{"id":5930,"date":"2010-11-05T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:10:35","slug":"5930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5930","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Jackley @UWW 11\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Jackley<\/strong>, co-founder of Kiva<\/a>, an international P2P (peer-to-peer) microfinance lending<\/a> non-profit, will present “Harnessing the Power of Perspective: Kiva and the Worldwide Microlending Movement<\/strong>” @7pm on Mon., Nov. 8<\/strong><\/span> (location: Irvin L. Young Auditorium). It’s the second of the fall 2010 College of Letters and Sciences Contemporary Issues Lecture Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can listen to a podcast of an interview with Jessica Jackley<\/a> by Phorecast (Feb. 2008). There’s also free access to “Entrepreneurship in Peace Operations<\/a>” (Journal of Civil Society<\/em>, 2010, vol.6:no.1, pp.1-21) that dicusses Kiva (see the section “The Case of Kiva: A Social Enterprise”).<\/p>\n

\"microfinanceFor additional information, you can search Andersen Library’s article databases<\/a> such as ABI\/Inform Complete<\/a> for more articles, such as “The Profit in Nonprofit<\/a>” (Stanford Social Innovation Review<\/em>, 2009, vol.7:no.3, pp.68-71). A search of HALCat<\/a> (Harold Andersen Library’s catalog) would find titles such as Microfinance: Emerging trends and challenges<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, HG178.3 .M5336 2008) and the online book The economics of microfinance<\/em><\/a> (NetLibrary ebook)<\/p>\n

Please ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding or requesting materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva, an international P2P (peer-to-peer) microfinance lending non-profit, will present “Harnessing the Power of Perspective: Kiva and the Worldwide Microlending Movement” @7pm on Mon., Nov. 8 (location: Irvin L. Young Auditorium). It’s the second of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34],"tags":[141,178,3223,353,3221,3222,3220],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-lectures","tag-microcredit","tag-microfinance","tag-microlending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}