Women's Economic Empowerment
We empower Haitian women by fostering entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihoods
Reinvest-to-Grow™
A Simple Business Growth Methodology
The Reinvest-to-Grow™ Methodology helps women entrepreneurs retain and reinvest more business income by lowering business costs, expanding access to growth capital, and strengthening enterprise growth. Rather than focusing only on increasing income, the methodology helps entrepreneurs convert higher earnings into sustainable enterprise growth—creating stronger businesses, greater household stability, and a pathway to economic mobility.
How We Support Entrepreneurs
The methodology combines practical business support with affordable growth financing to help entrepreneurs retain more income, reinvest consistently, and build stronger businesses over time.
- Business training using the Street Business School curriculum
- Affordable, collateral-free graduated growth financing
- Access to lower-cost inventory through collective purchasing
- Participation in a group savings program
- Up to three years of coaching and enterprise growth support
Monitoring and Evaluation
We employ advanced tools like the Taroworks mobile app for field data collection and the Salesforce cloud-based database to measure our impact. Our success metrics include income growth, the establishment of sustainable and profitable businesses, and enhancements in quality of life.
Our ongoing coaching includes both scheduled and unannounced field visits to provide support and monitor progress. We also hold regular meetings with participants to discuss their experiences, address challenges, and provide further guidance.
Women’s Goat Project
The Women’s Goat Project (WGP) is a unique “micro-lending” program specific to rural areas. This program uses goats as currency instead of cash. Participants pay back in goat progeny, not cash. Each participant is ‘loaned’ 2 goats and must return 2 goats to a new participant. Goats can be sold but a brood of 2 goats must be kept for breeding and income generation. The revenue generated from selling goat offspring is reinvested to nurture and expand businesses. The goat project helps increase family income. It can also improve involvement in the village savings and loans associations and catalyze business creation.