Impact This Week
- 98.27% repayment rate to date.
- 3,010 entrepreneurs funded.
- 1 loan every 15 seconds.
- $1,274,025.00 lent.
- 4,410 new lenders joined.
- 790 gift certificates purchased.
- 17,782 lenders made a loan.
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| Entrepreneur / Activity | Loan Info | Country / Partner | Description | |
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Steven
Textiles |
$10,000 100% raised |
United States ACCION USA |
Steven is a skilled leather craftsman
with over twenty years of experience in
luxury leather goods. He's self-taught
and started as a sandal maker in
Greenwich Village, New York City, in the
early... more >> |
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Don
Services |
$4,500 0% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Don has a full-time job working with the
United States Government. He was also
looking for a way to create a stream of
extra income and become his own boss, so
he researched possible businesses. He... more >>
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Athanasios
Food Stall |
$3,000 0% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
For the past 20 years Athanasios (Tony)
has operated his mobile restaurant in
the busy lower Manhattan area.
Tony came to ACCION USA for a loan after
September 11, 2001. During the tough... more >> |
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Cristina
Child Care |
$10,000 2% repaid |
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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Amanda
Catering |
$6,500 16% 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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Brian
Biofuels |
$8,000 3% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Brian definitely has an entrepreneurial
streak - after converting a city bus to
run on vegetable oil, he launched his
own alternative fuel retail company at
the tender age of 23, right after... more >>
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Helen
Services |
$2,000 11% 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 88% 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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Maria
Health |
$7,000 22% 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 16% 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 40% 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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Robin
Cafe |
$10,000 2% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
Robin and her husband moved from
Pennsylvania to a small Floridian island
in 2004, having already had experience
working together in restaurants. When a
little deli on the island came up for
sale,... more >>
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Lupita
Health |
$5,000 23% 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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Anthanasios
Food Stall |
$2,000 0% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
After arriving in the United States
thirty years ago from the western coast
of Greece, Athanasios quickly applied
his entrepreneurial spirit to start his
own hotdog food cart. For the past... more >>
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Erik
Retail |
$7,500 14% 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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Mario
Transportation |
$4,000 0% repaid |
United States ACCION USA |
When Mario first moved to the United
States over thirty years ago, he worked
in food preparation. After years of
working in a freezer he began to have
troubles with his hands and the
doctor... more >>
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Jenny
Cosmetics Sales |
$750 66% 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 11% 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 33% 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 4% 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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