Haiti: How Can I Help?
Models for Donors Seeking Long-Term Impact
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School of Social Policy & Practice | University of Pennsylvania
HealthLivelihoodsEducation
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THe CenTer for HIgH ImPaCT PHIlanTHroPy
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About the Authors
Carol A. McLaughlin, MD, MPH,
is the research director or goba pubic heath at the Center or HighImpact Phianthropy. She is a primary care/inectious disease physician and pubic heath speciaist witheperience in research, community engagement, and program impementation in the U.S. and the deveop-ing word.
Katherina M. Rosqueta, MBA,
is the ounding eecutive director o the Center or High Impact Phian-thropy. Previousy, she was a consutant at McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining McKinsey, she worked incommunity deveopment, nonprot management, and corporate and venture phianthropy.
Kaushiki Rao, MA,
consuts independenty in the economic deveopment sector in the U.S. and India. Hercurrent cients incude Te Reinvestment Fund in Phiadephia and IFMR rust in Chennai. She has an MAdegree rom the University o Chicago.
Katherine Summers
is a consutant in internationa education. She is currenty a research assistant at theCenter or High Impact Phianthropy and a master’s candidate at the University o Pennsyvania’s GraduateSchoo o Education.Te authors can be contacted atwww.impact.upenn.eduor 215.573.7266.
About the Center for high impACt philAnthropy
Te nonprot Center or High Impact Phianthropy was ounded in 2006 by Wharton aumni and is housedat the University o Pennsyvania’s Schoo o Socia Poicy & Practice. Our aim is to provide inormation andtoos to hep phianthropists determine where their unds can have the greatest impact in improving the iveso others. With epertise in business, medicine, aw, and pubic and socia poicy, our team brings a muti-discipinary approach, in-depth knowedge o research methods, and seasoned judgment to the anaysis o high impact phianthropic opportunities.
sourCes of InformaTIon
Field experience
Practitioner insights
Perormance assessments
In-depth case studies
inFormed opinion
Expert opinion
Stakeholder input
Policy analyses
research
Randomized controlled trialsand quasi-experimental studies
Modeled analyses(e.g., cost-eectiveness)
FieldexperienceinFormedopinionresearchmost promising
To meet our goal o providing smart, practical guidance to individual philanthropists, we synthesize the best availableinormation rom three domains: research, inormed opinion, and eld experience. By considering evidence romthese three sources, we seek to leverage the strengths while minimizing the limitations o each. We believe the mostpromising opportunities exist where the recommendations o these three domains overlap.
our multi-perspeCtive, evidenCe-informed ApproACh
HaITI: How Can I HelP?
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Table of Contents
why this, why now 1
What’s In This Guide
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Our Focus
2opportunity 1: heAlth 4
Context
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How You Can Change The Situation
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Community-Based Primary Care: Example 1
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Community-Based Primary Care: Example 2
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Tips for Assessing Community-Based Primary Healthcare Projects
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opportunity 2: livelihoods 14
Context
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How You Can Change The Situation
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Solution 1: The Graduation Model
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Solution 2: Sustainable Agriculture
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Tips for Assessing Livelihood Promotion Projects
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opportunity 3: eduCAtion 30
Context
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How You Can Change The Situation
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Solution 1: Community Schools
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Solution 2: Emergency Education Focusing on the Healing Process
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Tips for Assessing International Educational Projects
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exAmples outside hAiti & tips on giving 41list of nonprofits in our models in prACtiCe 42ACKnowledgments inside bACK Cover
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Model In Practice on this pageCover photo collage, designed by Minh Chau. Photos courtesy o Partners In Health, Friends o Hôpital Albert Schweitzer,Catholic Relie Services, Fonkoze, Save the Children, International Rescue Committee
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You have heard a lot about Haiti, much of it focused on the poverty that existed before the January 12, 2010 earthquake and the devastation that followed. In this guide, we outline ways that donors can…
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