Originally Posted by USHPNWDLUA

I assume you’re referring to the donation that goes directly to fund Kiva? I’ve never seen a mandatory donation (kinda an oxymoron, huh?). I’ve only ever seen the web page enter a suggested donation amount, which I could override.

ETA: I just went to the site, made a loan, and on the checkout page, I see the “Optional Donation to Kiva’s Operational Costs” box, with $3.50 suggested in the box. I changed it to $0.00, then hit checkout. The $3.50 remained there on the resulting page. Turns out you really do have to hit that little “update” link next to the $value box for it to really remove that $3.50. I went back a page, entered $0, hit update, the $3.50 was removed, and then on the resulting page, the “Optional Donation” really was set to $0.00.