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In 2016, Kiva and the Mastercard Foundation launched a five-year partnership to test, develop, and scale high-impact loans serving the unique needs of smallholder farmers and rural populations across Africa. The partnership enabled Kiva Labs...
Here at Kiva, we see the advancement of women’s economic empowerment as a crucial building block of gender equity. More than 80% of Kiva loans go to women, enabling them to start and grow businesses...
Kiva's Executive Chairwoman, Julie Hanna introduces Kiva's new CEO Chris Tsakalakis and Board Member Silvija Martincevic...
Neville Crawley shares gratitude and reflects on his tenure as Kiva's CEO as he passes on the baton of Kiva leadership. ...
This case study demonstrates that Kiva’s unique risk tolerant, crowdfunded capital, enabled lending partner, ECLOF Kenya, to offer individual loans for the first time. As a result, their new loan product increased milk productivity yields...
Kiva Capital Management is excited to share the final close of the Kiva Refugee Investment Fund, a $32.5 million facility which will help scale lending to refugees and fragile communities globally....
Learnings and reflections from the Kiva Labs Innovation Showcase, an online event hosted by Kiva to bring together our lending partners from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Lending partners shared their stories on resilience and innovation in...
Google and Kiva have established a $26 million loan initiative to create financial solutions to support thousands of small businesses spanning 10 countries, and a separate $1 million grant to help Kiva build capacity for...
How Kiva listened, adapted, and learned with global lending partners and U.S. Hubs to create greater financial access and opportunity for thousands of women and men across diverse regions of the world, universally impacted by...
Kiva's Senior Investment Manager of Small and Growing Business, Luke Seidl spoke with Energy 4 Impact about the Kiva Labs: Social Enterprise program and its response to the pandemic....
Kiva's crisis support loans provided a much-needed lifeline for energy access-related crowdfunding amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The report Crowd Power: Crowdfunding Energy Access State of the Market 2019-20 examines the role of alternative finance, such...
Watch Matthew Davie, Kiva's Chief Strategy Officer, share more about Kiva Protocol, a decentralized, secure, and open-source digital identity system designed to provide pathways to financial inclusion....
