microloans News

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:12 PM ET

Vittana, a new microlending venture, matches individual donors with individual students in the developing world. Read More

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By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Oct 5, 2009 2:36 PM ET

The World Zakat Fund, launching next year, will be the world's first fund dedicated to investing Islamic charitable donations. Read More

More like this in: Reuters, Middle East, Islam, Small Business, Malaysia

By Lisa Germinsky | Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:56 AM ET

Within hours of launching crowd-funding platform Kiva.org in the U.S., Governor Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were in on the lending act Read More

More like this in: Kiva, Entrepreneur, Cambodia, Honduras, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:00 AM ET

A Manhattan orthodontist might not be the first person you would expect to lead a humanitarian organization that has helped scores of the most vulnerable citizens of Africa -- but clearly, Dr. Frank Andolino is no ordinary orthodontist. Read More

More like this in: Health, New York, Non-Profit, Business, Africa, AIDS, Unemployment, Kenya, fundraising, Drinking Water, Healthcare, Deforestation

By Dan Estabrook | Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:37 PM ET

Now, here's something easy that you can do to boost primary school education and alleviate global poverty, with just a click of your mouse! Intel, Kiva and Save the Children Read More

More like this in: Kiva, Cambodia, Third World and Developing Countries, Indonesia, Save the Children, Counting Crows, The Small Things Challenge

By Sebastian Clayton | Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:54 PM ET

With Blog Action Day today helping to raise awareness about poverty around the world, I wanted to write about more microloans that can help secure a better future for Read More

More like this in: Starbucks, Kiva, Facebook, Business, Money, Poverty, Entrepreneur, Microfinance, blog action day