International Education

Welcome to our International Education focus area. In this area we are currently working to produce several products such as investment guides, promising models in practice, and online resources such as subscriptions to International Issues and our High Impact Philanthropy Blog.

You can download all of our products for free by visiting Investment Analysis. See below for an overview of our work to-date.

Haiti: Education

Haiti: How Can I Help? Models for Donors Seeking Long-Term Impact (April 2010)

Opportunity 3: Addressing the Education Needs of Haiti’s Children

Education is fundamental to improvements in health, political stability, and the capacity for people to earn a living and take care of their families. Worldwide, there is a direct connection between lack of education and poverty. This is especially true in Haiti where, even before the earthquake, only 50 percent of school-age children (ages 7-12) attended school and 90 percent of uneducated people lived below the poverty line. The consequences of a lack of education tend to be particularly severe in Haiti because high unemployment makes competition for jobs especially fierce. Read more...