PSYDEH is excited to announce that USA lawyer Ryan Lavigne has joined our team as a global collaborator in the role of Development Officer. In his new role, Ryan focuses the majority of his efforts on securing the flexible funding we need to sustain our work in the field. His immediate duties include filling funding […]
We are excited to announce another win in our work to collaborate with allies across the Global South. The London, UK-based Alliance of NGOs and CSOs for South-South Cooperation (ANCSSC – the Alliance) chooses PSYDEH as its first Mexican organization member. The Alliance and why apply to be a member The Alliance, with its 340 […]
Corporate alliances are a key element to PSYDEH’s seven-resource stream sustainability strategy. Such alliances have come from our own work, as well as via other partnerships with actors like citizen groups and social impact startups. TATAEngage Volunteer Program & Chezuba Startup In early 2021, PSYDEH was selected as the only nonprofit in Latin America for […]
PSYDEH’s resource-raising strategy continues to bear valuable fruit. Building off of Mexico’s long-standing relationship with German-speaking countries as well as our own history collaborating with German-speaking colleagues, PSYDEH launches our new strategy for target country markets Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Our priority focus areas are crowdfunding, cause marketing, and foundations. Maecenata & betterplace.org In late-2020, PSYDEH […]
PSYDEH links our unique human-centered, values-based leader disciplines to achieving ethical and equitable, sustainable impact at the local, national and global levels. In Mexico, we pioneer a model for community-led development. Globally, we collaborate with global platforms like USA-based GlobalGiving (GG), the world’s leading crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, and companies to do the same. 2020 […]
Mexico was unprepared and surprised by the size and scope of the ongoing pandemic. PSYDEH was somewhat better prepared to deal with some of its effects like an almost 100% cut in Mexican government funding, but we had to cancel most of the 2020 fieldwork. This dual reality – reaping the fruits of our years-long […]
Mexican Indigenous designs and textiles are important cultural emblems, leadership expression and development tools, and an income generator. Take, for example, the contemporary Tenango design known internationally for its unique beauty, but also as a symbol of women’s empowerment. The Tenango Design On April 8, PSYDEH’s new field corp trainer, Argentinian Nani Seizbert, participated in […]
On March 30, Nani Szeibert, one of two new trainers of a key element of PSYDEH’s COVID-19 recovery program, the Indigenous Women Field Corps, participated in a Conversational event for women organized by the Tenango de Doria’s municipal government’s “Women Affairs” office, framed in the month dedicated to women. She writes the following report, the […]
PSYDEH expands its corporate partnerships to include the global governance, risk, and transparency advisory firm Kroll. In late-2020, the Kroll Charitable Foundation Committee (then called Duff & Phelps), the giving arm of the firm, selected PSYDEH as one of 22 eligible charities across the globe to receive a pool of grants and volunteer labor. Kroll […]
PSYDEH leans into how COVID-19 badly harms local economies by producing a social enterprise around handicrafts in 2021-2022. We do so with our Bordamos Juntos (Embroider Together) initiative because Mexican culture has a rich history of artisan trades embedded within Indigenous traditions. Not to mention, it honors key elements of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This […]