Haiti is a place where there is hope, renewal and growth. These are three words that would not be the first to pop to mind when the topic of Haiti comes up. And yet this month’s update from Brian Stout, the US Director of Open Door Haiti, is filled with the evidence of all three. [...]
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April 19th, 2011 | Tags: access to markets, Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, Decor Game Sets, economic development, Executive Gifts, fair trade gifts, Game Boards, International Development, job creation, Lunch Bags, micro enterprise development, Open Door Haiti, poverty alleviation, Promotional Lunch Bags, socially responsible gifts, sustainable development, sustainable purchasing, Take the ZOE Challenge, Wooden Game Sets, zoe alliance | Category: Guest Blogs, Haiti | Leave a comment
“…But I say courage is not the abnormal. Not the marvelous act. Not Macbeth with fine speeches….Not the surprise. The amazed understanding. The marriage, not the month’s rapture. Not the exception. The beauty that is of many days. Steady and clear. It is the normal excellence of long accomplishment.” Jack Gilbert This quotation is [...] March 4th, 2011 | Tags: economic development, Haiti, India, International Development, job creation, micro enterprise development, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, Take the ZOE Challenge, The ZOË Challenge, zoe alliance | Category: Haiti, Out of India, Take the ZOE Challenge | Leave a comment
On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Haiti was struck by a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake. It has been 6 1/2 months since that day. So much has happened since then, with many countries, organizations and individuals seeking to provide help to the people of Haiti. And as always, in the midst of incredible chaos, there are [...] August 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Corporate Gifts, economic development, Executive Gifts, Fair Trade, fair trade gifts, fair trade products, gifts for events, Haiti, Hand carved game set, International Development, job creation, micro enterprise development, personal gifts, poverty alleviation, socially responsible gifts, sustainable development, sustainable purchasing, Wooden game, zoe alliance | Category: Haiti | Leave a comment
This weeks blog is an interview with Ross Metcalfe, Vice President – Partner Marketing of Citi Cards Canada . Citi recently worked with ZOË Alliance to expand economic development in Haiti by sending the following insert to cardholders encouraging them to by the game Ti Ta To 10 to help Haitian men and [...] April 20th, 2010 | Tags: Birthday Gifts, Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, Decor Grade Wooden Gaem, economic development, Executive Gifts, Fair Trade, fair trade gifts, Gifts, Haiti, Hand Carved Game, Hand Carved Wooden Game, International Development, job creation, micro enterprise development, poverty alleviation, socially responsible gifts, sustainable purchasing, Wood Game, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Haiti, Thinking Bigger Than Fair Trade | One comment
Helene Delius speaking with Isemane “All the women who have worked on this project are most excited by the ability to show their children that there are opportunities beyond what we have known. There is hope.” Helene Delius – Supervisor, Seamstress Team Haiti is like a huge traffic jam with 1,000,000 cars trying [...] April 6th, 2010 | Tags: Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, economic development, Executive Gifts, Fair Trade, fair trade gifts, Haiti, International Development, job creation, micro enterprise development, poverty alleviation, socially responsible gifts, sustainable development, sustainable purchasing, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Haiti, Thinking Bigger Than Fair Trade | Leave a comment
Diana Hills-Milligan, Veridian Corporation has chosen custom personalized Cambiar Portfolios from ZOË Alliance as gifts for Veridian's Board of Directors. “You can give it saying…this is not just a portfolio, it’s someone’s life that you have changed…that says alot.” Diana Hills-Milligan, Veridian Veridian Corporation is a great place to work according to many of [...] February 16th, 2010 | Tags: charitable giving, Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, Executive Gifts, fair trade gifts, Haiti, International Development, micro enterprise development, poverty alleviation, socially responsible gifts, sustainable development, sustainable purchasing, think bigger than fair trade, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Haiti, Thinking Bigger Than Fair Trade | Leave a comment
We are very excited to announce this new partnership as part of the global community seeking to support the short and long term needs in Haiti. Let us know what you think…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: charitable giving, Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, economic development, Executive Gifts, Fair Trade, fair trade gifts, Haiti, International Development, micro enterprise development, socially responsible gifts, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Haiti, Press Releases, Thinking Bigger Than Fair Trade | Leave a comment
Last week I posted on the positive effects of private/public partnerships in transforming aid and it’s effectiveness citing an example in Haiti where USAID, Unibank and the Pan American Development Foundation teamed up to build schools. That post went live Tuesday morning, later that day at 4:53 pm Haiti experienced a 7.0 earthquake completely devastating [...] January 19th, 2010 | Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, economic development, Haiti, International Development, job creation, micro enterprise development, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Haiti, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
I had some time over the holidays to catch up on some reading and one of my absolute favourites is the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In their fall issue, Andrew Natsios wrote an article entitled Public/Private Alliances Transform Aid. If you are a subscriber you can get it online. I am a big fan of USAID and [...] January 12th, 2010 | Tags: Corporate Gifts, Corporate Social Responsibility, economic development, Executive Gifts, Fair Trade, fair trade gifts, gifts for events, Haiti, International Development, job creation, manufacturing outsourcing, poverty alleviation, socially responsible gifts, sustainable development, sustainable purchasing, zoe alliance | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Giving, Haiti | Leave a comment
Hello friends, The past few months have been an adventure as Brian Stout, Jean Presume, Phenel D’Haiti and I have toiled together to oversee a large order of Ti Ta To 10 (Dix) games from production to shipment. With the demand growing and the fact that we were almost out of stock of the first order, [...] September 1st, 2009 | Tags: Birthday Gifts, Corporate Gifts, Executive Gifts, Gifts, Haiti, job creation, micro enterprise development, socially responsible gifts | Category: Haiti | Leave a comment
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