In the year when COVID-19 mostly halted fieldwork, the needs of our partner communities didn’t stop. PSYDEH’s work as an impact-making actor in the community-led development area didn’t stop either. PSYDEH took any opportunity that these circumstances gave to us and worked in every way possible to achieve our goals and continue our growth. As […]
PSYDEH’s new Mexico volunteer opportunity and digital initiative “SE DUEÑA DE TU VOZ” (“OWN YOUR VOICE”) engages and connects women across the Republic. What is it? Innovated by PSYDEH’s social media and brand awareness consultant Valeria Olivares, we form a corps of influencers to help us use Instagram to connect Mexican women (and men) and […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to partner with PopSockets on a new educational initiative in 2020-2021. PopSockets, a USA company with a global reach, works with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) to engage with civil society in a variety of areas. Civil society organizations programming helps to improve working conditions in partner factories, one of which is […]
PSYDEH is pleased to receive legal support from Hogan Lovells, Mexico City, through TrustLaw, the pro bono program of the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2020. The outstanding support we’ve been given is led by attorney Lila Alejandra Gasca Enríquez and her team: José Carlos Altamirano Cano, Tayde Bautista Lozano, Marcelo J. Garza G., Rocío Sánchez Arriola-Luna, Dulce […]
India-based Chezuba, an online skill-based platform, helps PSYDEH to make more impact in 2020 by linking with professionals from across the globe on impact-making volunteer opportunities in Mexico. Chezuba and PSYDEH’s global collaborator’s program In May 2020, Chezuba’s program officer Allen Bezaleel invited PSYDEH to use their platform to find professionals wanting to donate their […]
PSYDEH’s fieldwork focuses in part on empowering indigenous women to be the leaders and businesswomen they are. One mechanism for achieving this objective is our forthcoming second social enterprise-oriented initiative we call “Bordamos Juntos” (Embroider Together). What is Bordamos Juntos? We engage approximately 40 indigenous women leader artisans to link long-term community development strategies from […]
In late-fall 2020, PSYDEH launched our cause marketing program for brands, big and small, innovating their corporate giving programs in Mexico for win-win partnerships. We now have a brochure promoting this program! What is Cause Marketing? Cause marketing involves a collaboration between a for‑profit business and a nonprofit organization. Cause marketing, also known as cause-related […]
For the past 12+ months, PSYDEH uses our voice as a leader in community-led development (CLD) to promote more equitable access to resources through online crowdfunding platforms like USA/UK-based GlobalGiving (GG). A greater focus on equitable access, not just equal access, benefits non-profits like PSYDEH in Mexico and across the global south. PSYDEH, Community-Led Development […]
Continuing PSYDEH’s multi-year involvement in USA-based GlobalGiving’s Neutrality Paradox initiative, PSYDEH was invited to write an article on the neutrality paradox and the global south for Alliance Magazine. The article, titled “Managing Neutrality Paradox Dilemmas by Confronting Their Sources”, authored by PSYDEH’s Mahathi Kumar, discusses the need for and ways in which philanthropic platforms can […]
PSYDEH’s leader training focused on six values — Communication, Solidarity, Responsibility, Honesty, Respect, and Love — are a core to what makes our women-empowerment work novel in the field of community-led development. These values and their extremely important respective discipline practices like question thinking and active listening are foundational to our rights-based education, community organizing, […]