Empowering Small Business Owners Around The World

Through our initiative with Kiva.org, we are excited to be helping entrepreneurs around the world make their business dreams a reality with interest-free microfinancing.

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About The Initiative

In many parts of the world, it's hard and sometimes impossible for aspiring small business owners to secure financing to start building their dream. With the help of Kiva.org, HostPapa is mobilizing its employees, customers and partners in a journey to empower small business owners from Samoa to Paraguay to Nairobi.

The Benkan Group are fish vendors from Mali Bougouni, Mali

Why We Do It

HostPapa takes small business success seriously! We’ve spent almost the past decade helping small businesses by delivering enterprise-grade productivity tools and business management solutions. But for some aspiring business owners, a micro-loan can make a world of difference. We believe that entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone.

Farmer Arpine and her two children from Tsaghkunk village, Armenia

How We Do It

By mobilizing our 70+ employees, our various business partners and our hundreds of thousands of loyal HostPapa customers, we’re able to generate the donations necessary to make a difference in the lives of aspiring businesses owners all over the world. But we still need more help! Scroll down to see how you can get involved.

Metal shop owner Mahmoud from Ramallah City, West Bank, Palestine

Why You Should Do It Too

Kiva.org works with many large businesses and corporate entities like HostPapa, but they also work with countless individuals who share the belief that small businesses can make a big impact. Be one of the 1.5 million lenders who help finance the business goals of aspiring entrepreneurs around the globe. Check out kiva.org today and get involved.

Kiva By The Numbers

2.1M

Small Business Borrowers

1.5M

International Lenders

$882M

Lent To Entrepreneurs

97.1%

Loan Repayment Rate

About Kiva.org

Kiva is an international nonprofit based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, anyone can help a borrower start or grow a business, go to school, access clean energy or realize their potential. For some, it’s a matter of survival, for others it’s the fuel for a life-long ambition. 100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans.

It's a loan, not a donation

Lending on Kiva creates a partnership of mutual dignity and makes it easy to touch more lives with the same dollar.

Choosing where to make an impact

Whether lending within your community, or halfway around the world, Kiva creates the opportunity to play a special part in someone else's story.

Lifting one, to lift many

When a Kiva loan enables someone to grow a business and create opportunity for themselves, it creates opportunities for others as well.

Start Your Own Team

Anyone can start a lending team on Kiva.org and start making a difference in the lives of aspiring business owners and do their part to alleviate international poverty.

There are plenty of important small businesses that need the support of micro loans including agricultural development, female empowerment, education, refugee support, water and sanitation projects and businesses within conflict zones.

Check out Kiva.org today and start your own team of lenders!