Aquatabs Haiti
As the Caribbean hurricane season rolls around, memories of last year’s devastation stir throughout the region. If you wish to help here is a bit of knowledge. "An average person drinks about 2 liters of water per day and Aquatabs…
10 Attitude Adjustments You Need for Raising Money
Money has no value. It just sits there. We give it value. Raising money is powerful. It gives you the ability to do things. Don't confuse raising money for your group with being critical of our economic system and…
Mission Statement Exercise
Assert the dominant value the organization believes in. (Afirme valè e pozisyon òganizasyon an kote li kanpe.) Describe briefly the conditions preventing the fulfillment of the value. (Dekri kondisyon yo ki anpeche pwogrè valè òganizasyon an.) State briefly what…
Bottled Water Companies to Know in Haiti
Hurricane season is swiftly approaching, instead of purchasing and shipping bottled water to Haiti, here is a list to better help you. Purchase the bottled water locally and have them distributed to local organizations.
No Offense, But We Need A Plan B For Haiti: Failures Within The Social/Nonprofit Sector Need To Be Acknowledge
Being recognized as the Republic of NGOs, we, as nonprofits, fail to create sustainable projects to benefit the country. The norm of registration within the international community, including the Haitian diaspora, is to register their organization with their government as…
Effectiveness As Defined By Whom
What is effectiveness? As Herman and Renz have pointed out (2004, 1997), the concept of organizational effectiveness arises from a theoretical perspective which posits that formal organizations are created to achieve one or more consciously identified goals. Measures of effectiveness,…
Local Nonprofits
Local nonprofits to know in Haiti: Jèn Mapou Jèn Mapou is the largest platform for discovering opportunities for young people in Haiti around the world. It is a platform that provides young Haitians in Haiti and the Diaspora with the latest…
Types of Grants
When your organization is looking for a grant, you aren’t only looking for a funder who might be interested in funding your organization. You have to find a funder who will fund the types of grants that you are looking…
Urban Matters
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.
–(Plato 363 BCE [reprinted 2012])
We have traveled the world to have a great appreciation and understanding of sustainable architecture as well as urban planning. The world is moving at a fast pace of “global gentrification,” and their construction is more innovative and sustainable, some places more considerate of the environment than others. However, within the nonprofit sector operating in Haiti, there is a lack of common sense. Urban planning or sustainability does not seem to play a critical role. When nonprofits fundraise to construct homes, they fail to invest in sustainability. Yes, it is imperative to provide jobs to the locals; however, upon the arrival of the next natural disaster, they will return only to reconstruct the same homes. Would you rather build homes for one-hundred families or would you rather house twenty-five? Any individual would wish to provide homes to one-hundred families; however, if these homes are not being built to be sustainable, to be “livable,” then it is a waste of time and money.
Faith-Based Nonprofits Versus Haiti
Our mission is “to facilitate the intellectual, spiritual, and character development of Haitians who demonstrate leadership potential and to assist them in becoming self-supporting, responsible, community-minded members of their society.”
–Haiti Share Inc.
“We promote the gospel of Jesus by encouraging Haitian children and adults to work with their local church body to help provide for basic physical needs.”
–Hope for Haiti
Our vision aims to meet some of the Haitian people’s greatest needs:
Knowledge of the love and saving the grace of Jesus Christ
Christian discipleship and a Bible training facility; where Haitian pastors are trained to teach the Word of God through the method of inductive Bible studies in their own language.
–Housetop for Haiti