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Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS

SPARK WORKSHOP on Retouch Haiti: Creating Sustainable Employment by Building Links Between Haiti and Global Markets

Open to All

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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
6:00–7:30 p.m.

Columbia Business School
Uris Hall, Room 329
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Refreshments included with RSVP

Retouch | Haiti is a social enterprise that provides graduates from a free film and audio engineering college in Haiti, called The Artists Institute, with specialized training in e-commerce photo and video post-production.

With these graduates, Retouch | Haiti operates an e-commerce photo and video post-production service that specializes in providing global retailers, brands, and creative agencies with high-quality, high-volume, and quick-turn around capabilities at an affordable cost. The need for online imagery is growing, as is the demand for high-quality and affordable post-production services. There exists a quality gap between current offshore vendors’ capabilities and the industry’s quality expectations, and Retouch | Haiti aims to fill this gap.

Retouch | Haiti is an incubator to test the training tools, organizational structure, business model, operational efficiency, and product offering in the market. The long-term objective is to create a business model that can be successfully expanded to other locations in Haiti and replicated around the world.

About Spark Workshops

Spark provides social innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections, and potential solutions to help their social ventures. These workshops tap into the collective knowledge within Columbia University and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community.

Spark is a platform for ventures to make valuable connections, as the audience is a self-selected group interested in the topic area. Ventures are also able to gather ideas through group brainstorming to help them address specific questions or problems within the business organization.

These workshops are free and open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that social innovators aim to address.

If you are unable to attend this event but would like more information on Spark, please register for our mailing list.

If you would like to suggest a future Spark workshop, please contact:socialenterprise@gsb.columbia.edu.