Cafe Compadre's $25,000 loan was funded in under 72 hours! Thanks to the 766 Kiva lenders for becoming part of Compadre's mission to improve incomes for coffee farmers through solar tech!
Kiva Lenders Raise $25,000 for Cafe Compadre in 72 hours
Sustainable Fishery Trade: Building Partnerships in the Bay Area
Simone Pisu from Sustainable Fishery Trade (SFT), an enterprise that connects small-scale fishing families directly to the market, spent two weeks meeting with important sector leaders in San Francisco.
Reflecting on 20 Years of Impact
DLA Piper Improves Access to Legal Services for Social Enterprises in Poland and Romania
A Leap for the Social Investment Sector in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe
Your Impact with Inka Moss: A Year After the Kiva loan
Traits of a Successful Social Entrepreneur
The start of a New Year always feels like an opportunity for fresh beginnings. If you’re at the start or in the process of your own #socialentrepreneurship journey, we want to motivate you. Here are three traits of successful social entrepreneurs to get you started.
Building a Self-Financing Venture into Your Organization’s Fundraising Strategy
Generating new sources of revenues is the primary concern of nonprofit executives and boards, with 24% to 36% of nonprofits operating deficits (Nonprofit Finance Fund). If a self-financing venture is carefully developed with the right process and tools, it can allow a nonprofit not only to diversify its funding sources and reach financial revenue goals, but also to dramatically improve organizational capacity and strengthen its mission and impact outcomes.
Using Technology to Solve the Root Problems of Poverty
Kiva Lenders Fund $50,000 in Loans to Suritex
Through the NESsT-Kiva partnership, Suritex has obtained a total of $50,000 of financing as credit that will allow the company to expand its operations and include more smallholders who can sell their alpaca fiber at a fair price. This was achieved over the course of two Kiva campaigns in September and December.