Not-for-profits operate under a divided focus. For-profit charitable businesses can scale organically and thus serve far more people.

The Indian sub-continent is not only vast geographically but has a huge diversity of people, cultures problems and solutions. When I reviewed kiva a couple of months ago it became clear that many of the

Malawi is one of the poorest nations in the world. A visit to this country inspired Peter Ryan to start the Microloan Foundation which is aimed at poverty alleviation and improving gender equality in countries

What is 'Microfinance?' Microfinance, also known as microcredit, is a type of banking service offered to unemployed people or low income people or groups that do not normally have access to financial services.

Most countries have poverty alleviation policies. However poverty alleviation is a very challenging and diverse problem to tackle. Not every policy or strategy dreamed up is going to be successful. Different

I set up this blog to create awareness around challenges for micro, small and medium sized enterprises, in the hopes of discovering like minds on steemit. It is doing that, from the comments, I am getting

Up till now, in reviewing Kiva I have focused on loans with field partners. They do have an experimental model that they are currently operating in the US. These are direct loans without a field partner

Bitbond is great on paper, all the principles are solid. But then there is this tiny little catch, which has nothing to do with the idea or its implementation. Image Source The catch is Bitcoin and its

Up till now I have been looking at the pros and cons of kiva.com. Now its time to look into an actual lending scenario indepth. There are some real gems there if you dig around, take a look at this one.

Today we take a look at bitbond.com. Yesterday, we had a comment from @ebargins which prompted today's review. In short, the answer is they are very different. Kiva.com is for "do good'ers" whereas

Kiva makes it clear that they take due diligence and monitoring very seriously but in the end all the risk lies with the lenders. This is understandable since they are only the facilitators of the lending

Based on the last two posts I did on Kiva.org I was able to discover there are a number of Steemians on Kiva and there is already a Steemit Team there. I definately plan to sign up there next week and

Based on the screen grabs @sme did yesterday, we could see that there were some very interesting details available for those who dig deeper. Basically Kiva.org gives a very limited amount of information

Yesterday I looked at Kiva.org from a lender perspective and it all seemed quite rosy. A couple of clicks as a lender and you are done. There is more to this than meets the eye though. If you click on

Today I start to look at Kiva.org. It can be found following the URL below. It's simple to use and its mission is “to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.” According to Wikipedia: Since

The internet has been a marvelous invention, with the way it is able to link people and information around the world. A number of experiments and even operational entities have been established to facilitate

This is a very intriguing form of fund raising practiced in South Africa. It dates back to the rotating cattle auctions of English settlers in the Eastern Cape in the 19 century and is derived from the

After Bangladesh's successes with Grameen Bank, some of India's micro-credit has been structured around Self Help Groups or SGH's. Image Source Many SGH's were primarily started by poor women getting together

You can't really talk about micro-lending and microcredit with out mentioning Grameen Bank and Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus would later receive a Nobel Prize for using his own money to launch what would

If you are interested in doing business, start from simple things with careful preparation as well. To start a business, you need to apply some of the following to get your business running smoothly, remember