Fred Wilson put up a good post almost a week ago about blogging for a cause, which lead me to Zemanta’s (Fred invested in them) Blogging for a Cause campagin.

Since I’m already on quite a roll about Kiva, I figured why not post one more time about why I think they’re such a great organization:

1) Transparency

In todays world of stock market scandals and top secret government documents, I want to see whats going on behind the curtain.  Kiva takes transparency to the max, and it shows in every aspect of their business.  Here they are working with Ernst & Young to be more transparent, and here’s a group of hard core supporters dedicated to making Kiva stays transparent! 

2) Scalability

Kiva has the ability to touch a lot of people and make a difference.  They’ve loaned out $73million from nearly 500,000 lenders to 175,000 entrepreneurs.  Wow.  Those are some huge numbers, and they’re growing every day.  The more time I spend on social media for Kiva, the more I realize how many future lenders still don’t know about Kiva.org!

3) Efficiency

In only four years with under 30 full time employees they did all this!

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This blog post is part of Zemanta’s “Blogging For a Cause” campaign to raise awareness and funds for worthy causes that bloggers care about.

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