Donations Spike After World News Report

By Brian 

Tuesday’s World News featured a report from Betsy Stark about Kiva.org, a website that allows people to make direct loans to entrepreneurs in poor countries.

Since the piece aired, Kiva says it has raised $110,000 from 1,170 users, more than two times the site’s daily average. According to ABC, the organization says the majority of those lending are World News viewers…

> Update: 5:19pm: Kiva.org was also featured in one of CNN’s Heroes segments, an e-mailer notes…

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