The International Museum of Women Presents: An Evening With JESSICA JACKLEY of Kiva May 27, 2009

THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN PRESENTS
Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change
Speaker Series

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Join us for an Evening with JESSICA JACKLEY of Kiva
Empowerment through Internet Entrepreneurship in a Changing Global Economy

You are invited to an Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series program with Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer online microlending Web site. She will appear in conversation with Kate Lauer, an engaging expert in international microfinance and policy reform.

Kiva lets Internet users lend as little as $25 to specific developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business. Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit Web sites in history, connecting hundreds of thousands of people through lending across over 150 countries.

Jessica first saw the power, beauty, and dignity of microfinance while working in rural East Africa with the microenterprise development nonprofit Village Enterprise Fund on impact evaluation and program development. Committed to diverse approaches to social change, Jessica has worked for public, nonprofit, and private organizations including the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others.

At 5:00 p.m., we?re hosting a members-only reception. Come chat with Jessica, other members, and I.M.O.W. Board and staff. Please join us!

Be sure to log on for our Web chat with Jessica on Thursday, May 27, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. PDT!

VENUE
Omni San Francisco Hotel
500 California Street at Montgomery
San Francisco, CA

Members-only Reception / 5:00 p.m.
General Registration Opens / 5:30 p.m.
Program / 6:00 p.m.

RESERVE TICKETS By May 21, 2009 @ www.imow.org

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