Atheist vs Christian... Fundraising? Kiva's Competitive Lending Teams

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Kiva president Premal Shah explains how creating lending teams made funding microloans more fun and increased the site's re-lending rate. "The top two teams right now are the Atheists and the Christians, and they're competing against each other," says Shah.

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Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. Kiva combines technology with social issues in a way that allows mass participation in facilitating solutions. It allows grass root support for the financing of social alleviation projects and has generated extraordinary excitement and more than $100 million in small online loans that are reimbursed if the donor requests such an outcome.

"What bummed me out was that microfinance is such a great tool to alleviate poverty and that there is a shortage of capital -- but that there is no way for the average guy in the U.S. to invest in microfinance."

For more information, visit: http://www.kiva.org/

Premal Shah is President of Kiva.org and is a leading social entrepreneur. In 2009, he was selected to Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 List and was called an named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Prior to Kiva, Premal joined PayPal early on and spent 6 years at the company. He is considered to be a part of the PayPal Mafia - a group of PayPal alumni who have gone on to found or co-found other successful companies, including YouTube, LinkedIn, Tesla Motors and Yelp.

Premal has spoken widely on applying Silicon Valley breakthroughs to global poverty.

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[DeityDestroyer]

@ivlfounder I try to live by that old atheist expression "Love the believer, hate the belief."

[northoforacle]

The immoral acts of the bible will not be ignored by free thinking people today. Genocide, intolerance, the mandated murder of women and homosexuals, and the fear inducing myths of hell and rapture.

Although it is not yet obvious, some believe reason and rationality will eventually triumph over superstition and ignorance. Just as we no longer fear Poseidon, or consider literature like the Iliad and the Odyssey to be true, so too will christianity be viewed as mythology and lore by the majority

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@trickpanda I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, however I am forced to live within rules mandated by Christians, in keeping with their faith, that are completely immoral. You obviously don't care enough to speak up, and you seem to expect me to shut up and suffer in silence. I don't think you have any grasp of ethics whatsoever.

[tigersforchrist]

Only a REAL FOOL would claim there is no God! Man creates awesome skyscrapers, fake hearts, tunnels, vehicles etc.. If we are very imperfect then what more can God create THE UNIVERSE! You must accept Jesus Christ as your Savior to receive eternal rest in heaven! Simple! John 3:16 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him! Repent & accept Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ or HELL?!? Visit cbn. com

[trickpanda]

@TheGodlessGuitarist what you seem to fail to understand that people WANT to have faith. and if they have the ability to, why not let them?? it is the terrorists of extremists of any beliefset that do horrendous things. your wanting to tell people YOUR "truth" deals with YOUR need to make everyone else the same as you to be happy with them. i find that just as intolerant as people who try to force religion down my throat. the fact that you don't see how ARROGANT that is is my beef with you.

[Ronilowich]

I'm thinking about making a lending team called ' the men who lend to topless women'.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@trickpanda

Simple. I dont believe there are gods.

I dont 'enjoy' picking apart religion, it is a simple matter of ethics. One either cares or they dont. I do care.

Unfortunately the 'hope and comfort' comes at a horrendous cost to people's humanity. I understand the need, but planting taking up of fantasies in lieu of reason and evidence has done terrible damage to the world, so much so that the species may not survive another 100 years.

It is far better for folk to use reason.

[trickpanda]

@TheGodlessGuitarist if u have SO MUCH to say about your own brand of atheism, why not state it explicitly to give me a chance to talk about it?? must be fear of being picked apart the same way u must enjoy picking apart organized religions. i dont have the same joy from it, because i realise that religion brings hope and comfort to many good people all over the world, throughout all of history. something in the evolution of our brains made us want to believe in something bigger than ourselves

[trickpanda]

@TheGodlessGuitarist 1. that sentence makes no sense. 2. the general definition of atheism is the lack of belief in god(s). 3. to u, christianity is ignorance. a christian would likely be calling u ignorant. this doesnt make either one of you right. 4. me saying that the person in this video is a giver DOES NOT imply that u are not one. 5. u are just pissed i called u out. 6. "don't tell me what you think" lol, that is the best argument u have to back the fact that u arent arrogant or annoying.

[sajakram1]

if jesus is god cos he had no father then adam is a greater god cos he had no parents at all right .then bible hebrews 7;1 melchezeric had no parents no beginning no end so why not worship him stupid xtian human worshippers. what kind of jesus god born and died u retards worship any fairytale