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 KIEDF Program in Focus
Initiative for Development of the Negev and the North

KIEDF is facilitating NIS 600 million of bank credit via Bank Leumi for new and expanding small and medium-sized businesses in the Negev, Gilboa and Galilee regions.

KIEDF Small and Medium Business Loan Funds

These funds facilitate access to credit for business owners unable to secure bank financing by deploying assets as loan guarantees.

"When I was stuck, Koret helped me get the financing that enabled me to get back on my feet." - Raviv Schiller, Schiller Ltd. [VIEW SUCCESSES]

KIEDF-Olivestone Israeli Arab Loan Fund

The fund provides guarantees to facilitate credit for Arab Israeli small businesses owners lacking sufficient securities.
"Three entrepreneurial brothers left their village to set up shop in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. KIEDF helped them get started." [VIEW SUCCESSES]

KIEDF "SAWA" Direct Non-Bank Loan Fund

This innovative fund combines loans with business training to help develop micro-businesses led by Bedouin, Arab and Jewish women having difficulties obtaining credit from banks.
"With a loan from SAWA, Asiyah started her own pita bakery."
[VIEW SUCCESSES]

KIEDF Micro Credit Loan Funds

This new fund, in partnership with Bank Hapoalim, provides guarantees for loans of up to 30,000 shekels for micro-enterprises, mainly for women facing barriers in raising credit.
This fund joins other KIEDF Micro Credit initiatives assisting entrepreneurs in disadvantaged communities. [VIEW SUCCESSES]

KIEDF Business Development Programs

Year-long training programs assist groups of mostly women from disadvantaged populations seeking to improve their situations by developing small businesses.
Through the KIEDF course, Mommo learned key business management skills that have improved his store's profitability. [VIEW SUCCESSES]

The Koret-Milken Institute Fellows Program

Boosting Israeli-Arab entrepreneurship through microloans
ISRAEL21c, Aug. 10, 2011
KIEDF has united with the San Francisco-based non-profit organization Kiva Microfunds in a groundbreaking venture aimed at helping Bedouin women of the Negev, Arab Israelis in northern Israel and other low-income sectors of Israeli society.

KIEDF, Bank Hapoalim open new microcredit loan fund
The new fund, the first of its kind in Israel, will provide loans of up to NIS 30,000 for microenterprise development. For more information, contact Maysa at 04-958-8440 or email maysa@kiedf.org.

Kiva’s innovative microloans program expands to Israel
J Weekly, Dec.23, 2010

KEREN KORET and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal offer special loans to businesses damaged by the Carmel fire

Kiva.org and KIEDF Partner to bring Online Microfinance to Israel
Kiva’s first and only partnership in Israel allows individuals to help bring economic stability to the region (Acrobat format)
View Kiva.org Partner Page

Getting Credit: KIEDF leads the way in microcredit
Yediot Aharonot, 9.17.10 (Hebrew article, Acrobat format, Page 1 | 2)

Leading Israeli business magazine chooses KIEDF's Carl Kaplan among "101 People who Influence for Good"
List highlights business leaders and social entrepreneurs contributing to the improvement of Israeli society. The Marker, Sept. 2010 (Acrobat format)

The Business of Philanthropy
Jeff Farber, Koret Foundation CEO, believes it’s time Jewish philanthropy stopped operating like a charity.
The Jerusalem Post, 4.27.10
(Reprint with photos in Acrobat (PDF) format)

Changing the lives of Beduin Women
Video field report from Israel's Negev desert on KIEDF's SAWA microcredit program.
Channel 2 (hebrew with english subtitles), 3.11.10

KIEDF and Arab Israeli Bank launch fund for development and expansion of Arab Israeli businesses
Over 40 million Shekels in loans will be provided to the Arab Israeli business sector.
The Marker (hebrew), 3.24.10
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