Project Report
| Nov 19, 2018
Winter 2018 Report
By David Bartecchi | Director
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Assessing reforestation efforts in Madagascar
Village Earth is excited to begin a new year providing training and support to so many amazing people and organizations around the world. 2019 will mark the 16th anniversary of our online certificate program in Sustainable Community Development offered in partnership with Colorado State University through which we train hundreds of people each year in how to be effective allies with local and grassroots organizations.
Another aspect of our mission is providing research and consulting services to organizations around the world. This year we were proud to partner with Thunder Valley and Sweetgrass Consulting to develop a feasibility study on developing a food hub and grocery store on the Pine Ridge Reservation. We partnered with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation to research the impacts of indian land cessions on Native Agriculture and look forward to expanding this research in the coming year. We also helped to assess reforestation efforts on the Pine Ridge Reservation and Madagascar.
Of course, we also continue our ongoing support of our Global Affiliates providing fiscal sponsorship, fundraising support, outreach and tecnical support to help them be more impactful in addressing the root causes of poverty and powerlessness in their respective communities. None of this work would be possible without the support of people like you, so we humbly thank you for your ongoing support!
Sincerely,
David Bartecchi
Executive Director
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Oct 13, 2017
Report: Training and Support for Grassroots Orgs
By David Bartecchi | Executive Director
Dear Village Earth supporter,
The mission of Village Earth is to support grassroots organizations working on the front-lines of social and environmental justice through training, consulting and project support. This has been a busy year for us providing training in our online certificate program in Sustainable Communit Development (in partnership with Colorado State University) as well as supporting our 21 grassroots affiliates. I'm happy to announce the addition of our most recent affiliate, Ger Community Mapping project in Mongolia. The Ger Community Mapping Center (GCMC) is a non – governmental organization dedicated to sustainable, equal access urban development through community engagement and participatory decision-making. The GCMC, formerly a community group named Eco Friendly Community, has been doing community mapping activities in the ger areas since 2012. They promote community mapping as a planning, awareness and outreach tool to advocate for sustainable, participatory and eco-friendly solutions to address local urban problems.
Additionally we've been working on a project with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation to assess the lost agriculture revenue on alienated indian lands across the country. We hope to have some inital results from this work available by December.
In the coming months we will really be promoting our affiliates a great through GlobalGiving so please be sure to check on your favorite projects regularly for updates.
Thank you! We couldn't do what we do with you!
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Jul 3, 2017
Progress report on Supporting Grassroots Orgs
By David Bartecchi | Director
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Thank you for your support of Village Earth and our efforts to suppor the growth and development of local grassroots organizations around the world. Village Earth has two primary initiatives to support these efforts - our Global Affiliate Program and our in-person and online training programs. We publish various thematic articles in our blog focused on capacity buildling and development for local organizations. To view these articles go to: http://www.villageearth.org/projects/training topics include monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, community mobilization, advocacy, research, etc. Please let us know what you think by commenting below articles.
Our online training in partnership with Colorado State University has been very popular with over 138 enrollments from dozens of different countries last fiscal year (which ended June 30th, 2017). To learn more visit http://www.villageearth.org/training-and-consulting/online the classes are open to anyone - you don't need to be enrolled at CSU to register.
We thank you for your ongoing support of these initiatives and look forward to another exciting year supporting local grassroots organizations around the globe.
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