ENLACE USA

Enlace partners with church and community leaders to build resilient and thriving communities. <br><br>To realize this mission, Enlace works to: <br><br>Provide training, coaching, and technical assistance to local church and community leaders and organizations to identify, design and manage sustainable solutions and measure changes in multidimensional poverty in their communities. <br><br>Identify and develop partnerships with local and international organizations, foundations, businesses, and individuals that share a common vision to assist the poor. <br><br>Facilitate forums to exchange information, coordinate activities, and create concerted action among and between church leaders, community members, and other agents of development.

We believe that every church has the potential to end poverty in their community. With training, coa

Goal One: Train and mobilize 4,300 church and community leaders to impact 300,000 people in El Salvador, Nepal, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.

Goal Two: Increase the number of North American church partners to 37

Goal Three: Design and develop a new program to engage 50 missional donors

Enlace overhauled its performance review tools and processes to emphasize questions about each staff’s desired leadership journey and next steps.

We began 2022 with the hope of returning to our normal community development process of accompanying community leaders to develop initiatives such as water projects, roads, bridges and houses; nevertheless, the impact of the pandemic has erased decades of economic development in Central America. In El Salvador, more than 70 percent of the population are under or unemployed. Many people have lost factory, coffee plantation or service sector jobs that are not returning. Subsistence farmers have also been unable to purchase inputs due to inflation and supply chain issues. Therefore, over the last few years we have doubled down on strengthening our economic development initiatives. We have helped over 200 micro and small business owners survive and grow their businesses through the health and economic crisis. We have helped 80 families start chicken farm businesses. We have also helped over 2,500 farmers stabilize their subsistence farms in order to insure food security and family income. We will continue to focus on economic development in 2023. We will continue to coach and provide loans to the 200 business owners. We plan to start another 60 chicken farm businesses. And, we are co-creating and launching a new agroecological family farm program with 100 farmers in El Salvador that we hope to expand over the next three years into Guatemala and Nicaragua. We will also continue to help community leaders identify and design other health and community infrastructure projects such as latrines, water, housing and school infrastructure.