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Lending Teams: Connect with Kiva's lender community

Join a Lending Team and get to know Kiva's vibrant community of active and inspiring lenders.

Lending Teams are self-organized groups where members connect with each other and rally around shared lending goals.

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25,404 lending teams in all categories
  • KivaFriends.org

    KivaFriends.org

    1,358 members have lent $736,625 in 25,232 loans
    All Over The World Category: Common Interest Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: we are a diverse group of people with diverse reasons for participating on Kiva.org, but with a unifying desire to alleviate poverty around the world through making microloans to the hard working poor.
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  • women empowering women

    women empowering women

    2,892 members have lent $727,700 in 26,571 loans
    global Category: Common Interest Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: empower a woman, change the world.
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  • Washington State

    Washington State

    686 members have lent $691,650 in 24,635 loans
    Washington State Category: Local Area Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: Each of us has a responsibility to all of us.
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  • Kiva Muslims

    Kiva Muslims

    954 members have lent $676,400 in 23,092 loans
    Dunya Category: Religious Congregations Team since: Sep, 2008
    We loan because: 002.271 Yusuf Ali Translation:
    If ye disclose (acts of) charity, even so it is well, but if ye conceal them, and make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you some of your…
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  • Team USA

    Team USA

    2,687 members have lent $670,750 in 22,195 loans
    USA Category: Local Area Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: We believe in the generosity of the human spirit that is still alive within Americans of all backgrounds.
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  • Texas

    Texas

    843 members have lent $664,000 in 19,361 loans
    Texas Category: Local Area Team since: Nov, 2008
    We loan because: Texas does it bigger!
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  • Swiss Kiva

    Swiss Kiva

    507 members have lent $661,575 in 23,627 loans
    Switzerland Category: Local Area Team since: Sep, 2008
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  • Crazy Canucks

    Crazy Canucks

    1,072 members have lent $651,125 in 23,022 loans
    Canada Category: Local Area Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: We live in a well-to-do nation and want to help those less fortunate than ourselves
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  • Heartland Oklahoma Team

    Heartland Oklahoma Team

    323 members have lent $633,625 in 24,088 loans
    OKLAHOMA Category: Local Area Team since: Sep, 2008
    We loan because: Oklahomans are always willing to lend a hand to our neighbors as well as to total strangers.
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  • Kiva Kiwis

    Kiva Kiwis

    607 members have lent $621,475 in 15,897 loans
    New Zealand Category: Local Area Team since: Aug, 2008
    We loan because: Because Kiwis know what it is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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