PSYDEH has been chosen by US-based GlobalGiving (GG) as one of seven Mexican nonprofits around the country to mentor their network of 120 Mexican nonprofits in 2019-2020. This team of 7 mentors offers virtual consultations to strengthen other nonprofits on these seven topics: Crowdfunding campaign development (Fondo Semillas) Annual fundraising plan (Ednica I.A.P.) Communication Strategies and […]
In early October, PSYDEH was among four non-profits from around the world, the only one from Latin America, invited by US-based GlobalGiving (GG) to convene in Washington, DC, USA, with 20 others from the philanthropy sector to explore what GG calls the “Neutrality Paradox”. The Neutrality Paradox, Rachel Smith, Executive Director of GlobalGiving UK, writes […]
For PSYDEH, photos and moving images reflect the truth, they are a form of feedback promoting autonomy, an antidote to feeling invisible, a very-2019-tool to inspire thinking. Our videos relay information. Our original films offer high-quality visual content designed to transport the viewer, to move her intellectually and emotionally. See for yourself. Below is our […]
PSYDEH is thrilled that two of its 2019 field photographs were showcased with dozens of others from around the world in US-based GlobalGiving’s 2019 Photography Contest.
Since reorientation in mid-2014, we innovate our process-oriented, eight-phased, scalable program model pursuant to FEEDBACK from local stakeholders and interrelated projects. Indeed, feedback is the fuel on which our work runs. See our animated lesson explaining this program in action. One such feedback-based project is called “Development of capacities and skills in indigenous women to […]
PSYDEH conducts its first comprehensive, feedback-focused evaluation of our multi-annual program. Pursuant to graduating from USA-based GlobalGiving’s Social Impact Academy in 2018, and consistent with our listen, learn, act ethos, we currently collect feedback from three key stakeholders: rural indigenous beneficiary-partners, local public officials, and Mexican and international staff and volunteers. At the initiative’s end, […]
PSYDEH recently welcomed Carolina Leyva to accompany “Fruits of Change” campaign-funded fieldwork in the Nahuatl municipality of Acaxochitlan, Hidalgo. Ms. Leyva is one of eight members in GlobalGiving’s (GG) first Mexico-based Field and Evaluation Team traveling to 15 different states to evaluate and provide personalized support to the more than 80 Mexican organizations that are […]
On Thursday, June 27th PSYDEH produced the final action in our 2019 project funded by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) and our global crowdfunding campaign “Fruits of Change“, produced in collaboration with US-based GlobalGiving. Here, our fifth regional public forum united Otomí, Tepehua, Nahua women from across the Sierra Otomí-Tepehua region of Hidalgo with Afro-Mexican […]
On June 26, 2019, PSYDEH was among eight global and Mexican civil society organizations invited by the Mexican branch of the global organization Endeavor to speak at a roundtable on recommendations and strategies for increasing access to, adoption and applications of the information and communication technologies in Mexico, from the perspectives of the academia, civil society, […]
Building off May 2019 work centered on helping indigenous women leaders to understand, develop, and share their personal narratives and actionable feedback, PSYDEH now helps their civil society organizations (CSO) network to tell their group’s stories in their own professional-quality promotional videos. PSYDEH’s multi-nationality storytelling training team, funded by our ongoing global “Fruits of Change” […]