Closing The Gap
Should small businesses embrace public-private partners?
Should Small Businesses Embrace Public-Private Partners? | GZERO Media
March 24, 2022
Definitely, says Kiva CEO Chris Tsakalakis.
"No one individual or one group can fund what needs to get done in order to support these businesses," he says during a livestream conversation on small businesses and pandemic recovery hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with Visa.
Kiva, he explains, works with all sorts of partners — including resilient borrowers and lenders, often private ones, who support those loans.
One of the organization's go-to partners are foundations like Visa's. "People in philanthropy found ... are interested in attacking fundamental problems in order to make systemic changes," he says.
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