by John Freund, CM | Oct 13, 2010 | Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund has given half a million dollars to Fonkoze. Basically, it’s for deploying a team of business analysts to identify and evaluate small and medium-sized enterprises. This will be enormously helpful for developing the Zafen website in an...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 8, 2010 | Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
In a feature complete with excellent graphics the Huffington Post features Zafen in its October 8 edition. Zafèn Haitian Microfinance Effort Engages Haitians to Forge a New Future. Zafèn has raised $140,000 in loans and donations that have funded 300 projects thus...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 4, 2010 | Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
ONE LAST CHANCE FOR MATCH — The loan match program on Zafen was extended for an extra day due a glitch that closed it one day early. That means if you make a loan today, the Vincentians will double it! Hurry before the program closes for real!
by John Freund, CM | Aug 31, 2010 | Vincentian Family
Get online fast! The International Vincentian Family is offering to match the first $25,000 in scholarships that online donors give to Frederic Ozanam School, which is run by the Daughters of Charity in Haiti. A $100 scholarship will cover tuition, school supplies and...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 16, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The creator of Farmville, Zynga, has raised more than $3.6 million for Haiti. Mark Pincus, Zynga’s founder and CEO, calls this “solidarity not charity.” Zynga describes this approach to giving back in this way: “Solidarity not charity is a...