Case Study: Hope for Haiti doubles staff in weeks to boost disaster response with BambooHR

How Hope for Haiti used BambooHR® Onboarding, the ATS, and the Hiring app to quickly hire desperately needed medical staff during a season of crisis

Hope for Haiti is a humanitarian non-profit based in Les Cayes, Haiti, and Naples, Florida, focused on education, healthcare, WASH, and economic development. After a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in August 2021 damaged two of three clinics, the organization faced an urgent staffing crisis — growing from about 73 employees to meet community needs — while struggling with slow, manual HR processes, fragmented records across countries, and time-consuming contract renewals.

Having adopted BambooHR in 2020, Hope for Haiti used its applicant tracking, onboarding, mobile hiring app, e-signatures, centralized records, and reporting tools to streamline recruiting and HR operations. The result: the team more than doubled from roughly 73 to 160 employees in weeks, onboarded 96 contractors efficiently, reduced paperwork and time-to-hire, and improved collaboration, transparency, and the employee experience across Haiti and the U.S.

Hope for Haiti

James Declerus

Donor Experience Coordinator