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| Aug 4, 2025 | Emerge and Rise Expands Access to Capital Through Kiva Partnership and New Community Investment Fund | Emerge and Rise - Together We Can
As traditional capital falls short, Emerge and Rise brings zero-interest loans and a $5M community fund to power small business growth. SAN ANTONIO, TX, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- E... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Call for Nominations: Seventh Annual .ORG Impact Awards to Recognize Global Changemakers | PIR increases age limit of "Rising Star" category from 25 to under 30
Winners eligible for prize donations up to $50,000 USD out of $180,000 USD total prize awards
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| Oct 9, 2024 | Public Interest Registry Unveils Winners of 6th Annual .ORG Impact Awards at DC Ceremony Hosted by Emmy Winner Alan Cumming | Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation named 2024 .ORG of the Year, selected from over 1,700 applicants from more than 87 countries
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, announce... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Public Interest Registry Announces 2024 .ORG Impact Awards Finalists, Emmy & Tony Award Winner Alan Cumming to Host | 35 innovative, mission-driven organizations and changemakers selected from over 1,700 applicants from more than 87 countries
RESTON, Va., Aug. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, named... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | FinTech: The New Compass for Financial Literacy in a Digital World** ** | ** In a world where money moves faster than ever, understanding it is crucial. FinTech, or Financial Technology, is the lighthouse guiding individuals through the stormy seas of finance. It’s not just about apps and algorithms; it’s about e... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | FinTech and the Food Industry: A New Era of Empowerment and Education**
** | ** In the bustling landscape of modern finance and food, two forces are reshaping the way we think about money and business. FinTech is revolutionizing financial literacy, while innovative tools like Silo are empowering small and medium-siz... |
| Jul 21, 2024 | The Role of FinTech in Driving Financial Literacy and Education for the Digital Age | Share
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FinTech (Financial Technology) is emerging as a pivotal force, transforming how individuals interact with money. As digital platforms and tools become more accessible, FinTech plays a crucial role in enhancing ... |
| May 28, 2024 | Eficode acquires Jodocus and reinforces Atlassian Cloud skills and Atlassian partnership in Germany | Eficode acquires Jodocus and reinforces Atlassian Cloud skills and Atlassian partnership in Germany
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Helsinki, Finland, 28 May 2024— Eficode has acquired Jodocus, the first cloud-... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Deals in brief: Investree to secure Series D funding, JBIC partners with India’s NIIF for sustainability fund, Investible backs Renewable Metals, and more | Investree to secure up to USD 230.8 million in Series D funding through joint venture in Doha
The Indonesian online lending platform is set to secure Series D funding of up to EUR 220 million (USD 230.8 million) through the establishment of... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | 20 Coaches Share Ways They Use Their Expertise To Give Back | getty |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Dr. Ian Hardy Honored for 10 Years of Microfinance Philanthropy, Empowering Low-Income Entrepreneurs | CHANG MAI, THAILAND , June 6, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. Ian Hardy has been recognized for his remarkable decade-long commitment to Kiva Microfunds, a nonprofit microcredit organization dedicated to expanding financial access and empower... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | The Bullet: The Importance of Microfinance in SEA | Microfinance, or the practice of providing small loans and financial services to underserved communities, has become increasingly important in Southeast Asia in recent years. In a region where many people lack access to traditional banking ... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Google Backs SA’s Economic Recovery With Support For Startups, SMMEs And Nonprofits | Google
At a virtual Google for South Africa event today, Google unpacked its support for startups, SMMEs and nonprofits in a bid to accelerate digital transformation and help South Africa’s economy recover. This follows announcements made a... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Google Backs SA’s Economic Recovery With Support For Startups, SMMEs And Nonprofits | Google |
| Feb 2, 2022 | DoorDash : Celebrating Black History Month | Black History Month celebrates Black culture and serves as a reminder of Black achievement while still acknowledging the work that is still left to be done. This month and throughout the year, we're proud of the contributions Black Dashers,... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Как переключиться с менталитета нищего на менталитет серийного стартапера из Кремниевой долины | Почему так «мало успешных основателей стартапов, которые выросли в полной нищете»
Рикки Йен (в центре), дважды фаундер Y Combinator: Crowdbooster (S10) и Flow Club (S21)
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Я собрал в одном месте Founders at work: 150+ историй осн... |
| Dec 19, 2021 | Hassle-free cleaning with MaidThis | What is MaidThis?
MaidThis offers hassle-free house cleaning for busy individuals and vacation rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc.). This short-term rental cleaning franchise can be run remotely from anywhere, making it perfect for millennial... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Is the self-sovereign digital identity the future digital business registry? | Email
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Centralized vs Decentralized Business Identifier. Source: Goran Vranic.
In this digital age of instant access to information and socially distant transactions, unique digital identity is a fundamental r... |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Kiva Founder Jessica Jackley Launches Alltruists To Help Kids Give Back | Alltruists founder Jessica Jackley wants to make it fun and simply for kids to give back.Alltruists |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Zuora : Employees Lend Over $50,000 USD on Kiva.Org | July 20, 2021
Zuora and Kiva share the same vision of a more inclusive economy.
At Zuora, we believe the World Subscribed is a better world and that by facilitating access over ownership, the Subscription Economy has the ability to democrat... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Sage : Canadian businesses see pandemic as an opportunity to improve environmental, social, and community impact, Sage study finds | TORONTO, July 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sage (FTSE: SGE), the market leader in cloud business management solutions, today released the Canadian findings of its new report, Knocking Down Barriers, which surveyed decision makers at busines... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Sage launches Sustainability & Society Strategy ‘Knocking Down Barriers' tackling economic inequality and the climate crisis | ATLANTA, June 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, launches its ambitious new sustainability and society strategy, Knocking Down Barriers. Sage’s goal is to tackle societal and ... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Sage : launches ‘Knocking Down Barriers' sustainability & society strategy | The goal of Sage's new sustainability and society strategy, Knocking Down Barriers, is to tackle societal and economic inequality as well as support a new generation of diverse and sustainable businesses.
Worldwide, Sage serves millions of ... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Sage : launches Sustainability & Society Strategy ‘Knocking Down Barriers' tackling economic inequality and the climate crisis | Newcastle, UK, 24 June 2021 - Today Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, launches its ambitious new sustainability and society strategy, Knocking Down Barriers. Sage's goal is to tackle societal and economic inequ... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | DoorDash : Join Us in Championing Women-Owned Businesses and Uplifting Women Voices | Today, we announced Made by Women, an in-app and digital platform that aims to champion women-owned businesses and uplift women voices, along with a first-of-its-kind partnership with multi-platform ESPN commentator and two-time WNBA All-St... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | 7 FinTechs Fueling Financial Inclusion | (c) Andranik1990 | Dreamstime.com |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Геймификация как основа долгосрочных отношений с клиентами. Часть 1. Миссия | Чувство собственной значимости, чувство какой-то очень важной миссии, которая возложена на вас, — один из основных мотивационных факторов в геймификации и сегодня я расскажу о нем подробно, а также приведу 5 примеров использования этой техн... |
| Nov 30, 2020 | 10 Impactful Ways To Donate This Giving Tuesday | getty |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Groupon : Hit Hard by COVID-19, Groupon Wants to Help You Support Women-owned Small Businesses | Groupon––where customers discover fun things to do and local businesses thrive––is encouraging everyone to celebrate October’s National Women’s Small Business Month by supporting women-owned small businesses in their community. To make it e... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | GROUPON, INC.
Groupon : Hit Hard by COVID-19, Groupon Wants to Help You Support Women-owned Small Businesses | Groupon––where customers discover fun things to do and local businesses thrive––is encouraging everyone to celebrate October’s National Women’s Small Business Month by supporting women-owned small businesses in their community. To make it e... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | iPSE-US, SBA, KIVA and ITA Host Gig Economy webinar on access to capital for independent workers in U.S. | WASHINGTON, July 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iPSE-U.S. (The Association of Independent Workers) in collaboration with the SBA, Kiva and the ITA announced today at a special webinar event centered around the Gig Economy and access to capita... |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Angel Rich Shares How To Strive For Financial Fitness To Rebound From A Global Pandemic | Courtesy of Angel Rich |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Small Business Relief Tracker: Funding, Grants And Resources For Business Owners Grappling With Coronavirus | A sadly familiar sign in the window of a small business. But help is on the way from many sources.Getty Images |
| Mar 19, 2020 | How To Find Money, Keep Your Business Going, And Help Your Employees During COVID-19 | Small Business Administration workers assisting applicants in Oklahoma in the past. Now, this ... [+] support has moved online. Wikicommons |
| Oct 9, 2019 | Women in AgTech: Fighting machismo in Latin America | Forbes has been having a field day (or week) with a slew of women-centric stories, making their way around social media – the gem being their piece on how 2019’s women of The Forbes 400 are the wealthiest they’ve ever been, with a combined ... |
| Apr 23, 2019 | Frozen Treats With a Trinidadian Twist: Q&A With Island Pops Co-Founder Khalid Hamid | The co-founder of Island Pops, Khalid Hamid, snacks on one of his sorrel flower ice pops, a popular Trinidadian flavor, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Nina Roberts
On a busy corner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Khalid Hamid and his wife Shelly M... |
| Jan 7, 2019 | 3 ways to get started as an investor for as little as $500 | Sarah Waiswa/Getty Images
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| Mar 28, 2018 | This young lending startup just secured $70 million to lend $2 at a time | You don’t hear of many $2 loans in the United States, where $2 won’t buy you more than a chocolate bar. But in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, and Nairobi, Kenya, $2 has the buying power of roughly $40, making such “micro” loans useful when you... |
| Dec 19, 2017 | Don’t sleep on this Ben Franklin/Village Capital program for underrepresented founders | At October’s PSL Diversity Dinner, IOPipe founder Erica Windisch delivered a bone-chilling anecdote: a Philly investor group she would not name ghosted on her pitch after an adviser at the firm outed her gender identity as a trans woman.
Th... |
| Nov 10, 2017 | With new program, the city gets into microlending for its own residents | A new city program will offer women entrepreneurs up to a $1,000 interest-free loan if they can secure another $9,000 from friends, family and the greater internet.
The program is called WE NYC and will be run through the crowdfunding platf... |
| May 14, 2017 | Buttons for Good donates to charity every time you take an Uber | What if every time you took an Uber, you gave to charity without spending extra money?
That’s the idea behind Buttons for Good, a hack developed at TechCrunch’s Hackathon at Disrupt New York.
Button co-founders Chris Maddern and Stephen Mil... |
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| Jan 31, 2017 | Help launch this Temple grad’s phone repair cart by giving him a loan | Jesse DiLaura is looking for some seed cash to launch his millennial-focused phone repair business, Repair U. It’ll be a mobile cart posted up on campus to fix students’ phones.
In a post on peer-to-peer lending platform Kiva, which launche... |
| Dec 23, 2016 | MySpace’s Former CEO Says Millennials Are ‘Unprecedented’ | This article is part of Tools of the Trade, a weekly series in which a variety of experts share actionable tips for achieving fast and effective results on everything from forming good habits to raising money.
This week Mike Jones, co-found... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | Here are at least 12 ways to give back this holiday season | It’s once again Giving Tuesday, a day that encourages you to give back to those less fortunate. You had Thanksgiving and Black Friday to splurge on yourself and your loved ones, but now it’s time to think about those with fewer means. If yo... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | Here are at least 12 ways to give back this holiday season | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s once again Giving Tuesday, a day that encour... |
| Nov 21, 2016 | Smallholder Farmers Have the Ability to Save and myAgro is Helping Them Do It | When Anushka Ratnayake moved to Kenya in 2008, a surprise was in store for her.
Ratnayake had been working at micro-lending platform Kiva in San Francisco, which helps individual and small businesses across the developing nations of the wor... |
| Nov 13, 2016 | What Asia Can Learn From Africa To Succeed in Fintech For Unbanked? | Facebook is currently considering acquiring mobile money giant M-Pesa in Kenya.
One month ago Visa payments network introduced a mobile-phone application to enable cashless transactions in Kenya too. The mVisa app will initially facilitate ... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | The re-bundling of peer-to-peer finance - Simon Menashy | (This article can be found on MMC Writes)
Last week, peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa announced Europe’s first securitisation of unsecured consumer loans. Effectively they have bundled up 27,137 loans worth £138 million, which public mar... |
| Sep 28, 2016 | The big rebundling of peer-to-peer finance | This week, peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa announced Europe’s first securitization of unsecured consumer loans. Effectively, they have bundled up 27,137 loans worth £138 million ($180 million), which public markets investors can now go a... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | 5 bots to try this week: Angry Shakespeare, Hardwell, Trulia, Dinner Ideas, and TagOpp | Each week we bring you a few bots we think are fun or helpful or worth the time to try out.
This week’s selection includes the personal bot of DJ Hardwell, a bot that delivers insults in Shakespearean English, one to help your career, and o... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | One of Baltimore’s next coworking spaces will include childcare | Moms who want to start a business are finding local support for balancing business and family from the Moms as Entrepreneurs academy.
And now a coworking space is next.
MAE cofounder Tammira Lucas and her sister Kesha Jamison are looking to... |
| Aug 11, 2016 | If they could build an app, I could too: A non-programmer’s path to programming | I’ve been coding full time for approximately three years. Prior to working as a developer, I lived a completely different life, doing jobs that I didn’t care about just to pay the bills. Before going back to school in 2010 for computer scie... |
| May 16, 2016 | 10 Nonprofits Changing How We Live, Dream and Help One Another | May 16, 2016 6 min read
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If you’re ever in need of inspiration, check the nonprofit sector. These groups dedicate themselves to solving problems big and small -- and making the w... |
| May 2, 2016 | Zidisha: Crowdfunded Microloans to Reduce Poverty | In the context of financial inclusion, fintech holds boundless potential. Fintech players, who use software and digital platforms to deliver financial services to consumers, are helping in making financial products and services more attaina... |
| Mar 30, 2016 | Branch.co raises $9.2 million to bring financial services where banks don’t go | San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round.
Branch’s free-to-download Android app i... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Second Annual Women in Tech Festival Kicks Off At the End of March | This week, the organizers of Silicon Valley Forum’s Women in Tech Festival announced the event will be taking place on March 30th at Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View, California. This is a full-day celebration of the achievements and acc... |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Craig Thomler – Social Media Planner | website twitter facebook youtube
Craig is one of Australia’s leading digital media strategists and practitioners, with over 20 years experience in the digital industry.
He has over 15 years experience in the online sector as an entrepreneur... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | What Is Social Entrepreneurship? | We millennials are a bold generation. From our insistence that work have meaning to the disruptive innovations we embrace (e.g. Lyft), we are dramatically shifting the future of this planet. Our enduring legacy will be the expectation that ... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Bill Clinton at Kiva’s National Launch of Small Biz Lending Platform | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Wednesday night in New York, Kiva took the wraps off its nationwide platform for zero-percent-interest small business loans—with a little help from former President Bill Clint... |
| Oct 5, 2015 | A Decade After Being Founded In SF, Kiva Turns Its Focus Toward Zero-Interest Loans For Bay Area Entrepreneurs | When online donors overloaded the requests of Kiva co-founders Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley more than a decade ago, they were targeting some of the world’s poorest borrowers in places as far away as East Africa and India.
But 10 years ... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Google’s Giving $5 Million To SF Bay Area Nonprofits Focused On Social Impact | Google just unveiled the 10 finalists for its second Impact Challenge: Bay Area, an effort to drive social change through funding local nonprofit organizations and charities. The top four organizations get $500,000 in grant funding and the ... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Civic crowdfunding will challenge governments and charities | The online crowdsourcing of ideas and capital has transformed business tasks such as innovation, technical problem solving and product design. It has also revolutionised startup financing and scaled peer-to-peer lending. What was once in th... |
| Sep 1, 2015 | Kiva’s Jessica Jackley: How Entrepreneurs Can Do a Lot with a Little | In her new book, Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least, Jessica Jackley, cofounder of the micro-lending site Kiva, shares the stories of resourceful entrepreneurs she has met and explains wh... |
| Aug 23, 2015 | Crowdsourcing Dystopia | Lorelei Kelly Contributor
Lorelei Kelly leads the Resilient Democracy Coalition, a group working to make sure Congress succeeds in the Information Age.
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Congress needs your input (but don’t call it crowdsourcin... |
| Jun 29, 2015 | 10 Women-Friendly Tech Startups | Ten startups released numbers showing how women-friendly they are, as part of the launch of San Francisco startup Doxa.
We’re talking pay gaps, percentage of women at the company (and in tech and leadership), maternity leave, and who gets p... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Know your mission statement — a little fatherly advice | My Dad’s Mission
It was the summer of 1992, a few months before I would start high school. Dad and I sat in the family car, parked in our driveway, with the windows down to let in the warm breeze. I sat on the passenger side; my legs were s... |
| Feb 23, 2015 | DriverUp Launches Online Auto Loan Marketplace With $50M Series A | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
An online marketplace for auto loans called DriverUp has grabbed $50 million in Series A funding to launch its service.
DriverUp, which is run by Dallas-based specialty financ... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | You can now lend money to Philly businesses with Kiva Zip | With the help of the Barra Foundation, the City of Philadelphia is helping local businesses get startup capital. Not startup venture capital — just good old fashioned small business loans, but these come with zero percent interest.
The loan... |
| Aug 2, 2014 | Can Bitcoin Deliver on its Promise to the World's Unbanked? | Jason Tyra is a Certified Public Accountant and ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner. In this article, he evaluates the potential benefits bitcoin offers for the world's impoverished and unbanked, and outlines what needs to be done to give this un... |
| May 16, 2014 | Texas Proposes Equity-based Crowdfunding Rules | By LAURA LOREK
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| Apr 21, 2014 | Here are five different approaches to crowdfunding for biotechnology | It would work with patient advocacy groups and would spotlight areas where more investment dollars are needed, such as treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
Cancer treatment has been one area where crowdfunding is growing, particularly to fun... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Chelsea Clinton To Silicon Valley: Hey, You’re Supposed To Be Changing The World | While Silicon Valley obsesses over which social app Facebook will acquire for billions with the next spin of the wheel, an unsung fleet of entrepreneurs and philanthropists are doggedly working to empower the developing world. Chelsea Clint... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Kiva and Vittana partner to crowdfund loans for students in developing nations | Kiva.org and Vittana.org have teamed up to bring higher education opportunities to low-income students in developing nations.
A partnership of this kind is strategic for the two nonprofits. San Francisco-based Kiva asks its donors to lend a... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | Google’s Eric Schmidt Will Give $1 Million In Tech-For-Good Grants | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he is donating $1 million to help solve global problems through technology. “I think I should put my money where my mouth is,” Schmidt told CBS, in a promotion for The New Digital Age, his book co-written w... |
| Jan 23, 2014 | Zidisha Launches A Kickstarter-Style Micro-Lending Platform For Low-Income Entrepreneurs In Developing Countries | When it comes to lending and borrowing money, banks have long been at the center of the equation. However, with the proliferation of new information technologies, mobile devices and the good old Web, new methods of borrowing and lending hav... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | The Village Walk: Trust, Relevance, and Reputation in Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dawn broke quietly that morning near Eregi, in Western Kenya, apricot light chasing the indigo of night, birdcalls and soft footsteps sounding outside my farm room’s door. I s... |
| Dec 21, 2013 | The best last-minute gift: Online charitable donations for techies | For every kind of techie, a charity’s out there that speaks to their deepest passions and core beliefs.
For the first-world nerd on your list, the most thoughtful gift you can give is a donation in their name — something that’s perfectly, t... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Kiva gets $3M award from Google to reach the ‘overlooked’ poor with big ideas | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kiva is launching Kiva Labs, a new initiative tha... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Kiva gets $3M award from Google to reach the ‘overlooked’ poor with big ideas | Kiva is launching Kiva Labs, a new initiative that aims to generate $25 million in loans for clean energy, mobile technology, and agriculture. Google granted Kiva $3 million for winning its Global Impact Award, which is funding the project.... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | How Sama Group’s donations model connects and aids the world’s poor | Dr. Darius Maggi, a retired obstetrician, is a regular visitor to Sierra Leone, a country where 1 in 14 women die of complications from pregnancy. He’s using his retirement money to fund operations for over 100 women each year, who suffer f... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Children as ‘orphans’ of innovation: Finding good homes | An early innovation: Specially bred cows graze in front of Boston Children’s Hospital in 1919, providing safe, tuberculosis-free milk for patients.
By Nancy Fliesler
Clinicians wanting to develop new devices and treatments for children face... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Zoona: mobile money helping Zambia’s unbanked populace | What is Africa’s biggest problem when it comes to money and banks? Easy: in many parts of the continent there are large portions of the populace that are unbanked. The solution for this came a few years ago with M-Pesa, a mobile money solut... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Kiva and Dosomething.org turn microfinance into mobile game for teens | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiva and Dosomething.org are partnering up to fund 25,000 women entrepreneurs in a bid to help break the cycle of poverty.
The 25,000 W... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Zoona: mobile money helping Zambia’s unbanked populace | What is Africa’s biggest problem when it comes to money and banks? Easy: in many parts of the continent there are large portions of the populace that are unbanked. The solution for this came a few years ago with M-Pesa, a mobile money solut... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Kiva and Dosomething.org turn microfinance into mobile game for teens | Kiva and Dosomething.org are partnering up to fund 25,000 women entrepreneurs in a bid to help break the cycle of poverty.
The 25,000 Women campaign aims at getting young people engaged in fighting poverty. Participants are aged between 13 ... |
| May 21, 2013 | With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Startups Can Attract Big Numbers | Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits and for project-based giving. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically. Change.org has grown... |
| May 16, 2013 | Kiva’s Domestic Microlending Initiative Expands to Flint | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kiva Detroit, Kiva’s first domestic microlending initiative—and the country’s first community-led microlending program—spent its first year focused on expanding the social net... |
| May 5, 2013 | Crowdcases says its ‘crowd of designers’ can change the world (exclusive) | New York-based Crowdcases wants to bring together a community of designers to raise funds for nonprofit organizations.
Each week, the startup picks a charity, and asks artists to submit a design for a custom iPhone or Samsung Galaxy case. T... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | What the government can learn from crowdfunders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Two weeks ago, I was sitting in on a web chat hel... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Kiva’s Crowdfunded Loans Platform Chalks Up 1M Borrowers & $400M Lent, After Seven Years Of Micro-Lending To Alleviate Poverty | Kiva.org, a not-for-profit organisation that’s been matching micro-lenders with low-income borrowers since 2005, has announced it’s passed the one million borrowers mark. The total value of the crowdfunded loans, which have been spread acro... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | Mobile tech, social good: How these computer scientists are making an impact | Yaw Anokwa (Photo: Annie Laurie Malarkey)
Our latest episode of the GeekWire Podcast featured former Geek of the Week Yaw Anokwa. He’s a graduate of the University of Washington computer science program, the co-founder of the software start... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | TripAdvisor Combines Philanthropy And Marketing By Letting Reviewers Give A Free $25 Kiva Microloan | TripAdvisor is putting up $250,000 of its own money to allow 10,000 people who leave a review on its site to allocate a $25 Kiva microloan to a fledgling entrepreneur in the country they visited. It could encourage people to use TripAdvisor... |
| Nov 18, 2012 | 4 guys, 48 states, 1 epic road trip to awaken entrepreneurship across America | The cross-country road trip is a quintessential American experience. Whether you are on the run from the law, battling conformity in a psychedelic school bus, or in search of love, powerful things can happen on the open road. Six months ago... |
| Nov 18, 2012 | 4 guys, 48 states, 1 epic road trip to awaken entrepreneurship across America | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The cross-country road trip is a quintessential A... |
| Nov 1, 2012 | Facebook Gifts Get Charitable: You Can Now Give The Gift Of Donations To Your Friends | Facebook Gifts launched with the ability for you to buy something meaningful for a friend or family member on the social network. I’ve tinkered with it a bit and have bought a few gifts, including a bonsai tree and Starbucks gift cards. My ... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care | Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big, difficult problems. I mean the type of big, honking problems no one likes to tal... |
