Starting strong in 2022 For the first time in the organization’s history, PSYDEH’s staff gathered together in Mexico City for a jam-packed three-day team retreat last month to empower the team as we launch our ambitious 2022 programming. Among a dynamic schedule packed with skills-focused training and team-building workshops, the team also welcomed guest Hanna […]
Global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson (J&J Mexico), in collaboration with the Brazilian social business Phomenta, became our most recent corporate partner when they selected PSYDEH as one of 16 Mexican nonprofits to participate in their 2021 Corporate Social Acceleration Program (Marathon). The Marathon program Phomenta works with J&J Mexico to recruit multidisciplinary J&J professionals […]
We are excited about another win in our work to collaborate with allies empowering self-determination across the Americas. The Chacruna Institute of Psychedelic Plant Medicines’ Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas program (IRI) chooses PSYDEH as one of only four Mexican organizations for their network of 20 non-profits across the Americas. The IRI and […]
USA-based Zoom company has made a sustainable impact on PSYDEH thanks to our multi-phased, partnership since March 2021. Starting with a significant donation by Zoom’s Latinx employee resource group Somos in the 1st quarter in honor of International Women’s Day, our relationship deepened in the 2nd quarter thanks to a powerful interactive session hosted by […]
International banking and financial services organization HSBC joined PSYDEH as an official corporate partner when they selected us as one of five nonprofits from around the world, and the only one from Latin America, to participate in their 2021 CSR Global Group Graduate Initiative (CSRI). The initiative CSRI, produced in collaboration with the world’s leading crowdfunding […]
Our 2021-2024 program confronts the effects of the pandemic on PSYDEH’s work and with Indigenous women and their communities. One of the program’s objectives is to provide direct, personal support to these women and their areas on a more consistent basis. The new Professional Indigenous Women Field Corps (IWC) is designed with this goal in […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]