Hope for Haiti: Ethics Audit

By: Rashae Williams

 What is
Hope for
Haiti?
 Mission
• Their mission is simple:
To improve the quality of life for
the Haitian people, particularly
children.

• Their long-term vision for Haiti is “There is always a pathway to a better life in Haiti despite the numerous
challenges that exist.”
clear:
5 Key Areas of Focus
Joyful children; 1. Education
Healthy families;
2. Healthcare
Thriving communities; and
3. Infrastructure
The resources to make it so.
4. Access to clean water
5. Economic opportunity
Brief history

• Established in 1990
• Founder: JoAnne M. Kuehner, a
humanitarian and philanthropist
• Initially invested in Haitians already
having success to then lift other
Haitians in their communities
• IMPACT
• Educated: 6,000 students
• Medical consultations: 16,000
• Clean water: 8,000 people
Ethics
infrastructure
• Implement Code of Ethics
• Responsibilities separated to
Board of Directors and
Finance Committee
• Focus on transparency and
accountability
• Report to Combined Staff
who rely on organizational
policies
• Audits are reported, process
repeats
Effectiveness of Infrastructure
Successes:
• 4-star ethicality rating on Charity Navigator
• 100% scores in every category
• Guidestar reports ethical success from 2009-
present
• REAL Award
• Accredited by Better Business Bureau Wise
Giving Alliance in 2016
 Reasoning:
• Splits of power and
Effectiveness responsibilities
of • 15 Board members
Infrastructure • Correct auditing and filing records
and performance
• Independent voting board
• CEO holds no direct power
• Organizational policies
Recommendations
1 2
Establish an ethics
reporting hotline
• Provide confidence and
safety for whistleblowers or
others concerned about
ethicality within the
organization
Have a separate team
dedicated to publishing
reports and analyzing audits
• Would be dedicated to
reviewing all audits,
organizational policies, and can
then confer with the other two
committees. Also eliminates
conflicts of interest.
3
Have mandates within the
organizational policies that are
more specific
• Make the policies more specific and
outline restrictions and
consequences as part of the sign-on
requirement for each staff and
• Use those policies to dictate and
mandate ethical decision making
throughout their auditing and
financing processes.
Works Cited

• Charity Navigator. (2021). Hope for Haiti: Humanitarian Relief Supplies. Charity Navigator. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/593564329

• Cooper, Terry L. (2021). The Responsible Administrator. Chapter Six: Maintaining Responsible Conduct in Public Organizations. John Wiley & Sons Inc.

(pp. 127-159).

• Excellence in Giving. (2021). Nonprofit Analytics: Hope for Haiti. Excellence in Giving. https://analytics.excellenceingiving.com/overview/hope-for-haiti/

• Guidestar. (2021). Hope for Haiti Inc. Candid. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/59-3564329

• Hope for Haiti. (2021). Responding to the Major Earthquake in Southern Haiti. Hope for Haiti. https://hopeforhaiti.com/

• Badenoch, Skyler. (2019). Trust, Transparency, and Accountability in Haiti. Hope for Haiti. https://hopeforhaiti.com/trust-transparency-and-accountability-

in-haiti/

• Faleye, Olubunmi. (2016) The Downside to Full Board Independence. MIT Sloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-downside-

to-full-board-independence/