Welcome to our under-construction website!
We are here to serve as we are rebuilding.
Here to Serve Means:
Provide support for groups working towards community recovery and resiliency through fiscal sponsorships and small grants
Connect people, communities and networks globally to share knowledge and support
Create pathways and partnerships for direct community assistance
Why and Why Now:
The need for community-governed, globally-connected, locally-run support networks has never been greater. No part of our planet will be untouched by climate change, we are all in an ongoing disaster. There is a flowering of mutual aid groups and community-led activations happening as centralized systems are increasingly unable or unwilling to meet needs.
In 2024, following the devastating hurricanes that hit the southeastern United States, Emma Weisman, a co-founder of Haiti Communitere and Communitere International, petitioned the Board of Directors to serve as the volunteer Executive Director. The goal was to explore how we might regenerate the nonprofit and re-energize our network of caring, brilliant, convivial people to meet the moment. That is what we are doing - and thanks to generous donations, we are able to start rebuilding our networks, supporting community action, and connecting across ecosystems.
Where We Come From:
Communitere International was born out of Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, and has responded to humanitarian needs in the Philippines, Nepal and Greece. Our resource centers served as community hubs, maker spaces and incubators for local and international groups, organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals. In addition to providing space for interactivity and learning, we covered overhead by providing shared facilities with power, water, security, internet, electricity, tools, and the like. This core service lowered barriers for the local community, and allowed organizations to significantly reduce costs and increase funding for projects
The people who founded Haiti Communitere came out of a lineage of volunteerism that eschewed top-heavy NGOs, and opted for flat, human-to-human, direct community connection The goal was to break the aid bottleneck and put impacted people in the driver seat of their recovery and to create a resilient future that did not rely on NGO or public/private partnership economies.
Now, more than ever, we need to connect person-to-person, community-to-community, ecosystem-to-ecosystem. As we return from a fallow phase, we remain committed to inclusive community-led and designed disaster response, rebuilding, and resiliency projects in the face of climate change impacts and unequal access to material support.
If you want to:
Learn more about Communitere and explore how to get involved
Inquire about fiscal sponsorships and grants
Become a partner
Discuss providing a grant or other material support
Or just have a chat and maybe some tea…
Email Emma directly:
If you prefer non-Google communications: Emma.weisman@pm.me.
Emma is based in the US, in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Vermont and she very much enjoys meeting people in person.
If you are not in the Bay or Vermont area, and would like to meet someone face to face, email Emma and she will do her best to connect you.
Board of Directors:
Brent Dixon (Chair)
Christopher Breedlove
Duane Peterson
Leanne Gluck (Secretary)
Mike Zuckerman
Madelynn Martiniere
Ramona Alam (Treasurer)
Sarah Ford
Staff:
Emma Weisman, JD (Executive Director)
Please consider donating to Haiti Communitere, they are a fully Haitian organization. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Haiti is undergoing a deeply hard time, with too many losses along the way. Our hearts are with our friends in that beautiful country.
Thank you for your patience as we refresh our website and get our feet underneath us. We look forward to connecting and collaborating.
© Communitere International, 2026