90% of people say they want to volunteer, but only about one in four of us get around to doing so. Similarly, more than 90% of parents say one of their top priorities is that their children be caring, ...

When Lydia Ndung'u started her small farm in rural Kenya three years ago, she was earning less than $240 a year from it and living with her flour mill-worker husband and four children in a dirt-floor ...

While it’s a thrill for me to help engage companies in strategic philanthropy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), skilled volunteering, and other forms of giving and service, I’ve always believed ...

Today you can help someone escape poverty by trying out microlending platform Kiva, and it won’t cost you a dime. Go to kiva.org/free where Reid Hoffman has put up ...

About four and a half years ago, I was on a plane to Kenya, about to begin a new job doing microenterprise development throughout East Africa. The next three months would change my life, as I’d meet ...

Amazon.com just announced an agreement to pay $775 million in cash to acquire Kiva Systems Inc., a maker of automation technology for fulfillment centers. Kiva makes robotic vehicles that zip around ...

Money makes the world go round! If you have it, a lot of things work. If you don’t, a lot of things don’t. Kiva, meaning “unity” in Swahili, was founded as an micro-loan experiment in East Africa to ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Kiva.org was founded in 2005 to provide very small ...