based small businesses and entrepreneurs to support entrepreneurs in developing countries. When any of the 1.3 million Advanta business cardholders uses an Advanta BusinessCard to help an entrepreneur through Kiva, Advanta matches those funds (up to $200 per month per account). To celebrate this initiative, Advanta is offering a Kiva branded business credit card, the application and information for which is available at www.kivab4b.org.
	The Company: The vision of the Salesforce.com Foundation is to use Salesforce.com's people, technology and relationships to improve our communities, inspire youth to be more successful, support the world during times of extreme need, and promote compassionate capitalism. The Salesforce Foundation harnesses the power of product and people to improve the lives of those in need. Using a unique 1/1/1 model – 1% Time, 1% Equity, and 1% Product – the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases the effectiveness of non-profit organizations so they can better achieve their goals. The Partnership: The Salesforce Foundation provides product donations, equity in the form of grants, and significant volunteer support to help Kiva automate business processes, manage data, increase efficiency and scale for growth using the Salesforce.com platform.
	The Company: Founded in 1975, Microsoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation, with 71,553 employees in 102 countries and regions. A world leader in software, services and solutions, Microsoft became the first software company to create its own computer-science research organization, Microsoft Research, in 1991. Microsoft Research has developed into a unique entity among corporate research labs, balancing an open academic model with an effective process for transferring its research to product-development teams, focusing on long-term (10-15 years out) computer-science research and vision that is not bound by product cycles.br> The Partnership: Microsoft Research's Digital Inclusion initiative has funded research and development of Kiva's Field Partner facing software. Several months of research in East Africa led to key technology innovations at Kiva. Most notable is a cell phone based information management system for loan officers using Kiva. Loan officers in Uganda are currently piloting the use of camera phones with Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) protocol to relay field information instantaneously to Kiva's website. Kiva.org looks forward to the pilot results, its expansion to other Field Partners worldwide and real cost savings to take effect. Additionally, Microsoft Office Online has generously featured Kiva in its Finance Guide and throughout the Office Online site.
	The Company: MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. MySpace is the world's fourth most popular English-language website, the sixth most popular website in any language, and the third most popular website in the United States, and attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. The Partnership: Kiva is a 2006 MySpace Impact Awards Nominee in the category of Poverty Relief. This formal recognition of Kiva's dynamic internet presence in the social networking sphere also recognizes the common goal of "connecting people" which is shared by both MySpace and Kiva. MySpace has shown that the web is an amazing tool for creating personal connections, and by applying that concept to poverty, Kiva and MySpace can together promote a movement of personal lending and forever change the way we think about poverty.
	The Company: Founded in 1983, Idem Translations is a woman-owned business that provides translation and localization services to exacting clients in a broad range of industries. Dedicated project managers based in Palo Alto, California, and Madrid, Spain work with an extensive network of translators to deliver accurate translations precisely targeted to our clients' needs. Idem's tight-knit team believes in a top-quality product, exceptional customer care, and creating sustainable business relationships for mutual long-term growth. The company is also deeply committed to meeting its corporate responsibilities by offering services free of charge to organizations that serve the world community. The Partnership: Idem Translations generously supports Kiva by providing translation services for projects requiring legal, financial, and other technical expertise. With its specialized network of professional translators, Idem enables Kiva to serve its Field Partners with expertly translated communications and documents, as well as offering support for Kiva's due diligence process.
	The Company: ProTraining.com™ is a private company providing online testing and training to more than 200,000 people around the world. Using their innovative and proprietary training and testing application, the T2 Platform™, ProTraining partner organizations have access to a fully hosted, cost-effective and uniquely branded Internet-based training and certification environment. A perfect fit for organizations like Kiva, looking to reliably deliver engaging training around the world. The Partnership: We realize how important it is that each and every one of our Kiva fellows, staff, volunteer editors and translators receives regular, consistent, and high quality training that reinforces our mission and organization. ProTraining.com™ has donated the T2 Platform™ and as well, provides fully managed design, configuration and support services that are a perfect combination of innovative software and a totally managed service. We are confident that our new online training system will be welcomed with open arms and quickly embraced by our partners around the world.
	The Company: Starbucks is the world's largest multinational chain of coffee shops, the largest buyer of Certified Fair Trade coffee in North America and the only company licensed to sell Certified Fair Trade coffee in 23 countries. Social Responsibility is of great importance to Starbucks' culture, and the company has many community building programs that help it contribute positively to the communities where its employees and customers live and work. Starbucks encourages and rewards volunteerism and participation in organizations that are important to its partners, including local schools, literacy programs, walk-a-thons and Earth Day activities. The Partnership: As Community Partner of the Starbucks store at Bay & Taylor, San Francisco, Kiva holds regular in-store awareness events to share Kiva with Starbucks customers. The Starbucks partnership is Kiva's first venture into the retail space and we look forward to building communities and networks of lenders, facilitated by Starbucks' Community Partner events and promotions.
	The Company: ReadyTalk delivers audio and web conferencing services that empower its customers to conduct web seminars, hold training sessions, work remotely and grow their organizations through lead generation and efficient communication. Through technology and personal service, ReadyTalk guides its customers through the entire process of conducting a large web seminar. The Partnership: ReadyTalk provides Kiva with free audio and web conferencing to help Kiva communicate effectively with team members, MFI partners, Kiva Fellows, and volunteers. The service offers both on-demand audio conference calling and the ability to visually share presentations, websites, spreadsheets, or any computer application. Staff members can meet, educate, train and record conferences without traveling or requiring participants to travel.
	The Company: Through a print magazine, feature and documentary films, original multimedia content and local events, GOOD is providing a platform for the ideas, people, and businesses that are driving change in the world. In their words, "We see a growing number of people tied together not by age, career, background, or circumstance, but by a shared interest. This revolves around a passion for potential mixed with fierce pragmatism and creative engagement. We sum all this up as the sensibility of giving a damn. But to shorten it, let's call it GOOD. We're here to push this movement and cover its realization." The Partnership: When you subscribe to GOOD Magazine, 100% of your subscription payment goes to one of their nonprofit partners - like Kiva. So, not only can you support Kiva's operations by subscribing, you get 6 engaging, thoughtful issues of GOOD Magazine. Please subscribe on our page on GOOD's website, http://www.goodmagazine.com/choosegood/kiva
	The Company: XE is the world's favorite provider of Internet foreign exchange tools and services. Independent rankings consistently confirm that more people - and websites - use our wide variety of currency tools than any others. We are committed to continuing our role as leaders and innovators in the foreign exchange industry and are always working to add new services that benefit you. The Partnership: XE.com provides Kiva with free currency exchange rates on a daily basis, via an automated data feed process. The staff at XE.com in addition provides Kiva with free technical support and custom data reports. Kiva has found XE.com to be an excellent partner given the ease of integration and responsive customer service. The currency exchange rate information provided by XE.com is used in many different ways at Kiva, including to converting the local currency loan amount that is requested by an entrepreneur in over 40 developing countries to a U.S. dollar equivalent.
	The Company: Blowfish Sushi San Francisco is located in the Mission District. Blowfish offers an eclectic sushi bar and restaurant that serves both modern and traditional sushi, sashimi, and teppan dishes, as well as, salads, noodles, and special desserts. Featured items are Pufferfish, Ostrich, and Duck. The menu style is called Asian Fusion and emphasizes clean, pure healthy foods that create a sense of euphoria. Blowfish Sushi has become one of San Francisco's most popular restaurants through amazing sushi, a hip atmosphere and raving clientele. The Partnership: Located next to the Kiva office, Blowfish Sushi has generously offered discounted meals to Kiva staff. Through busy days and late nights Blowfish has helped fuel the team's focus and morale. Kiva appreciates this tremendous support from Blowfish Sushi - it is To Die For!
	The Company: The mission of Fly for Good is to provide simple, useful opportunities for non-profits to do more good. Our vision is to create opportunities for non-profits: Save money on travel and other professional services, and connect with like-minded organizations and volunteers. The Partnership: Among other benefits, FlyForGood offers Kiva discounts on air travel that help our team get out to the field more often, fore less money. This helps us do what we do more efficiently and lessens the financial barriers for us to travel to see our microfinance partners, and the entrepreneurs they serve, as often as necessary.
	The Company: www.thinkMTV.com is a social network site that allows its members to "take action" on the issues that matter to them. The Partnership: The Goldhirsh Foundation / Clinton Global Initiative is supporting a relationship between Kiva and www.thinkMTV.com, through which Kiva has been selected as a "Best in Class" partner. More info here.
	The Company:as people against dirty, we look at the world through bright-green colored glasses. we see ingredients that come from plants, not chemical plants, and guinea pigs that are never used as guinea pigs. we're entranced by shiny objects like clean dinner plates, floors you could eat off of, nobel peace prizes, and tasteful public sculptures. we're an e.o.m.e.d.(equal opportunity movement for environment and design) method is our way of keeping the movement, well, moving. role models in bottles. a way to help each and every advocate put their method where their mouth is. (See full "humanifesto" here.) The Partnership: Method generously gave all employees in their San Francisco office gift certificates to open Kiva accounts and kick-start their lending. Thanks, Method!
	The Company: VideoJug.com is the world's most popular video learning site and one of the largest sources and creators of factual, educational and informational content online (over 45,000 professionally produced "How To" and Expert Advice videos, and counting). Based in Los Angeles and London, our team of experienced television and film industry professionals create reliable and entertaining informational videos on every conceivable topic in any format. The Partnership: VideoJug is providing Kiva with free video production services, creating both promotional and "How To" videos ("How To Use a Kiva Gift Certificate"). These high quality videos add value to Kiva both in creating simple yet compelling tools for the Kiva community to spread the word, and as educational tools for new Kiva users. Kiva is grateful for the dynamic creativity VideoJug bring to each of their projects.
	The Company: Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, including thousands of nonprofit organizations; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. The Partnership: Intuit helps support Kiva’s mission by donating software to Kiva. Kiva uses Intuit’s products for accounting and reporting Kiva Operation’s Financials.