Kiva Labs aims to harness power of green crowd-funding with Google backing

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Crowd-funding platform launches Kiva Labs following award of $3m Google Global Impact Award

Global crowd-funding provider Kiva.org has launched a new initiative, dubbed Kiva Labs, designed to make it easier for environmental and development projects to access crowd funding. The new initiative,...

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