5 Tips for Navigating the Kiva Application Process

Kiva Los Angeles' Hub organization, New Community Investments (a subsidiary of New Economics for Women) offers entrepreneurs and small business owners 5 tips on navigating the application process.

Kiva is a microfinance company. More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. This is done by crowdfunding loans and unlocking capital for the underserved, improving the quality and cost of financial services, and addressing the underlying barriers to financial access around the world. By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. 100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans.

NEW Community Investments is a subsidiary of New Economics for Women dedicated to empowering the economic mobility of traditionally underserved and financially marginalized people groups by facilitating access to capital infusions that support the growth of small businesses and strengthen the likelihood of attaining homeownership. Particularly, low-income communities, women, the Latinx and African-American communities, immigrants, and veterans. New Economics for Women is a community development corporation sparking the generational wealth creation of women and their families through affordable housing development, social services, community education, charter schools, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement.