IdealistNews: what's new in nonprofitshttp://www.idealistnews.com/IdealistNews: All things nonprofit - links about nonprofit organizations, grant writing, fundraising, how technology and social media can benefit nonprofits. Want to help change the world? Check us out at http://www.idealist.org/more Read our Vision here - http://idealist.org/visionhttp://thumbs.reddit.com/t5_2qlfy.png?v=676656cd70da412b7f6cfe6f8c782285IdealistNews: what's new in nonprofitshttp://www.idealistnews.com/White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva.http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/Wed, 06 May 2009 11:24:15 -07002009-05-06T11:24:15.224576-07:00<table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/"><img src="http://thumbs.reddit.com/t3_8idz7.png" alt="White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva." title="White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva." /></a> </td><td> submitted by <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/user/monkeyman316"> monkeyman316 </a> <br/> <a href="http://www.causecast.org/org/kiva/blog_posts/1094-the-white-house-announces-microfinance-growth-fund?ref=sp1414">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/">[4 comments]</a> </td></tr></table>White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09e9y9radfreak on White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09e9y92009-05-07T03:34:39.984276-07:00-0700Does Kiva take a cut of these micro-finance payments?/comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09eeijmonkeyman316 on White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09eeij2009-05-07T07:37:49.043100-07:00-0700I don't beleive so, but I don't I know for sure. I'm sure there are administrative costs, but from what I've read they're pretty good about getting the money to those who need the loan. But as always, wtf do I know? Don't take my word for it./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09ds1umalanalars on White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09ds1u2009-05-06T13:51:20.486629-07:00-0700hmm, the post was tagged &quot;kiva&quot;, but i can't find this anywhere in the article.../comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09e671monkeyman316 on White House announces $100 million 'microfinance' growth fund for the western hemisphere. Will help groups like Kiva./comments/8idz7/white_house_announces_100_million_microfinance/c09e6712009-05-06T23:13:34.530753-07:00-0700Kiva (the organization) posted the blog on this site. They are a micro finance organization.