The Eighth Annual

AL FILIPOV PEACE & JUSTICE FORUM

Saturday, September 26, 2009

7:00-9:00 pm

A free public forum

Jessica Jackley

Co-founder, Kiva.org

Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer online microlending website. Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva lets Internet users lend as little as $25 to individual developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business.

Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites. Founded in 2005 with $3,000 in loans to seven entrepreneurs in Uganda, Kiva now serves over 172,000 entrepreneurs in 44 countries, with funds from 490,500 lenders. The total value of all loans made through Kiva as of May 2009 was over $70 million, with a 98% payback rate.

Jessica Jackley first saw the power, beauty, and dignity of microfinancing while working in rural East Africa. Jessica has worked for public, nonprofit, and private organizations, including the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others.

Jessica’s work with Kiva has been featured in a wide array of media and press including Oprah, the Today Show, CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, the WSJ, NYTimes, the Economist, and more. Jessica serves as a director on several boards related to micro-enterprise development, including Opportunity International.

Jessica Jackley holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University.

Hosted by:

Trinitarian Congregational Church

United Church of Christ

54 Walden Street, Concord, MA

Endorsed by:

The Massachusetts Council of Churches

The Mission and Justice Commission of the Massachusetts Conference, United Church of Christ

The Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ

Free of charge and open to the public

Additional information available by calling the Tri Con Church at: 978-369-4837

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