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If you haven't already, please donate to FormatAide's Indiegogo campaign! Your contributions will fund 500 hours of business education and training for 3 college students and 6 entrepreneurs in Haiti! (via FormatAide-Support Entrepreneurs in Haiti!! | Indiegogo)

KoreBiznis is a pilot program that FormatAide will implement to provide the skills, insight, and assistance needed by the small medium sized entrepreneurs to successfully run their businesses. KoreBiznis is also a combination of two Haitian Creole words that means support (kore) to business (biznis). KoreBiznis seeks to promote an action oriented model that provides resources that can be used immediately at the speed of different type of small to medium sized businesses. KoreBiznis wants to bring business training to small business leaders while their businesses are still operating and build a network that connects small medium business entrepreneurs to share successes, best practices, and overcome challenges while finding partners, vendors and grab opportunities. KoreBiznis is uniquely positioned to train thousands of Haitian business men and women to improve their capacity and efficiency in managing their businesses in a sustainable way. (via Projects | FormatAide)

Our new entrepreneur, Dominique is a Haitian woman entrepreneur who is working with FormatAide to follow her passion. Dominique just quit her job to invest all her time into her business! FormatAide is stepping out to help Dominique scale her business in a sustainable way.

The 8 Factors, is currently taught in graduate schools and Small to Medium Sized businesses in the United States and around the world. Developed by entrepreneur and business advisor Michael Bush, his paradigm-shifting approach to business distills the best content from business books, MBA theory, and personal insight into a powerfully simple and practical business framework for people who are currently running or just starting a small business.

When apparel brand Boxercraft was searching for a new supplier for its T-shirts and tank tops earlier this year, it didn’t turn to factories that crank out millions on the cheap. Instead, the 120-employee business, based near Atlanta, chose Industrial Revolution II, a garment manufacturer in Haiti. What clinched the deal was more than IRII’s competitive prices and low importing costs: It was the venture’s promise to train unemployed Haitians, pay them more than the minimum wage, and donate half its profits to social programs. Shoppers are “feeling responsible for the actual employee that is making the products that everyone is wearing today,” says Boxercraft Chief Executive Officer Shelley Foland, noting that the garment complex collapse that killed 1,100 workers in Bangladesh this spring has brought renewed focus on the dismal conditions in some factories. Foland wants IRII eventually to produce about 40 percent of the millions of tops and bottoms Boxercraft sells annually through wholesalers and retailers in college bookstores and resorts. (via FormatAide)

FormatAide seeks to provide education opportunities to different sectors of Haiti’s society to lead to sustainable change. FormatAide believes that training Haitian people is the essence of Haiti’s recovery. FormatAide’s mission is to contribute in the reconstruction of Haiti’s economy by investing in education, training and breakthrough ideas.  Our vision is that one day; every small business entrepreneur will have the skills they need to take care of their families and their communities.