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Crowdsourcing refers to the idea that a group of people can accomplish something that would otherwise be impossible for an individual to do alone. Crowdfunding describes how the collective pools...
If you want to learn about microfinance, then this video will explain what it is in simpler and easier terms.
Global Philanthropy Group partner Maggie Nielson, who helped develop and implement the United Nation’s Year of Microcredit program in 2005, sums it up nicely: “People just want access to the same...
About 10 years ago, no one believed that going online to find a husband or wife would be something normal, acceptable (not to mention profitable!!). Fast forward 10 years later and online date is no longer a fad but very much a normal thing, almost like ordering a skinny, flat white latte!!
Could Peer to Peer lending and Crowdfunding follow the same route in the next few years? i.e. move from a revolution to being mainstream methods of raising capital for new businesses? While both crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending are ways to secure capital online, the two are different from one another and the aspects of each option should be considered carefully.
What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Watch this video and see Kiva's five+ years of loan activity, in...
This article looks into microfinance and how it evolved and how the Internet is bringing it to more and more people: Microfinance — Dr. Mohammad Yunus & Grameen Bank Microlending —...
KIVA is the world's first online microlending platform that enables anyone with access to the internet to loan as little as $25 to entrepreneurs in over 60 countries. Microfinance is a Nobel...
Microfinance platform Milaap calls itself "Kiva for India," providing a way to loan money to India's working poor to help provide some small upgrades that can make big differences in the lives of people--things like education, clean water and safe lighting that would otherwise be hard to come by. Crowdsourcing.org posed a few questions to Milaap's communications exec, Shubhashree Sangameswaran.
This Pecha Kucha session presents an overview of Kickstarter and 10 other crowdsourced microfinance platforms with examples of National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)-curated, preservation...
To tackle these challenges, Kiva has partnered with Middle Eastern powerhouse Silatech to provide economic development and opportunities for Arab youth. Through this partnership, young people in...
The entrepreneurs featured in this book are all members of Zidisha Microfinance, a web-based crowdfunding platform that allows low-income, computer-savvy entrepreneurs in developing countries to...
Kiva enables individuals to help entrepreneurs in developing countries by giving them micro-loans. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people...
Recent cases of Initial Public Offering’s (IPO’s) of Micro Financial Institutions (MFI’s) have rewarded investors at the expense of borrowers. Post IPO, interest rates have been driven to exorbitant levels thereby compromising the mission of MFI’s to engage in financial lending to smaller borrowers that have a stated social aim of helping to alleviate poverty being compromised. Is the concept of an IPO for an MFI irreparably damaging to the interests of borrowers and does crowdfunding offer an alternative approach that could allow MFIs to get larger and at the same time protect their clients from high interest rates exposure?
Although women play a major role in the economic development of emerging economies, they have the least access to capital and credit compared to their male counterparts. Giving more credit to women has been mooted as one of the fastest ways to reduce poverty in emerging economies. Therefore, increasing access to capital for women through crowdfunding could also be presented as a clear business proposition to actors in the crowdfunding sector as their repayment rates far out way those of men!
ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need to work their way out of poverty.They provide management services,...
Wokai is an organization that allows people to contribute directly to microfinance institutions in China which in turn lend the money to entrepreneurs in rural China. Wokai is a 501(c)(3)...
The site covers all international social lending sites with the latest news about Prosper, Lending Club, Zopa, Ratesetter, Smava, Communitylend, Kiva, Funding Circle and more.
The history of microfinance in the United States begins in the 1970s, when the need to create an inclusive financial system for the many who lack access to appropriate financial products and...
Kiva.org a microfinance institutions was founded on 2005, and has grown up with social media and matured with the platforms that are now so active in driving awareness to causes and campaigns.
Whether it’s new models for microfinance, crowdsourcing, new sources of seed stage capital, more savvy private angels, or business and philanthropic leaders looking differently at risk capital, the...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
