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Mission The Goldin Institute inspires, equips and connects grassroots leaders who help their communities build on their strengths and collaborate to determine their own future. We help communities achieve their goals through a combination of on-line and on-the-ground initiatives that promote innovative, community-driven partnerships between a wide range of stakeholders and sectors of civil society.… Continue reading Our Approach

Leadership for Community Driven Social Change The Goldin Institute is partnering with Imagine Chicago, DePaul University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a tablet-based mobile learning platform to train grassroots activists in Community Driven Social Change. This innovative distance learning course will be built for the iPad with the necessary instructional materials and… Continue reading Grassroots Leadership Development

Executive Summary Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, women and girls living in the internally displaced persons camps face alarming rates of rape and other forms of gender-based violence. In many camps, the rate of gender-based violence has exploded to three times pre-Earthquake levels.  Along with our Global Associate Malya Villard-Appolon, we have… Continue reading Join the Fight to End Gender-Based Violence in Haiti

In the efforts to address poverty, the voices of those impacted by economic insecurity are too often conspicuously absent. The Goldin Institute’s work builds on the experiences and perspectives of those living in poverty and designs solutions based on their knowledge, strategies and aspirations. The current debate about the efficacy of microfinance is marked by… Continue reading Improving Microcredit from the Perspective of Borrowers

113 Safe Drinking Water Wells installed at 113 Schools and counting. 40K Providing Safe Drinking water to over 40,000 people in Mindanao to date. 100% 100% of all donations to the Goldin Institute go directly to the project. $5 The project delivers reliable access to safe drinking water for an average of $5 per student… Continue reading Water Stat

12 The Goldin Institute trained a team of twelve community researchers in oral testimony techniques. 150 The research team conducted over 150 interviews with peer microcredit recipients in Arampur. 8 This village of 1500 households now has eight microcredit banks leading to an oversaturated debt market. 3+ The majority of households surveyed now hold three… Continue reading Microcredit Stats

3X Rates of Gender Based Violence exploded to 3 times pre-earthquake levels for displaced women and girls. 0 The security team brought the reported incidents of rape to zero in the Place Petion Camp in Port au Prince. 18 The program stopped rape for 18 continuous months but had to stop when the camp was… Continue reading Gender Based Violence Stats

Community Driven Solutions for Ending Gender-Based Violence ENOUGH: by the women of Haiti. Thank you to everyone who tuned in to the December 20 video premiere. Enough: by the women of Haiti is a documentary highlighting the Security and Sensitization Project in the Place Petion Camp in Port au Prince Haiti. This video was produced by… Continue reading Video: “Enough”