ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT
Development Without Dependency
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Impoverished communities around the world often have little to no assistance from the government and a weak private sector. Traditionally, charities have stepped in to provide aid, and while helpful at times, they often leave populations far too dependent. Communities aren't given the opportunity to strengthen skills needed to lead and manage their own development, which jeopardizes the sustainability of these efforts. Roots of Development provides community leaders opportunities to build their organizational management capacity so they can more independently and sustainably improve quality of life in their communities. Roots provides professional workshops/trainings, exchanges with community groups, and financing for community-led efforts so local leaders have greater control over their communities' development. Our vision is a world in which the very communities living in poverty are the ones leading the fight against it—deciding their own future and managing their own development.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Capacity Building & Leadership Development
We finance and facilitate workshops that build local capacity and strengthen skills so that communities and their leaders can more effectively manage and maintain their own development activities. These workshops involve topics such as strategic planning, leadership and conflict resolution, and trainings in such matters as bookkeeping, business skill development and monitoring & evaluation. Once the skills become familiar, a community can manage and maintain projects with greater independence. Not only do these communities learn what it takes to more effectively address their own issues, but they use those new skills and knowledge to implement projects that improve quality of life.
New Infrastructure & Basic Services
Beyond workshops and trainings, we provide funding for and help facilitate diverse development projects that improve quality of life in our areas of intervention. These projects are initiated and led by communities and their leaders. They often address basic needs like access to clean water, food, and energy, but also include building new infrastructure and/or providing key basic services to marginalized populations.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of hours of training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Capacity Building & Leadership Development
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of training programs created
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Capacity Building & Leadership Development
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of funding dollars secured for demonstration projects or pilots
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Roots of Development's goal is to use its resources to help marginalized communities build their capacity so they can become effective managers of their own development. We do this by helping local leaders through a process that includes the following phases:
1. Community self-evaluation
2. Community organizing
3. Building an institution
4. Management development
5. Project selection & implementation
6. Strengthening & expanding partnerships
7. Monitoring & evaluation
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Roots focuses simultaneously on two components in its effort to form and strengthen community based organizations (CBOs) capable of improving the quality of life of the communities they serve.
The first component is geared towards providing CBOs with the tools necessary to understand and maintain the characteristics of an effective CBO.
The second component involves sharpening the skills CBOs need to effectively plan, manage and execute projects to improve the quality of life of the communities they serve.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Roots of Development maintains a strong network in Haiti made up of well vetted subcontractors and government officials in addition to community members and leaders. Roots' work supports subcontracting partners in accomplishing their capacity building goals, leaving them capable of independent and efficient operation. Roots' working relationship with government officials in Haiti enables us to attain the legalization component of our projects, as well as access important local resources.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Roots of Development's capacity-building initiatives with its partner in Haiti, Rasin Devlopman, has resulted in an increase in local leadership, capacity, and development. Their projects continue to be sustainably maintained as a result of Roots' support of their organizational developments.
Our next goal is to help Rasin Devlopman increase its capacity to support development in Haiti by building a leadership and community development center on the island of La Gonave.
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ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT
Board of directorsas of 01/18/2024
Rudy Brioche
Comcast Corporation
Brenda Huneycutt
Merck
Jenna Willits
Jean Francois Bauer
World Bank (retired)
Luc Castera
QuickNode
Karl Racine
Hogan Lovells
Gina Guillaume-Joseph
Workday
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