{"id":12519,"date":"2018-08-27T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2018-08-12T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:53:04","slug":"us-small-businesses-can-get-small-loans-through-kiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2018\/08\/us-small-businesses-can-get-small-loans-through-kiva.html","title":{"rendered":"US small businesses can get small loans through Kiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12520\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12520\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12520\" src=\"https:\/\/ac7af1a7.ithemeshosting.com.php72-38.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kiva-Yolanda-photo-by-Brandon-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a chicken in a garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kiva-Yolanda-photo-by-Brandon-Smith.jpg 640w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kiva-Yolanda-photo-by-Brandon-Smith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda is just one of the US business people who has received a loan through Kiva.org. Photo by Brandon Smith via Kiva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might have heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\">Kiva<\/a>, where a crowd of regular people pool money to make small loans to business people in the developing world. But you probably didn&#8217;t know they are making loans to small businesses in the US.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I was surprised to find there has been a representative of Kiva active in my state of Oklahoma for over 5 years. They&#8217;ve loaned to several rural entrepreneurs in Oklahoma, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiva.org\/lend\/693806\">Rodney who runs a thermal imaging business<\/a> the town of Kansas, Oklahoma (pop. 800). He used a small loan to do more marketing and reach a whole new group of potential customers.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a small loan for your small business, Kiva is worth considering. Loans can be up to $10,000 at zero percent interest.<\/p>\n<p>You can also help more people get loans through Kiva in your community. Anyone can spread the word and point small businesses directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\">Kiva website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit organizations can also directly administer loans as a Field Partners. Individuals or groups can serve as Trustees who endorse trustworthy borrowers without any financial involvement or liability. Learn more about these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiva.org\/about\/where-kiva-works\">partner programs at Kiva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You might have heard of Kiva, where a crowd of regular people pool money to make small loans to business people in the developing world. But you probably didn&#8217;t know they are making loans to small businesses in the US. In fact, I was surprised to find there has been a representative of Kiva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,35,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kiva-Yolanda-photo-by-Brandon-Smith.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}