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All Set for March!

We had a great meeting with Jorge Garibay, General Manager at the Grand Bay Hotel-Isla Navidad Resort.  From left to right, Laura Libman (Tia Foundation) with Dr. Roberto Martinez, Dr. Francisco Enrique Castenada Rico and Dr. Enrique Castenada all from UAG‘s Programa de Medicina en la Communidad, made the trip to Barra de Navidad to make plans for the next project launch nearby. Part of a world class medical program, these doctors will lead a brigade of 30-40 medical students and professors who provide the incredibly comprehensive training the fortunate Tia Promotoras receive. 

Lic. Garibay and our friends at the Isla Navidad Resort are providing us with much needed space and volunteers.  Jorge Garibay is also helping us coordinate with the local municipality and community organizations. The project will be held the week of March 19th and the graduation on Friday, March 23rd.  Some of our donors plan to be guests at this luxury resort while they attend the graduation ceremony and stay for a relaxing short vacation afterward. 

Stay tuned!  More details to come…

Global Health Orgs Call for Frontline Health Workers

The Community Health Worker  is the most cost effective way to save lives,  according to the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, comprised of Global Health Organizations like the Gates Foundation and Sve the Children, in a recently published report.

“The world has experienced dramatic declines in deaths thanks largely to the care provided by these local health heroes,” said coalition chair Mary Beth Powers. “But despite this progress, nearly twenty-one thousand children still die every day, most from preventable causes, and a thousand girls and women die each day in pregnancy and childbirth. Investing in the technologies and medicines to prevent and treat diseases is important but insufficient. Simply put, without health workers to deliver the life-saving medicines and information, there is no pathway to good health.”

Read the entire report, “Frontline Health Workers: The Best Way to Save Lives, Accelerate Progress on Global Health, and Help Advance U.S. Interests” at http://frontlinehealthworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FHWC_Issue_Brief_with_Embargo_Stamp-1.pdf.

Tia’s CEO Presents Model of Collective Impact

Tia’s ‘teach them to fish’ model of self-sustaining health development is one of those featured as an example of successful collective impact at the 19th Annual Nonprofit Conference on Sustainable Strategies.  This year’s conference is being held October 13th and 14th and is structured around the article “Collective Impact” recently published in the Stanford Innovation Review.

Laura Libman, Tia’s CEO will be presenting on Friday, October 14th at noon at the conference being held at the Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix.  For more information, go to http://lodestar.asu.edu/nlm-conferences/2011-conference or click here to download the pdf flyer.

This groundbreaking conference is presented by ASU’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation in collaboration with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).  Their agenda for the conference offers many excellent speakers and presenters.  Hope to see you there!

We Did it!

The Tia Foundation has been invited to submit a full proposal for the Secretary’s 2011 Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls!  We submitted our proposal last Friday.  The award is given to organizations whose models represent pioneering approaches to the political, economic and social empowerment of women and girls around the globe.  Two winners will be chosen and each will receive a $500,000 grant and will be honored at a ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Please cross your fingers for us!  If we should win, more than 75,000 people will have access to health care who did not have it before and there will be at least 150 new positive and strong female leaders in our villages!