It’s Production Time
We made a promise to the Iraqi women in our program. We promised to train them to make and sell candles, and two years later, we’ve completed our first shipment. Despite obstacles along the way, such as delayed shipments...
Catalyzing for Change: Embracing the Ripple Effect
Greetings from Port-au-Prince! As I sit to write this, the one word that stands out in my mind is “catalyst.” When I looked up the word in Webster’s Dictionary, there were two definitions that stood out: 1) to bring...
Transformation through Transition: Five Lessons Learned at Prosperity Catalyst
By Linda Strohmeyer - I have served as Founding Board Chair of Prosperity Catalyst for over 2 and half years now. After my career at Goldman Sachs, I decided to dedicate time to supporting organizations that were having...
Determination and Innovation Shine Through During Candle-Making Training for Iraq Program
I’m currently in Istanbul with Mohanned, our Iraq Program Manager, Rawad, our Iraq Business Manager, and Ted, President of Prosperity Candle. We are here to provide training to four women who were all trained to make pillar candles during...
Leveraging the Candle Making Expertise of Iraqi Women
If you’ve followed our journey these past few years, you’ve heard all about Prosperity Candle’s pilot program in Baghdad in 2009, in which more than fifty women were trained to make candles from their homes. The pilot is where...
Meet Monique - and see the impact of your support.
Dear friends, I’m proud to say that we have made huge strides as an organization in the last 11 months of work with Prosperity Catalyst. Thanks to supporters like you, we have undertaken our work in Haiti. I want...
Fanm Limye candle-making training: And we are off!
By DeeDee Francois, Operations Manager, Haiti office It is already Sunday afternoon and the electrician and the painter are still working in the “atelier” getting it ready for our week long technical training which is to start the very...