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A Crash Course in Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Detroit

Michigan Corps' co-founders blog in Metromode about organizing for positive social change.

Announcing Kiva Detroit’s New Leadership

Today, Michigan Corps unveiled the citizen network of Corps Members who will lead Kiva Detroit's growth.

United States CTO and Michigan Corps Announce “Make in Detroit”

Michigan Corps joined with the White House to announce its effort to inspire, empower, and support citizen innovation in manufacturing by showcasing and promoting resources across Detroit.

Michigan Corps Launches Kiva Detroit

Michigan Corps leads Kiva Detroit, Kiva's first local-community-organized effort in the United States to support small businesses in Detroit and engage Detroiters as community leaders.

Lend local, lead local: Kiva Detroit empowers Detroiters as champions of local businesses

Knight Foundation is contributing $250,000 to Kiva Detroit: an innovative effort to empower Detroiters by enabling them to lend to and champion the success of local businesses through Kiva.org.

Kiva kicks off U.S. expansion with Detroit lending arm

"What I see in Detroit is an engages community that has a long history of helping each other out," says Matt Flannery, founder of Kiva.org.

Kiva Launches First ‘Kiva City’ in Detroit

Rolling out first in Detroit, Kiva has partnered with Michigan Corps, ACCION USA, and the Knight Foundation to bring financial inclusion to a city that is wholly determined - from the government level to the individual level - on working collaboratively to bring good ideas to fruition, since one entrepreneur's success nourishes the entire community.

In 3 hours on web, Kiva Detroit gathers over $11,000 to lend to 5 startups

Within three hours of launching Wednesday, a web-based initiative to attract business loans of as little as $25 each brought in $11,450 for five local startups.

Kiva Detroit plans to help small businesses get off the ground $25 at a time

Detroit is Kiva's first locally-organized initiative in the U.S. and plans to expand throughout the rest of the country. To learn more about helping Detroit entrepreneurs get their business started, or to apply for funding visit kiva.org/detroit.

New microlending website helps Detroit’s small biz owners

Kiva Detroit, an extension of the California-based Kiva.org, enables anyone can give a loan for as little as $25 to small businesses in Detroit.

Kiva Detroit launches with eye on microfinancing in Motown

Michigan Corps has formed a partnership of local foundations to create Kiva Detroit, a program that enables local residents to improve their communities by making microloans to local businesses and entrepreneurs.

Kiva Detroit Connects Small Businesses with Investors

Kiva Detroit connects small business owners with individual investors for microloans.

Microloans deserve praise

Kiva Detroit, a new initiative to bring more than $500,000 in microloans to small businesses in the city, will be rolled out Thursday with an event at Eastern Market and the launch of a new Web page, http://www.kiva.org/detroit . Lenders can pledge sums as small as $25 to help new businesses in the city.

Clinton Kicks Off Micro-Lending Service for Hardest Hit

Through Kiva City, Kiva and ACCION USA can extend their reach to cities like Detroit with the help of Michigan Corps - a network of Michigan community members such as church pastors and business leaders who are both spreading the message of micro-lending and helping business owners fill out the paperwork required to access the microloans.

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