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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