Mission
BFI unites and educates youth, women, and men, creates economic empowerment, and builds self-sustaining communities in Burundi, East Africa.
Ruling year
2009
Executive Director
Julie Marner
Country Director
Odette Habonimana
Main address
4321 Eastgate Mall Rd.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92121 USA
EIN
26-2545273
NTEE code
Private Grantmaking Foundations (T20)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Women Empowered Project: Gitega Expansion II
The Women Empowered (WE) project is in thanks to a partnership with Project Concern International (PCI), A Global Communities Partner. The WE project provides a way for rural Burundian women to overcome roadblocks to economic growth. Project facilitators assemble beneficiaries in small saving and loan groups, provide financial literacy training, and enhance women’s decision-making skills to solve community issues. The project will include business entrepreneurship tools that show women how to create income-generating activities, enabling them to effectively reach economic resilience and integrate into the business sector. To accelerate economic resilience and enable women to get fully involved in their business, the project will also incorporate a positive masculinity approach to empower men in the beneficiary communities to get involved in household and reproductive tasks in order for women to gain more time to follow up businesses.
Where we work
Awards
Country Leader Odette Habonimana, Top Ten Finalist, Women Building Peace Award 2020
U.S. Institute of Peace
External reviews
Videos
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Paper surveys,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
We are adding modules in business and positive masculinity training to participants in our savings groups methodology.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our board, Our community partners,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
Feedback guides our ongoing evaluation of our mission. We have also shifted leadership from US staff to in-country staff.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection,
Financials
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Operations
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Burundi Friends International
Board of directorsas of 3/8/2021
Elizabeth Clarke
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Thierry Yungenge
Mary Pietanza
Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
Organizational demographics
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