Six months after Haiti earthquake: The world must connect with local business

"During my visit...I also saw reservoirs of deep introspection and even compassion inside Haiti's private sector. It remains for those of us outside Haiti to find these men and women and connect them to global networks of productivity and investment."

– Michael Fairbanks, cofounder of SEVEN, a philanthropy fun by entrepreneurs, in an Monitor opinion essay about the business solution to Haitian poverty.