Kiva Friends - What would you say?

I think also the very fact that Kiva deals mainly with people loaning fairly small amounts, but goes to great lengths to personalize the loans helps prevent corruption, or at least ensures that Kiva's lenders will come down on Kiva like a ton of bricks if it ever does happen. Sometime this week, I'm going to loan something in the vicinity of $25 to the Red Cross or a similar charity to help with hurricane cleanup. Because it is (for me and even more for the Red Cross) not a huge amount of money, and I have no way of knowing what happens to that particular tiny amount, I'm mostly going to just wave goodbye to it be glad I did my tiny little part to help. I'm going to be severely annoyed if I hear about that charity stealing some of the donations, but the Red Cross is large enough that I'll probably put it down to them hiring someone corrupt and be happy to donate again once they get a new director. On the other hand, Kiva has gone to such lengths to be transparent about where the money goes, and to get people emotionally invested in their donations/loans, that any sort of serious corruption on Kiva's end will almost certainly mean the end of the organization. Corruption in MFIs is less risky for Kiva's future, but it's fairly rare and they seem to have learned very quickly how to properly vet MFIs and give borrowers a pretty good idea of how reliable and experienced they are via the star system.

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