LEADERS Program: Social Enterprise
March 14, 2011 The successful long-term development of Haiti relies on Haitians acquiring and employing the skills they need to exercise their independence and autonomy in inclusive and respectful ways. Unfortunately, most Haitian leaders lack both the practical skills to make them effective and the experience which would allow them to lead inclusively and respectfully. […]
Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education Project
The Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education project is a 3-year grant generously made possible with support from the Vista Hermosa Foundation. Its overall goal is to “Develop and promote good leadership, inspiring successes, innovative solutions and community commitment to quality education in Haiti by leveraging the Capacity Building3 Project.” Through this project we have been able to create […]
Seeking social entrepreneur to help establish new paper making start-up!

Lead Social Entrepreneur (paid position/stipend) Haiti Partners is looking for a courageous, innovative entrepreneur to create and manage a start-up effort in a vibrant community outside Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Now is the right time for the right person to take our many resources and skills, and activate them for the good of this community. This role […]
Taking Risks, Learning Together: The Long Walk Toward Social Business
Maxandre at a speaking engagement in Chicago in 2011 (Erik translating) August 2013 Erik Badger Maxandre Bien-Aime is the principal of IMN Community School. He has a degree in linguistics from the Haitian state university and is a leader in his community. I am a liaison to IMN and have known Maxandre since I lived […]
Quality Education, Social Business, Partnership & Community Development at the Haiti Partners Children’s Academy
February 6, 2013 Erik Badger In October 2011 in the rural mountain community of Baocia, Haiti Partners broke ground on a new school: the Children’s Academy and Learning Center. After months of holding community meetings to identify local development priorities and cultivating relationships of trust with local residents, it became clear that central concerns of […]
Social Business Expert to Help Partner Schools
August 4, 2011 Thanks to our partnership with Grameen Creative Lab and to another grant from Vista Hermosa Foundation we have hired a Haitian expert who will work full-time to help our partner schools create social businesses. The purpose of this is two-fold. First, it’s a revenue source. Haitian schools rarely have adequate funds to […]
Social Business to Help School
April 29, 2011 Yesterday Ipena Lucien of Grameen Creative Lab Haiti met with teachers and school director of one of Haiti Partners partner schools to discuss possible social businesses that would benefit the community and the school. My colleagues and I (John Engle) were so impressed with Ipena’s facilitation skills. Haiti Partners is extremely excited […]
Community development research at the Children’s Academy presented at major conference

In January 2014 we did a blog post about the participatory research that was being conducted at the Children’s Academy by our close associate and PhD candidate, Jayne Engle. Since this time Jayne has continued her research and begun presenting her findings. Below is an abstract from research that Jayne presented last weekend at the ACSP conference (Association of […]
Partner School and Open Space Meetings
July 26, 2012 Erik Badger With the school year over, summertime provides a great opportunity to convene our partner school leadership teams as well as many members of our broader network. Taking advantage of this, last Thursday we held a day-long partner school meeting which was immediately followed the 11th Annual Open Space gathering. The partner […]
New Project Pages Promote Transparency
April 30, 2012 Erik Badger We’re pleased to announce two new project pages here at haitipartners.wpengine.com: the Capacity Building3 and Social Enterprise for Quality Education pages. These pages consolidate all significant proposals, reports, media and updates from these two projects and make them easily accessible to the public. Though we do not expect all of our […]