Sustainable Harvest International to Hold First Beekeeping Workshop in Honduras - Natural Pest Control and Organic Fertilizer Techniques Taught
One of the first things you notice about Piedras Negras is the coffee. It blankets the steep mountainsides of this remote, mist-covered village in Honduras, where road access is difficult and land ownership nearly nonexistent. The second thing you notice about this community is the people, who are... - December 13, 2009
Sustainable Harvest International and Barkwheats Join Forces to Bring First Fair Trade Certified™ Pet Product to Market
Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), a Maine based non-profit that works with farmers in Central America to grow a variety of crops for organic, Fair Trade Markets, and Barkwheats, a Maine based pet treat company that produces organic dog biscuits, have collaborated on what is the first pet... - December 09, 2009
Brown University Furthers Curriculum by Partnering with NGO - Students Raise $10,000, and Take Classroom Projects All the Way to Central America
Students from Brown University's Men's Lacrosse Program Raised $10,000 for the non profit Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), the largest donation from a student group SHI has received to date; and students spent a semester developing an economic plan for SHI, and then went all the way to Central America to see how effective it would be. - November 07, 2009
Florence Reed, Founder and President of Sustainable Harvest International, Appointed Delegate to Groundbreaking Poverty Alleviation Summit
Florence Reed and 250 other major agents of social change will convene at the Opportunity Collaboration on October 17th, World Poverty Day, to discuss how to alleviate poverty. - October 10, 2009
Sustainable Harvest International Receives Highest Rating from Charity Navigator for Fourth Consecutive Year
Sustainable Harvest International, a Maine-based environmental nonprofit, has received Charity Navigator's highest rating four years in a row, an achievement shared with only 7 percent of charities nationwide. - October 01, 2009
Florence Reed is the Latest Subject of Robert Shetterly's Ongoing Series Americans Who Tell the Truth
Reed, Founder and President of the Maine-based environmental non-profit Sustainable Harvest International, is the latest American to grace the pages of Robert Shetterly's book and series Americans Who Tell the Truth. Her portrait was also selected as part of a Sustainability Show at Maine's College of the Atlantic. - October 01, 2009
Recession Doesn’t Dampen Corporations’ Desire to Give Back; International Non-Profit Reports Increased Donations Despite Economy
Despite the recession, there is some good news on the economic front - a Maine-based international non profit reports increased donations from its Corporate Sponsors over the last several years. Here's how, and why, some companies choose to give back at a time when most other companies are cutting back. - September 11, 2009