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Our mission is to improve the coverage, quality, efficiency and sustainability of rural and urban basic education, focusing primarily on developing countries, through the implementation of the Escuela Nueva Activa model and with the support of private and public partnerships.
To create social transformation through offering high-quality educational programs in the areas of bilingualism, culture and the arts to underserved communities in Cali Colombia that will empower children and youth to thrive, becoming competitive and bridging the gap of inequality.
The Juan Pablo Gutierrez Caceres Foundation has been working since 2007 supporting Colombian graduate students that do not have the economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. So far, 346 scholarships have been awarded to students that are positively transforming their personal, academic and working lives and supporting the development of their communities.The candidates' profile has been students interested in critical areas for Colombia's development, leadership and with limited economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. A successful process starts with the selection of the right candidates where the Foundation ensures that the resources obtained by donations are properly used. We also have procedures and structures that follow the performance of students. We ensure that each scholarship awarded ends with a successful degree. The Juan Pablo Gutierrez Caceres Foundation has been working since 2007 supporting Colombian graduate students that do not have the economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. So far, 346 scholarships have been awarded to students that are positively transforming their personal, academic and working lives and supporting the development of their communities. The candidates' profile has been students interested in critical areas for Colombia's development, leadership and with limited economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. A successful process starts with the selection of the right candidates where the Foundation ensures that the resources obtained by donations are properly used. We also have procedures and structures that follow the performance of students. We ensure that each scholarship awarded ends with a successful degree.
MAKAIA is a non-profit organization strengthens capacities for social development through technology, innovation and international cooperation. Our vision is that every person and organization has knowledge and information to increase opportunities to transform themselves and their communities. MAKAIA means "to build" or "make" in Miskito (Indigenous Language from Honduras). The name represents MAKAIAs objective of building alliances and relationships oriented to the social and economic development.
The Foundation provides a space of familiarity and mentoring to children, adolescents and young people who inhabit the south west of Bogota, promoting their social development through the teaching of techniques, knowledge and skills for life, so that they can empower and transform their environments which have been characterized by conflict. The work is developed through reading clubs, pedagogical and cooperative entrepreneurships, and by promoting participation and leading roles in all activities.
The Universidad del Norte Foundation, in accordance with the principles, values and objectives that have guided it since its creation, has as its mission the integral formation of the person in the field of higher education, and the contribution, through its institutional presence in the community, the harmonious development of society and the country, especially the Colombian Caribbean Region. The Foundation carries out this university work both in the undergraduate modality and in advanced training, its work being characterized by a broad social and humanistic content, and by the emphasis on scientific and investigative foundation to respond to the requirements of the progress of science and the social needs of the region and the country. The Institution seeks to train its students as thinking, analytical people with solid ethical principles, who conceive innovative ideas so that they participate in an active, entrepreneurial, responsible, honest, critical and pragmatic way in the process of social, economic and political development. and culture of the community. The University tends because the training it provides is carried out with suitable, qualified teachers with a deep academic vocation. To support them in this task, it is determined to have the most appropriate and advanced teaching, research and extension methods in contemporary higher education. In this sense, science, technology, humanities and the arts will continue to be the distinctive institutional axes for student training. Present in the life of the community through the exercise of its academic functions (teaching, research, extension and services to the external sector), the Universidad del Norte ensures that its directors, professors, students and alumni remain in permanent study, analysis and research of the concrete problems of the community in which they find themselves. Our institution is committed from its origins, in the present and into the future, with all dimensions of social, economic, political, environmental and cultural development, with social responsibility, staying in its proper place of insertion in society, which is the academic.
Laboratorio de Conservacion Colombia foundation leads and supports biodiversity conservation actions using and generating high quality scientific information, working together with communities, companies and the public sector with the goal of preserving the country's biological heritage and promoting its sustainable development.
Restaurando las familias Foundation is a non-profit institution that works with other actors (public or private) to contribute to the integral development of children, youth and the family in general, based on the promotion, recognition and defense of their rights. In this way, it is sought that they can achieve an optimal bio-psychosocial spiritual development, which allows them to improve their quality of life.
CIFOR advances human well-being, equity and environmental integrity by conducting innovative research, developing partners' capacity and actively engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to inform policies and practices that affect forests and people.
Chicas en Tecnologia (CET) is a non-profit organization that has sought to close the technological gender gap since 2015, through free and accessible programs and initiatives that encourage, motivate, train, and support the new generation of female leaders in technology.
The purposes of THE FOUNDATION are of charity, common interest or public service and improvement of the quality of life, common welfare or social interest for educational, technological, cultural, recreational and social service to all those people and their families, who have built Colombia, among these, master builders, officers, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and all those who are involved in the construction of infrastructure works to a greater or lesser extent.
Fundacion Corazonistas is the tool of the Institute of Brothers of the Sacred Heart in the Province of Spain for the promotion and participation of lay Corazonistas through social commitment. In 2021, Fundacion Corazonistas is the reference space for lay Corazonistas in educational works in Spain to get socially involved in building a more just world. Thus, it contributes to the development of committed personal and community vocations in Spain and to the development of projects of heart solidarity with impoverished people and peoples throughout the world.