The idea of microfinancing — small-scale loans to the entrepreneurial-minded poor — reached the front page this fall when the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize. But now the San Francisco-based nonprofit Kiva.org may have taken the idea a step further: with just a few clicks of the mouse, most everyone can become a microfinancier.
--Sonia Narang, New York Times 12/10/06

 

Today was an exciting one for our two SF Net Tuesday presenters. Matt Flannery's organization, Kiva, was in the  New York Times, and Pim Techamuanvivit launched her 2006 Menu for Hope campaign.