Education changes everything.
We’re floored on a daily basis by students who have struggled against all odds to finish their education, lenders who time and again come back to change yet another person’s life, and Fellows who dedicate a portion of their own lives to bringing microloans to more students in developing countries. [...]
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As I sit here on the day before Thanksgiving, what comes to mind is the over 250 students on Vittana right now who are poised to transform their lives by continuing their education. Whether it’s Omar Ahmad‘s desire to become a civil engineer in Jordan or Lidia Severina Aban‘s goal [...]
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Are you a Rails developer? Join our team! Job Description Vittana is looking for a scrappy Rails developer to join our team and help build www.vittana.org into the #1 marketplace for global education. Vittana is already a recognized leader in Seattle (Seattle 2.0: “Best Non-Profit”, Fast Company: “5 Social Capitalists [...]
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We continue to be humbled and honored by the support of Seattle’s tech community. Two weeks ago, we won the Seattle 2.0 Award for Best Nonprofit Startup. Over the weekend, TechFlash ran this great article on Vittana. Here’s a favorite quote about how our CEO Kushal Chakrabarti sees the world and how [...]
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Microfinance and hip hop don’t usually find themselves being used in the same sentence, but a week ago on @DJHyphen and J. Moore’s Sunday Night Sound Session, that’s exactly what happened. If you haven’t heard of Sunday Night Sound Session, this late night radio show is on Seattle’s Kube 93 [...]
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A few weeks ago we got a nice surprise in our inbox; we got the news that Netted was featuring Vittana in their daily email. Quite nice of them, don’t you think? Here’s the article in case you’d like to take a peek. Netted sends a daily internet-focused email that [...]
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We woke up this morning to some disturbing news: that Nobel Prize Winner (and “grandfather” of the microfinance movement) Muhammad Yunus has been asked to step down as Managing Director of Grameen Bank (which he founded 1983). We’ve been following the story and wanted to send you a chronology of articles [...]
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Earlier this week we posted about the great stuff going on at the Clinton Global Initiative, but yesterday was a particularly special moment in Vittana history. Wednesday September 22, we announced the launch of our new initiative Vittana/Africa: Bringing Student Loans to Africa on stage at the special plenary session [...]
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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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In case you missed it, here is your reading guide to Vittana in the news for the last month: Huffington Post: “HuffPo Game Changers: Your picks for the Ultimate 10” After 1.7 million votes, our CEO Kushal Chakrabarti was named the Ultimate Game Changer in Philanthropy by Huffington Post readers. [...]
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