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Communities united in resilience The 2017 earthquakes in central and southern Mexico caused an estimated $2 billion in damages, leaving communities grappling with long-term recovery as international humanitarian assistance fades. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to do effective programming and unlock additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner, Fondo Unido, supports capacity-building, knowledge exchange, and peer learning among community foundations and challenges Mexican funders to support long-term, bottom-up reconstruction efforts that help mitigate the impact of future natural disasters.
Alianza Fundaciones Comunitarias Mxico, Asociacin Civil Comunalia will organize visits for staff members of community foundations from Mexico to community foundations in Cleveland and Buffalo. About seven members of Communalia will also participate the Global Summit for Community Philanthropy in South Africa to meet representatives from Latin America and other regions of the world including Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Adapting to a pandemic: promoting livelihoods for women and young people during Covid-19. The economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating already severe trends of poverty, migration, and food insecurity in Mexico. The IAF supports community-led approaches for the social and economic inclusion of women and young people, vulnerable populations that have been particularly affected by the crisis. Our grantee Desarrollo Autogestionario, A.C. (AUGE) promotes recovery and resilience among communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing food security through sustainable smallholder agricultural practices. AUGE is also expanding women's savings groups to empower women economically and supporting women- and youth-led enterprises in adapting to client needs in the pandemic to generate income.This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy and the Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Reactivacin Productiva y Econmica de la Cadena de Valor de Caf de la Unin Majomut Young people in low-income districts of Lima face high rates of violence and a lack of security. Prodilogo Prevencin y Resolucin de Conflictos (ProDilogo) engages young people in the use of urban art dialogue and collaboration as strategies to prevent violence. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to enhance peace and security in Peru. ProDilogo's activities strengthen communities through education and training and build peer-to-peer learning and action networks.
Intelligent Sustainable Coffee with Climate: Local strategy for the challenges of Climate Change in the Highlands of Chiapas. Smallholder coffee producers in southern Mexico face an array of challenges, including shifts in weather patterns and the impacts of coffee rust. These affect farmers' ability to grow and process crops, and earn sufficient income to maintain their families. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity and enhance food security through sustainable smallholder agricultural practices. Our grantee partner, Campesinos Ecolgicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas S.C. (CESMACH), is a cooperative that improves families' and community resilience to market fluctuations and adverse weather conditions in Chiapas through enhanced production, storage, processing, and marketing of sustainably-produced specialty coffee and honey.
Agriculture/Food Production Grant CAMPESINO will work with farmers in the state of Tlaxcala to improve their income and food supply through training in conservation techniques, leadership, planning and related subjects. It will also support the further development of a community-based business, construct and equip a storage facility and offer farmers access to working capital and loans.
Strategies for Community Development in the Mayan Zone in the Face of a New Normality. The Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas in southern Mexico are home to rich biodiversity and archeological sites that attract tourists from around the world. In spite of these resources, the Maya, Tseltal, and Chool Indigenous communities that live in these areas confront poverty and encroachments on their land. The Red Indgena de Turismo de Mxico A.C. (RITA) supports Indigenous communities in harnessing community-led tourism and using natural resources sustainably and inclusively. The IAF supports community-led solutions to fortify civil society organizations and approaches to expand economic opportunity and inclusion for historically marginalized groups. Through this grant, RITA engages Indigenous communities to create community action plans, network with each other, and invest seed funding in tourism enterprises to help adapt to the pandemic and improve the quality of life of their communities. RITAs activities bolster efforts to counteract environmental degradation and protect the natural resources on which communities depend.
Promoting gender equity and reducing gender-based violence in southern Mexico. Women living in rural and Indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence. Our grantee Mujeres Transformando Mundos, A.C. (MUTRAM), in coordination with popular education organization Centro de Educacin Integral de Base (CEIBA), supports grassroots leaders and groups in southern Chiapas to address gender-based violence and improve gender equity through trainings and workshops. Participants replicate workshops with their neighborhood organizations. In addition, MUTRAM engages networks in southern Mexico to expand the regional impact that it and CEIBA have on these issues.
Rural micro-enterprise Unin de Esfuerzos para el Campo (UDEC) will consolidate an entrepreneur network, improve participating micro business owners' computer and business management skills, and assist small-scale producers to improve yields and create marketing opportunities.
Participatory alternatives to community well-being and strengthening of traditional government in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico ASMAC will work to improve the food security, health, conservation efforts and general quality of life of indigenous residents of Baborigame, Choreachi and Coloradas de la Virgen in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua. Activities will include the diversification of agriculture, introduction of alternative farming methods, construction of infrastructure for water conservation and distribution, soil conservation, support for the economic initiatives of women and training. (ME-504)
Human Rights Committee Fray Pedro Lorenzo of the Nada A.C. Rural communities in Tseltal communities of Ocosingo struggle with family violence and food supply issues. Comit de Derechos Humanos Fray Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada A.C. (Fray Pedro) promotes sustainable farming techniques in the harvest of corn beans and vegetables that support food security and a culture of peace. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. Fray Pedro's activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Goat Herding in the Semi- Desert of Queretaro ERRAC will work with 70 farmers from Asociacin Civil Productores De Caprinos y Ovinos (ACPO) in Queretaro to improve their production and marketing of goats, meat and cheese. Its project should indirectly benefit 350 other residents of the seven communities the farmers represent. (ME-510)
Construction of a Culture of Good Treatment and Wellbeing: training for indigenous and mestizo rural communities in Mexico. Women living in rural and indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to promote human rights and inclusion through education and training. Our grantee partner, Coordinacin Interregional Feminista Rural Comaletzin (Comaletzin), trains local women leaders in eight states to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence, equipping them with the skills to replicate the training and build peer-to peer learning and action networks that promote inclusive development in their communities.
A Path to Strengthen Comunalia Comunalia will engage 50 employees of its 14 member foundations in designing a plan for the network that draws upon the principles of grassroots development and its members'grassroots practices. The project, co-funded by the IAF and C.S. Mott Foundation, should benefit the participating foundations and their 15,000 grassroots beneficiaries.
Fortalecimiento de estrategias de organizaciones de base que responden a las situaciones de violenciaque experimentan nias y mujeres migrantes en Mxico. Long-term development efforts often fail without diverse, local sources of funding. At the IAF, we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to do effective programming and unlock additional local and national resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner Fondo Semillas, A.C. (Fondo Semillas) provides funding and technical support to women-led grassroots organizations. Fondo Semillas will award small grants to organizations throughout Mexico that offer programs and services to underserved populations; this includes work to educate and raise awareness among migrants employed in Mexico about their rights and to help prevent human trafficking, facilitate their integration into local communities, and promote alternatives to migration by bolstering small enterprise development. Through capacity building and a networking program, Fondo Semillas will strengthen the work of these grassroots organizations. This grant is part of the IAFs Women Investing in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Improving the Quality of Fair Trade and Organic- certified Coffee and Increasing the Market Share of the Cooperative of Small Producers in FTV, a cooperative located in a buffer zone of the El Triunfo Reserve, plans to improve the quality of its coffee certified as fair-trade and organic and increase sales by investing in equipment, infrastructure, training in quality control, and technical assistance for farmers. The project should improve the income of 447 farmers, thereby benefiting 2,235 family members as well.
El agua en nuestras manos': Fortaleciendo sistemas comunitarios para la gestin integral del agua en Mxico. Many rural Mexicans do not have access to public water systems or clean water for drinking, cleaning, and growing food. To fill this gap, communities have organized non-governmental ?water committees' that manage delivery of water to households. However, these committees often lack needed resources, as well as technical and administrative support. Our grantee partner Controla tu Gobierno (CTG) will strengthen water committees' capacity to provide communities with water and improve their management ability. CTG will also support a network among water committees in the Mexican states of Mxico, Hidalgo, Puebla and Morelos to improve even more communities' access to safe and clean water and promote good practices in governing water committees.
Strengthenin g Initiatives from Women's Grassroots Groups that Respond to Climate Change in Mexico Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Semillas) will work with Fondo de Accin Solidaria, Asociacin Civil (FASOL), an environmental fund that supports community organizations, to provide financial and technical support to Mexican grassroots organizations through its Gender and Environment Program. Semillas, in partnership with FASOL, will manage a grant fund and award subgrants to grassroots organizations involved in women's rights and the environment. Over the course of the grant, Semillas will broaden its base of financial support for the Gender and Environment Program. The project aims to improve conditions of environmental sustainability to facilitate the achievement of gender equality. The grant will directly benefit 3,500 individuals in at least ten states throughout Mexico. The project activities will indirectly impact 17,500 family and community members.
Rural micro-enterprise Union de Esfuerzos para el Campo (UDEC) will work with Cooperativa Cosechando Juntos lo Sembrado S.C. (CSJ) to provide business training and technical assistance to 500 backyard gardeners and 125 rural microentrepeneurs selling food clothing soaps and shampoos and crafts in 40 communities of Queretaro. The program also offers them access to credit through savings-and-loan associations.
Education/Training Grant Desarrollo Autogestionario, A.C. (AUGE) will offer training in job skills to 300 young Mexicans, between the ages of 16 and 22, from 40 communities in six municipalities surrounding Xalapa, Veracruz, and will support their small enterprises or further education. A mobile training center developed with project funds will allow AUGE to continuing activities beyond the grant period. In addition to the trainees, 1,200 family members are expected to benefit.
Strengthening the Regional Network of Rural Tourism Enterprises Voces por la Naturaleza in Mexico, $252,937 over two years; counterpart committed, $279,559 SuMar will increase the collective capacity of 10 local community-based enterprises to advocate for, design, and implement community-managed tourism initiatives in the Gulf of California of Mexico. SuMar will offer training, technical assistance, small grants as seed capital and exchanges to develop quality and viable local initiatives. It will document experiences and develop a network of small community-owned tourism enterprises that support species and habitat conservation, the Alianza Regional de Empresas Comunitarias de Turismo (ARECOT), to share experiences, generate greater regional impact and influence existing state and national government- sponsored tourism programs. At least 292 members of the 10 groups will benefit directly from project activities and more than 600 residents will benefit indirectly.
Strengthening the institutional capacities of a community organization of southeastern Mexico GAIA will work with seven communities (ejidos) in the Sierra de Huimanguillo Tabasco organized as the Unin de Ejidos de la Sierra de Huimanguillo (UNESIH) to support natural resource and territory management. The project will involve 210 ejidatarios, or residents of ejidos, working in roughly 12,722 hectares of agricultural, livestock, and forested land.
K'inal - Strengthening Jolom Mayaetik and the Women's Leadership Center K'inal will offer indigenous women in Chiapas training, assistance with productive projects, and programs in health, education and communication through improving Jolom Mayaetik, a textile cooperative, and founding the Women's Leadership Center. Some 350 members of 14 community groups will participate.
Education/Training Grant FCM will expand the reach and depth of programs addressing the environment, women and young people; strengthen community organization efforts and civic engagement; and coordinate with municipal authorities and local businesses to complement existing initiatives. About 685 low-income residents in Malinalco will benefit from project activities, and 12,000 residents will benefit indirectly from the coordinated effort to carry out a recycling campaign and fire control and prevention initiative.
Strengthening Social Fabric in Malinalco In the wake of the 2017 earthquakes, Mexico faces unprecedented challenges to secure long-term recovery and to help communities prepare for future natural disasters. Fundacin Comunitaria Malinalco, A.C. (FCM) partners with communities in Malinalco impacted by the earthquake to improve food sovereignty and small-business productivity and to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. FCM's activities make more resources available to communities seeking to address their own development needs. This grant is part of our broader initiative to encourage innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to unlock private, public, and local resources for grassroots development. This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Strengthen initiative to include coffee producers in the management and capacity building processes to provide financial services to sustainable coffee plots and promote the integral well-being of communities in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve Rural women in Chiapas have few opportunities to hold meaningful leadership positions and lead economic development in their communities. The IAF supports community-led solutions to expand women's leadership and economic opportunities in southern Mexico. Our grantee partner Finca Triunfo Verde, Sociedad Civil (FTV), a cooperative of coffee farmers in the El Triunfo Reserve in Chiapas, is improving its financial sustainability and expanding its members' access to credit. FTV is also funding a women-led savings and loan enterprise, strengthening community savings groups, and training FTV members in credit management, equitable gender relationships, and learning exchanges.This grant is part of the IAF's Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Environment Grant Voces por la Naturaleza in Mexico (SuMar) will increase the collective capacity of 10 local community-based enterprises to advocate for, design, and implement community-managed tourism initiatives in the Gulf of California of Mexico. SuMar will offer training, technical assistance, small grants as seed capital and exchanges to develop quality and viable local initiatives. It will document experiences and develop a network of small community- owned tourism enterprises that support species and habitat conservation, the Alianza Regional de Empresas Comunitarias de Turismo (ARECOT), to share experiences, generate greater regional impact and influence existing state and national government-sponsored tourism programs. At least 292 members of the 10 groups will benefit directly from project activities and more than 600 residents will benefit indirectly.
Rehabilitation training program for communities affected by the September 19 earthquake in Puebla International donors often rally to address the immediate aftermath of natural disasters but few continue to fund long-term rebuilding and resiliency efforts. Following the 2017 earthquakes Mexico has faced unprecedented challenges to ensuring long-term recovery in affected communities and in preparing communities to be resilient to future natural disasters. At the IAF we strengthen the ability of local philanthropic organizations to do effective programming and unlock additional public and private resources for long-term development. Our grantee partner Fundacin Comunitaria Puebla (FCP) raises funds from local private sector and philanthropic organizations and then invests in community projects in Puebla Mexico. FCP's investments enhance food security increase income and provide training and technical assistance to mitigate the impact of future natural disasters.
Construction of a Culture of Good Treatment and Wellbeing: training for indigenous and mestizo rural communities in Mexico. Women living in rural and indigenous communities in Mexico face high rates of gender-based violence. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to promote human rights and inclusion through education and training. Our grantee partner Coordinacin Interregional Feminista Rural Comaletzin" (Comaletzin) trains local women leaders in eight states to promote gender equity and reduce gender-based violence equipping them with the skills to replicate the training and build peer-to peer learning and action networks that promote inclusive development in their communities."
Our vision of change: community museums and schools strengthening visions from the past and the future Young people in rural communities of Oaxaca struggle to gain employability skills and maintain their cultural identity. Unin de Museos Comunitarios de Oaxaca A.C. (UMCO) partners with schools to facilitate workshops festivals exchanges and museum exhibits that help develop the leadership technical skills and cultural identity of children and adolescents. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Mexico. UMCO's activities strengthen excluded communities so they can improve their living conditions and participate equally in a nation's political economic and social life.
Rural micro-enterprise Union de Esfuerzos para el Campo (UDEC) will work with Cooperativa Cosechando Juntos lo Sembrado, S.C. (CSJ), to provide business training and technical assistance to 500 backyard gardeners and 125 rural microentrepeneurs selling food, clothing, soaps and shampoos and crafts in 40 communities of Queretaro. The program also offers them access to credit through savings-and-loan associations.
Promoting Community Development and Nutrition in Tseltal Communities CEFIPI will train farmers in organic agriculture, address women's employment opportunities and illiteracy, improve children's nutrition through the distribution of a supplement processed locally from the improved produce, and will develop a new, centrally located marketplace. The program will benefit 3,600 indigenous Mexicans in the municipalities of Chiln, Xihtalh, Salto de Agua, Palenque, Ocosingo, Yajaln and Pantelho.
Strategy for nongovernmental organizations and rural communities to promote fair trade RedCampo will work with 65 representatives of 20 of its member groups to develop a marketing strategy and a business plan and train farmers in 11 Mexican states. The representatives will be directly involved in the project; more than 300 other members of the participating organizations are expected to benefit from it indirectly. (ME-508)
Alliance Building: A Collaborative Strategy for Local Sustainable Development in Mexico Mexico faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities in improving civic engagement in natural resources management. Fondo de Accin Solidaria (FASOL) partners with grassroots organizations to improve environmental governance. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to strengthen democratic governance in Mexico. FASOL's activities make more resources available to communities seeking to address their own development needs. This grant is part of our broader initiative to encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to unlock private, public, and local resources for grassroots development.
Agriculture/Food Production Grant Sociedad de Solidaridad Social "Los Lagos de Colores " SSS (Lagos de Colores). Lagos de Colores will work with its 150 member families of indigenous Chuj, Tojolabal and Mam descent in four rural municipalities in Tziscao, Chiapas, a toward the application of "agroecology " or farming practices compatible with the responsible use of the environment; the improvement of coffee production and processing; and more effective marketing of coffee, honey and vegetables. Its workshops will address concepts related to community, territory, identity and gender. The increased income and awareness should benefit 750 Mexicans of indigenous descent.
Amigos por Chiapas - Filantropa comunitaria Chiapas has the highest rate of extreme poverty of any state in Mexico, and its residents, including indigenous Tseltal and Tsotsil groups, experience associated food insecurity, health issues, low formal education rates, and net out-migration. To address this, Amigos de San Cristbal is drawing from multiple sourcesindividual residents, community groups, and the public and private sectorsto channel know-how and resources to development projects in the region. It is mobilizing giving circles of individual donors based in the Chiapas highlands, Mexico City and the United States to support long-term development in Chiapas. The grantee will carry out training and technical assistance, two community assessments on issues that affect highland communities, and a campaign to raise awareness about regional challenges related to health, education, and natural resources. Amigos de San Cristbal will also provide seed funding for community projects addressing those issues.