Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of KIVA.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer online microfinance lending website which allows individuals to lend to specific entrepreneurs. This concept has brought life to entrepreneurs and city economies that otherwise would have been unable to succeed.
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Jessica Jackley is a founder of Kiva.org, the non-profit micro-financing website that allows people to lend as little as $25 to a specific third world entrepreneur, empowering borrowers to lift themselves out of poverty. In just 3 years Kiva, which means unity in Swahili, has helped raise nearly $100 million and connected thousands of people in 180 countries through peer-to-peer lending. Kiva is responsible for a loan every 12 seconds.
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Jessica Jackley
Founder | Kiva.orgA Story of Culture – Jessica Jackley and KIVA
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CultureLeading OrganizationsJessica Jackley is the co-founder of KIVA.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer online microfinance lending website which allows individuals to lend to specific entrepreneurs. This concept has brought life to entrepreneurs and city economies that otherwise would have been unable to succeed.
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Jessica Jackley
FounderKiva.org
Jessica Jackley is a founder of Kiva.org, the non-profit micro-financing website that allows people to lend as little as $25 to a specific third world entrepreneur, empowering borrowers to lift themselves out of poverty. In just 3 years Kiva, which means unity in Swahili, has helped raise nearly $100 million and connected thousands of people in 180 countries through peer-to-peer lending. Kiva is responsible for a loan every 12 seconds.
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