How did you first hear about Kiva?

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[luvlila]

How did you first hear about Kiva?  Share your story by responding to this thread!

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Thanks!
Lisa Shah
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[charity]

I first heard about Kiva while watching Oprah on Thanksgiving Day 2007 with my family.   

[marilyn386]

If I remember correctly, I heard about Kiva on NPR, around June-July 2007.

Marilyn

[Leslie]

I first read about Kiva in a blog (sorry...don't remember where) in December 2005

[Henry]

I first learned of KIVA from this guy - or read about it on the other pic

[AccountAbility]

I first heard (read) about Kiva in the fall of 2006 while researching various aspects of microenterprise on the internet.  Our daughter was getting her masters and was intrigued with its development as a way to help alleviate poverty.  We were learning along with her.

Dan

[carien]

I first hear from Kiva on a Dutch side cold Libanon praat (Lebanon talk).

[Mona]

I read about it in an article of the German magazine "Brigitte" (http://www.brigitte.de/frau/gesellschaft/guatemala-kleinkredit/index.html) while sitting in the waiting room of my physician.

[gill]

I was wandering around the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and someone mentioned Kiva (this was in October of 2008, I think).

[wthepoo]

By browsing TIME magazines 50 best websites 2008.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

[Dolphine]

Reading an article by MP Dunleavey and she mentioned Kiva around mid 2007. 

[alan]

A colleague mentioned it to me. Then a few months later another colleague mentioned it. Then a third.

[howard]

A BBC documentary in June 2007. Joined but didn't lend until October. Should have waited a bit longer, and avoided MIFEX!!!

Howard

[Peter S]

...an article entitled "Social lending gains net interest" on the BBC website in May 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6623267.stm

[David2051]

I heard about it on NPR, listening to the radio while driving on vacation.

[Jan & John]

Oprah, of course...

  -jan-

[Sengbe Pieh]

Nick Kristof's NYT column:
You, Too, Can Be a Banker to the Poor
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/opinion/27kristof.html

[Kestrel]

Webby awards, 2008, People's voice winner, Charitable Organizations Nonprofit:

http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=96&season=12#webby_entry_charitable_organizations

Didn't make a loan for over a year, though!

L

[CherylS]

Bill Clinton's book, "Giving" in the fall of 2007.

[Patricia SF]

I heard about Kiva, Christmas evening 2007, while watching a PBS program titled "Frontline World"; and began loaning three days after on December 27, 2007.  Little did I know that this would be the start of my upward spiral into Kiva addiction! 

[YowieFreak]

Article in the Sydney Morning Herald re music piracy.

[David2051]

Article in the Sydney Morning Herald re music piracy.

How did that tie in with Kiva?

[YowieFreak]

How did that tie in with Kiva?

They recommended lending via Kiva to soothe your guilty conscience (and not to download pirated music again).

[JohnR]

From a woman in the office in April 2007.  (I see my anniversary is coming up, as I made my first loan on April 11 that year.)  We were part of the company's community outreach committee.  Later that year, the company set up a Kiva membership and put in $5k to make loans; that money's still there, still working.