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Author Topic: How did you first hear about Kiva?  (Read 2480 times)
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« Reply To This #10 on: March 24, 2010, 04:17:25 PM »
Reading an article by MP Dunleavey and she mentioned Kiva around mid 2007. 
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« Reply To This #11 on: March 24, 2010, 04:28:49 PM »
A colleague mentioned it to me. Then a few months later another colleague mentioned it. Then a third.
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« Reply To This #12 on: March 24, 2010, 04:45:23 PM »
A BBC documentary in June 2007. Joined but didn't lend until October. Should have waited a bit longer, and avoided MIFEX!!!

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« Reply To This #13 on: March 24, 2010, 05:16:01 PM »
...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
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« Reply To This #14 on: March 24, 2010, 05:37:24 PM »
I heard about it on NPR, listening to the radio while driving on vacation.
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« Reply To This #15 on: March 24, 2010, 06:14:54 PM »
Oprah, of course...

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« Reply To This #16 on: March 24, 2010, 07:20:32 PM »
Nick Kristof's NYT column:
You, Too, Can Be a Banker to the Poor
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/opinion/27kristof.html
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« Reply To This #17 on: March 24, 2010, 08:20:34 PM »
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! Yes

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« Reply To This #18 on: March 24, 2010, 08:40:49 PM »
Bill Clinton's book, "Giving" in the fall of 2007.
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« Reply To This #19 on: March 24, 2010, 08:53:28 PM »

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!  Laugh
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