Impact This Week
- 98.04% repayment rate to date.
- 4,475 new lenders joined.
- 1,589 gift certificates purchased.
- $1,497,100.00 lent.
- 1 loan every 12 seconds.
- 18,225 lenders made a loan.
- 4,142 entrepreneurs funded.
| Found 101 loans sorted by Popularity. |
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| Entrepreneur / Activity | Loan Info | Country / Partner | Description | |
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Cristina
Child Care |
$10,000 8% raised |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Cristina started her day care business 6
years ago after working at an
electronics factory in Fremont for
eighteen years. When she suddenly lost
her job, she decided to take
early-education classes... more >> |
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Marta
Clothing Sales |
$10,000 44% raised |
United States ACCION USA |
Marta is from the Dominican Republic and
used to work in a hospital as a nurse's
aide. After she was injured on the job,
she decided to take her home-based
clothing retail business out of her... more >> |
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Maria
Cosmetics Sales |
$5,000 82% raised |
United States ACCION USA |
Maria's home-based beauty supply retail
business was started out of her desire
to begin something on her own, proving
to herself that she could succeed and
earn money on her own. For five
years,... more >> |
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Amanda
Catering |
$6,500 11% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Amanda has always worked hard to support
her family, while facing a series of
personal tragedies—the death of her
parents, followed by the loss of her
brother to cancer and her stepson to a
drunk... more >>
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Helen
Services |
$2,000 3% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
When Helen’s husband, a tenured U.S.
Army veteran, passed away in 2003, she
was left wondering how to make ends
meet. Through her volunteer work with
the genealogy library in Oakland,
California,... more >>
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Veronica
Services |
$1,000 79% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Veronica came to the U.S. from El
Salvador and worked for a house-cleaning
company for three years before realizing
that she had the skills and knowledge to
start her own business. Using her... more >>
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Anonymous
Health |
$7,000 9% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
After working for other people for two
decades in the medical industry, Maria
decided it was time to be her own boss.
Five years ago she started her own
medical billing company that she runs
from... more >>
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Gloria
Services |
$5,000 11% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Gloria purchased Parkside Postal three
years ago to provide a neighborhood mail
and shipping center for the community.
Despite strong sales in her first two
years, she is still unable to qualify... more >>
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Joshua
Clothing Sales |
$1,000 24% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Nov 11, 2009 Dear Kiva Lender,\r\n\r\nThank you for choosing to lend to an ACCION USA micro-entrepreneur!... more >>
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Lupita
Health |
$5,000 16% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
As a single mom, Lupe had to cope with
her son’s diagnosis of
neurofibromatosis on her own. After she
learned how to give him daily massages
to relieve his pain, Lupe realized how
much she... more >>
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Erik
Retail |
$7,500 8% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Erik and Shane seem an unlikely pair to
run a board game shop. Shane works as a
behavioral specialist for people with
disabilities at a local non-profit while
Erik is a veteran of the Iraq War... more >>
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Jenny
Cosmetics Sales |
$750 43% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Nov 11, 2009 Dear Kiva Lender,\r\n\r\nThank you for choosing to lend to an ACCION USA micro-entrepreneur!... more >>
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Heidi
Cafe |
$3,500 4% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
In 2006, Heidi and her husband decided
that they were tired of working for
other people and wanted to earn money on
their own. Once they found a coffee shop
for sale on the internet, they knew... more >>
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Enrique
Cobbler |
$5,000 25% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Nov 11, 2009 Dear Kiva Lender,\r\n\r\nThank you for choosing to lend to an ACCION USA micro-entrepreneur!... more >>
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Svetlana
Arts |
$5,000 0% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
Svetlana is a 51-year-old Russian dancer
who moved to the United States in 1991
and had a son soon after. After years
struggling as a single mother and recent
immigrant, she turned to her 20-plus... more >>
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Luis
Transportation |
$5,625 19% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Luis has a baked goods delivery
business. He began his business seven
years ago and is proud of the success
his venture has become. He is also happy
and proud to be able to send his
thirteen year... more >>
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Nancy
Taxi |
$2,800 22% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Nov 11, 2009 Dear Kiva Lender,\r\n\r\nThank you for choosing to lend to an ACCION USA micro-entrepreneur!... more >>
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Katrina
Health |
$3,000 12% repaid |
United States Opportunity Fund |
“The thing I’ve learned is that you
can’t wait for things to come to
you,” says Katrina about her mobile
massage company. Since losing her job
at a spa when it closed down, she has
focused... more >>
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Elizabeth
Beauty Salon |
$6,000 24% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Nov 11, 2009 Dear Kiva Lender,\r\n\r\nThank you for choosing to lend to an ACCION USA micro-entrepreneur!... more >>
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Anonymous
Dental |
$1,000 7% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Joffre has done laboratory work for
dental clinics since 2001 when he moved
to the U.S. from Ecuador where he
studied orthodontics. One day, one of
the clinic doctors told him he would
give him... more >>
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