Our MissionThe Family-to-Family Project exists to alleviate poverty one family at a time. We do this by enabling families to become financially self-sufficient through self-employment by arranging and facilitating personal, family-to-family, micro-enterprise loans, allowing the borrowing families to bootstrap their way up the economic ladder with dignity.
The Pilot Project:
The two-year Pilot Project comprises:
Incorporating as a not-for-profit charitable organization [DONE]
Getting established on a minimal basis with adequate funding [DONE]
Selecting an community in the developing world (probably in the Caribbean) in which to operate. [DONE: We will operate in the northern portions of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispanola.]
Moving the operating staff, the Hansens, to the selected community. [DONE]
Establishing the Project in the target community, integrating into both the LDS church-community and the general community. [DONE]
Establishing "Small Business Mentoring Councils" to help prospective borrowers refine their business plans and submit requests for family to family micro-enterprise loans. [CANCELLED]
Arranging and monitoring a number of short-term family to family micro-enterprise loans that help families work their way out of poverty. [DONE]
Evaluate the value and workability of the Family-to-Family concept and prepare thorough documentation on its successes and failures with an eye to program replication in other areas. [IN PROGRESS - 2009]