FHG's 2021 Re-Power Report
Thanks to our team, community collaborators, clients, and other supporters, 2021 was a great year!
Overview
We collaborated with 5 communities and 250+ participants!
We refreshed the FHG brand and updated our website to make it a better reflection of our bold mission.
A member of our senior leadership team became CAPM certified after passing the exam on her first try!
We launched our Art Works™ programme in collaboration with the Newburg Boys & Girls Club in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
Percentages based on results of live polling during the summit and a post-summit survey
Listening + Amplifying
We used several methods to LISTEN and capture community voices, including using 22 community surveys.
And then we did our part to amplify those voices, including launching social media campaigns and securing news coverage—such as these new stories—
Quotes taken from open-ended comments made in post-engagement surveys.
What We Said in 2021
The Loaded Language of Development
What is meant by Global North vs Global South
Remittance vs Foreign Direct Investment vs Official Development Aid in 2019
Bob Marley - Legend and Development Icon
On C.L.AI.R.A. and Tech Bias in the United States
The Neonatal Epidemic: An Income-Based Battle
In the News: The Taliban Take Over Afghanistan
In the News: Earthquake in Haiti
About the Re-Power Report.
The Re-Power Report is an FHG annual report that gives a brief overview of our activities related to our work of collaborating with communities and assisting greater numbers of underserved peoples in responding and leading the discussion on development at different levels, but especially locally.
Why publish an annual report?
At Findlay House Global, we advocate for accountability at all levels, and that cannot happen without transparency. But our advocacy goes beyond simply talking the talk because we are committed to leading by example.
We have decided to publish our version of an annual report for the same reasons a nonprofit organization would:
To build trust
To shed light on our vision:
To inspire others to join our mission:
and to thank all our supporters (collaborators, clients, and cheerleaders!)
Why not call it an impact report?
At FHG, it’s about having the right perspective. We see our roles as helping to facilitate impact, but we do not pretend we can presume impact upon the people with whom we work. Instead, we choose to center their experiences, stories, and voices.
In the community development space, a lot of organizations are eager to demonstrate their impact in the form of evaluating predefined goals against quantifiable outcomes. While predefined goals can make many things easier in terms of monitoring, there are limitations, and even downsides, to relying on these goals to assess true impact.
Our work with communities has taught us that:
collaboration is an open-ended process.
Entering any community with predefined goals negates any opportunity for the community to define success for themselves.
Predefined goals and preset targets ignore, or at best underestimate, the broader and more complex dynamics associated with collaboration, which include: productive synergies, intangible change processes, and reinforcing longer-term outcomes.