Lindsey Maxfield

We’re Nominated as the “Best Non-Profit Startup”

We are honored to be a nominee for “Best Non-Profit Startup” in the Seattle 2.0 Awards this year! We’re amongst some amazing company with fellow Seattle startups up for various awards. Voters will determine all award winners – and we’d love your support. You can vote for Vittana as Seattle

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Vittana in the News

by Lindsey Maxfield

It’s time for the news roundup! Vittana has appeared in some great articles in the past few weeks. Let’s take a look: Faces of Vittana Huffington Post wrote a wonderful article about Vittana and featuring some of our students. They said: “Through Vittana, people from around the world pledge money

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Happy Hour a Success!

by Lindsey Maxfield

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Vittana/SeaMo happy hour last Friday! You all braved a serious rainstorm and the Friday night doldrums to come meet and mingle with Vittana lenders, staff and volunteers. We all celebrated passing $100k overall, $50k in March, and helping send over 200 students

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Happy April Fool’s!

by Lindsey Maxfield

Wow. Today is a big day – it’s the official end of our March Microfinance Madness campaign, and a step in a new direction for the website (if you don’t know what I mean yet, check it out). It’s a perfect way to cap off the last month, which completely

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What are you doing next Friday Night?

by Lindsey Maxfield

There is only one acceptable answer: If you’re in the Seattle area on April 2, come to a Vittana happy hour! We’ll be celebrating passing $100k in loan volume with our friends at SeaMo (Seattle Microfinance – a local organization that connects the microfinance community). The official blurb: This past

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Vittana’s March Madness In The News

by Lindsey Maxfield

March is shaping up to be a busy month for Vittana! Check out what’s been going on: March Madness Our March Microfinance Madness competition is going strong, but there are only 12 days left! We have fully funded 52 students, and there are plenty more to go. Take a look

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Big Thanks to #140TC!

by Lindsey Maxfield

Seattle hosted 140TC on Monday, a Twitter conference covering how to be an expert Twitter user, Twitter applications, branding… and Vittana! Our CEO, Kushal, spoke about our March Microfinance Madness challenge and several speakers wore Vittana t-shirts as part of an awareness campaign. Photos are below. Thanks to everyone who

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New Website is Up

by Lindsey Maxfield

It’s here! You may or may not have noticed that www.vittana.org is looking a little different these days. That’s right – we have launched a complete redesign of our website. We’ve been working on the new site for several months now, and think that it’s a huge step forward from

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Vittana News Round-Up!

by Lindsey Maxfield

Vittana has received some wonderful press over the past few months. To keep you in the loop, here are some of our favorite links. February 2010: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Fast Company named Vittana one of the top 10 most innovative finance companies. January 2010: Global Community Listens to

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Back Online

by Lindsey Maxfield

Hello Vittana community! You may have noticed that we’ve been pretty quiet on the blog lately. This has been for a few reasons: We are only days away from launching a new website, and in conjunction with that we’re holding a month-long event, March Micro Madness. We went silent to

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