haiti

our work in haiti

The LAC team has identified two micro-regions in which to focus our efforts – the first one in the Central Area and the second one in the Southwest Corridor:

The foundation team also is in conversations with other funders interested in Haiti including organizations from the U.S., Europe and Latin America. In October 2010, it co-hosted (with the U.N. Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti and the U.N. Foundation) an initial conversation with nine other foundations in New York and participated in the Haiti Action Network meeting:

our history in Haiti

The Kellogg Foundation began investing in Haiti in the 1950s first through fellowships and scholarships, and later with a full-scale grant program launched in the 1990s that lasted until 2006. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the foundation came to the conclusion that amidst the tragedy, a new window of opportunity opened in Haiti due to strengthened solidarity among the Haitians and from the diaspora, renewed international interest and longer term strategic thinking. With this assumption, the foundation decided to reengage in Haiti with a ten-year commitment implementing the new micro-regional strategy. The LAC team began an exploratory phase to better understand the current situation, reconnect and expand its networks, identify two to three micro-regions and begin a systematic dialogue with other funders and key stakeholders.