Fonkoze

Fonkoze is Haiti's largest microfinance institution serving the poor (primarily rural women) in Haiti, with 44 branches located throughout the country.^[1]

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Fonkoze

Founded	1994
Founder	Fr. Joseph Phillipe and Anne H. Hastings
Type	Domestic: 501(c)(3), Haitian Non-profit, Haitian Bank
Focus	Poverty
Location	Port-au-Prince, Haiti Washington, D.C., USA
Area served	Haiti
Method	Microfinance
Revenue (2016)	$2,784,685[2]
Expenses (2016)	$2,841,131[2]
Website	www.fonkoze.org

The name Fonkoze is an acronym for the Haitian Creole phrase "Fondasyon Kole Zepòl"^[3] meaning "Shoulder-to-Shoulder Foundation." Its Goal is to aid Haitians with financial and development services to lift themselves out of poverty. Fonkoze's development programs include Adult Education, Ultra-Poverty Alleviation and Boutik Sante, a health program designed to create a new business opportunity for Fonkoze's existing clients while also providing much-needed health products, services and education to rural communities throughout the country. Fonkoze is a family of three organisations working together to achieve its mission:^[4]

1. Fonkoze Foundation: a Haitian non-profit which provides development services^[5] such as health education,^[6] literacy and business skills^[7] training to Fonkoze's microfinance clients and to ultra-poor families.
2. Fonkoze Financial Services: a Haitian microfinance company^[8] with a double bottom line: to lift families and communities out of poverty while operating in a financially self‐sustaining manner.
3. Fonkoze USA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides technical, communications and fundraising support in the US for its Haitian partners.