Popular Topics at Kiva Friends

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Many general topics at Kiva Friends are quite popular.  In fact, some topics are so popular, they tend to sprout up all over the place!  Here is a listing (in alpha order) to find some of them.

• Crunching Numbers
• Education Connections
• Entrepreneur and Lender Photos
• Friends Sharing
• Fundraising Drives
• Journals
• Kiva Field Partners / Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)
• Kiva Financials
• Kiva Team
• Games
• Group Loans
• Group / Team Lending
• Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
• Simply Popular
• Sustainable Development

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Education Connections

Many Kiva Friends discussions cover education-related topics, either directly or in passing.  Some of those topics are listed here.  Of course, just about every Kiva Friends topic can be part of a learning experience.  For more examples of how Kiva borrowers, team members, lenders and members of the Kiva Friends community are committed to making a difference in education, please visit: Kiva in the Classroom Kiva High School Website Campus Kiva Website Kiva High School Lending Team Campus Kiva Lending Team Teachers for Change Lending Team Kivapedia - Education Connections Kiva - Loans That Change Lives Can You Help Kiva Grow in the Public School System? Celebrating Kiva's School & Youth Group Lenders; A KF Salute Florence's School; Oh, No, Please Don't Ask Me for MORE Money...... Our Youngest Lenders - Kiva's Future A Teachers' Clearinghouse: Ideas for Teaching With Kiva Using Kiva to educate university students. Kiva Listings & Loan Recipients Education loan? School age in Uganda? SCHOOL AND TEACHING-RELATED; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs Press Coverage The potential of homeroom - Caller Times Pupils' loan plan puts world firms on the map - Chicago Tribune Students become micro-lenders, assisting entrepreneurs around world Students decide to Pay It Forward - DesMoines Register Volunteer Opportunities Campus Kiva Suggestion Box Getting Kids Involved School lending to promote global understanding, microfinance & young kiva fans Marketing Strategies Here is my suggestion to get SCHOOLS INVOLVED Seed Donations for New Group Lenders at Kiva The Lounge School Service Project Ideas? Student Loans Three Cups of Tea - Donors Choose Kiva Friends High School Club Small town graduation idea Kivapedia Education Connections YOUTH-FRIENDLY/YOUTUBE 1.Schools YOUTH-FRIENDLY/YOUTUBE 2.Issues YOUTH-FRIENDLY/YOUTUBE 3.Neighbourhoods YOUTH-FRIENDLY-YOUTUBE 4.FOOD (Plant Agriculture/Processing) Microfinancing DVD Series – Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the Poor Resources Some Books on MicroFinance UNCDF Microfinance Distance Learning Program

Kiva Schools

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Entrepreneur and Lender Photos

Entrepreneur photos can and do show up just about anywhere on Kiva Friends.  Here are some topics where these photos take center stage.  Many of these topics are arranged by the types of businesses listed on Kiva.  A few topics highlight or include lender photos as well.  Kiva also presents some impressive photos at the Kiva Entrepreneurs Image Gallery. Kiva Friends Tips & Tricks Using Tables to Format Entrepreneur Photos Using Tables to Format Lender Photos Kiva - Loans That Change Lives My vote for the strangest photo! The "I Loan Becauses" & The "About Me's" -- Kiva Has Special Lenders Kiva Listings & Loan Recipients ARTISANS AROUND THE WORLD BAKERY; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs Best smiles CONSTRUCTION-RELATED: Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs FARM ANIMALS AROUND THE WORLD FARMING/RANCHING; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs FLOWERS; Work Photos of Kiva Entrepreneurs Hauntingly beautiful photos HOMES AROUND THE WORLD Interesting Pictures MACHINES AROUND THE WORLD MUSIC-RELATED: Work Photos of Kiva Entrepreneurs Other Entrepreneur Photos; They're Beautiful Even When They're Not Smiling RAISING LIVESTOCK; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs REGIONAL RECIPES connected to KIVA businesses SCHOOL AND TEACHING-RELATED; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs The Textile Arts TRANSPORTATION AROUND THE WORLD Wallpapers WEAVING; Work Photos of Kiva's Entrepreneurs Window Shopping The Work of Kiva's Entrepreneurs; How Wondrous Is the Variety The Kiva Friends Calendar Project A 2008 Kiva Calendar -- Suggestions and Plans 1024x768 Calendar 2008 desktop wallpaper Collect possible future 2009 calendar photos here Suggestions for the 2009 Calendar For Our Kiva Calendar That Isn't Desktop wallpaper The Lounge Cute babies Favorite Lender Photos? is this too risky? It's a Mystery to Me; Loan Descriptions and Pictures That Leave Us Wondering Scavenger Hunt Kivapedia Kiva Galleries

Wallpapers

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Friends Sharing
Believe it or not, Kiva Friends have lots of interests besides sharing tales of their Kiva lending addictions!  Here's a sample.

• The Lounge
  
  • Animal Photos (Animal Rescue)
  • Any Other Gay & Lesbian Kivans out there?
  • Art We Love--a general place to share paintings or other forms of art
  • Happy Birthdays!
  • Help! How to cook rice!
  • Interesting Quotes
  • K-Friends Fitness Thread
  • KIVAFriends Recipe Book (please follow instructions in first post)RECIPES ONLY!
  • Kiva Friends and the Books They Love
  • Learning Through Pictures: Usually Painless & Sometimes, Incredibly Powerful
  • Movies/Videos We Love - A place to share our movie/film/video interests
  • Music We Love - A place to share our favourite music/songs
  • Other (effortless) ways to help the world
  • Podcasts we love - a place to share information about podcasts we listen to
  • Poems We Love - a place to share poetry
  • Your Favorite Web Sites...
• Polls & Surveys
  
  • Kiva/KF Demographics - Pet Ownership

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Kiva Field Partners / Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)
The Kiva Field Partners are discussed as a group and individually.  These topics have Field Partners as the central focus of the discussions.

• Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  
  • Field Partner Satisfaction Rating: Action Now: Kenya (ANK)
  • Field Partner Satisfaction Rating: Ebony Foundation (Eb-F)
  • Field Partner Satisfaction Rating: MIFEX
    
    
  • Closed Field Partners
  • Compilation of MFI' and statistics
  • Concerns Over Repayment of Loans
  • Field Partners: One of Kiva's Biggest Challenges--Finding 'Em, Working with 'Em
  • Field Partners Take Note: Kiva Lenders Will Tell You What "Sells."
  • Helping more than just borrowers - MFIs too.
  • How does Kiva work for MFIs?
  • I'm Outraged At Mexican MFI's Interest Charges!
  • Increase MFI / Field Partner Page Features
  • Is the interest rate the partners charge to mutch?
  • Kiva Field Partners Loan Data: 5/1/2007
  • Kiva Loan Default Rate - Recently Skyrocketed Compared to Before
  • Matt Flannery blogs about African failures
  • MFI Interest Rate
  • MFI Listed as Closed AND Open
  • MFIs using thugs to get repayments? Plus a couple other questions from a noob.
  • The names (of MFI's) have been change...
  • New Field Partners Risk Rating System
  • Not Yet Active Field Partners
  • Partner interest rate ratings?
  • Revamped Field Partner Pages
  • The riskiest partners - Data
  • Status of Partners
  • Thoughts on Burma and on getting more MFPs
  • Upcoming Field Partners
  • What a MFI goes through to become a Kiva Partner...
  • When MFIs Have Problems.....
  • Why MFIs Are Good Guys, With or Without Profit
    
    
  • Al Majmoua - the new MFI in Lebanon - 5-star connectedness
  • New Partner: Asasah from Pakistan
  • Ebony Foundation Kenyan Relief Fund "Final" total: $7,250!
  • news from E-bony about situation in Kenya (formerly "confused about journal...")
  • How to give to the Ebony Foundation Kenyan Relief Fund
  • New partner: FINCA Peru
  • Friendship Bridge journal update about a book
  • Fundación para la Vivienda Progresiva
  • What has happened with Life in Africa?
  • MBK Partnership on hold
  • Help buy a motorcycle for Microfund Togo
  • MLF HUMO rate question?
  • delinquent Pro Mujer Bolivia loans resolved (just an administrative error)
  • New Partner: Pro Mujer Bolivia
  • RAFODE Refunds
  • SEED Development Group - defaults now declared
  • W.E.E.C - Women's Economic Empowerment - Kenya
  • WEEC Update
  • WITEP: Kiva Responds
  • WITEP: KivaFriends Calling Kiva.Org: Information Needed. PLEASE Respond.
• Kiva Listings & Loan Recipients
  
  • COMMENT CAMPAIGN - Encouraging MFIs to post journals
  • Double Loan Listings
  • Field Partner WAGES
  • Inadequate business descriptions, and other questionable loans
  • Discussion of Inadequate business descriptions, and other questionable loans
  • MIFEX milestone
  • Posting MFI interest rate to the borrower
  • Reply from Ebony
• KivaTube
  
  • Microfinance Process
• Suggestion Box
  
  • Donation to the MFI's
  • Favorite Field Partners
  • Field Partner Alerts
  • New Business Alerts
  • New Section or Sub-Section for MFI Discussion?
  • Require MFIs to Post Profiles at The MIX Market
  • Show all businesses from a particular MFI
• The Lounge
  
  • Coaching The Field Partners on How to Make Their Entrepreneurs Irresistible
• Kivapedia
  
  • List of Kiva Microfinance Institutions
• Microfinancing
  
  • 50 Top MFI according to Forbes

[RichardF]

Kiva Financials
You know what they always say... "Follow the money!"  Here are some discussions that attempt to do just that for the various types of Kiva-related financial transactions.


Kiva PA2 - The Kiva loans partial repayment system started August 2008

• Kiva: Help Center - How Kiva.org Works
  
  • How does Kiva's repayment system work?
• Kiva Friends: Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  
  • Abnormal Deliquency Rates
  • Any new info on giving lenders Kiva credit whenever $25 are repaid?
  • balance not showiong properly
  • Bugs and New Repayment System - Q&A With Kiva CS
  • Concerns Over Repayment of Loans - Roma's first explanation
  • Delays in repayments
  • False Deliquency Rate
  • Grade the Redesigned Kiva Loans Repayment System
  • Is there a Glitch?
  • Kiva's Lack of Communication To Lenders
  • Kiva's phone disconnected or no longer in service - OR?
  • The missing pennies glitch.
  • New payback method?
  • Oops!!
  • Open Letter to Kiva
  • PA2- We have lift-off
  • Partial loan repayments available tomorrow!
  • Repayments
  • Repayments starting late
  • Technical Issues with Kiva.org Website - New system questions begin
  • What Is Your Current Kiva Credit Lending Strategy?
  
  

• Frequently Asked Questions
  
  • Getting A Kiva Loan / Listed on Kiva
  • Kiva and Taxes
  • Interest Rates and Paying Interest to Lenders
  • PayPal Questions and Answers
• Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  
  • Grade the Redesigned Kiva Loans Repayment System
  • What Is Your Current Kiva Credit Lending Strategy?
    
    
  • Alternative Currencies OR moneybookers
  • Auto reconciled?
  • Bugs and New Repayment System - Q&A With Kiva CS
  • Creative accounting?
  • credit card problem
  • Concerns Over Repayment of Loans
  • The Daily Totals
  • Export analysis - making the Kiva Export Button work for you
  • Fraudulent Loans?
  • How do you stay within your budget?
  • How much do you donate to kiva?
    
    
  • Average Local Interest Rates
  • Does repayment amount include the interest?
  • Interest Rate - N/A
  • If Kiva's Paying Interest to Its Lenders, Sometime, Is a Foregone Conclusion....
  • Is the interest rate the partners charge to mutch?
  • Interest rates
  • I'm Outraged At Mexican MFI's Interest Charges!
  • Kiva's Interest rate on unclaimed credit?
  • MicroFinance Article & Ranking by Forbes, interest on loans info.
  • MFI Interest Rate
  • Partner interest rate ratings?
  • Paying interest to lenders - pros and cons
  • question? is there interest charges to the client?
  • Why not charge interest? But not redeemable.
  • What would exorbitant interest rates be?
    
    
  • If I Should Die Before I Wake, My Kiva Loans You're Going to Take!
  • Is kiva ultimately a scam? I hope someone can explain this...
  • Is there over $10m of loan repayments that can't be reloaned?
  • KIVA 990 IRS Form
  • Kiva's 2006-2007 IRS Form 990
  • A Kiva Lender Chart of Accounts
  • Kiva Loan Default Insurance for lenders
  • Kiva Loan Default Rate - Recently Skyrocketed Compared to Before
  • Loans Paid But Not Credited
  • Loan Repaid in Full - Only $24.84 in Kiva Credit
  • Maxing out your credit card for Kiva loans
  • MFIs using thugs to get repayments? Plus a couple other questions from a noob.
  • Money in the System
  • Mystery Kiva Credits?
  • New Loan - Delinquent (resolved)
  • New Field Partners Risk Rating System
    
    
  • I think I just got overpaid via Paypal Withdrawal...
  • Outside US but have US bank account? Avoid paypal fees.
  • PayPal charging processing fees???
  • Problems Paying Directly for New Loans Using Paypal
  • PAYPAL makes me want to SCREAM!
  • Paypal news: Mama Mark Fund account finally restored
  • PayPal trouble?
  • Paypal/Kiva.org error, will Kiva take a phonecall?
  • Paypal question
  • What is the email address for a Kiva PayPal payment?
  • Withdrawing Kiva Credit Back To PayPal
    
    
  • refunds
  • Ripples
  • The riskiest partners - Data
  • What is the easiest way to find my delinquent loans?
  • What exactly is transparency re: KIVA ?
  • what is the Kiva Employer Identification Number (EIN)?
  • What Would a Completely Transparent Kiva Lending Model Look Like?
  • Where are the funds that have been repaid, but not credited to my account ?
  • Where did the November 30th payments go?
  • Where's my $25?
  • Why MFIs Are Good Guys, With or Without Profit
  • Why so few defaults?
  • withdrawals
• Kiva Listings & Loan Recipients
  
  • Posting MFI interest rate to the borrower
  • Prepayment of a Loan
  • Slow Boat to Samoa
  • Slow boats to places other than Samoa
  • What happens if an entrepreneur doesn't get any loans or doesn't reach 100%?
• Suggestion Box
  
  • A Payments Return on Investment (PROI)
  • Ability to re-lend funds when loan installments are paid
  • Automatic Reinvestments
  • Beneficiaries
  • What If a Kiva Lender Dies?
  • Donation to the MFI's
  • Donation Records & Statements
  • Kiva Mutual Funds
  • Let it ride -automating re-loaning
  • Let lenders specify what Kiva should do with their abandoned accounts
  • Make Delinquency Info Available on our account page
  • Make loans tax deductible
  • Kiva paypal problems
  • Paypal charging 1.5%
  • Don't populate Paypal contact data into Kiva account
  • Proof showing the assets that we have entrusted to Kiva
  • Pay Interest...
  • Risk and Due Diligence: Kiva Itself
  • Shorten the "limbo period" before tied-up funds are released
  • Total Amount Loaned Statistic
  • Using partial pay-backs
  • When is a Loan not a Loan?
• Marketing Strategies
  
  • Canadian tax deduction for Kiva support
  • Company Matching Donations
  • Does Kiva.org itself need some funding?
  • Employer Matching Gifts/Donations
  • Kiva Corporate Donations (instead of gifts)
• The Lounge
  
  • Donation
  • Kiva Donations And Canadian Income Tax
  • Tax deductible donations: help me change the swedish system
  • Kiva Contract
  • Interest bearing - Interest free - Possible?
  • Investing endowments in kiva.org
  • Changing Paypal account
  • Paypal report?
• Polls & Surveys
  
  • Do you analyse your loan portfolio?
  • Interest Payments to Lenders
• Kiva Friends
  
  • I don't use US$ in my country. it is very hard to join.
  • INTEREST FREE LOANS
  • Interest rates charged by lenders
  • Problem with Gift Certificates...
• Microfinancing
  
  • Foreign Capital Investment in Microfinance
  • Pros and Cons of Kiva-Style Microfinance: Removing Our Rose-Colored Glasses
  • What will a self-sustainable Kiva look like?

[RichardF]

Games
Out of cash?  Out of Kiva Credits?  Here are some games to pass the time that don't come in $25 packets.  Some of them might even give you a little Kiva fix for free!

• The Lounge
  
  • Caption This
  • GAMES FOR KIVA ADDICTS (and for Anyone Else Who Wants to Play)
  • It's a Small World Wide Web of Friends
  • Scavenger Hunt

[RichardF]

Simply Popular
If you are looking for the up to the microsecond rankings of the most popular topics by replies and views, then go to the Kiva Friends Statistics Center.  This is a place to see a few more of the most popular topics arranged by discussion boards.  For starters, these topics have at least 300 replies or 10,000 views!

• Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  
  • Bugs and New Repayment System - Q&A With Kiva CS
  • Concerns Over Repayment of Loans
  • Export analysis - making the Kiva Export Button work for you
  • Florence's School; Oh, No, Please Don't Ask Me for MORE Money......
  • The "I Loan Becauses" & The "About Me's" -- Kiva Has Special Lenders
  • It's 12/15, do you know where your credits are?
  • MIFEX - concerns, updates
  • Mortgage the House! Sell the Kids! There's a Loan Up Now You Won't Want to Miss.
  • New to Kiva?
  • Pipeline is dry - only 3 to choose from
• Kiva Listings & Loan Recipients
  
  • Best smiles
  • Double Loan Listings
  • Inadequate business descriptions, and other questionable loans
  • Interesting Pictures
  • Very special event is coming up ... Please take all care !
  • The Work of Kiva's Entrepreneurs; How Wondrous Is the Variety
• Kiva Countries
  
  • NIGERIA
• Mark Agwonah
  
  • Mark Agwonah Fund -- discussion
• Marketing Strategies
  
  • Kiva in Second Life
  • vote for kiva at vote4cause.org
• The Kiva Friends Calendar Project
  
  • 1024x768 Calendar 2008 desktop wallpaper
  • A 2008 Kiva Calendar -- Suggestions and Plans
  • Collect possible future 2009 calendar photos here
  • 2009 Kiva Calendar -- Discussion, Suggestions & Plans
• Shopping & Affiliate Programs
  
  • KSC=KIVAShoppingClub Updates
  • Online Shopping Helps KIVA
• Downloads
  
  • Kiva Banners & Buttons
• The Lounge
  
  • Anything Goes! (topic for stuff you just want to mention or point out)
  • Favorite Lender Photos? is this too risky?
  • GET WATER FOR THIRSTY AFRICAN KIDS!!!
  • Introductions
  • KIVA Quilt for "Raggle"
  • Oli in Bots
  • Republicans, Democrats, & Independents -- Are you ready to rumble?
• Kiva Friends
  
  • Welcome to Kiva Friends

[RichardF]

Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
Clearly, the mission of Kiva – to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty – is based on an ethical imperative.  It's not surprising, then, that Kiva Friends discussions occasionally find their way to examining the underpinnings of a Higher Power from a diversity of philosophical, religious and spiritual perspectives.

• Kiva - Loans That Change Lives
  
  • Lender Surveys - Teachers, Students, Religious Groups, Families, Special Events
  • Loans furthering Christianity
  • Religious, Spiritual & Inspirational Kiva Images
• Team Lending
  
  • Inspiration
• Suggestion Box
  
  • Add a Statement of Values to the Kiva website
  • Free Book on Manifesting Abundance to Kiva Donors
• The Lounge
  
  • Non-Attachment, Selfless Service and Kiva Lending
• Kiva Friends
  
  • Community Building and The Meaning of True Community
  • The Kiva Friends Guiding Principles
• Kivapedia
  
  • Group Lenders
    
    • Kivapedia - Groups: Congregations & Religious Affiliations

[RichardF]

Group / Team Lending
Here's a simmering topic fixing to get hot, hot, hot!

Kiva - Loans That Change Lives Can you help Kiva grow in the public school system? Celebrating Kiva's School & Youth Group Lenders; A KF Salute Companies registering as lenders Gumball Capital How to pitch to a group? Lender Surveys - Teachers, Students, Religious Groups, Families, Special Events Mark Agwonah Mark Agwonah Fund -- discussion Team Lending Interesting, Goofy, Shocking, Inspirational & Otherwise Postworthy Lending Teams Lending Teams Launch-- Help Requested Lending Teams - Question. Team Lending Press Coverage Students become micro-lenders, assisting entrepreneurs around world Students decide to Pay It Forward - DesMoines Register Youngsters learn to share the wealth Suggestion Box Forming Groups on Kiva Getting Kids Involved Group Lenders Network Kiva - "Sub Accounts" - for children/young adults - Group Accounts School lending to promote global understanding, microfinance & young kiva fans Search for Lenders Marketing Strategies Company Matching Donations Need help/advice on how to start a lending group at my company Seed Donations for New Group Lenders at Kiva Shopping & Affiliate Programs Amazon Canada - Affiliate link ! eBay spelling mistake finder supporting Kiva First Kiva Friends Amazon Affiliate Revenue Loan Kiva Amazon.com Affiliate KSC=KIVAShoppingClub Updates Online Shopping Helps KIVA Second Life - KIVA group has made 4 loans already! The Lounge Lender Groups School Service Project Ideas? Kiva Friends High School Club Kiva Friends Tip Jar Kiva Looking into Group Lending Functionality Setting up a group portfolio Small town graduation idea Registering group with e-mail already in use Rotarians Kivapedia Group Lenders Kiva Lenders Networks

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