Partner Impact Fellow - Anglophone Portfolio Kiva is a mission driven technology company. It runs a global marketplace platform for crowd-funded micro-loans that serves th/e impoverished & financially excluded. th/e company combines th/e culture & technological passion of an internet start-up with th/e compassion & empathy of a non-profit to address poverty at global scale. Kiva aims to drive social impact & enable opportunity while providing a borrower-to-lender connection: "Loans that change lives." In just 12 years / Kiva has raised over USD 1 billion in loan capital for nearly 2 million borrowers in over 85 countries. Kiva’s lenders fund over USD 10 million in loans every month. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York / Nairobi / Mexico City & Bangkok / Kiva's team has 100+ employees & 500+ volunteers worldwide. Employer: Kiva …show more content…
Assist in drafting of reports connecting partner activities to th/e related body of rigorous impact assessment research. Advise & discuss with partners potential pathways for improving impact / risk / or popularity of th/e products marketed on Kiva.org. Develop Monitoring & Evaluation Systems: Identify & expand systems for ongoing collection of administrative & monitoring data that partners can share with Kiva to assess th/e impact of Kiva-funded products. Reporting Impact: Support internal impact measurement efforts / interview Field Partner staff & provide relevant updates to th/e Kiva lender community through Journal Updates & Kiva Fellows Blog posts. Document Field Partner activities & impact through photo & video content collection. Client Interviews: Conduct borrower verifications & interviews to comply with Kiva policies & understand how loan products are (or aren't) helping
“The Benefits of diversification are clear. Portfolio theory has played a crucial role in explaining the relationship between risk and return where more than one investment is held. It also enables us to identify optimal and efficient portfolios.”
Once loans are repaid, the money can be used to fund new loans and help more impoverished individuals. Throughout high school I have participated in color guard which has allowed me to strengthen my organizational and leadership skills. I have taken these abilities to arrange the project and inform all members of the opportunity. My presentation skills have greatly improved since the start of this project though the numerous displays of the goals and procedures. To reach all members this year, I plan to attend meeting held by other sponsors for other grade levels to provide a personal announcement of the Kiva Project.
Data collected provides the health care organization, providers, administrators and the patients with valuable information. Tools assist the organization by measuring the performance data that provide the information to improve the patient experience and improve their care. These tools engage the organization in self-evaluation on an ongoing basis. These tools also provide and effective method of containing costs and provides the means to meet the regulatory requirements to improve quality care. Tools allow organizations to provide a
To reach our goal, we focus on eight fields: health, livelihood, water sanitation, hygiene, education, child protection, humanitarian assistance and emergency response. We sponsor Jamila Kanchoro, a young girl in Kenya. We provide access to basic necessities such as clean water, food, education and health care for Jamila. Child sponsorships assist in the hiatus of the poverty cycle by empowering young minds, their families, and communities. In a ‘Thank You’ card, Jamila mentioned her love for science; a passion that we both share. I made it one of my personal goals to raise money for scientific instruments for Jamila to use one day. This large financial goal was a challenge for me to think of multiple fundraising events. One activity that I organized was a 40 Hour Famine which raised awareness and over $1500. This experience has challenged me to not only make a difference in my community but to also impact globally. My involvement in this club has also contributed to my desire of exploring the science and medical field at UBC to aid those in
potential homeowners to purchase their own homes. Loans that had at one point been impossible
A program evaluation offers a way to determine if adjustments are needed to improve upon the project in order for it to remain successful. Furthermore, the project evaluation team will analyze and measure each component of the outcome, input, and process in order to clarify the program’s objectives and goals. Thus creating a framework of evaluation methods and questions in addition to setting up a timeline for the evaluation activities will assist in the evaluation (CDC, 2011; HRSA, n.d.; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). The goal of outcome measures is to describe the overall performance of the process; therefore, outcome measurement will determine the program cost-effectiveness, attribution, and efficiency (CDC, 2012; HRSA, n.d.; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). There will be additional evaluation concerning the input measures, which are the resources that were put into the process. Lastly, the appraisal of process measures will provide data regarding the performance each course of action involved in the implantation of the project (HRSA, n.d.). After a thorough evaluation of the project, recommendations and the dissemination of results will be prepared and
By observing a thorough interview of many borrowers who are already in a state of wage garnishment or tax offset, it dawns upon us that they don’t receive adequate notice or instructions on their options to get out of default. Such revelations can often be quite complex to deal with esp. when it comes to the audacious in lax front-end lending policies for borrowers with as many as 25 or more individual loans serviced by multiple loan servicers with different statements, due dates, and phone numbers.
pulling data from the Nextgen system on measures that are being captured form meaningful use
Kiva is an organization that loans to people who need money for everyday struggles that the majority of us in our small town don’t face. I know what you're thinking “ What’s the point if they just have to pay it right back?”. That's the thing, with Kiva all the borrowers only have to pay back the money over a span of time every month for what we hope is for a lifetime of happiness.
In this portfolio it will show a range of work that was completed in English 111. You will find a table of contents so you can locate each piece of work easily. There will be a sample of a writing from my religion class that I have previously taken. This writing is a research paper. The reason I chose this sample of writing is because research papers is not one of my strongest papers that I can complete but, this was an easier research paper because of the topic that it was on and I could use any source I wanted to as long as it was not Wikipedia. Also, you will find samples of each writing assignment that was completed in this course: Narration Essay, Comparison/Contrast Essay, and Argumentative Research Essay, along with some revisions
These stakeholders will be using the findings in different ways and for different purposes. Understanding the role of the stakeholders is important because they would be providing support, participate in collecting data, help to interpret findings, and fund the program. The table below summarizes the stakeholders of this evaluation, what information they need or would like to collect from the evaluation, and how they plan to use the information to achieve their goals of the program.
We monitor and evaluate for reasons of accountability, to improve performance and to provide valuable learning lessons. The agreed objectives of the team, can be monitored by the use of agreed monitoring indicators. In my work setting, monitoring forms have been designed to collect information on daily activities and tasks that have been performed by service users with staff support. Some of the monitoring forms also indicate the time and type of task that has been performed by staff on daily shifts, weekly, or monthly allocated tasks. Monitoring and evaluation is also where observations and writing of handover notes, where an overview of what has transpired during a shift is written and handed over to the next team on duty. Yearly questionnaires
Seven years ago, Jessica Jackley heard a speech by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, an economist from Bangladesh who had developed the idea of microcredit: loans offered to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. She says, "I was so completely blown away by the idea that I quit my job, dropped everything and moved to East Africa to help." In late 2005 she co-founded Kiva.org with Matt Flannery.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Liautaud Graduate School of Business Department of Finance Professor Hsiu-lang Chen 1 Practice Problem I
With increasingly closer communications on business domestically and internationally, financial English has been playing a more and more prominent role in the economic activities in recent years. It is of vital concern to grasp the linguistic features of financial English and the skills of its