Carolina Community Impact offers 0% interest, No Fee Crowdsourced Loans through the Kiva Platform for under-resourced small businesses across Central North Carolina

Together we will build collaborative communities and offer financial inclusion and social capital to those who need it the most.


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Established in 2005 as the world's first personal micro-lending website, Kiva enables everyday people to pool lending contributions as little as $25 to provide financial access to entrepreneurs in developing communities across the globe. Since its beginning, serving loans to a handful of fishmongers in eastern Uganda, Kiva has grown to enable over 1.7M lenders worldwide to lend a combined $1.2B to more than 2.6M entrepreneurs in 89 countries around the world. 

Kiva Success Stories

From idea to execution and self-financing to being backed by 40+ lenders, these business owners prove that drive, a marketable business and great business sense can open many doors. We've worked with many talented business owners through our Kiva lending platform. Here are a few of them who have shared their stories of what it's like to work with us to gain access to capital using our Kiva lending platform. Click on their pictures to read the full stories.

The Vino Market

Church is My Club, LLC

Brxke Apparel


Become a Kiva Lender


By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. We believe lending alongside thousands of others is one of the most powerful and sustainable ways to create economic and social good.


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. Fund a loan, get repaid, fund another.

Become one of over 2 Million lenders making a social impact in their community.


Become a Trustee

Trustees are organizations invested in economic development in their communities. 

Trustees are often already providing wrap-around services to small business owners in their community, and use their relationships to source entrepreneurs they believe would benefit from Kiva’s capital and publicly vouch for them as borrowers on the Kiva website through “endorsements.” 

Trustees have no financial liability for loans, but their reputation is tied to the repayment rate of the borrowers they endorse.

What is the benefit of being a Trustee?

As a Trustee, your organization has a micro-lending tool at your disposal that allows you to...

1. Invest in your community: by helping entrepreneurs gain access to funding to start or grow a business, you have the chance to make an integral impact in your community.

2. Track your impact over time: Trustees can track and share data on the loans they endorse to communicate their impact to funders and raise grant funding.

3. Increase the exposure of your organization: your Trustee profile page publicly showcases your organization and impact to date and is visible to Kiva’s more than 1.6 million lenders around the world.

4.Build local networks: a Trustee can further rally support for local businesses through the Kiva platform by making a local lending 


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