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 […]
WORLDBLU Team in Haiti
December 25, 2011 My co-workers and I (John Engle) were thrilled to host in Haiti the WorldBlu team December 10-17. Their training on organizational and workplace democracy for our partner school leadership teams and for 35 people in our LEADERS Program was incredible. We are so grateful to Vista Hermosa Foundation for making their visit […]
WorldBlu Team in Haiti
December 12, 2011 My co-workers and I (John Engle) are having a wonderful time hosting WorldBlu team in Haiti this week. They’re putting photos and updates on their Facebook page. Click here. We are so grateful to Vista Hermosa Foundation for making their visit possible. In addition to them participating in Open Haiti Camp open […]
LEADERS Seminar – Social Business
August 15, 2011 Last week was another LEADERS seminar. Our LEADERS program consists of four seminars a year over three years for community leaders and school principals. The focus of this year’s seminars has been social business. In December this 3-year phase will be finished and we plan to start a new three year LEADERSHIP […]
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 […]
THANK YOU USAID and GRU!
July 2, 2011 Haiti Partners thanks USAID/Haiti Recovery Initiative for the very generous donations of a large Cummins diesel generator, thirty-two 12-volt batteries, two inverters, 4 desks and chairs, filing cabinets and more. We are grateful! Our partnership with USAID/Haiti Recovery Initiative earlier in the year made it possible for 1,000 Haitian educators and grassroots […]
10th Annual Open Space Haiti Gathering
June 29, 2011 This past weekend was the 10th Annual Haiti Open Space Gathering. Every year this gathering convenes 60-80 educators and community leaders for an inspiring learning exchange. This event, which is completely run by Haitians, is among our many efforts to develop professional learning communities. We couldn’t be more grateful to Open Space […]
Grameen Social Business Lab
May 21, 2011 My co-workers and I are thrilled to be affiliated with Grameen Creative Lab. The Social Business Lab that their Haiti and Germany-based staff organized yesterday at Karibe Convention Center brought together extremely interesting people who are working on interesting things. Please stay posted. Haiti Partners is committed to social business which can […]
Social Business Seminar with Grameen Creative Lab
May 6, 2011 35 community leaders/school directors are convening for three days as part of Haiti Partners LEADERS Program, which is funded with a grant from Vista Hermosa Foundation. This is a three-year training to help leaders build capacity in: use of computers (they all receive laptops), in participatory education and leadership, and in institutional […]
Reports on Major Grants
April 10, 2011 Haiti Partners has the privilege of working with Vista Hermosa Foundation, which is making possible through significant grants, two important Haiti Partners projects: Capacity Building 3 and Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education. We invite you to review our two-year and 18 month reports, respectively, for these projects. Click here for Capacity […]