Global company 3M makes a sustainable short-and long-term local impact on PSYDEH and our women-led cooperative partners in 2022-2023. 3M program facilitated by Pyxera Global When and who The partnership began in late-summer 2022 when PSYDEH was chosen by 3M and their global nonprofit partner, the USA-based Pyxera Global (PG), as one of only five […]
PSYDEH makes more impact with companies by working with USA-based PopSockets to produce our second factory worker training. The Project Building on our innovative 2020-2021 initiative with a factory in Tijuana, Mexico, PopSockets invited PSYDEH to work with their Wisconsin, USA partner factory in 2021-2022. This 12-month initiative revolved around a 4-month rights-based training of […]
The need for nuance in evaluating the impact of long-term, education-centric development programs such as PSYDEH’s Impact measurement, evaluation, and reporting are vital yet complex and time-consuming components of any non-profit organization’s (NPO) work. Funders rightly ask organizations to demonstrate positive impact in order to justify continued support; yet, this puts pressure on NPOs to […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to announce multi-year programming to innovate a proof-of-concept for integrating culturally appropriate sustainability-focused tech like solar, as well as information and communication technology (ICT) like satellite wifi, cloud tools, low tech hardware into day-to-day operations, and the rural communities in which we live and work. What is the program? Our multi-year program […]
PSYDEH increased individual and collective agency and solidarity by doubling down on multi-year field programming as well as resource diversification efforts. COVID-19 & Climate change = Fieldwork Opportunities for Empowering Agency & Solidarity The complicated, rural landscape in which we work grew more so in 2021. COVID-19 and climate change cut access to electricity and […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to have been selected by the USA-based Team4Tech as one of eight organizations from across the world, their first Mexican partner and only third in Latin America, to join their global community of nonprofit allies. This new three-to-five-year partnership focuses on integrating contextually appropriate technology solutions in our community-led development work, including […]
PSYDEH looks to hire our first Sustainability Coordinator in 2020. As background, PSYDEH was founded in 2007 by four women professionals to serve Mexican citizens while promoting local sustainable human development. Seven years later, we evolved our strategic foundation, e.g., mission, vision, values, and strategic process-oriented directions with the goal of becoming a sustainable enterprise crafting a scalable model to make […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to highlight the good work of team member Mahathi Kumar, a U.S. Fulbright-García Robles Scholar to Mexico, 2018-2019. An English Teaching Assistant at La Universidad Politécnica Francisco I. Madero in Tepatepec, Hidalgo, Mahathi serves as PSYDEH’s Special Projects Coordinator. Her duties include helping PSYDEH with thought leadership on marketing material design and […]
Pursuant to 2018 work promoting the rights to access public information and to personal data privacy, and nationally recognized 2016-2017 work promoting women participation in electoral politics, PSYDEH was selected again by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) for a 2018-2019 project to sustain and scale impact in this area. We use workshops, community radio spots, action learning exercises, and a regional public forum to […]
On June 23, 2017, in Mexico City, PSYDEH, represented by Jorge Echeverria, General Project Coordinator, participated in the 49th session of the Consejo Consultivo, the citizen advisory board to the Comision Nacional Para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI). There, we discussed with myriad consejeras the agency such important issues as (1) why Mexico must participate […]