PSYDEH is thrilled to announce the release of our new narratives e-book funded by our global crowdfunding ‘Fruits of Change’ campaign. This Spanish-language e-book “Narrativas” has 68 high-quality “narrative-oriented” photographs and 30+ stories of indigenous women leaders and their network of organizations we incubate, most in their own words. See here six featured full stories and […]
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Inaugural “Young Professionals Corps” Ends Well
On April 15th, PSYDEH completed our inaugural collaboration with the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare and their program “Jovenes Construyendo el Futuro” (Youth Building the Future). The program’s objective is to link people between 18 and 29 years of age with university degrees but no current studies or jobs with companies, institutions, businesses, and […]
Learning with GlobalGiving’s Mexican Network of Nonprofits
Mexican organizations in the midst of COVID-19 search for online mechanisms that give their members, partners, and beneficiaries the knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to perform at high levels during and post the pandemic. PSYDEH is no different. On April 17, PSYDEH General Coordinator, Jorge Echeverria, attended the GlobalGiving sponsored virtual panel discussion ‘Experiences […]
Neutrality Paradox & Smart Investments in The Americas
PSYDEH was one of four non-profits from around the world, the only one from Latin America, invited by US-based GlobalGiving (GG) in October 2019 to convene in Washington, DC, USA with 20 others from the philanthropy sector to explore what GG calls the “Neutrality Paradox”, a multi-year project produced in collaboration with the Bill & […]
Our First Comprehensive Program Impact-Evaluation
PSYDEH has completed our first comprehensive feedback evaluation of our multi-year, process-oriented program model. After graduating from USA-based GlobalGiving’s Social Impact Academy, and consistent with our listen, learn, act ethos, we used in-person interviews and electronic surveys to secure qualitative and quantitative feedback from these target stakeholders: rural indigenous beneficiary-partners in 2015 (rough baseline data) […]
Ideation on How to Increase Impact in the Global South
GlobalGiving (GG) leadership facilitated a Spanish-language, breakout session with their Mexico network of 130+ nonprofits after the GG 2020 town hall meeting in late-January 2020. GG leaders asked Mexican nonprofits for ideas on ways they can invest impact-oriented resources in lieu of campaign monetary awards. PSYDEH serves as Mexican National Mentor, and our last five […]
New Article on PSYDEH 8-step Program Model
USA-based GlobalGiving has just published the article “8 Steps to Community-Led Development that Work for my Team in Mexico” in their LEARN series. It is authored by PSYDEH’s Senior Advisor, Damon Taylor, with editing by PSYDEH’s Special Project Coordinator Mahathi Kumar. The piece explains how PSYDEH crafts a process that empowers vulnerable communities in democracies […]
PSYDEH In the Press
Mexico News Daily has published an article about PSYDEH’S work titled “Hidalgo NGO provides tools for indigenous women to improve their lives”. In this long-form essay, Mexico City-based journalist Lydia Carey explains in simple terms PSYDEH’s necessarily-complicated approach to providing women-partners with the tools they need to make needed changes in their communities. She also […]
Completion of Experiment Around GlobalGiving Campaign
PSYDEH has just completed an experiment around GlobalGiving’s Little by Little Matching Campaign with Casey Marriott, a new colleague from Australia. Casey led the project through a media mix of video campaigns, new graphics, and branding, and paid-advertising, as well as investigated different segments of PSYDEH’s audience. Results were analyzed by measuring the interactions on […]
PSYDEH Staff As Commentator on New Book
PSYDEH’s storytelling-training facilitator and field lead, Otomí sociologist Diana Ramírez, has been invited to be a commentator on the new book “Impact of affirmative measures on gender and indigenous persons in the registration of candidatures”. To launch this work, Diana will join other experts from the State Electoral Institute and the National Network of Electoral […]