What Can I Do to Minimize Risk for Future Kiva Loans?
Kiva is committed to partnering with high-quality microfinance institutions with a social mission of lending to the poor. While partnering with newer organizations can imply greater risk of non-repayment, this is a portion of the microfinance industry that can create a great deal of social good. We encourage you to, at all times, refer to our Field Partner pages (http://www.kiva.org/about/partners), which indicate our assessment of the level of risk associated with each microfinance institution, as well as our Risk and Due Diligence Center (http://www.kiva.org/about/risk/overview). Q: What is Kiva doing to prevent this situation from occurring again in the future? A: A vast majority of our Field Partners are healthy organizations that are very capable of administering your loans with the highest integrity. An incredible amount of work goes into ensuring that we are lending to healthy organizations capable of disbursing Kiva loans, that each entrepreneur gets the loan capital that you p
