How to pronounce “kiva” in English

Kiva, as you know, is a web platform.

Kiva-wide, it's 99%.

So Kiva works throughout the world.

what Kiva does.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Gary Briggs: People who defraud Kiva have a special place in the afterlife I would think.

Kiva Bay's first game is about her personal experience of homelessness.

She's best known as a co-founder of Kiva, the world's people-the-people microlending website.

Today, Kiva is about to cross $750 million in loans in these little $25 bits for people all over the planet.

I'm happy to go more into detail on Kiva if you'd like.

Basically, Kiva didn't know what the heck to make of me when I showed up at first.

And I mentioned that I've made some loans through Kiva to some of the clients.

And this isn't something you'll learn on the Kiva website or in any of Kiva's literature, or whatever.

You just even as a casual user of the Kiva website, you don't necessarily see that.