PSYDEH is excited to celebrate the good work by Yarazet Moreno Borjas, one of the members of our inaugural Young Professionals Corps. Yarazet is a recent graduate in Gerontology from the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (UAEH), and participant in the new federal program “Jóvenes construyendo el futuro (Youth Building the Future)” through […]
On May 24, PSYDEH, led by Young Professionals Corps (YPC) members, attended the National Leadership Meeting 2019: Youth: Breaking Barriers to Transcend. There, among 150 participants, most from the Institución Tecnologico Latinamericano (ITLA) and other academic institutions based in Pachuca, the capital of Hidalgo, we focused on issues such as cyberbullying, human rights and leadership […]
Anaïs Nin, the late-American-Cuban-french essayist famously wrote, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” PSYDEH agrees. Who we are, what we think of ourselves and others, and what they think of us all shape our world view. Telling our stories helps to communicate our world view, and doing so informs how […]
With funding from our“Fruits of Change” global crowdfunding campaign, and pursuant to indigenous women’s demands and the needs of their Network of local-focused organizations, PSYDEH makes final preparations to complete our “Fruits of Change” project. Here, we FACILITATE novel training on storytelling as leader-training exercise and marketing tool, through which the Network’s 20 women leaders create their own stories […]
PSYDEH is thrilled to be chosen to participate in the British Council’s Active Citizens Programme Cycle 2019-2020. As one of only ten organizations chosen from 250 Mexican NGO applicants, and the only truly grassroots Mexican organization, two PSYDEH staff members are participating in the Active Citizens March 25-29 training in Michoacan, Mexico. Other NGO participants include the global entities MakeSense, […]
On March 22, 2019, PSYDEH was among four Mexican think tanks and NGOs invited by a delegation of Ottawa-based professionals from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to speak at a roundtable on natural resource development and management in Mexico. As the only truly grassroots non-profit present, we were honored to represent our 40,000+ sister organizations in Mexico. […]
PSYDEH looks to create lasting communities of change in Mexico through our forthcoming “Sustain Impact” campaign, another installment in our ‘Fruits of Change’ crowdfunding series with UK-and USA-based GlobalGiving. This campaign uses learning from our recent Route to Good partnership with the global Dentsu Aegis Network to raise the capital we need to consolidate years-long progress incubating […]
Josefina Merced Velasco Velasco died unexpectedly from liver complications in late-January 2019. PSYDEH and her colleagues in the local NGO based in San Bartolo Tutotepec, el Consejo “Mujeres con Futuro” are devastated by this loss. As recently as December, Doña Jose was her gregarious and powerful self when we visited her community. As one of […]
PSYDEH’s ongoing “Fruits of Change” project includes our first equity-based funding initiative, the “Fruits of Change” seed fund (Seed Fund). Here, global donors investing in PSYDEH’s GlobalGiving crowdfunding campaign, in effect, incentivize indigenous women working with the four local-focused NGOs in our nascent network of women-led organizations (Network) to produce their inaugural projects and thus engage in: (1) experiential learning (these are their organizations’ […]
PSYDEH’s Route to Good collaboration with the Dentsu Aegis Network’s (DAN) North Carolina, USA-based Emily Spiegel and California, USA-based Brooke Bowhay wrapped up in January 2019, having already made a significant impact and planting the seeds for continued positive influence in the years to come. Our collaboration, facilitated by our GlobalGiving (GG) crowdfunding partner, started with Ms. Spiegel and Ms. Bowhay’s early-2018 […]