My Q&A with Matt Flannery of Kiva from today’s online discussion on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website: Question from Sean Stannard-Stockton, Tactical Philanthropy Blog: As I think you know, I’ve been blogging about the implications of your “excess” supply of lenders at Kiva. You have chosen to tell would be lenders that you there are [...]
Category Archives: microfinance
GlobalGiving Weighs in on Kiva Issues
February 5, 2008 – 8:21 am
Writing on the GlobalGoodness blog, GlobalGiving co-founder Dennis Whittle quotes my recent post on Kiva.org and adds his own thoughts: In the financial markets, there are rules that if a particular exchange is unable to execute an order, they must route that order to a competing exchange immediately. This is from a nice blog post [...]
Kiva.org Responds
February 4, 2008 – 9:53 pm
Fiona Ramsey, Kiva’s director of public relations responds to my post speculating on the implications of Kiva turning donor/investors away for lack of available borrowers to fund. Tomorrow at noon eastern, Kiva co-founder Matt Flannery will be in a live discussion on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website. I’ll post a follow up to Fiona’s comments [...]
Kiva.org & The Social Capital Markets II
January 31, 2008 – 6:36 pm
The New York Times recently reported on the fact that Kiva.org has too much money from donors/investors and not enough people to give/lend the money to: Over the last few months, some visitors to the Web site of Kiva, a nonprofit that lets users make interest-free “microloans” to entrepreneurs in low-development (that is, poor) countries [...]
Kiva.org and the Social Capital Markets
January 30, 2008 – 10:29 am
The NY Times recently wrote about how Kiva.org has a supply/demand problem. Too many donors, not enough people to give the money to. Caroline Heine on PhilanthroMedia writes today , “the inability of Kiva.org to keep pace with its own success is just one more example of the problems caused by the absence of a [...]
