{"id":26248,"date":"2014-01-29T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2014\/01\/29\/microloaning-with-kiva\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:03:28","slug":"microloaning-with-kiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2014\/01\/29\/microloaning-with-kiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Microloaning with Kiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kiva_logo_2-300x165.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kiva_logo_2-300x165.png\" height=\"92\" width=\"167\" class=\"wp-image-17253 aligncenter sp-no-webp\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/p>\n<p>We just updated our loans on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.KIVA.com<\/a>, a microloan website that PADT has been a member of since 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Kiva-loans-2014_01_29.jpg\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Kiva-loans-2014_01_29.webp \"  type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Kiva-loans-2014_01_29.jpg\" height=\"176\" width=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3066 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"Kiva-loans-2014_01_29\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kiva takes very small loans from people, pools them together, and makes small loans to entrepreneurs around the world. \u00a0It is a great way to make a big difference in someone&#8217;s life with a small donation.<\/p>\n<p>You know how much we love numbers here at PADT, so here are some about our Kiva loan activity:<\/p>\n<p>[table id=1 \/]<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to read the little loan pages and understand a bit about what the applicants are trying to do and where they are coming from. You can see our loans on our lending page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/lender\/padtinc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.kiva.org\/lender\/padtinc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first, $1,500 seemed like a lot of money, but over the years, it has gone a long way. \u00a0Who would have thought we would be involved in pig farming in the Philippines, a Peruvian Beauty Parlor, or a Cafe in Albania?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try it, make a loan through this invitation link. \u00a0When you make a loan, $25 gets added to PADT&#8217;s loan pool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/padtinc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/padtinc <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just updated our loans on www.KIVA.com, a microloan website that PADT has been a member of since 2007. Kiva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[851,852],"post-podcast":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26248"},{"taxonomy":"post-podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-podcast?post=26248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}