Kiva.org is a website that allows individuals to lend small amounts of money, starting at $25, to entrepreneurs in developing countries who need loans. The money is lent through microfinance institutions that provide financial services to the poor who typically lack access to traditional banks. Kiva aims to help more borrowers receive loans, help microfinance institutions access more capital, and allow lenders an easy way to donate while fostering understanding between cultures.
This presentation provides an introduction to Kiva (www.kiva.org). It describes what Kiva is, where it fits in the field of microfinance, and how to use it. It's a great tool for spreading the word about Kiva!
This presentation provides an introduction to Kiva (www.kiva.org). It describes what Kiva is, where it fits in the field of microfinance, and how to use it. It's a great tool for spreading the word about Kiva!
Helping out small entrepreneurs through KIVA.orgBharat Lall
Pinnacle Hotels USA President Dr. Bharat Lall is a hotel investment expert who has over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Dr. Bharat Lall is an active participant in KIVA, a microfinance lending website that aims to alleviate poverty through mediated loans transacted through the internet.
How, when and why to secure planned gifts that bring real returns.
Components and relative benefits of bequests in wills, annuities, a variety of trusts, retirement accounts and other planned gifts to nonprofits are described.
Why nonprofit board trustees, senior managers, advancement professionals, every staff member and stakeholders can help stimulate the easiest gifts to make – planned gifts that secure an institution’s future!
Roles of planned giving newsletters, seminars, financial and legal advisors, board trustees and individual visits.
Helping out small entrepreneurs through KIVA.orgBharat Lall
Pinnacle Hotels USA President Dr. Bharat Lall is a hotel investment expert who has over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Dr. Bharat Lall is an active participant in KIVA, a microfinance lending website that aims to alleviate poverty through mediated loans transacted through the internet.
How, when and why to secure planned gifts that bring real returns.
Components and relative benefits of bequests in wills, annuities, a variety of trusts, retirement accounts and other planned gifts to nonprofits are described.
Why nonprofit board trustees, senior managers, advancement professionals, every staff member and stakeholders can help stimulate the easiest gifts to make – planned gifts that secure an institution’s future!
Roles of planned giving newsletters, seminars, financial and legal advisors, board trustees and individual visits.
Kiva Presentation at the KWS Forum in MontréalKongossa (KWS)
Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, to alleviate poverty. Since its launch in 2005, Kiva has connected more than 1 million lenders with more than 1 million borrowers around the world and has facilitated nearly US$600 million in loans to individuals in 75 countries through its website, www.kiva.org.
Affordable Credit to Vulnerable Female Micro EntrepreneursIana Barenboim
Prohibitive interest rates, high collateral demands, and informal constraints of the banking system are barriers that exclude vulnerable female micro entrepreneurs to credit.
By brokering with innovative and existent solutions, such as Kiva, we intend to address affordable capital to vulnerable entrepreneurs.
Similar to Kiva Presentation for Foothill College Microfinance Club (20)
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
6. What is Microfinance? Half the world lives on <$2/day Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the poor Microfinance = Savings, Insurance, Credit
11. Provides Capital for MFI Sources of Funding How Does Kiva Fit in? Individual lenders and donors Gifts-in-kind, Commercial Lenders Government grants Major Donors, Churches, Foundations, Corporations
12. How Kiva works Internet Lender Online marketplace Local Partner (MFI) Entrepreneur Money Information
14. Why Does Kiva Matter? Value for all Stakeholders: More Borrowers Receive Loans MFIs have more capital Lenders have easy and effective ways to give Changing perceptions of the developing world Breaking the bottleneck of wealth / poverty Doing this at scale Borrower MFI Lender Kiva Mutual Value
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16. Where is Kiva today? Mexico Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Haiti Dominican Republic Samoa Ecuador Peru Bolivia Paraguay Senegal Sierra Leone Cote d’Ivoire Ghana Togo Nigeria Cameroon DRC Mozambique Tanzania Kenya Uganda South Sudan Indonesia Vietnam Cambodia Nepal Pakistan Afghanistan Tajikistan Lebanon Gaza Iraq Azerbaijan Ukraine Moldova Bosnia Bulgaria Kiva has lent over $ 194 million in loans through 126 Microfinance Partners in 58 countries and is still growing United States Chile Mongolia South Africa
17. Why Does Kiva Work? It is about connecting people Stories Technology Viral Accessible Press Crowdsourcing Transparency & data
18. New loan categories Scale Break Even Innovate $1 Billion for 2M borrowers Self-sufficiency at scale The next 5 years: 3 aspirations
19. Interesting Facts Kiva is international (lenders from 210 countries) Equal playing field High Risk Areas: Iraq, DRC, Palestine Unique Loan Products Proliferation of Technology
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21. Become a Kiva Fellow! - Work overseas with one of Kiva’s Field Partners to help facilitate connections between Kiva Lenders and Borrowers http://www.kiva.org/fellows Join Kiva’s Loan Review & Translation team - Volunteer your time remotely to help review and translate loan profiles that are posted by our Field Partners http://www.kiva.org/volunteer Intern in Kiva’s San Francisco Headquarters - Volunteer with Kiva in a part-time capacity for 4-8 months, it’s a great opportunity to learn more about Kiva’s model http://www.kiva.org/volunteer Join Kiva’s Developer Community - Are you a developer, designer or tech-fanatic? Learn more about our API and join our awesome developer community! http://build.kiva.org/ Take it to the Next Level: Want to get more involved or know someone who might?
25. Result: 30,245,763 loans found Kiva and “Increasing Returns on Data” World’s largest DB of microfinance investments Long Term : Entrepreneurs could use Kiva as a public credit bureau… Short Term : MFIs could use Kiva to build credit worthiness to other funders…
Suggested Notes: The poor are typically excluded by financial service providers: No collateral No credit history Illiteracy The poor need financial services, and already use them informally: Borrowing money from loan sharks with interest rates so high that it may be impossible to ever pay back Savings accounts kept in the home, vulnerable to theft Investing in livestock which is vulnerable to disease Microfinance works to provide the poor with these financial services, in a safe and controlled environment, through a microfinance institution
First loans made in Uganda, 2005
Suggested Notes: With Kiva, you can be micro-lender You can act as a banker and provide the funds to microfinance institutions that they then lend to entrepreneurs
Suggested Notes: There are thousands of microfinance institutions around the world, and they all vary a little depending on the region they are in and people they are targeting to help Some focus on women in places where women don’t have the same rights as men and so have no economic empowerment Some focus on the rural population in areas where people are isolated and cannot travel to cities to access services Some focus on a comprehensive program which includes business training with financial products What ties them all together, however, is a desire to help the poor by providing them with financial services The Good and the Bad of Microfinance: (Optional Notes) What are the good things about Microfinance? With a relatively small amount of money, poor people can start or improve their business Most formal lending institutions won’t lend to them. Why? Microfinance can help women and girls Microfinance works inside communities Microfinance is empowering Microfinance is person to person development What are the bad things about microfinance Takes a long time to get a loan Borrowers have to do a lot of things to get a loan So borrowers look for MFIs with the fewest requirements What does this mean? It costs a lot to give a loan, so interest rates are high How high? Not everyone wants a business, some wish they could be an employee
First loans made in Uganda, 2005
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*** Please fill in X’s with numbers from the Kiva Facts and History Page. Go to this link to find the latest numbers http://www.kiva.org/about/facts Also, please, carefully read the statistics and double check that your presentation represents the correct numbers. The stats in red are responses to these facts on the Kiva website: - Total value of all loans made through Kiva Number of Kiva Field Partners (microfinance institutions Kiva partners with) - Number of countries Kiva Field Partners are located in
First loans made in Uganda, 2005
$1B in cumulative loans via 3m lenders
First loans made in Uganda, 2005
Deck 3.
-- Startup MFI in Ecuador , stanford classmates -- Established MFIs like ProMujer -- Banks, NGOs and NB Financial Institutions -- MFIs part of networks like Accion and Opportunitity and even Save the Children Deck 3.
-- Startup MFI in Ecuador , stanford classmates -- Established MFIs like ProMujer -- Banks, NGOs and NB Financial Institutions -- MFIs part of networks like Accion and Opportunitity and even Save the Children Deck 3.
