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25th Anniversary
Alternative Gift Market
Grace Episcopal Church
Broadway and Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Saturday, Nov. 23, 12 - 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 24, 12 - 3 pm
PPAF is one of sixteen organizations chosen to represent Gifts that Make a World of Difference
To read more, see the article in the Rivertowns Enterprise below.
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(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Arts, Culture & Ideas presents: HAITI
November 14–16, 2019
Purchase College, Purchase, New York
An nou pale Ayiti, is the guiding phrase of the second edition of Purchase’s global festival,
which this year is devoted to Haiti. Visit many events over three days!
PPAF and Colleagues will be featured on Saturday, November 16 at:
Envisioning Haiti’s Future:
TIME: 2:00pm—5:00pm
Conversations with frontline organizations
For location & details, click here.
Most families in Haiti depend on charcoal for daily cooking, leading to respiratory disease and massive deforestation. The Public-Private Alliance Foundation and collaborators support teaching and fieldwork on solar cooking and bio-digesters for biogas and garden fertilizer in Haiti. The team has created the first known such college course in Haiti. Team members at the Haiti Festival include: Solar Cookers International, Universite Notre Dame d'Haiti at Hinche, Solar Cities BioGas Education, and Solar Education Project/GDS. . We also support the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network, also represented at the festival, and the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel, which promotes entrepreneurship and non-polluting cooking.
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Our Mission
The Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF), a non-profit organization, promotes the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a business approach for poverty alleviation through projects and seminars involving multi-stakeholder cooperation. PPAF engages in work on clean cookstoves and fuel, agribusiness, public health, microfinance & remittances, renewable energy and other aspects of sustainable development, with a special focus on empowerment of women. |
Our History
PPAF was established in 2007 as an outgrowth of the UN Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development and the interest of ambassadors to the UN from Madagascar, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
PPAF has worked with dozens of organizations, businesses and government representatives in these focus countries and in the UN and related institutions. Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake we have focused our work on Haiti. |
Our Strategy
Special attention goes to efforts to overcome the poverty-respiratory disease-deforestation trap of Haitian families' heavy reliance on charcoal for cooking.
PPAF works with many Haitian and U.S.-based collaborators. Together we support teaching and fieldwork on cooking with solar and biogas and for support to the young entrepreneurs program of a children's center. PPAF links with the UN Economic & Social Council, the UN Department of Global Communication, the UN Global Compact and others. |
Donate via Global Giving
PPAF has been a member of Global Giving for two years. Our reports on our Tracking Clean Cookstoves & Fuel in Haiti site shows the progress we and collaborators are making. As part of our fundraising, if you give $100 or more, you will receive a photo of your choice from the ..pdf below.
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You gift will help PPAF to:
Go to our Donate page for other options and click below for Paypal.
- Support innovative solar and biogas classes and technical assistance at the Universite de Notre Dame Haiti (UNDH) - Hinche and elsewhere
- Support baking and sewing classes in a young entrepreneurs program at the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel.
- Network with other non-profit organizations to build partnerships to help families, and especially women and children,
- Stem the poverty - respiratory disease - deforestation trap that the people of Haiti face.
Go to our Donate page for other options and click below for Paypal.
Photos of Recent Work
Recent Events and Presentations
Innovative Programs in Haiti:
Education, Agriculture, Clean Cooking and Women's Solidarity
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
The UNA-USA Southern NY State Division & the Public-Private Alliance Foundation convened a seminar at the Ford Foundation New York office highlighting innovative programs to combat poverty in Haiti, with a focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. About 55 attended. See the flier below for program details. View photos on the Gallery.
George Garland (UNA-USA) and moderator David Stillman (PPAF) introduced the session. Jocelyn McCalla (Haitian-Americans United for Progress) commented on politics and development in Haiti. George Garland presented the Haiti Education And Resource Team (HEART) School as a model of excellence for sustainable education. Hugh Locke (Smallholder Farmers Alliance) relateed how the Timberland Company is partnering on an initiative to reintroduce cotton farming to Haiti.
Kathy Elisca Clermont (Fordham University) discussed the advancement of women’s empowerment through solidarity groups to prevent violence against women & promote non-farm earnings. Alan Bigelow (Solar Cookers International) described SCI’s collaboration in Haiti to support and promote solar cooking as an innovative approach for clean and sustainable cooking.
David Stillman then illustrated the teamwork by several organizations that are collaborating to promote solar and biogas cooking in a first-ever course at the Université Notre Dame d’Haiti at Hinche and nearby at the community level in Haiti
Participants then engaged in Q&A and commentary. Notably, the remarks by the Provost of Purchase College SUNY and the Dean of its international programs were a highlight. They described plans for the (T)HERE global festival that is to take place in November 2019, focusing on Haitian arts, culture and ideas.
George Garland (UNA-USA) and moderator David Stillman (PPAF) introduced the session. Jocelyn McCalla (Haitian-Americans United for Progress) commented on politics and development in Haiti. George Garland presented the Haiti Education And Resource Team (HEART) School as a model of excellence for sustainable education. Hugh Locke (Smallholder Farmers Alliance) relateed how the Timberland Company is partnering on an initiative to reintroduce cotton farming to Haiti.
Kathy Elisca Clermont (Fordham University) discussed the advancement of women’s empowerment through solidarity groups to prevent violence against women & promote non-farm earnings. Alan Bigelow (Solar Cookers International) described SCI’s collaboration in Haiti to support and promote solar cooking as an innovative approach for clean and sustainable cooking.
David Stillman then illustrated the teamwork by several organizations that are collaborating to promote solar and biogas cooking in a first-ever course at the Université Notre Dame d’Haiti at Hinche and nearby at the community level in Haiti
Participants then engaged in Q&A and commentary. Notably, the remarks by the Provost of Purchase College SUNY and the Dean of its international programs were a highlight. They described plans for the (T)HERE global festival that is to take place in November 2019, focusing on Haitian arts, culture and ideas.
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Sustainable Cooking Fuel for Haiti:
Teamwork to Replace Dependence on Charcoal
Presentation to the Club Aux Antilles (the United Nations Haiti Staff Club)
1 March 2019
View the presentation in the file below, and view photos on the Gallery.
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Public-Private Alliance Foundation.. This works throughout the year.
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EARLIER EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS
PPAF and HAGN Presentation at the UN
August 22, 2018
Supporting Brighter Futures for Girls in Haiti
David Stillman PhD, Executive Director, Public-Private Alliance Foundation and
Myriam Narcisse, Executive Director, Haiti Adolescent Girls Network
Presented in the panel “Education is a Human Right for All”
at the 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 22 August 2018
David Stillman PhD, Executive Director, Public-Private Alliance Foundation and
Myriam Narcisse, Executive Director, Haiti Adolescent Girls Network
Presented in the panel “Education is a Human Right for All”
at the 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 22 August 2018
Seminar on Clean Cooking for Sustainable Development
March 14, 2018
On March 14 in New York, PPAF co=sponsored an event in relation to the 62nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. .Click below for the flier. More information is available under "Events.".
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PPAF Featured in " Solar Cookers International Digest"
September 2017
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Thank you to Solar Cookers International and to our Board, Senior Fellows, Volunteers, Interns, Associates, Collaborators, and Donors who make our work possible.
Here is the introduction of the article, with a link to read the full piece in the 22 September, 2017 edition. SCI Associate Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF) and several collaborators have joined with the Haiti Adolescent Girls’ Network (HAGN) to provide solar ovens and related training, monitoring, and stove performance evaluation to help develop entrepreneurship in “My Space” Girls Clubs. To see the full edition of the volume 20 of the SC Digest click here (page 3) |
Event at the United Nations
UN Public-Private Partnerships Conference
May 23, 2017
David Stillman spoke on May 23rd at a UN high-level event on Public-Private Partnerships. Thanks to Alan Bigelow of Solar Cookers International, we have a video of his presentation. Bruce Knott, head of the UN Department of Public Informat/ NGO Executive Committee moderated and spoke at the end about the value of solar cookers in West African refugee camps.
Click here to see a video of the presentation.
Click here to see a video of the presentation.
Focusing on a girl we aim to reachPPAF and colleagues are collaborating with the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network to improve lives of youth in Carrefour, Haiti.
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This 4-minute video focuses on recent work by PPAF in collaboration with the non-profit KDCK and others, on ethanol, bio-gas and solar cooking.
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PPAF Featured in "Partner Spotlight" of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Newsletter: December 2016
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Thank you to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstove and to our Board, Senior Fellows, Volunteers, Interns, Associates, Collaborators, and Donors who make our work possible.
Here is the introduction of the article, with a link to read the full piece: "Most Haitian families are caught in the poverty – respiratory disease – deforestation trap of the country’s heavy reliance on charcoal for cooking. The Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF), a non-profit based in New York, promotes a business approach for poverty alleviation, and since the 2010 earthquake, has focused on Haiti and on ways to help families exit that trap. Established with support from United Nations ambassadors from Madagascar, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, PPAF has conducted various development activities in these countries, and convenes seminars at the UN and elsewhere to bring attention to energy and climate change, sustainable development, and gender and public health issues." To read the full article, please click here. |
Cookstoves in Haiti: Recent Work and Collaborations by PPAF: August 2016This 4-minute video highlights PPAF's work, its connections with others to address problems of daily cooking with charcoal, and promotion of the documentary "Death by a Thousand Cuts." Thanks to IDB & UNEP for support to PPAF's work.
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PPAF Reaffirms Support to UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative that involves companies and other organizations in 170 countries to align their strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.
With its Communication on Engagement, the Public-Private Alliance Foundation has reaffirmed its support to the United Nations Global Compact and its Ten Principles.
See the document below for more information:
With its Communication on Engagement, the Public-Private Alliance Foundation has reaffirmed its support to the United Nations Global Compact and its Ten Principles.
See the document below for more information:
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Please Give Generously!
PPAF is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, as defined by section 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.. Its EIN is 71-1016293. Give PayPal or go to the Donate page for other options.
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