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Micro-Bias: If You Want a Kiva Loan, It Helps to Be Pretty and Light-Skinned

Micro-lending sites like Kiva are an important development tool, but bias is affecting lending choices. Here's how to fix it.

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Can Robots Make Amazon a Better Place to Work?

The online retailer acquires a robot company to make its factories more efficient.

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Crowdfunding, Why the SEC Bans It, Obama Wants It, and Banks Fear It Be Your Own Bank: New Laws Could Unleash Crowdfunding For Startups

The next generation of social enterprises could be funded, and owned, by you and me, if the government opens the door.

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Intermission: Watch Kiva Loans Travel the World

An animated map that shows the path of every Kiva loan between 2005 and today.

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Dermalogica + Kiva = Healthy Skin and Empowered Women

Women are worth investing in. 82 percent of Kiva's borrowers are women, so put some female empowerment in your medicine cabinet.

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Kiva President Says FarmVille Is His Biggest Rival

Should lending money to micro-enterprises around the world be like playing a game? Kiva's CEO wants it to be like playing Farmville on Facebook.

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Kiva Announces Microloans for Education

Kiva starts a pilot program of microlending to students in three countries. Its president compares the move to Amazon adding music to its inventory.

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Party: Kiva Is Four Years Old

GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100...

The GOOD 100: Microfinance Comes to America

Microlending, U.S.A.America is waking up to the power of "micro." Twitter introduced us to microblogs. President Obama's campaign demonstrated...

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GOOD S.F. Mixer, Tuesday Night

This Tuesday, June 16, we're heading back to San Francisco to host a mixer at 111 Minna featuring (ri)1 cocktails, music by J Montag & Eug,...