Range Of Motion Project (ROMP)
Providing high-quality prosthetic care
ROMP provides high-quality prosthetic care and rehabilitation services to underserved people with amputation, improving their mobility and independence. ROMP operates full time prosthetic clinics in Quito, Ecuador and Guatemala City, Guatemala helping hundreds of people with amputation access high-quality care and follow up services each year. To date, ROMP has provided over 5,000 custom made prosthetic devices to people in need.
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CARE Ecuador
BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH GENDER EQUITY
While their efforts are focused in Ecuador, CARE is responding to the Venezuela migrant and refugee crisis with a gender-sensitive approach. Currently, CARE’s programs focus on sexual and reproductive health; water, sanitation, and hygiene; food and nutrition security; and shelter.
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Escuela Nueva
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES THROUGH EDUCATION
As its name suggests, Escuela Nueva’s focus is education. More specifically, the organization seeks to provide student-directed education models to communities affected by conflict and limited opportunity. With over 86 schools throughout Latin America, Escuela Nueva empowers students to be active participants in their education and brings schooling to those without access.
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IRC
RESPONDING TO THE WORLD’S WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISES
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and over 20 U.S. cities, their teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, and empowerment to refugees and displaced people. We support IRC efforts in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Denver, as well as in Colombia. We also plan to help fund their expanding work in Ecuador in 2022.
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Mona Foundation
PROVIDING EQUAL EDUCATION ACCESS
Founded in 1999, the Mona Foundation is a global community of individuals and organizations that believes the key to alleviating poverty and sustaining community transformation lies in education and gender equality. It supports grassroots initiatives around the world that educate children and empower women and girls, thereby helping them to transform their own communities. We work with the Mona Foundation specifically to provide education access to girls in Brazil and Panama.
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Mercy Corps
EMPOWERING PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM CRISIS
One of the most recognized global humanitarian organizations, Mercy Corps empowers people recovering from crisis. Currently, Cotopaxi supports Mercy Corps’s efforts to meet the urgent needs of Colombian and Venezuelan refugees through cash assistance, medicine, and small business grants. Over the next 18 months, the organization will lead a consortium to provide emergency cash assistance to nearly 90,000 Venezuelan refugees.
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United to Beat Malaria
A NEW ERA OF NOTHING BUT NETS
A campaign of the UN Foundation, United to Beat Malaria (previously Nothing But Nets) is on a mission to eradicate malaria. United to Beat Malaria's (UBM) campaign has evolved to provide a full suite of innovative tools and strategies that meet the greatest needs of the communities they serve. We've teamed up with UBM to expand its work to end malaria in Ecuador and other parts of Latin America.
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The Chain Collaborative
INVESTING IN LOCAL LEADERS FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
With the firm belief that lasting change comes from community driven strategy and buy-in, the mission of The Chain Collaborative is to invest in the capacity of Change Leaders in coffee-growing regions and accompany them as they drive grassroots, sustainable development in their own communities, according to their own visions for change. We've partnered with The Chain Collaborative to support the collective livelihoods of coffee growing communities in ManabÃ, Ecuador.
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True Colors United
ENDING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS
True Colors United (TCU) aims to prevent and end homelessness among LGBTQ youth, youth of color, and other highly impacted groups. They utilize advocacy and education to create a long term solution to an issue that disproportionately affects LGBTQ youth. Because nearly 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ, True Colors makes it their mission to learn directly from affected youth in order to create accessible programming and provide them with leadership opportunities. We have partnered with TCU to support their programming both in Latin America and here in the US.
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J-PAL LAC
Promoting gender equity and women’s agency to reduce poverty
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of 294 affiliated professors at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. Cotopaxi is partnering with J-PAL South America to support capacity building and outreach for gender agency in Central America.
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