How to pronounce“kiv”in English

Kiva is a real thing, we're going to take the word beta off of the site, and launch for real.

Kiva, as you know, is a web platform.

Kiva-wide, it's 99%. So it's pretty much as reliable as a savings account.

Kiva's in that space.

Kiva because uh Yeah, that's my story and you can hear my own personal story and I think

And Kiv doesn't really ever want to act.

So Kiva works throughout the world.

what Kiva does. But then a friend of mine said, ìOh yea, grassroots capital?

of Kiva which was, in that month, Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in microfinance, heís the founder of the Grameen Bank, they reach over 6 million

by Kiva? So whoís covering it?

today kiva has 630 000 lenders who've lent

about Kiva and all flooded the site. We had tens of thousands of people coming.

I was in kiv when the Russians renewed their offensive and they were rationing ammunition that is what you might see happen if this goes and it'll be worse

And her name is Kiva Lagos.

This is Kiva Bay.

I left Kiva, I started another company a few years ago.

You talked about how Kiva kind of was such a success and grew, and grew, and grew, but I'm sure you faced some challenges along the way.

I'll go to Kiva.

Francisco with kiva.org. Or, I'm going to go on Indiegogo or Kickstarter, whatever it is, to solve problems.

And I came across Kiva.

The MFI-- the Kiva partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time was a branch of an international women's organization called Women for Women International that do amazing work in some

They're not a Kiva partner.

Not every Kiva partner is not-for-profit.

Three positives about Kiva.

And today Kiva raises over a million dollars every single week to help the working poor in 60 countries, very impressive.

Sheís posted by a Kiva field partner, and this is what we do, Kiva is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco.

2 lending teams at Kiva Premal Shah: And they compete with each other, itís incredible.

Weíve had over 450 Kiva Fellows now, in the last few years, and a lot of Googlers have done it.

Gary Briggs: Kiva Care or something like that.

Thatís our perspective at Kiva.

some problems on Kiva.

Like with Kiva for Toms Shoes or something like that where it's like a for-profit company or organization with a cause.

and they call it kiva

Someone else did the Kiva store and said we should make t-shirts with Kiva's logo and tote bags and stuff. Our lenders just go do this. I think it's cuz

Here's the very well-known Kiva Systems robots.

I don't speak for Kiva.

I know that's where Kiva lenders come from when they are trying to reach around the world that way.

Or I can put it in Kiva, and a year later, on average, I've got $25 minus a couple of pennies.

Schools are starting to use Kiva in classrooms.

The two biggest ones are the Kiva Christians and the Kiva atheists, who are essentially having an ideological argument

So theyíre the real heroes at Kiva.

So theyíve been on the Kiva platform for 50 months and theyíve posted up nearly four thousand entrepreneurs onto the website.

So thatís the basics of the Kiva user experience and then, you know, often times youíll get an update on how the entrepreneurís business is doing.

And if we go on the Kiva website, when I was showing that kind of lend tab, you see business that were expiring.

So if youíre ever thinking about trying Kiva, this is a big reason why Iím here at Google today, Iíve never done a talk in 6 years, I think nowís the time to really get out

And weíre doing a pilot now with Kiva where instead of having a microfinance institution in the middle, weíre actually doing something where if youíve gotten a loan on Kiva before,

We have a program called the Kiva Fellows Program where you can go, weíll train you in San Francisco in our office for a week, and then weíll ship you out to 1 of 60 countries

So weíre really excited about this Kiva Zip experiment.

One thing that we screen for at Kiva is over indebtedness.