The Role of Islamic Philanthropic Institutions in Improving the Welfare of Inhabitants in Bogor

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This research focuses on one Human Initiative (HI) project, namely empowering coffee farmers in Sirnajaya Village. The research uses the Mix Method Exploratory method, namely a mixing method that begins with qualitative and then strengthens with quantitative. Data collection was carried out by interviews, observation, documentation studies for qualitative and distributing questionnaires for quantitative. The aim of this research is to see how the empowerment program works and whether it has an impact on community welfare. The empowerment program carried out by HI allows farmers to take good care of their gardens through the facilities HI provides, such as increasing knowledge about coffee, training in cultivating gardens and trees, managing during and after harvest, and marketing the harvested coffee. Farmers are also supported with tools tailored to the farmers' needs. For their economy, currently there is no significant impact, but farmers have felt many changes since the existence of this program. The existence of this influence is confirmed by the results of statistical tests where the sig. is 0.00 and the tcount value is 4.138. Sign value. smaller than 0.05 (0.00 < 0.05) and the calculated t value is 4.138 which is greater than the t table value of 2.023 (4.138 > 2.023). This means that the Empowerment Program variable significantly influences the Y Welfare variable. Then in this research, the empowerment program had an influence of 30.5% on farmer welfare while the remaining 69.5% was influenced by other variables outside this research.