Ready, Set, Go get the money!!!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of work - our corporate media kit is done and our introductory letter is complete as well. We have forwarded to each of our board members and asked them to send to those they know in the corporate world who may be interested in sponsoring some loans. Heck, maybe they would be interested in sponsoring all the loans. You never know :) Now we start picking up the phone and reaching out to those we know in the corporate world... or those we are friends with that know someone in the corporate world - you gotta know somebody who knows somebody, ya know?

We have hired our two Haitian Director/Assistant Directors and we are working on getting our training manual up to speed with Haitian culture. We will begin taking applications for loans in September before we get there and once we are there we will go through those applications and decide who will receive a loan and training will begin in October. Woo Hoo!!!

We have had a lot of change in our thinking from what we thought would be very small loan amounts to the clear fact that 'you get what you pay for' when it comes to employees. Since we will not be on the ground we need men we can trust, loyal, and upstanding men in their community to pull this off. Our Director lives quite far away so we are having to deal with bigger salaries than we had anticipated as well as the fact that he is going to need a vehicle. Which now sounds daunting because we don't want to 'waste' any money on something like that but in the long run will be quite nice to have someone pick us up at the airport and we will have our own vehicle when in Haiti.

Here is a 'snap shot' of our corporate media kit. Not too much information as we know we are dealing with busy men and women but enough to see if they are further interested. Combined with our awesome letter I think it's time we start raising the 100k we need!

A friend gave this to me and it is PERFECT for what Alisha and I are going through. Hope you get a chuckle out of it :)