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Crowdlending platform for 0% interest, no-fee loans to startups and small businesses. Kiva is focused on character, not credit scores; on relationships, not collateral. Raise up to $10,000 in less than a month from its community of 2M lenders worldwide, by simply getting 10 friends and family to kick off your loan campaign with $25 contributions.

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Grant or Scholarship

Core Grants

Grants for new,untested organizations and general institutional support of up to $40,000 to $45,000 for each year of eligibility: start-up

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Funding Database

Top Students Challenges

Hub for academic and career-relevant student competitions, startup contests and idea challenges. Focuses on contests for students who are committed

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Competition

The Tech Awards

The Tech Awards honors innovators from around the world — individuals, non-profit organizations and companies — who are applying technology

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Internship or Fellowship

Engineering Foundry Fellow

Engineering Foundry Fellows are undergraduate STEM majors passionate about startups, and helping to create tomorrow’s leading companies. Fellows work closely

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