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By: Four Years After Founding, Kiva Hits $100 Million In Microloans | AtBlogs

Four Years After Founding, Kiva Hits $100 Million In Microloans | AtBlogs — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:51:02 +0000

[...] entrepreneurs last summer (which caused some controversy, but was the right decision). It also has APIs for other developers to build on its data [...]

By: Four Years After Founding, Kiva Hits $100 Million In Microloans

Four Years After Founding, Kiva Hits $100 Million In Microloans — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:32:32 +0000

[...] entrepreneurs last summer (which caused some controversy, but was the right decision). It also has APIs for other developers to build on its data [...]

By: Story of a Kiva Loan | THE DREAM IN ACTION

Story of a Kiva Loan | THE DREAM IN ACTION — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:13:05 +0000

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By: The Kiva Story - using the power of the Internet « Social & Ecological Change by Tech-Economic Approaches

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:31:11 +0000

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By: about 24 hours ago from Spaz — social #fundraising with kiva.org and twitter | evo42 communications Ltd. | evolving web 1.5 to 4.2 | design of social semantic applications

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:56:32 +0000

[...] Calling All Socially-Minded Techies; Kiva Launches API Platform (techcrunch.com) [...]

By: Mani

Mani — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:08:35 +0000

Wrote an small script to fetch all lending activities and pushed into twitter account:

https://twitter...kivalendactivts

People can follow all the kiva lending activites @kivalendactivts.

Please let me know your feedback.

By: ChangeInFocus.org» Blog Archive » Build.Kiva Launches API Platform

ChangeInFocus.org» Blog Archive » Build.Kiva Launches API Platform — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:13:23 +0000

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By: Kiva.org Makes It Easier For Microlenders

Kiva.org Makes It Easier For Microlenders — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:20:36 +0000

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By: February 4, 2009 | next media update

February 4, 2009 | next media update — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:45:34 +0000

[...] Kiva Launches API Platform TECHCRUNCH Kiva.org , the non-profit people-to-people microlending organization, is rolling out an open-source API platform for techies interested in building tools and new applications for the microfinance/microlending community. Kiva wants ‘build.kiva.org’ to become a hub for socially-minded developers who want a make a difference in the world (and create cool applications). Source> [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:46:01 +0000

I’m working on an application to increase transparency in the microcredit industry. Anyone want to join efforts let me know.

By: links for 2009-02-05 « Amy G. Dala

links for 2009-02-05 « Amy G. Dala — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:02:36 +0000

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By: Andrew Wise

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:32:17 +0000

It’s great to see that social entrepreneurs can build a successful business, and hopefully we’ll see a lot more startups focusing on the social good as a result.

By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:13:34 +0000

Kiva Launches API Platform…

TECH CRUNCH — Feb 3 — Kiva.org, the non-profit people-to-people microlending organization, is rolling out an open-source API platform ‘build.kiva.org’ for techies interested in building tools and new applications for the microfinance/microlending c…

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:15:18 +0000

love seeing good things happen to people doing good.

By: Dan Melton

Dan Melton — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:00:12 +0000

if anyone wants to work on an opensocial app, tweet me @danmelton.

Joined the site last night and made my first loan, its a pretty powerful that you can be an angel or vc for someone else, lol, while looking for your own. Puts things in perspective.

By: Erich

Erich — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:07:38 +0000

For any interested, I have created an social graph of the relationships between Kiva’s partners and the loan recipients:

http://www.howw...e-kiva-network/

By: Northwest Entrepreneur Network « TechWag

Northwest Entrepreneur Network « TechWag — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:51:29 +0000

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By: Steve Nimmons

Steve Nimmons — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:45:13 +0000

It would be interesting to see what synergy could be created with things like Facebook causes. I wonder if maybe there’s some API magic that could glue established communities on other Social Networks to Kiva’s financing model. Rather than just have bunches of non-active cause members on Social Networks it would be interesting to see if they could be ‘mobilised’ through such integration…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:58:35 +0000

my bad – make the last word ‘borrowers’

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:57:17 +0000

How about developing some kind of automated Robin Hood that sends out Nigerian Scam spam email and automatically transfers funds collected to worthy debtors

By: MicroLend.org is my domain

MicroLend.org is my domain — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:08:11 +0000

@socialcoop

By: MicroLend.org is my domain

MicroLend.org is my domain — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:45:28 +0000

It’s great to see Kiva.org succeed. I’m excited to see what comes out of their API.

Any programmers want to cook something up?
I own MicroLend.org and I’d love to host your creations.

Tweet me if you’re interested!

By: draffy

draffy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:34:48 +0000

Yes very cool api.
The time are a changing !

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:45:29 +0000

All the facts you could want here:
http://www.kiva...bout/help/stats

To date:

- over $58 million in loans
- a loan every 31 seconds
- over 400,000 lenders
- borrowers in 43 countries
- average loan size $432
- 97.5% repayment rate

By: Gerrit Eicker

Gerrit Eicker — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:43:13 +0000

Kiva is a NPO, but you'll find numbers on their success in bringing together lenders and recipients on their site. Key facts: - Total value of all loans made through Kiva: $58,395,185 - Number of Kiva Lenders: 434,702 - Number of loans that have been funded through Kiva: 83,419 - Number of Kiva Field Partners (microfinance institutions Kiva partners with): 94 - Current repayment rate (all partners): 97.50% (!) Smile! Gerrit - We speak Online.