Community Service

Helping Hands for a Sustainable Haiti - www.helpinghands4sustainablehaiti.org was founded in March 2010 by Lisa McFadin, immediately after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The NGO based in San Francisco and Haiti, focuses on sustainability and job training, recycling and water for profit, for and by Haitians. Her experience in sustainable construction and architecture led her to visit the country to lend her hand with the rebuilding efforts.

Lisa produced the Haiti Huddle – SF, a conference to bring small to medium NGO’s together to help form collaborations. – www.haitihuddle.com

Easter Seals Bay Area announced the appointment of Lisa to the organization’s board of directors. Easter Seals Bay Area has helped countless numbers of individuals with disabilities and their families in our community. Lisa is looking forward to helping expand Easter Seals’ impact on the lives of children and families affected by disabilities throughout the Bay Area.
www.bayarea.easterseals.com

In 2008, Lisa initiated planning activity for a series of community based programs in Oakland, CA. The first program, H.O.P.E. (Helping Our Public school Environments) seeks to clean and green inner city schools using a holistic approach to include nutrition through a farm to school program, green products and sustainable building practices. The focus would be to assess each school, and prioritize their needs in order to put a program in place. H.O.P.E is currently working on it's first school, Thornhill Elementary, and will provide a business model that will be applied for the nations most economically challenged schools. The second program, H.E.A.L. (Healthy Environments for Assisted Living) seeks to clean and green assisted living centers also using a holistic approach to include nutrition assessments, green building maintenance and quality of life sustainability, including Indoor Air Quality improvements. The pilot will be initiated Summer 2011 in Oakland, CA. The third program, Y.E.S. (Youth Empowerment Services) will consist of Green Job Training for our inner city youth. The Y.E.S. program will support the prior two programs.

In 2005, Lisa worked with CATO Children’s Fund in Ghana, West Africa in partnership with West African Villages renovating orphanages throughout Ghana. Her work helped to restore water and basic living quarters to many families. Lisa received the “SuperHero” Award in Oakland, CA for working with inner city kids and teaching them art and photography in the after school program, “Attitudinal Healing”.

Lisa is an active member of ONE.org www.one.org. ONE is a campaign and advocacy organization with more than 2 million members committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African policy makers and activists. ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to mobilise public opinion in support of tested and proven programs to fight poverty. At ONE, we believe the fight against poverty is not about charity, but about justice and equality.
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