3W – The World We Want Foundation
Acumen Fund – www.acumenfund.org – Acumen Fund’s mission is to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. Featured in Forbes, the fund is described as “quite literally a philanthropic venture-capital fund, which has put almost $69 million to work in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda. Its loans and equity investments mandate the same benchmarks traditional VCs use, with a twist: Since the donor-investors don’t get their money back – all returns are reinvested in Acumen – progress is measured not in ROI but rather against the good that could have been done by simply giving the money away.” 3W is a founding investor of the newly established Education Fund.
Caribbean Harvest Foundation (CHF) – www.caribbeanharvest foundation.org -- One of 3W’s areas of focus in Haiti is job creation and increased economic opportunity. The lack of jobs is a symptom of the shortage of viable industries. We have partnered with Caribbean Harvest, a Haitian non-profit established by Dr. Val Abe, to help grow the fresh water fishing industry. Not only will Caribbean Harvest create sustainable incomes and a high-protein local food source, but the organization has a strong social agenda. Dr. Val Abe was recognized as Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010 and Bill Clinton had this to say, “Valentin Abe, who, after graduating from Auburn University, went to Haiti to raise fish and to put more Haitians to work and increase their incomes. He powers his entire operation with solar energy, and he involves fish farmers, whose incomes he’s multiplied two or three times or more. [People like this] don’t get noticed very much, but they have a profound influence on the people whose lives they touch.”
Partners in Health (PIH) – www.pih.org – Named one of the best NGOs in the world by The Global Journal, “Partners in Health has provided health care to the world’s poor, fueled by a simple credo: “whatever it takes” – to do for their patients exactly what they would do for a member of their own family. For over two decades, Partners In Health has transformed conventional thinking on health care among the world’s poorest populations.” PIH was founded in Haiti by the renowned Dr. Paul Farmer. 3W funded an education program designed specifically to meet the needs of children who have been unable to enter primary school in grades appropriate to their age; they are among the most vulnerable children in the Central Plateau and Lower Artibonite regions of Haiti.
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