Nonprofits in Lake Atitlan + Chimaltenango, Guatemala

31 organizations found
Last Updated: 5/19/12
1.

Mayan Families

Location: Panajachel, Solola
Guatemala
Mayan Families is a small non-profit group operating in the Highlands of Guatemala. We live and work in the Lake Atitlan region. We operate a variety of programs as a...
Last Updated: 5/17/12
2.

Semillas de Amor (Seeds of Love)

Location: Parramos, Chimaltenango
Guatemala
Semillas de Amor Children’s Village provides a high level education program for Guatemala’s at risk children and a home for children with exceptional circumstances....
Last Updated: 5/17/12
3.

Manna Project International

Location: Sololá, Sololá
Guatemala
MPI serves the aldea of Chaquijyá, which consists of four neighborhoods called Central, Cooperativa, Yaxon, and Xilbalbay. Approximately 130 kilometers from Guatemala...
Last Updated: 5/2/12
4.

Fundacion Tradiciones Mayas (Maya Traditions)

Location: Panajachel, Solola
Guatemala
In 1988, Maya Traditions founder Jane Mintz, an experienced social worker (MSW Columbia University) and weaver herself, began working with indigenous women artisans...
Last Updated: 5/1/12
5.

Niños del Lago (Children of the Lake), Guatemala

Location: Panajachel, Sololá
Guatemala
Transforming the lives of at-risk Guatemalan children through mentoring, educational, and inspirational programs that build character, resilience and leadership -- one...
Last Updated: 4/30/12
6.

Safe Homes For Children (Casa De Sion)

Location: San Andres, Solola
Guatemala
Safe Homes For Children is fundamentally an orphan prevention program, trying to provide enough essentials for families so that children are able to stay with their...
Last Updated: 4/2/12
7.

Oxlajuj B'atz' (Thirteen Threads/Trece Hilos)

Location: Panajachel, Solola
Guatemala
Oxlajuj B’atz’, which means Thirteen Threads, is a non-profit indigenous women’s empowerment and educational organization of the Asociación Tejedoras Unidas - Komon...
Last Updated: 1/17/12
8.

American Amistad Foundation

Location: Alotenango, Sacatepequez
United States
We were founded in 2002 and have assited many Latin American children, primarily in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, with health issues. We have found doctors...
Last Updated: 1/17/12
9.

American Amistad Foundation

Location: Alotenango, Sacatepequez
United States
We were founded in 2002 and have assited many Latin American children, primarily in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, with health issues. We have found doctors...
Last Updated: 12/19/11
10.

ASSADE Asociación para la Salud y el Desarrollo

Location: San Andres Itzapa, Chimaltenango
Guatemala
Our main activities are daily consultations and pharmacy from 8 am to 6pm. The medications have a very low price and in some cases free. ASSADE provides primary...
Last Updated: 11/19/11
11.

Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (ADINA)

Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Guatemala
La Asociación por el Desarrollo Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia (ADINA), es una entidad creada a fines de enero del 2010, de servicio social no lucrativo, no...
Last Updated: 11/19/11
12.

Organicemos un Mundo Mejor (Organize a Better World)

Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Guatemala
Develop educational programs in human development, culture and ecology aimed specifically at children and young people through days of workshops on various topics. We...
Last Updated: 11/13/11
13.

AMG Internacional

Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Guatemala
The mission of AMG Internacional is to "advance with compassion the command of Christ to evangelize and make disciples around the world through national leaders...
Last Updated: 10/27/11
14.

ACTION GUATEMALA! (¡ACCIÓN GUATEMALA!)

Location: Panajachel, Sololá
Guatemala
ACTION GUATEMALA! is a registered 501(c)3 in the USA formed to network and raise funds for projects in Guatemala at Lake Atitlan. We focus on environment, music and...
Last Updated: 10/13/11
15.

Servicio Para la Paz (Guatemala)

Location: Miami, Florida
Other International
The mission of Service For Peace is service learning and global peace perspective, Service For Peace is a nonprofit organization, independent, offering services and...
Last Updated: 9/15/11
16.

The LIFE School

Location: Panajachel, Sololá
Guatemala
The LIFE School is a small, non-profit K-9 school, located in Panajachel, Guatemala, on the shores of the beautiful Lake Atitlan. Since our opening in 1989, our...
Last Updated: 5/27/11
17.

Project Somos

Location: Tecpan
Guatemala
The Project Somos Children's Village will be a safe and loving environment for orphaned and abandoned children. There will be homes with Guatemalan foster mothers each...
Last Updated: 5/23/11
18.

G.I.F.T. Guatemala Infant and Familie Treatment programs

Location: Panajachel, Solola
Guatemala
G.I.F.T. is a Canadian NGO that has been providing free medical clinics for the Maya population in Guatemala since 10 years. The majority of the indigenous Maya we...
Last Updated: 1/19/11
19.

Cojolya Association

Location: Santiago Atitlán, Sololá
Guatemala
Cojolya Association is dedicated to the preservation of the ancient art of Maya backstrap-loom weaving and the traditions surrounding it - not just as a historic relic...
Last Updated: 1/14/11
20.

WINGS (ALAS)

Location: Antigua
Guatemala
OUR MISSION: WINGS creates opportunities for Guatemalan families to improve their lives by providing them with family planning education and access to reproductive...
Last Updated: 12/9/10
21.

Miracles In Action, Inc.

Location: Naples, Florida
Guatemala
Helping poor families to help themselves through education, vocation, and sustainable projects. Miracles in Action seeks out under-served pockets of need in rural...
Last Updated: 12/8/10
22.

Mayan Hands (Manos Mayas) - a project of Asociación Tejedoras Unidas (Komon Ajkem)

Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Guatemala
Mayan Hands was founded by a Guatemalan anthropologist in 1989 in order to provide work for Mayan women that they could do in their homes with skills they aleady had,...
Last Updated: 12/7/10
23.

Cooperative for Education

Location: Cincinnati, OH
United States
Cooperative for Education (CoEd) is a Cincinnati, Ohio and Guatemala City-based nonprofit organization established in 1996. Through our programs, we strive to address...
Last Updated: 11/30/10
24.

Social Entrepreneur Corps

Location: Antigua
Guatemala
Social Entrepreneur Corps is a social enterprise that leads innovative and dynamic international internship, volunteering, consulting and insight travel programs. Our...
Last Updated: 11/24/10
25.

Globally Minded Works

Location: SF, CA
United States
Globally Minded Works empowers Mayan families in the Highlands of Guatemala rise above poverty through education, sponsorships and charitable projects. We support...
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