Guayaki Foundation

Our giving fund - Guayaki Foundation- will work with partner communities in Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil through direct grant making and technical assistance. Our model is to become intimately involved with our partner communities by making long and deep commitments to their ecological, economic and community health. We work with our partner communities to develop economic models that conserve and regenerate the Atlantic Rainforest while building vibrant, healthy communities. The mutually dependent and beneficial interplay between economic development and ecological conservation binds the well being of our partner communities to the health of their Atlantic Rainforest. This holistic ...

Protect 40,000 acres of Atlantic Rainforest.

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Protect 40,000 acres of Atlantic Rainforest.

Brazil Environment

This project will help protect 40,000 acres of Atlantic Rainforest and provide 250 indigenous families with stable incomes in southern Brazil. Cultivation of yerba mate does best in rainforest understory, incentivizing protection of the ecosystem while providing a stable income for our partner communities freeing them from the logging and industrial agriculture that has destroyed the forest. This project jump starts Guayaki's proven model that binds community health to forest protection.

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