Bonus: One-on-one interview with Cynthia McLurry of Kiva] Kiva, the Micro-Lending Crowdfund Platform: Fighting Poverty One Country At A Time. Author: Diana Yazidjian, Crowdfunding consultant and Principal at Do-it-for-You Consulting. I was looking forward to hearing Cynthia McMurry, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Kiva.org, speak at the KWS Forum conference held...
Crowdfunding for Science and Research Projects
This Crowdfunding platform is different by enabling you to get in on the research game RocketHub is an online platform that balances typical/questionable business ideas with more high-minded pursuits. CEO Brian Meece wants science to be funded by people. He presents RocketHub as a movement to transform science and crowdfunding as a...
Kiva comes to Montréal for the KWS conference
In April 2004, Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley start work on an initiative they call Kiva. Kiva is an online lending platform that allows individuals in the developed world to loan to small business people in the developing world. In its first year, the site featured a spinach farmer in Cambodia, a hot dog stand man in Nicaragua,...