http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/mone...-20110630-wpms
"...Kiva is a website designed to help small business owners connect with individual investors. Anyone can offer a microloan starting in $25 increments..."
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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/mone...-20110630-wpms
"...Kiva is a website designed to help small business owners connect with individual investors. Anyone can offer a microloan starting in $25 increments..."
I have been lending though Kiva for several years now. I started with an account of $75.00, and made three $25.00 loans. As they are repaid, I simply re-lend the funds. I think I am up to about 13 loans now from that original $75.00 as nobody has defaulted. I hope I get a chance to help fund someone in Detroit
You're saying that your $75 grew to $975...
Do they pay interest, or did you just keep loaning more?
I assumed the 13 loans were made over time with the same $75, not all at the same time. Still, 13 loans over time is 10 more than 3, or 11 more than 2 or 12 more than 1, whatever. :D
Also, the website mentions a matching loan:When I first heard of micro-loans, the story was about the popular misconception that smaller businesses were more risky than large ones. The actual numbers showed the opposite. The large borrowers defaulted more often.Quote:
To double your impact, your loan to a Kiva Detroit borrower will be matched 1-to-1 by the Knight Foundation.
Heh. That was before the phrase "Too big to fail" was coined. ;)
I have $150 that I keep loaning out as it is repaid. So far I have made 33 loans. I have never lost anything on Kiva. I have lent money to a brewery in Uganda and a bakery in Lebanon. I'm looking forward to lending to Detroit businesses too.
http://kiva.org/invitedby/paul1226
Yes, its the original $75.00. I initially made 3 $25.00 loans from my Kiva account. They each started making repayments, and once I had $25.00 back in the account I lent that out. And so on. If you fund through Kiva, you do not earn interest, so its not done to make money but rather to do some good - but potentially you can get all of your money back as well.
Cool, thanks for the info...
I signed up and am awaiting Detroit loaning opportunities...