Oct 30, 2006
Jessica Jackley Flannery is the co-founder and a board member of
Kiva, a nonprofit that is using
the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global
poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and
Uganda with the Village
Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact
evaluation and program development. Earlier, Jessica spent three
years in the Stanford Business School's Center for Social
Innovation and Public Management Program, where she helped launch
the inaugural Global Philanthropy Forum. Jessica is currently
pursuing an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
A transcript of the interview is available on my blog Have Fun * Do Good.
You can watch a documentary about Kiva on FRONTLINE World on Tuesday, October 31,2006, or on the FRONTLINE World web site via streaming video a few days after the broadcast.
You can view a brief preview of the October 31st show on Google video.
Full disclosure: I'm friends with the Editor for FRONTLINE World, David Ritsher.
A transcript of the interview is available on my blog Have Fun * Do Good.
You can watch a documentary about Kiva on FRONTLINE World on Tuesday, October 31,2006, or on the FRONTLINE World web site via streaming video a few days after the broadcast.
You can view a brief preview of the October 31st show on Google video.
Full disclosure: I'm friends with the Editor for FRONTLINE World, David Ritsher.