(Community Matters) Note I sent today to our HelpHaiti donors:
I didn’t mean for this much time to pass since last providing you with an update.
We’re at $1,346k raised and have now granted $1,191k (including a $38k challenge grant outstanding with CharityWater). Our last two grants were $100k to ConcernWorldwide to fund their cash for work program (Haitian’s paid $s/day to assist in clean up, rebuilding, day care and all sorts of jobs), and a $50k challenge grant to Fonkoze to fund a malnutrition program for the children of women in their savings and microloan programs (they’ve since met the match).
A lot has been written about the frustrations of deploying government and NGO monies in Haiti. We’ve been monitoring progress with our grantees. Concern and Fonkoze do not appear burdened by the bureaucracy of the multinational, hundred million dollar NGOs. Partners in Health and Catholic Relief Services (USA) appear similarly autonomous in their ability to execute and bring aid to Haitians. Remember, with a few exceptions for directed gifts, we’ve granted your monies to nonprofits who have been on the ground in Haiti since long before the earthquake, and who employ primarily Haitians in doing their in-country work. Below, I’ve pasted & attached a table of amounts granted (& raised thru match challenges) by grantee.
Nevertheless, our grants committee and the EF board have asked me to travel to Haiti and tour many of the projects your money has funded, to see firsthand how well our partners have deployed your contributions. I’ll be talking with their in-country personnel and with recipients of their assistance.
I will be in Haiti from July 19 thru July 23. I currently have plans to spend full days with Concern Worldwide, Fonkoze and Partners in Health. I’m hoping to hear from Catholic Relief Services and CharityWater to review for you their work first hand. You can follow me on my blog at http://communitymatters.biz, on Facebook (Eugene Sepulveda) or by Twitter: EugeneAustin. (these are my personal blog, facebook & twitter accounts, so please understand that they don’t represent the position or interests of HelpHaiti or the Entrepreneurs Foundation. If you’d prefer to wait, we will send pictures, video and other communication upon my return).
as of July 8, 2010:
Concern Worldwide $ 532,000 Partners in Health $ 294,700 Fonkoze $ 150,000 Catholic Relief Services $ 138,000 CharityWater* $ 37,651 Red Cross $ 29,958 Save the Children $ 9,018 $ 1,191,327 *CharityWater amount outstanding as a challenge grant for a specific project. They have not yet raised their match and we have not yet paid out these monies; however, they are committed if match raised.
photo: NYTimes
NYTimes article: In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge
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