Supporters

Vittana’s supporters share the belief that education is the single most powerful tool to fight global poverty. We depend on a community of individuals, foundations, and corporations to provide financial or in-kind services to sustain our team, our operations, and our programs. These donors fuel our ability to scale to reach more students in more countries over time. They also allow 100% of all loans made on our website to go directly to students.

Individual Supporters

Vittana is appreciative of the generous contributions of individuals who share our belief in the transformative power of education. Your tips and donations power our work each and every day and for that we thank you. You enable us to continue to change the lives of the students we reach. Donate today.

Corporate & Foundation Supporters

Vittana is thrilled to receive support from the following forward-thinking corporations and foundations who enable us to better serve our global community of students and lenders. Their support is critical to our ongoing growth and scale.

	The Peery Foundation The mission of the Peery Foundation is to strengthen youth and families to build lives of dignity and self-reliance. They invest in and serve social entrepreneurs and leading organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.
	Google Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google that develops technologies to help address global challenges and supports innovative partners through grants, investments and in-kind resources.

Service Providers

Vittana is honored to partner with the following world-class organizations who share our vision of helping young people in developing countries finish their education. We couldn't do it without them.

	Photo Book Press Photo Book Press produces books in small quantities with high quality images and binds them in beautiful leathers or book binding cloths.
	Banyan Branch Banyan Branch is a social media agency that is pioneering the way brands, companies, and movements can harness the power of social media for their benefit. Banyan Branch has donated hundreds of hours as our pro-bono partner to help Vittana create and execute a social media strategy that not only gets the word out about Vittana's work and mission, but that connects and empowers our community.
	CFO Selections CFO Selections is the premier provider of consulting services in the performance management and business intelligence domain. Our pro-bono partnership with CFO Selections allows Vittana to execute on our value of data-driven decision-making, transparency and nimbleness. If information is power, then CFO Selections helps drive the engine that makes Vittana what it is today.
	Clinton Global Initiative Vittana has joined the Clinton Global Initiative with a commitment as a key Education partner. Through its initiative, "Vittana/Africa: Bringing Student Loans to Africa," Vittana will partner with some of Africa’s finest microfinance institutions to empower 10,000 students with access to student loans by 2015.
	Digg Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by their community. Digg has donated advertising space to Vittana since 2011.
	Deloitte Deloitte is a world class consulting agency that focuses its expertise in four main business areas - audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting. Through our pro-bono consulting relationship, Deloitte created a proprietary due diligence tool to rate and assess our potential microfinance partners.
	frog design frog design is a leading design and innovation agency that helps create and bring meaningful products and experiences to market. frog design helped re-design and launch Vittana's website in 2010.
	Hulu Hulu is an online video service that offers a selection of hit shows, clips, movies and more at Hulu.com, numerous destination sites online, and through its ad-supported subscription service, Hulu Plus. Since 2010, Hulu has donated advertising space for us to run PSAs about Vittana.
	Orrick The associates and partners at Orrick continually provide Vittana with outstanding pro-bono legal support and guidance as we structure relationships with new microfinance partners. Orrick is a global law firm that has won the ABA's Business Law National Public Service Award in recognition for the firm’s contribution to the microfinance sector. We feel exceedingly lucky to leverage their expertise and knowledge.
	Perkins Coie Perkins Coie provides pro bono general counsel to Vittana, donating hundreds of hours in helping Vittana develop a solid legal foundation Perkins Coie has a rich tradition of supporting innovative non-profits in its Seattle hometown and Vittana looks forward to continuing to work with Perkins Coie.
	Pop!Tech Pop!Tech is an unique innovation network -- a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs -- whose mission is to accelerate the impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. Kushal Chakrabarti, co-founder and CEO, was selected as an inaugural 2008 Social Innovation Fellow.