ACCOMPANYING THE POOREST OUT OF POVERTY: THE EFFECT OF THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
MAY 21, 2008, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
The Microfinance Club of New York (MFCNY) and Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM) present an evening with Anne Hastings, Executive Director of Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance institution. Under her leadership, Fonkoze has grown from 2 volunteer employees to over 560 full-time employees. The institution now has 30 branches throughout rural Haiti, with over 120,000 clients, more than 45,000 of whom have microcredit loans.
This event is free for MFCNY and WAM members. There is a fee of USD 10 for non-members. Please RSVP to mfclubny@gmail.com. The event will be held Wednesday, May 21, 2008, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avenue South, New York City.
Anne Hastings has been the Executive Director of Fonkoze since May 1996. In July 2004, Fonkoze spun off its financial services component to form a commercial financial institution, at which Anne serves on the Board of Directors. She also continues to manage the affiliated foundation, which is now devoted to monitoring the impact of microfinance on the lives of clients, eliminating illiteracy among its clients, incubating new branches that reach ever poorer and more rural clients with microfinance services and continually testing and developing innovative new products for the clients of both the commercial entity and the foundation. She is the recipient of the 2005 Pioneer in Microfinance Award of Grameen Foundation USA. In 2006, she was honored in the First Annual Chiapas Project Recognition Dinner in Dallas, Texas.
Before coming to Haiti, Anne had fifteen years of experience in providing strategic management services to executives and in managing young organizations for high performance and steady growth. She was Senior Partner and Managing Director of Scanlon and Hastings, a management consulting company in Washington, DC, from 1985 to 1996 and a Senior Analyst at Advanced Technology in Reston, Virginia, from 1982 to 1985. Anne holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Leadership from Duquesne University. She completed research fellowships at the Brookings Institute and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, both in Washington, DC.
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