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Josué's bakery employs 14 Haitians. Two are unaccounted for. The price of his supplies has risen 150%. Give now as Josué is urgently trying to get back to full production and meet the demands of the city that cannot be fully met by aid alone. 
As a solar-panel manufacturer employing 22 men from Cite Soleil, ENERA has installed solar-powered streetlamps in 10 Haitian cities over the last two years. All employees are accounted for but their new plant was destroyed. Your contribution can help people supporting families to start working again. 
Edmond employs over 60 people at this pharmaceutical production company, which he started in 1989. Ralph's equipment was damaged in the earthquake, and until it is repaired he is unable to produce the medicines that are needed now more than ever. Give now to make quality and affordable medicines available locally in Haiti. 
If there is any lesson to be learned about how to donate to international disasters, it is this: don't give your money when you first see the disaster splashed across TV. To ensure the rebuilding effort survives over the long term, donors need to stagger their funding and guarantee it over many years, instead of sending the money all at once. Yes, as hard as it may be to watch the dying and pain on our news, realize that money is not the impediment to getting aid to Haiti right now. They need military and security forces to help organize rescue, logistics and transport and security operations. What your money can do is help the long-term food and medical aid necessary while rebuilding takes place. It will be a rebuilding that will take years, if not decades. 
A recent list compiled by Change.org counted the Stanford Social Innovation Review's first issue as one of the top 10 moments of the decade in social entrepreneurship. According to Change.org: 
Many books and articles support the view that an organization must choose between creating value through innovation and creating value by building scale and wringing out cost. The thinking styles and capabilities required for success appear to be diametrically opposed. Innovators are right-brained people who rely heavily on their intuition, whereas the leaders of large, efficiency-oriented organizations achieve results through rigorous, continuously repeated analytical processes and reject decisions based on instinct and judgment. In The Design of Business, Roger Martin contends that organizations can balance intuitive originality and analytic mastery in a dynamic interplay that he calls design thinking. This approach is necessary, according to Martin, to maintain long-term competitive advantage. 
