About us
C.H.E Historical Background:
Consortium for Haitian Empowerment (C.H.E) is the product of a Haitian task force launched in the fall 2001 to assess and address the impact of September 11th on the local Haitian community. Using the result of this assessment, Executive Directors of organizations represented at the Task Force, clearly understood the necessity to combine their efforts and services to better coordinate and improve service delivery to constituents/clients. In 2002, they decided to form a lasting coalition as a foundation for crisis interventions and preventions, as well as for services coordination, advocacy and networking. Supported by New York Foundation, members structured the Haitian Task Force, and in June 2004, incorporated it as The Consortium for Haitian Empowerment (CHE).
When in December 2004, CHE became a 501c3 organization, it received its initial capacity building grants from the Ford Foundation/Good Neighbor Committee for the conduct of activities that foster community empowerment, civic participation, and greater cooperation to improve the effectiveness of members' collective undertakings.
When in December 2004, CHE became a 501c3 organization, it received its initial capacity building grants from the Ford Foundation/Good Neighbor Committee for the conduct of activities that foster community empowerment, civic participation, and greater cooperation to improve the effectiveness of members' collective undertakings.
Mission
The Consortium is now an agglomerate of 18 Haitian organizations and associations collaborating and combining efforts to create life opportunities for Haitians immigrants through community organizing, networking, advocacy and capacity and coalition building.
Principles
- We strive to recognize our individual limitations and differences while collectively supporting each others strengths for the overall advancement of the community.
- We believe in a leadership that is inclusive, participatory, horizontal, and founded on effective and productive communication.
- We focus on the importance of generating and distributing information, ideas and perspectives to educate and increase awareness.
- We come together to establish a shared vision about policy, response to community needs and to develop plans of actions.
- We focus on mobilizing strategies and coordinating effective collaborative partnerships both in and out of our communities.
- We capitalize on the ideas, skills and strength of as many individuals as possible and appropriate for any given situation.
- We believe in the value of compromising, negotiating, and embracing partners with different viewpoints to effectively carry out our vision of collaboration.
- We are committed to develop strategies for empowering others so that each member's leadership efforts have a wide and long-lasting impact.
- We are conscious that the processes, the means by which we carry out our objectives, are just as important as the objectives themselves.
- We are committed to a process that provokes individual and organizational learning in order to further develop our community.