History and Accomplishments of the Haiti Fund at the Boston

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Helping Haitians Rebuild:
2010 - 2015
History and
Accomplishments
of the Haiti Fund
at the Boston
Foundation
Dear Friends of Haiti,
Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou.
Remember the rain that made your corn grow.
The truth is that you are the rain that made the corn grow.
We hope you take a few minutes to read through the Haiti Fund’s history – and
take pride in your own contributions. You’ll find our impressions of the Haiti
Fund’s impacts and accomplishments, as well as observations and recommendations for how philanthropy can support home-grown development rather
than imposed agendas. We share with you here what we have learned during
the Haiti Fund’s five year lifespan. It is these lessons about how to strengthen
Haitian-led organizations that inform one of the Haiti Fund’s final actions – to
seed a permanent capacity-building institute for the thousands of grassroots
organizations toiling for human rights and sustainable development.
Our hearts are full of gratitude for your collaboration with the Haiti Fund over
these past five year. Even as there remains so much more to be done, we
are optimistic for Haiti because of the truly effective grassroots organizations
which we have been so honored to support. Their work – and your accompaniment – are the fertile soil from which the new Haiti will rise.
Mesi anpil,
Pierre Noel
Program Director
Karen Ansara
Co-Founder
Marie St. Fleur
Chairperson
Cover artwork: “Sweeping Statement: Blooming Away
Physical and Emotional Debris” by Joseph Chery
Daniel Moss, Report Writer
Tara Mathur, Report Designer
The Haiti Fund’s Beginnings
Finding the Right Home for the Haiti Fund - The Boston Foundation:
There at the Beginning
Minutes after the earthquake struck, Karen Ansara placed a call to Kate Guedj, Vice President
of the Boston Foundation’s Development and Donor Services, where Jim and Karen Ansara
housed the Ansara Family Fund. Would it be possible to set up an emergency and reconstruction fund for Haiti within the Boston Foundation and seed it with a $1 million contribution? It
was not a decision to be made lightly. Community foundations are stretched thin in countless
directions and guard against mission drift. Why would a community foundation for Boston
venture into international grantmaking in Haiti?
And yet, ask anyone who arrives to Boston from Logan Airport and takes a cab into town.
Who is the first person they meet? Boston cabbies are largely Haitian, some of the tens
of thousands of Haitians who have moved to Boston in past decades. Haitians are at the
core of Boston’s growing cultural diversity. They
now number over 80,000 and are present among
health care workers, academics and elected officials. The Boston Foundation has had a long history of supporting Boston’s immigrants. Boston’s
Haitian community would surely be absorbing
displaced islander families fleeing the disaster
and would need help. In so many ways, the Boston Foundation as the home for the Haiti Fund
was a perfect match. Kate Guedj and Boston
Foundation president, Paul Grogan, deliberated
and embraced the new Bostonians, fortifying the
bridge between Boston and Haiti while stretching the Boston Foundation in an innovative direction. As it has been so many times in it’s 100
year history, the Boston Foundation chose to be
“there at the beginning.”
The Boston Foundation, in addition to making grants, brings the Boston community together
to discuss pressing topics and spark action. Three weeks after the earthquake, over 150 people, mostly Haitian, squeezed into a Boston Foundation meeting hall to chart a way forward.
Earthquake survivors offered teary testimony about the earthquake’s devastation. The philanthropic community grappled with how to most effectively come to Haiti’s aid.
Learning from the Legacy of Failed Aid
Philanthropy has a checkered past in Haiti. That’s a diplomatic way of describing a troubling
legacy and a violation of the golden rule: “Do no harm.” At times, the sector has behaved like
an opportunistic growth industry with little thought given to strengthening local leadership
for the long term - a perversity amply documented in recent books and articles by Edwidge
Danticat, Beverly Bell, Paul Farmer, Jonathan Katz, Mark Schuller and others. We moved forward cautiously, cognizant of the graveyard of failed projects and culture of dependency upon
which we walked. Excellent Haitian advisors generous with their time, long-time friends of
Haiti, and committed grantees grounded in local realities, helped the Fund navigate a minefield of potential missteps.
Crafting Guiding Principles for Haiti’s Reconstruction
The Haiti Fund was born during a time of not only
great torment but potential promise as well. In the
wake of horrific suffering, Bill Clinton was frequently
heard suggesting: Build Haiti Back Better. That had a
nice ring but what did it really mean? How might reconstruction make cracks in centuries-long injustices?
We knew that just the opposite was the more likely
outcome - that the new wave of aid might mean big
business for international aid agencies and enterprising contractors, most non-Haitian. Without careful
rethinking, social and economic inequalities would
deepen, transparency would remain opaque and the
public sector could weaken further.
“The first event we had, people
started to emerge. The Boston
Foundation was absolutely flooded
and it was so emotional.
Everyone, especially Haitians,
was crying and saying no one
ever asks us what we think.
And that’s when we said this is what
we have to do; this has to be
a Haitian-led fund.”
- Karen Ansara
Co-founder, Haiti Fund
In March 2010 at the University of Massachusetts, the
“Se le-w nan Male ou Konn si-w
Haiti Fund, in coalition with Haitian organizations from
gen bon zanmi.
around the country and co-sponsored by the NationIt is during hardships you find
al Association of Haitian Elected Officials Network
if you have good friends.”
(NAHEON) and the Barr Foundation, convened doz- Haitian Proverb
ens of Haitian organizations and hundreds of individuals from Haiti and the diaspora. For a day and a
half, participants in the Haitians Building Haiti conference debated and formulated principles
for reconstruction to guide the development community. Days afterwards, former State Representative and Haiti Fund Chair Marie St. Fleur brought those principles to the floor of the
United Nations. Over subsequent years of grant-making, it was these principles of transparency and social inclusion that informed our decisions about which grassroots organizations
to support. We sought out ordinary citizen groups that would play a crucial watchdog role in
improving aid programs. That civil society participation would guarantee that Haitian dreams
and visions, and not agendas imposed from the outside, would revitalize Haiti.
Generous Donors
The generosity of Boston donors - and many from far beyond Massachusetts’ borders - humbled us to our core. In the weeks and months after the earthquake - with little fundraising
prompting on our part - we received an outpouring of letters from schools and churches conHelping Haitians Rebuild: 2010 – 2015, page 2
HAITI FUND PRINCIPLES
1. Haiti must embrace broad participation and inclusiveness of every segment of
its population.
2. Capacities and talents of national and local government institutions and
civil society organizations must be mobilized and developed. Local resources
must be used.
3. Aid resources, financial, technical or otherwise, must be allocated locally to
strengthen a de-concentrated and decentralized Haiti.
4. Non-governmental organization aid and operations must be transparent and
aligned with overall redevelopment strategies for the country and principles
of inclusiveness, sustainability and accountability.
5. Haiti’s sovereign cultural identity must be respected and strengthened
throughout the building process.
taining hand-written expressions of caring and
prayer, as well as generous proceeds from bake
sales, running races and other creative fundraisers.
Sabine St. Lot from the State Street Corporation was the first Haitian leader to approach us.
She came to our office within four days. It was
her early trust in the Haiti Fund that helped the
Fund garner trust in the wider Haitian community. We received significant contributions from
small businesses and corporations.
We were well aware of that troubling characteristic of U.S. charitable giving - many people give for disaster recovery and then tend to vanish
for the much longer human rights protection and community building period. We sought to
retain donors moved by Haiti’s tragedy and educate them about the importance of becoming
allies to Haiti for the long term, when the TV cameras have packed up, but the rubble and
abuses by the powerful remained.
We are enormously grateful to the nearly 1,200 donors who have given to the Haiti Fund over
five years, from 1 dollar to 1 million dollars. Indeed, Haiti has great friends. We credit the
Fund’s Haitian leadership, our home within the much-respected Boston Foundation, and the
remarkably effective grantees for inspiring donors to give and give again. We are indebted to
Kate Guedj for her leadership in galvanizing support for Haiti.
Helping Haitians Rebuild: 2010 – 2015, page 3
Governance
The Advisory Council and Diaspora Leadership
Shortly after the Fund opened its doors, co-founders Karen Ansara and Kate Guedj asked:
How can we ensure that the Haitian community leads the fund? They were all too aware of
donor imposition in Haiti. If the fund was to be true to its principles of strengthening Haitian
leadership, it would have to make decisions differently. It would have to be led by Haitians.
Recruiting that leadership was easier said
than done. The Haitian community is large
and diverse, both sociallly and politically. In
some circumstances, the Haitian diaspora is
closely connected to the island and in other
cases a generation apart. Every Haitian’s story
is different. Identifying and pulling together
an advisory council was slow and methodical. And yet after three months, by consulting with dozens of Haitian leaders, the Fund
“If it had just been the Boston Foundation
without the Advisory Council, people would
have raised eyebrows. But we were more than
that; we nurtured the leaders and put them
first. I think the smartest thing we ever did
was to get you all around the table.”
was able to launch a Haitian-majority Advisory
Council to guide the first full round of grantmaking.
- Kate Guedj, Vice President
for Development and Donor Services
at the Boston Foundation
speaking to the Haiti Fund
Advisory Council
Serendipities: Haitian Leadership Grows Beyond the Haiti Fund
An unforeseen outcome of the Advisory Council has been that so many of the Haiti Fund’s advisors have assumed leadership positions on the boards of directors of grantee organizations
and as staff for sister foundations. The Advisory Council has been fertile ground for Haitian
leadership to grow. Herby Duverne joined the Advisory Board of the Institute for Justice and
Democracy in Haiti. Alix Cantave and Pierre Imbert joined the staff of the W.K. Kellogg and
Barr Foundations respectively. We were honored to work with two prominent Massachusetts state
politicians with national stature – former State Representative Marie St. Fleur and State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry. Senator Dorcena Forry led a successful national advocacy campaign
to extend Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to Haitians and allow their early entrance into
the U.S.
“With 20 of us on the Advisory Council . . . there were Haitians
of all ilk around the table, who had different points of views around
Haiti - those who were raised in Haiti, those like me who were not
raised in Haiti, but it created this nice roundtable.
That is what has been unique in The Haiti Fund.”
- Marie St. Fleur, Chairperson, Haiti Fund
Grantmaking
The Haiti Fund’s Grant-making Philosophy: Support to Forgotten Actors
With so much money pouring into Haiti after the earthquake from multilateral, bilateral and
philanthropic sources, what would be the Haiti Fund’s niche? How would it add value and differentiate itself from other funds? To our donors, we had to answer the question: Why should
they give to the Haiti Fund and not to another fund? We’ve already spoken about the Fund’s
novel governance structure; here are some reflections on its grant-making philosophy.
“The small grassroots organizations,
particularly those in the countryside, up
in the mountains, who are trying to
educate, who are trying to do agricultural
work, who are trying to start small
economic development opportunities,
many of those don’t get funded through
the usual suspects, the regular funders.
And so we thought in that space was
where we could add value.”
- Marie St. Fleur Chair, Haiti Fund
Right from the start, the Advisory Council and staff
insisted on an open, multi-lingual grant-making
process. That is, rather than pre-select invited organizations, adhering to the principle of decentralization articulated at the Haitians Building Haiti
conference, the Fund cast a wide net, reaching far
beyond Port-au-Prince and deep into Haitian civil
society. Over previous decades, many donors had
tended to work with a limited number of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that
had received the lion’s share of aid.
While the Haiti Fund lent support to the important work of some large U.S. organizations
with Haitian operations, particularly during the emergency phase, over time it identified and
supported small, Haitian-led organizations, those that tended to be off the radar screen of
other foundations. Apart from being the “right thing to do” to put project beneficiaries in
the driver’s seat of their own development, we also felt that the grassroots strategy had the
highest likelihood of success for equitable and sustainable development. With long-term support, their efforts could be brought to scale. The era of externally-generated, centralized,
short-term projects often managed for
private gain, would need to end.
The Haiti Fund aspired to introduce
these Haitian-led organizations to funding agencies and thereby shift the balance of development aid to grassroots
actors. Partnerships with the Philanthropy Advisors at W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation
and the Flora Family Foundation, just
to name a few, were key in mobilizing
additional resources for the remarkable work of these grantees. Achieving
a certain critical mass of philanthropic
support for previously unknown organizations meant that it became somewhat
easier for other foundations to engage
in similar “risky” behavior.
The desire to reach deep into the Haitian countryside to discover grantees
had far-reaching implications. To be
honest, it tested our capacity. With an
open grant-making process receiving
letters of inquiry from any interested
party in Kreyol and French, the volume
of submissions was large. There need-
“Producing and accepting documents in Kreyòl is, I think, a natural and
essential ingredient for the Haiti Fund’s accompaniment of grassroots
organizations whose members, by and large, speak Kreyòl only . . . Kreyòl is
indispensable for any genuine movement toward social justice and national
development in Haiti. French often works in Haiti as a marker of social class—a tool
for exclusion, really—I so congratulate the Haiti Fund for its use and promotion
of Kreyòl, in words and in deeds. Kreyòl konprann, kreyòl pale, kreyòl ekri.”
- Michel De Graf, Haiti Fund Advisory Council and MIT Linguistics Professor
ed to exist a grant-making committee of the Advisory Council to read
through hundreds of inquiries and
make recommendations to the larger body, which in turn made recommendations to the Boston Foundation Board of Directors.
If the Advisory Council, particularly
its Grantmaking Committee, was
to understand and navigate Haitian
realities as it discerned among the
many potential grantees, it needed
to be acquainted or re-acquainted with the daily lives of Haiti’s poor majority. Some Advisory Council members had been away from Haiti for decades; some had grown up in Port
au Prince and didn’t know the countryside well – where the majority of the grant recipients
worked. The Haiti Fund’s approach to bridging this knowledge and experience gap was to ensure that Advisory Council members could meet with the grantees in their villages (rather than
in a Port au Prince hotel). Twice a year at different times, advisors boarded planes, vans, and
donkeys for direct conversations with grantees amidst chickens, yams and sick children. Other
advisors either lived in Haiti or travelled with Boston-based organizations like Six and Counting
and Project ESPWA. We had lots of eyes on the ground.
To grant to small, under-resourced organizations, we needed to have in place due diligence
procedures that fulfilled all legal requirements but that weren’t impossibly onerous. We helped
grantees find fiscal sponsors when necessary and sought to support grantees throughout the
reporting process. Capacity-building became a core component of our program.
Emergency vs. Long-term Support
In the weeks after the earthquake, we found it to be quite challenging to discern how to make
emergency grants to local Haitian organizations. It wasn’t clear who was doing what and which
international organizations were authentically connected to Haitian partners, such that the
emergency support strengthened local capacity and strengthened organizations’ links to the
communities they served.
We knew that aid to Haiti tended to be fickle, a flood during emergencies and a trickle when
it came to less glamorous community-building and guaranteeing human rights for all. That
observation influenced our five-year strategy to make careful, strategic choices as realities
and gaps became clearer. With so much emergency money pouring in, we retained most of
our funds – and raised new monies – for long-term community development work as other
funding diminished. Steering nearly $2 million towards long-term development turned out to
be a wise choice that we never regretted.
Adding Value Amidst An Avalanche of
Foreign Aid
Far more aid was pledged than delivered.
$2.4 billion was received from 2010 to 2012
out of $16.4 billion pledged over 10 years. Of
the aid delivered, the lion’s share went to international aid agencies, and was often spent
on their own staff and consultants. Local Haitian organizations and businesses received an
estimated 0.6 % of all aid. The Haitian government received 0.9 % of humanitarian aid.
“The farmers told me not much has
changed — yet — in terms of improving
aid delivery. But . . . these farmers no longer
saw themselves merely as spectators to
the aid flowing into their community . . .
PAPDA’s work had strengthened these
citizens’ ability and resolve to engage with
power structures—be they international
aid donors or the Haitian government—
to influence the direction of aid in the future.”
- Jennifer Lentfer
Excerpt from OXFAM Closeup
“We Are Spectators No More”
Clearly, there’s a lot wrong with these numbers. Aid money needs to be delivered when
pledged, the Haitian government needs to be driving the development agenda and Haitian NGOs need to be leading their international counterparts. From our perspective, the
problem isn’t only one of volume of monies but control of funds. We therefore had two approaches to fixing these problems. One was to get reconstruction and development funds
into the hands of Haitian organizations closely tied to their grassroots constituencies . But
perhaps more importantly, we sought to contribute to the local and democratic control of
those funds by working with groups like Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale), and the Platform for Alternative Development (PAPDA) that could monitor and influence the flow of aid.
Even in the face of massive aid flows, we found that our relatively modest support could:
1) introduce larger funders to local organizations and 2) hold larger funders accountable to
their grassroots beneficiaries.
Social Services AND Systemic Change
Too frequently, foundations support either social service delivery and community development projects or community organizing and advocacy for policy change. Rarely does a foundation do both. The Haiti Fund was intentional in seeking to make a difference to families
today while strengthening a grassroots power base for systemic change for the decades
ahead. A good example is educational change. The Haiti Fund supported both individual innovative schools experimenting with new curricula and teaching methods as well as systemic
“The horrible toll of Haiti’s earthquake was as much the result of human rights violations
as the earth shaking. Most of the deaths occurred in the collapse of neighborhoods
illegally built on steep slopes, inhabited by families forced there - often from rural
areas - prevented from learning, earning or voting their way out of poverty by violations
of the human rights to organize, to education, to vote, to fair wages, to water and to
food. The Haiti Fund’s support to Haitians learning to enforce their own human rights
is essential to ensuring sustainable economic and political progress in Haiti,
and helping homes, farms and people survive the next shock in Haiti.”
- Brian Concannon, Executive Director
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)
educational reform that would increase the overall quality of public education. Pierre Noel,
the Fund’s Executive Director, walked a delicate political tightrope as he shaped a docket of
humanitarian and advocacy projects and opened a dialogue with Haiti’s Planning Ministry to
improve coordination between government agencies and philanthropic supporters.
Human Rights at the Core of Our Work
Human rights were the Haiti Fund’s “true north.” In some cases, we supported traditional
civil rights protections, voting rights and the rule of law through Port-au-Prince based groups
like the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI). In other cases, we supported expanded
rights to land, food and water through partnerships with rural support organizations like the
Partenariat pour le Développement Local (PDL), PAPDA, and the Mouvement Paysan 3ème
Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K).
Human rights violations are rampant in Haiti. With our modest resources, we sought to protect
marginalized and vulnerable populations, increasing their power to advocate for themselves.
We lent support to Fondasyon Limye Lavi and Fondasyon Zanmi Timoun to advance the
rights of children, in particular restaveks (child servants) denied access to education. Together
with women’s organizations like KOFAKAD, we sought to protect women from gender-based
violence and improve their livelihoods. Through grants to Action Aid to fortify the Je Nan Je
coalition, we supported rights to housing and dignified farmer livelihoods.
“The Haiti Fund did a tremendous job of listening to Haitians, responding creatively,
and supporting bottom-up solutions that work. Their funding was invaluable at a time
when farmers’ organizations needed support to regenerate rural communities
as the foundation for resilience and lasting development in Haiti.”
- Steve Brescia, Executive Director
Groundswell International
Decentralizing Aid to Haiti
By 2014, the Haiti Fund had made grants in all departments except one. Observing the centralization of both NGOs and public services – such as they are – in Port au Prince, we had a
bias towards extending support to rural organizations across the provinces. In some cases,
NGOs have bigger budgets than the municipalities in which they work. To the extent that we
could, we encouraged our grantees to work closely with their local public officials to ensure
that the development plans of these two key actors coincided.
One promising path to decentralization is
through the development of a nationwide
Haiti community foundation working in each
of Haiti’s 10 departments that can assess
the strengths, needs and abilities of local
residents to lead local community planning
processes and mobilize local resources – an
approach called community philanthropy.
To this end, the Haiti Fund supported a pilot
project in the Grande Anse department led
by ESPWA to demonstrate the power of a
Haitian-led community foundation invested
in often-neglected regions of the country.
“Without the uniquely empowering gifts of time
Scaling Up for Greater Impact
and money provided by the Haiti Fund’s donors,
Many of the Haiti Fund’s grantees grapple
trustees and staff, A Better Tomorrow (ABT)
with how to scale up their work, that is, how
would not have been able to
grow from an all-volunteer food pantry effort
to build on a successful local pilot experihoused in a warehouse in the industrial heart
ence to grow a regional or national model.
of Everett, to a thriving non-profit with a
Peasant organizations and agriculture coopstore-front classroom space on Main Street,
eratives are good examples. A small handful
housing a successful workforce
may be sustainably increasing production
development pipeline out
and improving lives in rural communities,
of poverty for its constituents.”
but how can that experience be a launching
- Emmanuel Exhilhomme, Executive Director
point for a national program or policy? With
A Better Tomorrow (ABT )
the Haiti Fund’s support, PDL and Groundswell International were able to pilot and
expand local seed banks and group savings models — and are working to bring together
producers from neighboring cooperatives to process raw agricultural products to improve the
food security of Haitian consumers.
A Funder-Grantee Relationship that Prioritizes Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Time and money are always limiting factors in the ability to work intimately with grantees to
advance learning. Monitoring, evaluation and capacity building are critical but costly activi-
ties; the balance has to be just right so as not to draw resources away from grants. Still, to the
best of our ability, we sought to prioritize learning in the field with them. A few features of our
work permitted us to encourage a learning community amongst our grantees that perhaps is
unusual for foundations. Partnerships were key. With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
we held grantee roundtables in Haiti for grantees to come together for peer-learning sessions.
Some of our grantees came to Boston to share their experiences at two donor conferences
(over 60 funding organizations were represented at each gathering) that we organized in concert with the Inter-American Foundation, the Barr Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. We were able to obtain scholarships for other grantees to participate in the Opportunity
Collaboration. Ten grantees in Haiti participated in an in-depth capacity building program, as
did four Haitian organizations in Boston. Close to a dozen grantees met together in Port au
Prince to discuss advocacy strategies.
But perhaps the feature of the
Haiti Fund that most facilitated
our deeper-than-usual learning relationships with grantees, was the
fact that we had Haitians at the
helm, Pierre Noel and Ferry Cadet as Administrative Coordinator.
They traveled countless times to
Haiti to work with grantees on organizational development issues
and formed a team of remarkable
on-the-ground consultants led by
Elie Lafortune. It was a huge boost
in trust and understanding between the Fund and grantees that we were able to count on a
Haitian-led Advisory Council to speak in Kreyol with their compatriots during the many site
visits. One advisor was able to provide pro-bono support to a human rights grantee to fortify
their security measures.
Granting to Boston’s Diaspora Organizations
Right from its start, the Haiti Fund sought to serve two intimately related constituencies – islanders digging out from the rubble and Boston’s Haitian community receiving traumatized families.
As Haitian migration to Boston accelerated over past decades – it has the third largest Haitian
population in the U.S. – social service organizations serving Haitians have opened doors. We
sought to strengthen these organizations and in year three of the Fund, teamed up with the City
of Boston’s Office of New Bostonians to offer a capacity-building program. By strengthening
Haitian organizations in Boston, in addition to fortifying their ability to provide excellent services
to the Haitian community, we hoped to boost their political voice to advocate for accountable
and effective aid to Haiti, sensible immigration policies and adequate Boston-area services. We
dedicated approximately 14% of our grant-making to Boston’s Haitian organizations.
Fortifying the Donor Community
to Better Support Haiti
A five-year fund feels the loud clicking of the clock. The question never quits: What can we
meaningfully accomplish in a relatively brief time when in truth, authentic development happens over decades? Perhaps this pressure worked in our favor. Because we knew that we
would be closing doors in five years and that one of the greatest failings of philanthropy in
Haiti is precisely a lack of continuity, we sought to support a network of funders that could
keep the work going for years to come. Partnerships were the life blood of our work. Haiti
is not an easy place to work; right from the start, we saw part of our mission as bringing colleagues together to learn together, collaborate and commit.
For two years running,
the Haiti Fund co-organized funder meetings with the Kellogg
Foundation, the Barr
Foundation and the
Inter-American Foundation which attracted
80 and 100 respectively. So much for “donor
fatigue”! It’s not easy
to convene donors;
there are countless
philanthropic conferences held over the
course of a year. The high level of interest in these gatherings demonstrated the philanthropic
community’s keen interest in meeting with Haitian leaders and learning about ingredients for
effective grant-making in Haiti. Plans are in the works for a third conference to be co-hosted
with FOKAL, an affiliate of the Open Society Foundation, in Haiti in November 2015.
On six of occasions, we took donors working in Haiti on field visits to grantees, introducing
them to realities of life in rural Haiti. In most instances, the donor trips resulted in funding to
local organizations previously unknown to funders. Of course it’s not easy for foundation staff
and trustees to find the time and money to visit Haiti. But when they do, it is profoundly enriching, with benefits to all.
These site visits are important as a counterbalance to the frequent practice of funding work in
Haiti during periods of emergency and then withdrawing, which feeds a bias towards supporting larger international organizations. When a disaster strikes, it’s a difficult moment to get to
know small organizations without offices
in Port-au-Prince. We sought to expose
donors to a rich mosaic of small Haitian
organizations that could be foundations’
partners during both emergencies and
relative peace and stability.
“Funders wanted to hear from the
community; how to be partners and
create an era of strategic change
in Haiti. It is a momentum toward a
movement for true partnership with the
international community, seemingly
stuck on bandaging the traditional
political ills of Haiti. We really need to
renew our effort to collaborate with
those on the ground who have so
courageously maintained a level of rigor
investing in the rebirth of Haiti,
community by community.
We can do better together!”
But it’s not that simple. Foundations’
hesitancy to engage with small, underresourced organizations can be understandable. Many Haitian organizations
require capacity-building support to
meet basic administrative requirements,
- Marie Marthe St.-Cyr
for example, acceptable board structures
Executive Director, Lambi Fund
and financial systems. From the start, the
Haiti Fund worked closely with grantees to strengthen their institutional capacity – not a process that all foundations have time and resources for. And yet, supporting grantees’ long-term
capacity-building, when discussed at the funders’ gatherings, struck a positive chord. That
positive reception influenced our decision about providing seed funding for a free-standing
capacity-building institute that could help both grantees and funders alike. There is more
about this initiative later in this report.
Working with Government for Greater Coordination
At the first meeting of philanthropic supporters of Haiti, we probed: What do we need to be
more effective as grant-makers in Haiti? The question provoked discussion about the abundance of NGO’s and their frequent lack of coordination with the government’s development
plans – when those
plans exist. How can
our work with community organizations
be sustainable, donors
asked, if there is no
government counterpart to provide public
services? That lack of
coordination is a recipe
for ongoing dependence on international
funding that in turn undermines government
responsibility to their
constituents. Although
foundations are unlikeHelping Haitians Rebuild: 2010 – 2015, page 13
ly to fund the public sector directly, donors expressed a keen desire to work more closely
with government agencies (even as, at the time of this writing, there is another unexpected
government transition) to coordinate service delivery and development plans.
To bridge the two worlds – NGOs and the public sector – we planned for more participation of
public officials at the second donor conference. We hoped to entice a Mayor, perhaps a Senator. To our great surprise and pleasure, the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Health and Education flew to Boston for a conversation with the U.S. philanthropic community about forg“When philanthropic organizations
reach out and coordinate their activities
with those of national and local
governments, they become more aware
of what is being done; they can then
better complement and reinforce the
actions initiated by local officials.
They also can give better programmatic
orientation to the NGOs they are
funding. Coordination with local
governments shows respect for
the country being helped, its
institutions and its leaders.”
- Raoul Pierre-Louis, KASEK of Turgeau
ing an effective partnership. A KASEK (a
neighborhood-level elected official) from
Turgeau, Raoul Pierre Louis participated
as well. The dialogue with these public officials was hugely enriching and we hope
it is only the first step in improved coordination between the government and private donors.
Advocacy
Strengthening Citizen Pressure for a More Accountable Public Sector and Aid Community
The kind of deep changes our partners aspire to in Haitian society can’t be achieved through
micro-credit projects and innovative schools alone. The scale needs to be much larger, beyond the ability of NGOs and community organizations to resolve. There is little doubt that
achieving social justice in Haiti requires a capable and engaged public sector. What role can
the philanthropic community play in strengthening the capacity of government agencies? It’s
a big job!
One way would be to work within the government agencies themselves to strengthen systems
and personnel. That is critical work but private philanthropic organizations generally don’t
have the resources, expertise or mandate. The other way – within the reach of international
supporters like the Haiti Fund - is to to fund civil society organizations to engage with, and
hold accountable, their local Mayors, their Senators, the local offices of the Ministry of Agriculture and other public entities. Citizen pressure for accountability and transparency - from
friendly meetings to noisy marches - can lead to improved public sector performance. Expectations, however, must be realistic. Haiti has a highly centralized political system where decentralization is more theory than practice; there are few resources at the local level to deliver
constituent services.
At the same time, it’s no secret that international aid agencies in Haiti suffer some of the same
deficiencies in transparency as does the public sector. Directions and decisions about development projects are often made in Washington D.C., Geneva and Brussels with little say-so
by the “beneficiaries”. Supporting grassroots advocacy is equally relevant to holding the aid
community accountable. Haiti Grassroots Watch, a Haiti Fund grantee, produced dozens of
in-depth journalistic investigations and exposés in Kreyol, French and English (with significant
distribution in Spanish as well) about the excesses of the aid industry.
The Haiti Fund commissioned a report with a perhaps counterintuitive departure point: Where
and how do Haitian grassroots organizations have a positive influence on policy decisions in
Haiti? We asked grantees: How
do you work with your local officials so that your development
ideas are heard? The Haitian state
is surely weak, but just as surely,
there are instances in which organized Haitian citizens prevail
upon the State to improve practices. Let’s learn from those experiences. Through interviews with
advocates and public officials, we
set out to understand what leads to effective influence. The results are compiled in the report,
“Building Back Haitian Government Responsiveness: The Power and Limitations of Grassroots Advocacy.”
WHAT GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN
HAITI FUND’S ADVOCACY WORKSHOP SAID ABOUT HOW
THEY HOLD AUTHORITIES ACCOUNTABLE
“Before people didn’t know they had rights. Now they do.
Human rights awareness is the foundation of advocacy.”
“Advocacy helps you put pressure on government to respect
human rights. It’s an exchange between citizens and the
government.”
“Start your advocacy locally. Like to get water for your
community. If you don’t get results locally, you go to mayor.
Then further. Go to the media, the radio. Do a sit-in. Those are
strategies of struggle. Sometimes you have to form a coalition.”
“You need both social movements and advocacy. People recognize social
movements and then you can push your demands further.”
“You have to educate decision makers. Most don’t know what you are talking about.”
“As an intermediary, Action Aid can know the problem. But the best people to do the
advocacy are those who are suffering. You can collaborate with communities but don’t do
the advocacy for them.”
“There are not many advocacy funders. Funders want to see immediate results. Will they
agree to fund an advocacy project that will last 5 years? It’s not very quick. It is always a
long journey, never a straight line. You need a plan a, b. c and d.”
“Advocacy is never separate from politics. It’s never innocent. Don’t try to separate them.”
“Deputies don’t really understand their job. They don’t want to legislate. They want to
dole out projects like NGOs. That’s what people are used to.”
“We hope that funders put resources into these advocacy strategies rather than churches
and little projects that aren’t useful to the country.”
In addition to making grants to support grassroots advocacy efforts, the Haiti Fund participated in the Haiti Advocacy Working Group (HAWG). The HAWG is a network of advocates committed to transparent aid flows and grassroots participation in community-led development.
Through its advocacy, the HAWG seeks to influence the development policies of powerful
actors such as the U.S. Congress, development banks, the Haitian government and development agency officials.
Paths Not Taken
As an evaluation prompt, we asked ourselves: If
we were to start all over again, what would the
Haiti Fund do differently? Here are some insights
from a long evening of discussion.
Focus narrower; we may have tried to do too
much. The Fund funded work in Education, Human Rights, Rural Livelihoods, Social Enterprises,
Women’s Rights and more. Should we have focused more narrowly for greater impact? Without
question, we could have dived more deeply into
fewer topics, for example, just education and human rights. And yet, our fund was relatively small;
we didn’t have the scale to fund entire movements. Our more dispersed funding set good work
in motion across multiple sectors that can serve as an example for other donors to follow. And of
course, it was hard to say no to so many inspiring grassroots efforts. Indeed, it was a difficult call.
Strengthen a Haitian diaspora organization to organize the Haitian diaspora around the
country into a unified advocacy voice. When the Haiti Fund began it’s work, there was much
excitement that the diaspora might come together with islanders to effectively lobby Congress
and development organizations to align development aid with community-driven aspirations.
The HAWG sought a strong Haitian counterpart to influence the World Bank, USAID, UN agencies and other powerful actors. And yet, the Haitian diaspora is broad and dispersed. We considered putting more resources into seeding a national Haitian diaspora organization, but the
signals weren’t clear that a national coalition was emerging. We certainly didn’t want to impose a
structure with donor dollars. We stayed local, focusing on Boston-area diaspora organizations.
Fund more social enterprises. Ideally, a grant to a community organization catalyzes social
enterprises. A grant can sometimes serve as a first step towards financially sustainable community initiatives that provide income to families and fill critical social needs. The link between
grants and social enterprises could have been more strongly developed.
Involve Haitians from the island more systematically. We involved Haitian grantees in an
authentic learning and capacity building process and were pleased with results. We sought
to involve islanders in fund governance, including in the grant-making committee, but during
our relatively short lifetime, did not discover the most effective mechanism.
“If we had hindsight 20/20, I wished we picked two things and drove issues
like human rights and education . . . I felt that, if we had to do it again,
that we might focus on those two and make good impacts . . . ”
- Herby Duverne, Haiti Fund Advisory Council
The Haiti Fund Evolves Into
a Capacity Building Institute:
Building on Lessons Learned
What we learned from grantees is that while they have a tremendous vision and unwavering
commitment to help their communities, some elements of their organizations need strengthening. It might be solid financial systems, good planning processes or an efficient administration. Because they have been so immersed in providing and advocating for Haitian families’
needs – government services tend to be negligible – they often haven’t had time and resources to construct a strong foundation on which to carry out their important missions. We
want to help them do just that.
A relatively short-term initiative like the Haiti Fund must grapple with what it will leave behind.
We wanted to leave our grantees stronger than when we began working with them. By the
end of year two, some of their common challenges began to surface. If they were going
to effectively serve their constituents and be
able to seek and receive funds from international donors, they would need to overcome
organizational weaknesses. We made the decision to venture into capacity building.
That’s why the logical legacy for the Haiti
Fund is a capacity development institution.
We want to “dive deeper” with leading Haitian-led grassroots organizations, providing
group training and one-on-one coaching to
help them maximize their effectiveness. We
are assembling an amazing team of experts in Haiti who understand the challenges that these
small organizations face and are prepared to walk across rivers – literally! – to help them resolve administrative, financial and organizational challenges.
We are not experts in capacity building. We sought out partners. We piloted the idea both in
Boston and Haiti with cohorts of grantees. In the first instance, we worked with the City of Boston’s New Bostonians on a training curriculum. In the second, we teamed up with the Kellogg
Foundation to create our own. Our yam-producing partner, the MP3K, which recently won the
UNDP’s prestigious Equator Prize was a core participant. At the end of 2014, we held our third
and final grantee roundtable outside of Port au Prince, at which some 40 organizations shared
and learned together. The pilot experiences revealed just how hungry Haitian organizations
are for training and support and how effectively they can put it to use.
“The impact of The Haiti Fund...is really engaging with local organizations so that they could
feel that they have a voice and be agents of change in their own communities . . .What
we’ve learned is the need for capacity building... Fundamentally, people have the capacity to
change their own lives, to change their own organizations, and to change their communities.
But they need accompaniment, support, and the right organizational infrastructure. ”
- Alix Cantave, Program Officer for Latin America
and the Caribbean, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
We have commissioned a business plan to assess the viability of creating a capacity building
institute (called the Institute for Sustainable Development) that would serve both grantees
and funders. We discovered real need and interest. We approved a legacy grant to the ISD.
As the Haiti Fund winds down, the ISD will pick up. The transition between the Haiti Fund and
ISD looks to be a smooth one. We have made other legacy grants as well, some to existing
grantees as well as to a promising new initiative called the Haiti Community Foundation, currently leading an exciting community planning initiative in the Grand Anse.
We have come a long way since the original vision that got us started. We have stayed true
to our guiding principles – putting Haitian leadership first and sticking with organizations for
the long term.
“Under the leadership of former Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the City of Boston
strengthened the capacity of immigrant-led organizations which provide essential services
that the City does not. The organizations operate under fairly untenable space
constraints, staffing inadequacy and uncertain finances. The Capacity-Building initiative
engaged staff, board members, volunteers and clients in building a sustainable future for
each organization. Organizations have increased their fundraising, board participation
has been strengthened, and service quality has improved. The City of Boston was delighted
to work closely with the Haiti Fund to strengthen Haitian organizations.”
- Inez Foster, City of Boston
Concluding Remarks
By way of conclusion, we’d like to share with you what we feel have been the key ingredients
to our approach and may be useful in another context at another historical moment. We offer these “lessons learned” cautiously, understanding full well that no two situations are the
same. That said, it helps enormously to have:
1. A well respected philanthropic institution with a base of loyal donors and a fundraising
apparatus that can spring into high gear.
2. A matching grant to propel immediate giving from the public and a lead donor being
willing to be speak publicly about her or his gift.
3. A strong connection to a community of immigrants from the affected country to make the
global cause a local one, prominently emphasized in press and social media strategies.
4. Strong leadership from staff and advisors who represent the affected communities,
advisors with roots in the country; advisors who truly understand the context and are
stakeholders in the initiative’s outcomes.
5. A willingness to cede grant-making recommendations to advisors.
6. A commitment to making site visits, facilitating peer learning among grantees and
supporting the organizational strengthening of local grantees.
7. Parachuting into a place from time to time will not breed effectiveness. A long-term
commitment, with local staff or consultants providing ongoing accompaniment and
technical assistance, is essential.
8. An understanding that long-term development is most successful and sustaining when
built on a bedrock of respect for human rights and in partnership with a strengthened
andaccountable public sector.
9. Awareness that an emergency presents an opportunity to resolve long-standing,
underlying grievances.
Many stars aligned – described throughout this report – to allow the Haiti Fund to serve Haitian-led development and break new ground in the philanthropic community. You, the reader,
whether a donor, an advisor, a grantee or simply a friend of Haiti, are one of those magnificent
stars. We thank you from the bottom of
our hearts.
Was the experience too unique to replicate? We don’t think so. In the end, the
key ingredient was really the most simple.
It was the remarkable network of solidarity, accompaniment and respect that
helped us help Haiti. Please don’t wait
until a tragedy like Haiti’s earthquake to
forge those friendships and collaborative
relationships. You can start right now.
Financial Information
Donations by Donor Type
Foundation Gift
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Interfund Transfers $1,913,798.81 45%
Corporate Gift
$208,704.39 5%
Other
$216,350.05 5%
Organizations
$53,238.53 1%
Individual Gift
$1,031,881.67 24%
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Funds Awarded by Sector
Investment/Grants Awarded in
Departments of Haiti
Women
$117,000.00 5%
Boston
$308,040.00 14%
Education
$364,500.00 16%
Artibonite
14
12%
Relief
$185,000.00 8%
Central Plateau
17
14%
Grand’Anse
3
3%
Rural
Development
$963,500.00 44%
National
23
19%
Advocacy
$273,500.00 12%
Nippes
7
6%
TOTAL
$2,211,540.00 North
2
2%
North-East
6
5%
South
21
18%
South-East
4
3%
West 22
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Administration $437,920.00 11%
Programs $3,423,739.00 86%
Fundraising $119,433.00 3%
TOTAL
$3,981,092.00 Helping Haitians Rebuild: 2010 – 2015, page 21
List of Grants in Haiti and Boston
2010 - 2015
2010-2011
ActionAid USA www.actionaidusa.org
$25,000
This grant supported the purchase and installation of 12 grain processing plants in the department of Grande
Anse along with technical and management workshops.
ActionAid USA www.actionaidusa.org
$25,000
This grant helped formalize and establish a Land and Housing Rights Advocacy Network by strengthening grassroots leaders and civil society groups.
American Jewish World Service www.ajws.org
$20,000
This grant helped with efforts on search and rescue missions, providing food and shelter to survivors, and providing emergency health care services and education to reduce the second wave of casualties.
Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group www.aidg.org
$25,000
This grant helped to run anti-seismic construction standards training courses over a 9 month period to train 8,000
construction professionals within Haiti.
Bassin Zim Education and Development Fund www.bassinzim.org
$15,000
In partnership with the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP), this grant was used for the “Leodiague Irrigation
Project” to upgrade the region’s current gravitational irrigation system.
Catholic Relief Services www.crs.org
$20,000
This grant helped with the funding of St. Francois de Sales, a local hospital to provide much needed medical and
psychological care to survivors.
Center for Community Health, Education & Research www.ccher.org
$10,000
This grant helped support a part-time mental health counselor focused on outreach and therapy for Boston’s
Haitian American community dealing with trauma as a result of the January 12 earthquake.
FATEM www.fatem.org
$10,000
This grant helped to support a Teacher Training Project in Mirebalais conducted in collaboration with a local
Teachers College and with support from DePaul University School of Education.
FAMILY Inc. www.familysystem.net $25,000
This grant helped to support community organizing in Verrettes to build the capacity of youth groups, women and
peasant associations and provide training for teachers and principals in collaboration with local teachers college.
Fonkoze www.fonkoze.org
$30,000
With this grant, Fonkoze provided a full range of financial services to rural communities such as micro-finance.
Foundation Zanmi Timoun
$25,000
This grant supported the Education is Necessary for Development program serving over 400 out-of-school
Restaveks children a 4 schools using an accelerated education curriculum and other psycho-social services.
Grassroots International www.grassrootsinternational.org
$45,000
This grant supported a project on long-term environmental protection and food sovereignty by training rural
leaders, coordinating regional networks and encouraging the participation of peasant organizations in national
debates about trade policy and agrarian and educational reform.
Groundswell International www.groundswellinternational.org
$50,000
This grant helped strengthen the capacity of 3 regional peasant organizations working in 125 rural communities.
Haiti Grassroots Watch www.haitigrassrootswatch.org
$20,000
This grant supported journalists working in print, oral and visual media to report on the humanitarian aid industry
within a historical and political context and with an analysis of the structural causes of Haiti’s problems.
Haiti Projects www.haitiprojects.org
$15,000
This grant enabled a sewing cooperative to employ 24 new women who have recently immigrated to the region
of Fond des Blancs as a result of the earthquake.
Initiative pour le Développement Durable d’Haïti
$10,000
Through this grant, IDDH supported the ongoing success of 3 school garden activities and the establishment of
8 additional school gardens in Terrier-Rouge providing agricultural training to 350 students.
Institute for Human and Community Development www.ihcd.org
$35,000
Through this grant, IHCD enrolled an addition 52 students marginalized Restaveks children displaced by the
earthquake and helped the larger community absorb these new individuals and families.
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti www.ijdh.org
2011
This grant helped IJDH further intensify its efforts on the rights to housing, freedom from violence and illegal
detention, and political participation.
Konbit Fanm Kaskad-Dubreuil
$10,000
This grant helped provide both technical assistance support for local farmers and computer literacy training for
local youth.
Lambi Fund of Haiti www.lambifund.org
$15,000
Through this grant, the Lambi Fund of Haiti expanded its agricultural programs, improve rural health care and
sanitation, and increase sustainable income opportunities.
Matenwa Community Learning Center www.matenwaclc.org
$20,000
Through this grant, MCLC’s Creole Gardens project promoted child-centered learning, encourages Creole instruction, introduced vegetable gardens and improved agricultural practices in 10 Lagonav community schools.
Mercy Corps www.mercycorps.org
$20,000
Through this grant, Mercy Corps coordinated a wide-spread effort to meet the needs of those impacted by the
earthquake focusing on food, water and temporary shelter.
Mouvement Paysan de la 3eme Section Camp-Perrin
$15,000
Through this grant, MP3K increased manioc production, generated value-added products, and reforested the
region to improve soil quality.
Oxfam America www.oxfamamerica.org
$20,000
This grant helped support the first year pilot of a three-year research and advocacy project on effectiveness US
Government aid flows to Haiti.
Partners in Health www.pih.org
$30,000
Through this grant, PIH mobilized their twelve clinics and coordinated with the public hospitals in Port-au-Prince
to restore services, increase the stock of medicines and supplies, and ensure the functioning of operating rooms
and the availability of sufficient medical staff.
PeaceQuilts www.haitipeacequilts.org
$15,000
This grant helped support a full-time Haiti Coordinator and a part-time US Coordinator to improve productivity
and open new markets for 100 women in 7 independent sewing cooperatives.
St. Boniface Haiti Foundation www.haitihealth.org
$20,000
This grant helped support the operation of a full-service hospital in Fond des Blancs that provides the only available healthcare for the quarter million people living within this 100 square mile area.
St. Damien Hospital http://saintdamienhospital.wordpress.com/
$20,000
This grant supported St. Damien Hospital with post-operative treatment for those treated on the U.S.S. Comfort
and in public hospitals and organized groups of doctors to provide care in communities not being reached.
Youth and Family Enrichment Services www.yofes.org
$10,000
Through this grant, Youth and Family Enrichment Services helped augment their summer youth programming to
incorporate recently arrived youth from Haiti.
YouthBuild International/IDEJEN www.youthbuildinternational.org
$20,000
Through this grant, YouthBuild International/IDEJEN supported the production of Tou Limen lamps, a sustainable livelihood model that provides unemployed youth in Gressier with production, sales and maintenance skills.
2012
In Partnership with the WK Kellogg Foundation
Association des Amis des Produits Locaux (AAPL) Arcahaie
$20,000
This grant supported the establishment of a composting center in Arcahaie, coordinating and organizing local
peasant groups, and provide training.
Action Contre La Misère (ACLAM) Cayes & Torbeck
$25,000
This grant supported the expansion of microfinance services in South Haiti from 500 to 700 clients to rech an additional 200 clients, 70% of whom are women.
Association Professeurs Parents de l’Ecole Nationale de L’Ile-a-Vache (APPENIV)
$25,000
This grant supported the establishment of a 16-computer lab/cyber café, the first on Ile-a-Vache to provide computer training to both students and the population at large.
Combite des Citoyens pour le Développement de St. Louis du Sud (COCIDES)
St Louis du Sud, Aquin & Cavaillon
$10,000
This grant helped local residents develop agricultural infrastructure through soil conservation and watershed
protection, improve the conditions of production, and provide technical assistance to rural farmers.
FAMILY, Inc. www.familysystem.net La Chapelle
$25,000
This grant built upon prior Haiti Fund support and expanded teacher training services to La Chapelle through
the establishment of a Teacher Training Program preparing in-servie teachers and principals through a two-year
diploma program with instructions in methodology, administration, and supervision techniques.
Groupe D’Accord Solidarité Action (GASA) La Chapelle
$25,000
This grant supported training for 20 male and female youth in La Chapelle in civic participation, new farming and
breeding techniques, and the creation of small and medium social enterprises – chicken and pig farms.
Organisation des Jeunes pour l’Avancement de St. Ard (OJAS)
$25,000
This grant supported an installation project of 20 solar-powered street lamps that provided light and access to
power, allowing students to study in the evenings acting as a deterrent to crime and spurring economic activities.
The Grameen Creative Lab www.grameencreativelab.com Mirebalais
$25,000
This grant helped fund a portion of the start-up costs for the creation of a non-dividend social enterprise of local
poultry and cattle production.
In Partnership with the Haitian Fund for Innovation at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
ActionAid USA www.actionaidusa.org National
$20,000
This grant continued the support of the Rights to Land and Housing for the Haitian People project which increases the participation of civil society in Haiti’s reconstruction and facilitates stronger communication, information sharing, and decision-making processes between key actors.
Beyond Borders / Fondasyon Limyè Lavi www.beyondborders.net
$15,000
Jacmel, Bainet & Marigot
This grant supported school networks in Southeast Haiti that provide parent and teacher trainings as well as
community-building work centered on children’s rights focusing on uprooting Restaveks. Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) www.ijdh.org National
$20,000
This grant supported BAI’s work in six principal project areas through legal advocacy in Haitian tribunals as well
as in international human rights courts.
Collectif de Lutte contre l’Exclusion Social (CLES) Fort Liberté
$15,000
This grant supported the development of agricultural infrastructure in Haiti’s second largest rice producing area,
improving the performance of the rice sector to increase income generation, and better access to the value
chain for producers.
Ecole Normale de Papaye Hinche
$15,000
This grant contributed to the construction of the female dormitory and repair the roof of the male dormitory –
both damaged in the 2010 earthquake at this regional Teachers College.
Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action, Inc. (ESPWA) National
$15,000
This grant supported the strategic planning process for the establishment of a Haiti community foundation.
Fair Trade USA www.fairtradeusa.org National
$15,000
This grant supported a targeted capacity building program for the Haitian mango cooperative FENAPCOM,
affiliated organizations, and producer groups, a total of 2400 mango producers supplying 80000 Fair Trade
Certified mangoes to Whole Foods.
Fondasyon Zanmi Timoun Gressier, Delmas, Las Cahobas & Savanette
$15,000
Global Health Action http://globalhealthaction.org Leogane
$10,000
This grant supported the establishment of a network of 39community-based animal health workers in Leogane
commune through training, community capacity-building support, and initial seed capital for veterinary kits.
Groupe d’Action pour l’Habilitation Economique et Sociale de la Famille Haïtienne (GRAFHES) $10,000
Torbeck & Chantal
This grant supported the establishment and improvement of 10 processing units to raise the capacity of women’s
groups to produce peanut butter and cassava for sale to the school meal program feeding 12,800 students.
Groundswell International / Partenariat Pour le Développement Locale $15,000
www.groundswellinternational.org St Michel, Bahon, St. Raphael, Pignon & Monbin Crochu
This grant supported PDL’s efforts to provide training to rural peasant organizations, strengthen local leadership, and
increase the sustainability of these rural communities establishing seed banks, microlending and water purification.
Haiti Grassroots Watch www.haitigrassrootswatch.org National
$15,000
This grant supported training in investigative journalism and the production, coordination, training, and distribution of media in partnership with alternative media outlet groups Alterpresse, SAKS, REFRAKA, and AMEKA.
Haiti Partners www.haitipartners.org Leogane
$15,000
This grant contributes to establish a chicken hatchery social enterprise supporting the long-term growth and
sustainability of 4 partner schools in Leogane.
Haiti Projects www.haitiprojects.org Fond des Blancs
$12,000
This grant supported the training of members of the cooperative in English, computer literacy, and management,
thus increasing the women’s engagement in the project.
Initiative pour le Développement Durable d’Haïti Terrier Rouge
$12,000
This grant supported a community goat farming project in enclosed pens to help sustain IDDH’s successful
school gardening program in Terrier-Rouge.
Matenwa Community Learning Center www.matenwaclc.org La Gonave $15,000
This grant provided continued support to the Joint Education and Agriculture project which promotes child-centered
learning, encourages Creole instruction, and introduces vegetable gardens in 10 La Gonave community schools.
Mouvement Paysan de la 3eme Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K)
$15,000
This grant supported the planting of 10 hectares of manioc (cassava) and yam using new agricultural techniques,
and the planting of 20,000 tree seedlings in deforested areas to help improve soil quality.
Organisation des Leaders Evangeliques pour le Développement des Sections
Communales de l’Artibonite (OLEDSCA) $15,000
This grant supported the development of a Legal Aid office/clinic to provide representation to indigent clients
and inmates throughout the Artibonite region.
One Village Planet – Women’s Development Initiative www.ovp-wdi.org
$12,000
Ouanaminthe
This grant empowered 213 women of a farming cooperative in Derac, Fort Liberté to grow and sell their own
food through the establishment of a solar-powered irrigation system.
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church (OLQP)
$15,000
Petite Rivière de L’Artibonite
This grant supported the expansion of a community-led agroforestry that built nurseries, trained residents as
para-foresters, and transplanted 30,000 trees in the mountainous area of Medor, Petite Rivière de L’Artibonite.
PeaceQuilts www.haitipeacequilts.org Port-au-Prince & Milot
$10,000
This grant offered general support to the sewing cooperatives in order to establish a marketing plan, and expand
and further develop the administrative and operational support necessary to improve productivity and access
new markets for the sewing cooperatives.
Rasambleman Fanm Nip (RAFANIP) Petite Rivière de Nippes
$10,000
This grant supported this women group for a cow breeding project that distributed 10 cows to women beneficiaries and provided necessary training in animal husbandry, veterinary and other agricultural techniques.
2013
Association des Amis des Produits Locaux (AAPL) Arcahaie
$10,000
This grant supported a network of 30 women producing peanut bars in Arcahaie by implanting a production
center to improving the hygienic quality, packaging and marketing of the product.
Association des Cadres Pour la Protection de L’environnement (ACAPE) $15,000
This grant is to improve the living conditions of 75 families in agro-ecological activities in the 3rd and 5th communal sections of Les Cayes through animal breeding cooperative to intensify chicken and goat farming and
create a local veterinary pharmacy.
Association Progressive de la Zone Environnante de Savane la Coupe (APZES) $13,000
Mirebalais
This grant supported the implementation of irrigation system with a well and powered generator to give farmers
access to water over 100 acres to intensify production.
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) www.ijdh.org National
$25,000
This grant supported BAI’s legal advocacy work on the Cholera Accountability Project, health and human rights
in prisons.
Collectif de Lutte Contre L’Exclusion Social (CLES) Fort Liberte $15,000
This grant provides continued support in agricultural infrastructure in Haiti’s second largest rice producing area,
improving the performance of the rice sector to increase income generation, and better access to the value
chain for producers.
Collectif Citoyen pour le Developpement Communautaire (COCIDEC) La Chapelle
$15,000
This grant supported the electrification of 10 strategic locations in this rural mountainous community with solar
street lamps to increase social and economic activities.
Comite Developpement Commune Arcahaie (CODCOA) Arcahaie
$16,000
This grant is to increase the quality and production of honeythrough training for 40 new beekeepers, production
of 200 beehinves and agroforestery to help diversify income and protect the environment. This grant is made
with the support of the Flora Family Foundation ($5,000).
Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action (ESPWA) Grand Anse
$15,000
This grant supported the Regional Development Planning Process, a pilot program leveraging local leadership
and engaging them in an inclusive community development planning process as a foundation for the Haiti
Community Foundation.
Fair Trade USA www.fairtradeusa.org National
$15,000
This grant supported a targeted capacity building program for the Haitian mango cooperative FENAPCOM, affiliated organizations, and producer groups.
Fondasyon Limyè Lavi Jacmel, Bainet
$15,000
This grant supported the improvement of education and community relations remote Southeast communities
and the creation bookstores to create access and generate income for the local school network in Mabial.
Fondasyon Zanmi Timoun Gressier, Las Cahobas, Delmas
$15,000
Groupe Corps D’Honneur Capois La Mort de Cavaillon (GCHCLC)
$16,000
This grant suppored the construction of a modern chicken coop producing eggs supported by technical assistance
from the regional Association des Apiculteurs du Sud to help sustain the organization and its social projects.
$15,000
This grant reinforced the capacity of the organization’s technical staff, and improved the general knowledge and
competency of the community and animal health workers on how to produce animal feed during the off-season.
Initiative Pour le Developpement Communautaire (ICODEV)
$16,000
This grant supported the rehabilitation of an irrigation system on the Canneau canal in La Chapelle to help
increase the quantity of irrigated land, diversify agricultural production and increased economic sufficiency.
Institute for Human and Community Development www.ihcd.org
$15,000
This grant helps IHCD to maintain its capacity to serve 180 students previously served by the school prior to the
earthquake while maintaining other literacy and accompaniment services to the adult community.
Konbit Fanm Kaskad-Dubreuil $10,000
This grant supported the construction of hangar to house a grinding mill in collaboration with with the InterAmerican Foundation which funded the Grinding Mill.
Matenwa Community Learning Center www.matenwaclc.org La Gonave
$15,000
This grant provided continued support to the Joint Education and Agriculture project which promotes childcentered learning, encourages Creole instruction, and introduces vegetable gardens and improved agricultural
practices in 10 of La Gonave community schools.
Mouvement Paysan de la 3eme Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K)
$15,000
This grant provides continued support to the manioc (cassava) and yam culture further mainstreaming the use of
new techniques, community organizing and a nursery to help combat deforestation.
Organisation pour le Developpement de Pointe Nicolas (ODPN)
$15,000
This grant supported the production of manioc in this seaside community by introducing new techniques and
established manioc processing facility for increased economic activities.
Óganizasyon Fanm Destenvil (OFD)
$15,000
This grant supported the rehabilitation of an irrigation system, utilizing a pump and PVC pipes, drawing from the
Artibonite River that was devastated by hurricane Sandy.
Organisation des Jeunes pour l’Avancement de St. Ard (OJAS)
$16,000
This grant supported the development of a water purification plant to combat the cholera epidemic and to help
generate revenue to sustain the organization. .
Organisation pour la Promotion des Agriculteurs de Generesse Maniche (OPAGMA)
Maniche
$15,000
This grant supported the establishment of a processing mill in Generesse to help reduce post-harvest loss,
increase post-harvest conservation and economic activities in the community.
Organisation des Paysans pour le Developpement Agro-Ecologique et
Humain D’Haiti (OPDAEH) Boucan Carré
$9,000
This grant supported the establishment of an organic fertilizer shop to encourage agro-ecology, use of
agricultural waste, and contribute to regeneration of degrading soil.
Organization of Support to the Development of the Central Plateau (OSPDC) $12,500
Boucan Carré
This grant supported a sustainable agriculture project in Boucan Carré aiming to increase pre and post harvest
infrastructure and inputs and provide seedlings for reforestation.
Trees for the Future Haiti Petite Rivière de L’Artibonite
$12,000
This grant supported the expansion of the community-led agroforestry project that built nurseries, trained 25
residents as para-foresters, install 12 forest gardens, provide quality seeds, distribute tools and transplanted
30,000 trees in the mountainous area of Medor.
Partenariat Pour le Développement Locale (PDL)
$15,000
St Michel, Bahon, St. Raphael, Pignon & Monbin Crochu
This grant supported PDL’s efforts to provide training to rural peasant organizations, strengthen local leadership, and
increase the sustainability of these rural communities establishing seed banks, microlending and water purification.
Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Developpement Alternatif (PAPDA)
$15,000
The Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) South Coast
This grant supported the training of rural leaders, the coordination of regional networks and encouragedthe participation of peasant organizations in national debates about trade policy and agrarian and educational reform.
2014
Association des Cadres Pour la Protection de L’environnement (ACAPE) $10,000
Les Cayes
This grant is to improve the organization’s capacity through the construction of training facilities and further
increase the packaging and hygienic quality of products at the Cassava facility and provide accompaniment to
100 families.
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) www.ijdh.org National
$16,000
This grant supported legal services, organized support and human rights advocacy in national and international
arenas with a focus on prisoners’ rights, cholera, and freedom from violence and illegal detention.
Collectif de Lutte Contre L’Exclusion Social (CLES) Fort Liberté
$11,000
This grant supported the development of agricultural infrastructure in the Maribahoux valley by improving the
state of the rice sector through investment specifically in construction of drying pastures, packaging equipment
and increase in storage capacity to benefit mercahnts.
Combite des Citoyens pour le Development de St Louis (COCIDES)
$10,000
St. Louis du Sud
The project supported training in forage development and animal breeding techniques for 20 families who will
each receive 2 goats.
Comite Developpement Commune Arcahaie (CODCOA) Arcahaie
$13,000
This grant supported the commercialization of honey and training for 40 beekeepers on wax processing for
candles, decoration and shoe polish as well as cosmetics likes soap, shampoo and face cream.
Ecole Normale de Papaye (ENP) Hinche
$12,000
This grant supported the repair of the roof of the male dormitory and the bathrooms of the Teachers College.
FAMILY, Inc. Verrettes
$10,000
The grant supported the training and institutional support of 7 remote community schools and through and
further increasing the capacity of the ongoing in-service Teacher Training Program.
FATEM Mirebalais
$10,000
This grant supports the operation of a network of 12 rural community schools and the facilitating and training of
teachers and administrators in hygiene and clean potable water.
Fondasyon Limyè Lavi Marigot
$10,000
This grant supported the improvement of education and community relations remote Southeast communities
and the creation bookstores to create access and generate income for the local school network in Makari.
Fondasyon Zanmi Timoun (FZT) Gressier /Lascahobas/Delmas/Savanette
$10,000
This grant suppported an advocacy campaign to alert and educate officials and all stakeholders and leaders on
the rights of children and the right to education.
$10,000
This grant supports the emergence of health workers as entreprenuers through training on technical management of drug stocks, financial education, community leadership and the establishment of legally recognized
veterinary officers.
Group d’Accord Solidarite et Action (GASA) Verrettes
$11,000
This grant provided quality seeds, training and loans to 20 young peasant leaders and their organizations to
increase their yield from the harvest period.
Haiti Projects Fond des Blancs
$8,000
This grant supported the expansion of a cyber café, providing trainer fees and electric and electronic equipment.
Initiative Pour le Developpement Communautaire (ICODEV) Verrettes
$12,000
This grant will support the construction of chicken coop for egg production as a social enterprise to increase local consumption and commercial activities.
Institute for Human and Community Development (IHCD) www.ihcd.org
Croix de Bouquets
$10,000
This grant supported the transition of children from extreme marginalization into mainstream Haitian society,
provided adult vocational training and literacy human rights education as well as micro-loans.
Konbit Fanm Kaskad-Dubreuil (KOFAKAD) Torbeck
$10,000
This grant benefitted 80 families by supporting the production of yams and training in improved farming techniques.
Matenwa Community Learning Center www.matenwaclc.org La Gonave
$10,000
This grant provided continued support to the Joint Education and Agriculture project which promotes child-centered
learning, encourages Creole instruction, and introduces vegetable gardens in 10 La Gonave community schools.
Mouvement Paysan de la 3eme Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K) Camp-Perrin
$11,000
This grant supported the construction of a hangar and a purchase of a processing mill.
Organisation des Jeunes pour l’Avancement de St. Ard (OJAS) Archaie
$12,000
This grant supported an irrigation project in partnership with several farmers associations in the St- Ard area in
order to increase the perimeter of irrigated land in the community.
Organization pour la Promotion des Agriculteurs de Generesse Maniche (OPAGMA)
Maniche
$11,000
This grant supported the establishment of an agricultural inputs store and a veterinary pharmacy in Génèrese to
make agricultural products available locally to planters in Maniche.
Organisation des Paysans pour le Developpement Agro-Ecologique
et Humain D’Haiti (OPDAEH) Boucan Carré
$10,000
This grant support the rehabilitation of OPDAEH’s storage facility and distribute seeds to farmers while providing
training sessions on growing beans and peanuts to increase their income.
Partenariat Pour le Développement Locale (PDL)
St. Michel, Bahon, St. Raphael, Pignon & Monbin Crochu
$10,000
This grant supported six peasant organizations to take the next step towards improving their livelihoods and
food sovereignty by establishing basic grains banks to increase the availability and consumption of local food.
Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Developpement Alternatif (PAPDA) Sud
$10,000
Through this grant, PAPDA strengthened the capacity of partner organizations in the South department to push
the Haitian government to engage in the process of developing a policy prioritizing agrarian reform.
Rasanbleman Fanm Nip (RAFANIP) Petite Riviere de Nippes
$10,000
The grant supported the training of women breeders in goat breeding techniques, animal health and
forage management.
Our Lady Queen of Peace/ Smallholder Farmers Alliance Medor
$10,000
This grant supported the expansion of the community-led agroforestry project that built nurseries, trained
25 residents as para-foresters, provide quality seeds, distribute tools and transplanted 20,000 trees in the
mountainous area of Medor.
2015 Legacy Grants
Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action (ESPWA) Grand Anse
$75,000
This grant is to support the establishment of the Haiti Community Foundation and for continued community
engagement in the Grand-Anse.
FAMILY, Inc. Verrettes
$7,500
This grant supports a visioning and planning process of the education system in the District of Verrettes
and La Chapelle.
Mouvement Paysan de la 3eme Section Camp-Perrin (MP3K) Camp-Perrin
$7,500
This grant is to provide a fully-equipped maternity room for the community to further enhance the capacity
of the local health center, in partnership with the Gould Family Foundation.
Organization pour la Promotion des Agriculteurs de Generesse Maniche (OPAGMA) Maniche
$7,500
This grant is to provide a fully-equipped maternity room for the community to further enhance the capacity
of the local health center, in partnership with the Gould Family Foundation.
A Better Tomorrow Services Boston
$7,500
This grant is to be used toward the matching grant received from the Vela Foundation for the purchase of a van
for the Food Pantry program – the largest in the area.
Action Aid USA Haiti
$7,500
This grant is to be used toward the activities of the JE Nan JE platform and its work to increase the participation
of civil society in Haiti’s reconstruction.
Haiti Fund Advisory Council
Marie St. Fleur, Chair
Bessie Tart Wilson Initiative
Carole Berotte Joseph
Bronx Community College
Karen Keating Ansara
Ansara Family Fund
Ify Mora
Barr Foundation
Paul Auxila
Management Sciences for Health
Gisele Michel
Icatalyst
Mari Brennan Barrera
Philanthropic Consultant
Eno Mondesir
Haitian Baptist Church of Cambridge
Alix Cantave
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Jennifer Murtie
Federal Street Advisors
Richard Chacon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Serge Paul-Emile
Organizational Consultant
Sandy Cody
State Street Corporation
Colette Phillips
CPC Global Communications
Michel DeGraff
Marc Prou
University of Massachusetts Boston
Carline Durocher
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Gerald Reid
Physician
Herby Duverné
Taino Consulting Group
Sabine St. Lot
Six and Counting for Haiti
Atema Eclai
Consultant
Phil Thompson
Chelinde Edouard
CEM Consulting
Soliny Vedrine
Haitian Ministries International
Linda Dorcena Forry
Massachusetts State Senate
Paddy Wade
Museum Institute for Teaching Science
Charlotte Golar-Richie
YouthBuild
Bill Walczak
Grand Circle Foundation
Kate Guedj
The Boston Foundation
Darnell Williams
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts
John Hammock
Tufts University Fletcher School
Riché Zamor
Romaz Consulting
Pierre Imbert
Barr Foundation
Staff
George-Marie Jasmin
Boston Public Health Commission
Jackie Jenkins-Scott
Wheelock College
Pierre Noel
Haiti Fund Program Director
Ferry Cadet
Haiti Fund Program Coordinator
Donors
Individuals
Alexander and Livia Aber
Charlotte Kahn and John Abramson
Kim P. Adair
Patricia Adair
Ted A. Adams
Tricia Adams
Robert Adey
Glen Davis and David S. Aghassi
Bandana Agrawal
Mary-Ann Agresti
Kamal M. Ahmad
Khalique Ahmed
Miki Akimoto
Janid Ali
James P. Alibrandi
Abigail Allen
Michael Allendorf
Arthur Almeda
Jerry J. Altbrandt
Lois Ambash
David and Catherine Anderson
Phillip C. Anderson
Deborah J. Anderstrom
James and Karen Keating Ansara
Alice C. Ansara
Joseph W. Ansara
Lucia Ansara
Martha Ansara
Meg Ansara
Merriam Ansara
Linda M. Antonucci
Jeri Appier
Edmond J. Zabin and Luz A. Arevalo
Ines Ariceta
Irina Arkhipova
Claire J. Arno
James and Beth Arnold
Wendy Arnold
Joan E. Arsenault
Mark E. Arsenault and Carina Arsenault
Wendy Aubin
Merlin Aubourg
Jennifer V. Audeh
Leo F. Swift and Amy L. Auerbach
Rose Marie J. Auguste-Prou
Norine C. Jewell and David R. Ault
Joy Austin
Patricia L. Austin-Henderson
Deborah Avery
Thomas and Sharon Ayres
Robert and Anna Marie Bacon
Astrid C. Baehrecke
Max Baigelman
Ludger Bain
Annette Baker
Judith K. Baker
Philip Dunn and Patricia Baker
Mary S. Baldwin
Ray Baldwin
Amy E. Ballin
Cina Balot
Kathleen M. Bambrick
Jayanti Bandyopadhyay
Emily B. Bannister
Useda Soloman Bardmoore Bardmoore
Timothy and Antoinette Barges
Jeb Barnes
Christopher Barnett
Laura K. Barooshian
Eric Barras
June M. Barras
Mari Brennan Barrera and Joel Barrera
Sarah Barrett
Celso Barros
Stephen C. Bartlett
Christopher J. Bartley
Lisa Beaulieu
Virginia and Charles Beauregard
Stephen J. Becht
Stephen and Theresa Becker
Richard and Linda Begen
Anne Bellefeuille
Roberto Beltrami
Gary and Michele Bergeron
Doug Berman
Eleanor Berry
Matthew Berry
Jerome Bertrand
Stephen and Brenda Bettinelli
Doreen M. Biebusch
Gaynor Bigelbach
Donald J. Bilodeau
Polla Oleson Bilodeau
Tonya Bingenheimer
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Laurence and Ann Bishoff
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William B. Blanchard
Joanne M. Blinn
Anne L. Turner and Harry K. Bohrs
Nancy L. Bond
Heather Booth
Penelope Lueders Booth
Alissa Bor
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Daryl G and Vincent Bordonaro
Brian J. Borges
Marina Rozenberg and Sergeui Borissenkov
Paul Bork
Reverend Suzanne and Ellen Woolston
Bossert
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Donald E. Bowen, Jr.
Ruby Bowles
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Jonathan Rabin and Amy Boyd
George and Mary Brauer
Gary Briggs
J.C. and G.R. Briggs
Lora Brill
Karen B. Brindle
Susan Bringola
Gerald and Donna Broderick
Robert and Maida Broudo
Mr. and Mrs Broussard
Colleen Browning
Robert J. Bruce
Dave Buchanan
Robert Budrys
Jessica Low and Michael Burenkov
Christine and Brendan Burke
Mr. and Mrs Burlingham
Mr. and Mrs Robert G. Burlingham
Margaret A. Bush
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Pilar Cabrera
Angel Cacciola
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Edward J. Callahan
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Meg Campbell
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Greta Canty
Brieana Capone
Kathleen Carbonara
Jennifer A. Cardello
Jean M. Carney
Dan Carp
Sally R. Carroll
Peter F. Carty
Gary A. Caruso
Kevin and Kathleen Casey
Mr. Arnall and Ms. Casteris
Gloria U. Castillo
Antonino Catalano
Dale P. Cavanaugh
Maureen Cavanaugh
Teresa and Sophia Cawlina
Daniel Ceccoli
Chester Cekala
Kimberly Centrone
Richard Chacon
David and Lisa Chaffin
Nadia Chamblin
Shirley A. Chandl
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Sasha Chanoff
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David R. Chechik
Peter J. Cheever
Sabina Cheng
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Judith Chesney
Eric Chang-Sung Chiang
Susan R. Chinn
Roselyn M. Chinsee
Kevin and Cynthia Churchill
Marc A. Ciaramitaro
Abigail Ciccolo
James and Claire Claire
Carol Clark
Judith Clark
Rachel Clark
Robert Clarke
William and Holly Clifford
Nicholas B. Clinch
Margaret E. Clough
Shepard Clough
Kelly Cobeen
Alana Coble
Patrick Coburn
Jane A. Lindfors and Bernard S. Cohen
Ann S. Coles
Rev. Dr. Craig A. Collemer
Daisy Nell Collinson
Robert and Laura Condon
Jennifer L. Conrad-Proulx
John and Diane Conroy
Bonnie Conserva
David and Pamela Constantine
Kara J. Constantine
Michael and Joan Contompasis
Peggie E. Cook
Sarah and Patrick Cooleybeck
Hope Coolidge
LaTasha Cooper
Carolyn F. Corcoran
Kathryn M. Corcoran
Mary J. Cordeiro
Anthony Mirenda and Tracey Cornogg
Charles A. Dal Corobbo
Edwin Fremder and Linda Corwin
David Costantino
Alfred and Susan Cotillo
David Coughlan
Fara Courtney
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Cynthia M. Cox
Ellen T. Coyle
Radonna Crandlemire
Harriet S. Crary
John and Joanna Crawford
Timothy Creamer
Francis P. Creedon
Roberto Cremonini
Chris Cronin
Deneen Crosby
Suzanne Crossen
Rowena Crowe
Lauren C. Crowell
David Crowley
Nancy S. Crowther
Seana Cullinan
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Martha J. Cummings
Joseph K. Curran
Sandra and Bruce Currier
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Adnan and Chrisanne Dahdul
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Lucinda Damon-Bach
Steven Damsker
Elizabeth Danaher
Margaret Davey
Kirstie David
Edward Davidson
Tamara L. Davidson
Michele C. Davila
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Tim Davis
Christy Day
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Phillip DeBruin
Priscilla C. Deck
Lena Deevy
Ryan M. DeJoy
Lee R. Dellicker
John DelMonaco
Daniel R. DeMarco
Robert Demarco
John D. Patterson Jr. and Michele F.
Demarest
Dana P. DeVeau
Linda A. Deveau
Karen Devine
Kathleen Devine
Gerald F. Devlin
Roberta M. Dexter
Gurinder Dhingra
Cynthia L. Diaz
Connie Dice
Franklin E. Dickinson
Christopher Dimare
Anna DiPerna
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Scott Dockendorff
Carole Dodge
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Duane R. Donaldson
Wellington Dornevil
Chris J. Dosch
Cyra P. Dougherty
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Neiland Douglas
Neiland J. Douglas, Jr.
Betsy Downes
Timothy A. Downey
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Anne Drowns
Joy G. Dryfoos
David Duddy
Robin Dugas
Robert Duncan
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Anicet and Chelsea Dybantsa
Nancy L. Eagen
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Paula F. Ebbitt
Thoma D. and Gayane Z. Ebling
Chelinde Edouard
Claire Edouard
Jane D. Ehrlich
Danielle Ekizian
Danielle L. Ekizian
Toni Elka
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Martha Estin
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Bruce T. Evans
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Ellen Evett
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Lisa M. Farmer
Jason Faulconer
Anne Fecko
Karen A. Fecko
Peter and Linda Fenton
Rosalyn Fernandes
Roxanne Fernandes
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Noah Fields
Lewis Finfer
Cathleen Finn
Thomas B. Finn
Robert and Valerie Fischer
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Kevin J. Fitzgerald
Michael P. Flammia
William E. Flanagan
Jay Flannery
D. and L. Flechsig
William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher
Joshua Flood
Beth Floor
Antonia E. Foias
Judith Foley
Kenneth C. Forasté
Natalie S. Forbes
David S. Ford
Melissa L. Forger
James C. Foritano
Howard W. Forman
Thomas M. Formicola
Arthur F. Fournier
Edwine D. Francois
Charles B. Franks
Pamela D. Frech
Bryan K. Freeman
Dr. Donna and Haig Friedman
Leslie C. Friedman
Alison and Andrew Friedmann
Richard and Elise Frisbie
Scott Frisco
Kentaro Fujita
Katrina A. Kellogg and Mary A. Fuller
Tara Henry and Brendan Furey
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Carl W. Gable
Lynn M. Gaede
Therese and Joseph Galante
Marc and Stephanie Gallagher
Robert and Karen Gallagher
Melissa Gallin
Anna A. and Giacomo C. Gallo
David Simon and Susie Galvin
Nicki Nichols Gamble
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Ann L. Gardner
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Patricia A. Gardner
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Athena L. Garrett
Beth Garry
Tim Gassert
Jeffrey J. Gates
Lea Gates
Angel Gauron
David G. Gaw
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Gefers
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Joseph Geyer
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Robert E. and Brian S Giannino-Racine
Philip Giffee
Robert J. Gillis, Jr.
Edward S. Gilman
Heidi A. Given
Elisabeta Gjanci
Lenore Glaser
Marian Glasgow
David R. Gluck, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs Richard C. Godfrey
Lisa Goel
Robert and Nancy Goemaat
Susanna Goemaat
Jane Goetz
Eric J. Goldberg
Ruth A. Goldberg
Michael Goldrosen
David and Lisa Goldstein
Jenna Smith Gomes and Mark Gomes
Sandra Gonsalves
Robert A. Gonser
Dana M. Gordon
Harris S. Gordon
Jared A. Gordon
Amy Gorin
Jessica Gormley
Tony Goulet
Heidi Gowen
Carol Grady
Peter C. Woodhouse and Margaret E.
Graff
Benjamin E. Grandjean
Mr. and Mrs Graves
Hanson S. Reynolds, Esq. and Sharon
Gray
Robert F. Gray
Timothee B. Graze
Carol J. Green
Davis Greene
Davis Crane Greene
Winnie Greene
Steven Greffenius
Tim Greiner
Jill Lacey Griffin
James Groleau
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Geraldine Guardino
Robert F. Guay
Dorothy T. Guild
Heidi Haag
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Julie A. Hackett
Susan Haff
Stephen Haig
P. Haight
Jonathan E. Haines
Laurie Hall
Philip Hall
Sasha Earle and Andrew D. Hall
Jeanne M. Hallisey
Rebecca Hallowell
Gerald and Barbara Hamelburg
Wissam H. Hanna
Courtney Hanney
Carole A. Hansen
Alison L. Hansen-Decelles
James W. Hargraves
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Scott Harrington
Alyson Harris
Marilyn Harwell
Arthur S. Hatch
Francis Hayes
Mark Haynes
Stacie Haynes-Roberts
Chantal Healey
Martha and Richard Heath
Seena Heath
Jenna Hecker
Susan Hegel
Andrew Lindsay and Janet HeintzmanLindsay
Janice C. Henderson
Sarah Hendrick
Richard A. Henige
Paul and Kathleen Hennigan
Nathaniel L. Hennigar
Kevin T. Henze
John and Melissa Herron
Jean Hess
Kathleen L. Heydt
Ann S. Higgins
Linda Higueros
Ruben D. Orduña and Elizabeth G. Hill
Charles L. Eisenhardt and Barbara
Hindley
Lester Hiscoe
Elise and Ethan A. Hoblitzelle
Judith G. Hoffman
Judith M. Holden
David Holdorf
Jennifer L. Houghton
Richard Howard
Nancy Howell and Blair Howell
Annette Huber-Lee
Michele and William Hughes
Amy E. Hull
Marcia J. Hunkins
Alice S. Hunter
Deirdre J. Hunter
Patricia S. Hurdelbrink
Timothy and Denise Hurdelbrink
Mr. and Mrs Hurley
John and Sally Huss
Fazal S. Hussain
Randy A. Hustvedt
William C. Hutchinson
Cindy Huynh
Jeff Idels
Jacob Jackson and Cynthia Lewiton
Jackson
Oliver Jahn
Ellen Janis
Mark Janson
Eric S. Jarry
Joshua S. Jarvis
Ignace Jean-Charles
Michelle Jenney
Stephen D. Jervey
Irene Jeudy
Marianne Lynch and Michael Joel
Jeff D. Paquette and Heidi Johnson
Jeremy C. Johnson
Stephen and Paula Johnson
Thomas and Calece Johnson
Jane E. Jolkovski
Stephen and Cheryl Jonas
Aaron Jones
Kathleen D. Jones
Charles Flesch and Ahilemah Jonet
Shannon and Derek Jordan
Carole M. Berotte Joseph
Mark and Starry Joseph
Jennifer and Joshua Joshua
Lois Josimovich
Robert A. Joubert
Ruth Mercer and Sharon Juergensen
David and Michaela June
Ben Justice
Emily Kahn
Joshua L. Kahn
Miriam E. Kahn
Robert and Mary Kahn
Teresa Kalinowsky
Neil Kalvelage
Jerome Karaganis
Julia Karas
Wayne S. Koch and Lisa Karnisher
Ruth Karpowich
Cindy A. Kassanos
Joanne Jolly Kay
Unsal Kaya
William D. Keane
Catherine Keating
Heidi Keating
John S. Keating
Michael and Martha Keating
Shannon L. Keating
Michael Keating, Jr.
Susan Ehrlich Kedmi
Michele Whitham and Jesse Keefe
Nancy G. Keil
Laura Keith
Carrie Kelleher
Christopher Kelley
James Kelly
Peter G. Kelly
Margaret A. Kelner
Patricia D. Kennedy
William and AnnMarie Kennedy
Maureen P. Kenney
Rod Kessler
John J. Kiger
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Berry Fund Charitable Foundation
Berwick Glass and Mirror
Boston Bread, L.L.C.
Bruce Foundation
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Brunca Waterproofing Corporation
Cameron Engineering and Associates,
LLP
Clifford and Galvin Contracting LLC
Colette Phillips Communications
Colwell Holdings
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Corwin and Corwin LLP
D.K. Brede Investment Management
Company, Inc.
Daniel DeMarco and Associates
Derosa Environmental Consulting Inc.
Design Continuum Inc.
Donoghue, Barrett and Singal, P.C.
Dykeman Electrical Contractors Inc.
Dynamic Air Corporation
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
Edwards Wildman Palmer, LLP
Efloor, Inc.
Essex County Community Foundation,
Inc.
Ethos
Federal Street Advisors
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Finegold Alexander and Associates Inc.
Foley Hoag LLP
G. Barrie Landry Charitable Foundation
GE Foundation
Genworth Foundation
George H. Shattuck, Jr. and Isabel C.
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GMA Foundations
Goldman Reindorf Architects
Goodwin Procter LLP
Healy Charitable Foundation Inc.
Hyatts of Boston
Insight Technology
J and M Brown Company, Inc.
J.C. Cannistraro, LLC
Jack Moore Associates, Inc.
JDJ Resources
John A. Penney Co., Inc.
John Moriarty and Associates, Inc.
Katharine P Beal Charitable Trust c/o
Boston Family Office
Lawton Welding Co., Inc.
LeMessurier Consultants Inc.
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Linde Griffith Construction Company
Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P.
Lynnwell Associates, Inc.
Maarten and Mavis Hemsley Family
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Meridian Associates, Inc.
Middlesex Concert Band
Midwest Pro Painting, Inc.
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve
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Pamet Capital Management, LLC
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Pasquazzi Bros., Inc.
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Peabody Office Furniture Corp.
Pepper Hamilton LLP
PR Restaurants LLC dba Panera Bread
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Salem State University
Shawmut Design and Construction
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State Street Bank and Trust Company
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Stockyard Food and Spirits
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Terri’s School of Dance, Inc.
The Flora Family Foundation
The Ipswich Center
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W.T. Haigh and Company, Inc.
Zevin Asset Management, LLC
Zumi’s Espresso
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Austin and Susan Smith Fund
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Fund
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Levine Family Charitable Fund
Lord-Buck Fund
Louis and Marcia Kamentsky Donor
Advised Fund
Margaret M. Schmidt and Kenneth J.
Danila Fund
Margaret W. Casey Fund
Mellowes Fund
Mimi Chandler Watt Fund
Mitchell and Diane Jacobs Fund
Moccasin Brook Fund
Molino Family Fund
Moose and Squirrel Fund
Muddy Pond Trust Fund
Murray Hill Charitable Fund
Novotny/Swahnberg Fund
Ones Fund
Palisades Fund
Pamela Kohlberg Fund
Parker Family Fund
Plimpton - Shattuck Fund
Poler Family Charitable Gift Fund
Radtke Family Fund
Remmer-Fox Family Fund
Richard E. and Mary F. Rafferty Fund
Robert Strange Family Fund
Roberts-Belove Fund
Russell and Carla Ricci Fund
Samuel Perkins and Nancy Reed Fund
Sandra and Philip Gordon Family Foundation Fund
Sarah Derby and Gary MacDonald
Skylight Fund
Smith Family Charitable Fund
Stone Charitable Fund
Sue and Bernie Pucker Fund
Suhrbier Family Fund
Sylvan Fund
Walker Fund
Walter and Alice Abrams Family Fund
Weiss Charitable Fund
William D. and Mary E. Benjes Fund
Winsor Foundation Fund
Zabin Charitable Fund
Zug Family Fund Non-Profit Organizations
All Saints - St. Agnes Tabernacle
Society
Andover Newton Theological School
Boston Educational Development
Foundation, Inc.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester
Building Impact
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Creating Hope International
Endicott College
Hannah Elementary School PTO
Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Inc.
Landmark School, Inc.
Lawrence School Parent Teacher Organization, Inc.
Lexington Public Schools
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House,
Inc.
Milton Academy
ROCA, Inc.
Salem State University
Temple Shalom of Newton
Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading
Donor-Advised Funds
Anonymous
Eos Foundation
Jim Smith Kennedy School of Government
Peter Sanborn
Peter Sanborn Giving Account
The Allison Family Fund
Charles A. Walsh Fund
Chelinde Edouard
DP Fund
Edouard Family Fund
Edward and Maybeth Sonn Fund
Endowment for Children in Crisis
Floor Family Charitable Fund
Johnson Fund
Lucy Williams and Faith Perry Gift Fund
Marie K. Sweeney Charitable Trust
Mary P. Yntema Fund
Melamed Family Fund
Samana Fund
Sunrise Fund
Schwab Charitable Fund Donor-Advised Funds
Doreen Biebusch
Elliot and Lenore Lobel
Other
Beeman Memorial School
Boston Skal Club
CHP International
Columbus Ave AME Zion Church
Electrical Contractors Association of
Greater Boston
First Baptist Church in Beverly
Friends of Rafael Hernandez School,
Inc.
Harvard Clinical Research Institute
Hyde Park Presbyterian Church
Landmark School, Inc.
League of Women for Community
Service, Inc.
Navigator Club
Power Program
Rec Place Afterschool, Inc.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
Roderick Elementary School
Tower School
Donna B. Kendall Revocable Trust
Paul Cronin and Ellen Raphael Charitable Trust
Robert S. Cary 1973 Rev Trust
Acknowledgements
We are so grateful for the tremendous generosity of nearly 1200 individuals, foundations,
businesses, schools, religious organizations and more who made over 1700 contributions,
both large and small. You are far too numerous to name here; we can’t begin to describe how
honored we are to have walked with you for a stronger Haiti.
We offer a special thanks to the following
organizations with which we collaborated on
conferences, learning exchanges and visits,
and capacity building programs:
Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians
The General Consulate of Haiti in Boston
The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI)
Barr Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Inter-American Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
Haitian Fund for Innovation and Reconstruction
“We offer our enormous thanks to the grantmaking committee, a truly wise group of
Haitians, Haitian Americans and international
development experts who have helped us make
funding decisions in response to hundredsof
worthy proposals. And of course, we offer
our thanks to you, our donors. Without you we
would not be able to stand shoulder-to-shoulder
with our Haitian neighbors as we work together
to rebuild and revitalize Haiti.”
- Kate Guedj, Vice President for
Development and Donor Services
Boston Foundation
We are beholden to the entire staff of The Boston Foundation and The Philanthropic Initiative.
We offer our special gratitude to staff and consultants, Kate Guedj, Paul Grogan, Sara Hall, Laura
McConaghy, Daniel Moss, Coleen Kelley, Pierre Noel, Vanessa Wu, Ferry Cadet, Paula
Johnson, Elie LaFortune, Navin Associates, Anna Gallo, Jeff Paquette, Nandy V. René,
Michael Altidort, Jean-Robert Durocher, Al Van Ranst, Stacey Riddick, Eliza Jessie Zuberek,
Corey Davis, Mary Jo Meisner, Timothy Gassert, Ted McEnroe, Barbara Hindley, Robert Lewis, Jr.,
Jamie Jafee, Elizabeth Share, Katie Packenham and Lauren Baker. We are indebted to our interns
and volunteers, Juvenal Fils, Ryan Mitchell, Sarah Janes, Heidi Johnson and Hannah Hoyt.
Likewise we celebrate the indispensable contributions of our Advisory Council listed on page
21, with special thanks to Haiti Fund Chair Marie St. Fleur, Advocacy Chair Senator Linda
Dorcena Forry, and members of the Grantmaking Committee at various times: Co-Chairs Alix
Cantave and Herby Duverne, Stephanie Dodson, JR Durocher, Atema Eclai, Chelinde Edouard, John Hammock, Serge Paul Emile, Karen Keating Ansara, Eno Mondesir, Sabine St.
Lot, Joel Theodat, Bill Walczak, and Riche Zamor.
And most of all, we thank the grantees who are rebuilding Haiti. It is your work we celebrate, not ours!
“Your approach, respectful of human values and partnership is a model we should
follow . . . .The modest financial support of the Haiti Fund and efforts to create strong
links between different organizations . . . will help to build Haiti with much more
optimism. Your financial support in 2013 for the development and marketing of local
rice allowed CLES to win from the World Food Programme (WFP) a new contract
for 550 Metric Tons of rice for 2014.
Much more is left to do. We are well aware. The structural and economic limits to our
actions are enormous, but our unwavering belief in a better future for Haiti gives us
strength and energy to face the obstacles, present and future.
The firm commitment of your organization after the earthquake was very remarkable. It supports the reconstruction process with a horizontal approach based on new
values that place HAITIANS at the heart of their own development. Haiti Fund / Boston
Foundation is an EXAMPLE, A RARE MODEL with regards to international cooperation.
We are THANKFUL to the people of BOSTON and the Haitian Diaspora for their solidarity. May they find in this message an expression of our most profound gratitude.”
- Albert Pierre Paul Joseph, Program Director, Collectif de Lutte Contre l’Exclusion Sociale (CLES)
Artwork:“Jacmel Reconstruction” by Macene Laurent
“Development is about self-determination, empowerment of the people so
they can chart their own future. The Haiti Fund has contributed generously to such
a crucial endeavor, and while it ends, the Haitian grassroots groups it has
supported will continue to carry the torch.”
- Kysseline Cherestal, Senior Policy Advisor, Action Aid USA

History and Accomplishments of the Haiti Fund at the Boston

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