Kiva is a developing world micro-finance organisation with a difference: it is based in San Francisco.
He hopes to provide steady work to 100 people in Thailand through their new partnership with Kiva.
Kiva is the first global lending platform and is currently the leader for p2p crowdfunding in developing countries.
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He says that guarding against these kinds of scams is an important service Global Giving and Kiva can provide.
Globalgiving and Kiva say they work with local groups to vet would-be entrepreneurs.
In 2003, D'Andrea co-founded Kiva Systems, applying the knowledge learnt creating a team of soccer-playing robots at Cornell University.
Lenders do not receive interest on loans, but the borrower does pay some interest, which helps pay some of Kiva's costs.
"I think part of the success of Kiva is that you actually get to see where your money goes, " says Shah.
Some such entrepreneurs remain unaware of Kiva.org -- or of the Internet, for that matter -- even as they benefit from both.
Person-to-person financing is provided remotely using borrower information stored on Kiva's website.
She was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, an early staff member at Kiva.org and an advisor to many healthcare companies and social enterprises.
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Its main room has a large bronze antelope head on a white adobe wall that tops a curved fireplace, known as a kiva.
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But they were also given personal tools to address those issues, such as recyclable bottles and personal loans to the poor through KIVA.org.
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He wrote honestly about his concern investing in ProFounder.com co-founder Jessica Jackley, also the founder of Kiva.org, once she told him she was pregnant.
Kiva teams up with micro-finance organizations on the ground, which vet the borrowers to help ensure they can repay their loans (about 98% do, as did Tursunova).
Another site, the non-profit Kiva.org, is also social in nature, but instead of donations to charities, it lets you make interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
With a 99% repayment rate, Kiva lenders gain tremendous leverage.
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Now the workers in Thailand can raise loans through Kiva to purchase the materials, and Yellow Leaf Hammocks will sell the hammocks for them and pay them for the continued work.
On her whirlwind tour publicizing the new joint Dermalogica and Kiva.org initiative, FITE (Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship), Wurwand describes what beauty salons have meant for so many women around the world.
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"When we were doing RoboCup (an international robotics competition) it did not enter my mind that the learnings I would take from my students I had trained could be used to build a company like Kiva Systems, " he says.
And while the Kiva's co-founders will not put a dollar figure on the amount they have loaned so far, they do say that every time a new business is listed on the website, the needed funds are raised in just days, or even hours.
The plan is to raise money for Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program, which is focused on educating children whose lives have been disrupted by armed conflict, and Kiva's effort to provide small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world who need capital to improve their lives.
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