Subject: RE: haiti
From: Andrew Kessel <[email-masked]>
To: Laura Graham <[email-masked]>, Bruce Lindsey <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:53:42 -0500

Bruce, it might be worth bringing this up on your Chai board meeting call tomorrow.

I believe Chai thinks this will be forthcoming and will have to change plans if not.

Andrew Kessel
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501-951-4461 (c)

From: Laura Graham
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:46 PM
To: Bruce Lindsey; [email-masked]; [email-masked]
Cc: Andrew Kessel
Subject:

I wanted to alert you all to what I have heard indirectly are requests from CHAI for another Haiti grant of $1M.  We currently don't have the funds to grant them.  We have enough to cover the work that we need to finish in 2012.  BC would like additional money (that we would need raise) - approximately 500K to announce additional small grants in 2012.  So there is no money for CHAI unless we want to raise an additional $1.5M for Haiti if you assume we want the additional 500K for 2012 CF grants for education, capacity building, agriculture and investment project support, our focus areas.  I know there is a CHAI board call tomorrow so wanted to flag it for you and I will also mention to BC shortly when I see him - not to make any commitment and to downplay expectations until we have our year end meeting and decide on whether we will stay status quo on Haiti (which we can cover within our remaining CF Haiti Fund money) or go for the additional grant money up to 500K that BC wants (which we would have to raise).  I am finalizing a haiti strategy memo (already have 2 budget options) to help inform our decision at the cf year-end meeting.

Thnx. LG

Laura Graham
Chief Operating Officer
& Chief of Staff to President Clinton
The Clinton Foundation
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