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 New Grants
Alternare, A.C. (Alternare)
$325,000, over three years, to raise the productive capacity and incomes of approximately 90 small-scale farmers in seven communities in and around Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve through training in sustainable agriculture and agro-forestry, community organization, small business development, and alliances with local and national governments and inter-agency coordinating committees. (ME-457)
www.alternare.org/site/
Centro Campesino para el Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C. (Campesino)
$182,300 to undertake a two-year project to improve food security through training local farmers and municipal government officials in conservation techniques, leadership, planning and related themes. Campesino will equip and expand its training center, oversee the strengthening of three regional development funds, and support the creation of two new small businesses. (ME-454)
Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (CEMEFI)
$340,000, over five years, to improve the long-term financial sustainability of community foundations and strengthen their partnerships with civic leaders, businesses, nongovernmental organizations and public institutions. This award will help foundations better support improvement projects managed by community groups and nongovernmental organizations in cities throughout Mexico. (ME-456)
www.cemefi.org/
Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina, A.C. (ERAC)
$55,050 for a six-month planning project directed at facilitating the formation of a forestry enterprise that will increase incomes of Oaxaca communities located in forests certified as sustainably managed. The program will include community consultations, formation of a work group, business and strategic planning activities, creation of a new enterprise, and the promotion in national and international niche markets of products from forest certified as sustainably managed. (ME-458)
FinComun, Servicios Financieros Comunitarios, S.A. de C.V., Unión de Crédito (FinComun)
$300,500, over three years, to provide, in collaboration with BIMBO, a Mexican manufacturer of baked goods, savings services for approximately 20,000 new low-income clients in Mexico City and extend approximately 12,700 new loans to micro-enterprises. (ME-451)
www.fincomun.com.mx/
Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte, A.C. (FCFNAC)
$315,000, over three years, to implement a participatory process that will support projects managed by community groups and nongovernmental organizations, benefiting more than 150,000 residents of Ciudad Juárez. FCFNAC will strengthen its partnerships with civic leaders, Mexican and U.S. corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and public institutions to improve the quality of life in low-income communities. (ME-452)
www.borderpartnership.org/community/profiles/FCFN.html
Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense, A.C. (FESAC)
$365,000, over three years and six months, to mobilize more than $630,000 from businesses and other private sources for local improvement projects managed by community groups and nongovernmental organizations. FESAC, composed of 6,000 business leaders, will work in a groundbreaking partnership with civic leaders and nongovernmental organizations directed at improving the quality of life for more than 1,200 people in 10 cities and surrounding areas in the state of Sonora. (ME-453)
www.fesac.org/ingles.html
Fundación Habitat y Vivienda, A.C. (FUNHAVI)
$200,000, over three years, to mobilize, with its business partners, more than $165,000 for a loan fund for home improvements, including connection to municipal water and sewage systems, benefiting more than 2,000 low-income residents of Ciudad Juárez. (ME-455)
Fundación para la Productividad en el Campo, A.C. (APOYO)
$185,000, over three years, to implement APOYO's models for providing credit, training and technical assistance to 1,500 low-income rural producers and 7,000 family members, and for mobilizing $500,000 in remittances from Mexican immigrants in the United States for productive projects in their communities of origin. This project aims to reduce migration to the United States by expanding income-generating opportunities in poor communities in the Mexican states with the highest migration rates. (ME-450)
Niños y Crías, A.C. (NyC)
$400,000 for a three-year project to encourage natural resource protection, promote sustainable economic development and improve the quality of life of residents in 11 protected areas of Mexico by creating a university-based training center, coordinating 11 high-profile community-based education and social marketing campaigns, and generating private sector support for rural economic development, public and environmental health, and natural resource management. (ME-449)
ProNatura Chiapas, A.C. (ProNatura)
$453,032 to undertake a two-year project promoting local development in three communities of northern Chiapas. Project activities include increased production and national and international marketing of organic coffee, strengthening and improvement of agro-ecology, productive forestry, and the creation of additional family businesses. Approximately 3,000 individuals will directly benefit. (ME-448)
www.pronatura-chiapas.org
Supplemental Grants
Coordinadora de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas de la Huasteca Potosina, A.C. (COCIHP)
$20,100 to fully implement COCIHP's work with women in the municipalities of Axtla and Tancanhuitz. This amendment will support salaries for an advisor and promoters providing training and technical assistance in leadership, local development activities and agricultural techniques. (ME-434-A1)
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