Definitions for Kiva
ˈki vəki·va

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1. kivanoun

   A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.

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1. KIVA

   A kiva is a room used by modern Puebloan people for religious rituals.

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1. Kiva

   A kiva is a room used by modern Puebloans for religious rituals, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies. Similar subterranean rooms are found among ruins in the American southwest, indicating ritual or cultural use by the ancient peoples of the region including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples, the Mogollon and the Hohokam. Those used by the ancient Pueblos of the Pueblo I Era and following, designated by the Pecos Classification system developed by archaeologists, were usually round, and generally believed to have been used for religious and other communal purposes.

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1. Kiva

   Kiva is a nonprofit, personal micro-lending site that facilitates loans between lenders and low-income entrepreneurs in developing countries, using local lending companies and organizations as intermediaries. Lenders can find the business and entrepreneur they want to lend to based on region, business type, risk level, etc. Each posted loan is accompanied with bios for the respective entrepreneur, details on the why and what the loan is going to be used for, total amount raised from other lenders, loan duration (usually 6-12 months) and loan default risk. Taking small payments, usually $25, from a bunch of Kiva lenders raises the loans. Once a loan’s full amount has been raised it is transferred to one of Kiva’s field partners. In most cases the field partners have already disbursed the loans depicted before they are posted for “backfilling” by lenders on the Kiva website. Field partners are local microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries that find, track and manage entrepreneurs and then disburse and collect the microloans. Even though lenders and Kiva do not charge interest, the field partners charge interest averaging 35% per year to the entrepreneurs.When loans have been repaid in full they are transferred back to Kiva and then to Kiva lenders via PayPal. PayPal has allowed Kiva to transfer loans back-and-forth from the lenders without transaction fees partly because of Kiva’s nonprofit nature and partly because of Kiva president Premal Shah’s past job of being a Principal Product Manager at PayPal. Kiva pioneered the concept of allowing local field partners to post individual loan stories for funding by individuals over the internet. Up until 2009 Kiva was alone in their business model of sourcing loan capital from individuals over the internet as a nonprofit entity. In 2009, the nonprofit lending platform Zidisha was founded with the purpose of reducing interest costs for borrowers by eliminating the local field partners and allowing lenders and entrepreneurs in developing to transact directly. Other p2p lending sites, like Prosper, Zopa and Lending Club, make lower-risk loans to people in the same country as for-profit entities. Online p2p lending is new and it is hard to maneuver around financial regulations to make higher-risk, international loans as a for-profit entity, which is partly why Kiva formed as a non-profit.

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2. KIVA

   What does KIVA stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the KIVA acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Anagrams for Kiva »

1. Vaik

2. kavi

How to pronounce Kiva?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kiva in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Kiva in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Kiva in a Sentence

1. Kentucky Indiana Volleyball Academy:

   Our KIVA family will never be the same and we send prayers and love to all of the families touched by this tragedy.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kiva
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Kiva
4. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kiva