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Atlas Corps has developed strategic partnerships with leading citizen sector organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
Our U.S. Partners:
Ashoka
AYUDA
Bert Corona Leadership Institute
CentroNía
Free the Slaves
GlobalGiving
InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
Mobilize.org
Population Action International (PAI)
Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC)
TechnoServe
Youth Service America
Youth Venture
Our Colombia Partners:
Ashoka Colombia
Accion Social
AIESEC Colombia
Compartamos Con Colombia
Conexion Colombia
COONG (Confederacion Colombiana de ONG)
Fundacion Saldarriaga Concha
Genesis
SENA
Somos Mas
Ventures
Yo Creo En Colombia
Our India Partners:
Ashoka India
iVolunteer
Ashoka
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (www.ashoka.org) strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector-one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers. Social entrepreneurs are individuals who possess innovative yet practical ideas to bring about far-reaching social change at the regional or global scale. Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka and member of the Atlas Corps Senior Advisory Board, created the term social entrepreneur and founded Ashoka over 25 years ago in 1980. Beginning with the first Ashoka Fellows elected in India in 1981, Ashoka has grown to an association of over 1,800 Fellows in over 70 countries on the world's five main continents. During its first decade in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, Ashoka focused exclusively on launching leading social entrepreneurs and helping them succeed. But in the 1990s as the citizen sector evolved and grew, Ashoka responded with a wider range of programs and initiatives to deal with the sector's growing needs. Ashoka grew as well, tripling in size from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1999 to 2002. Today Ashoka is in its third period of rapid growth, electing record numbers of Fellows and expanding its programs in Western Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East. Along with their global network of Fellows, business entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, academics, and journalists, Ashoka is now working collectively to ensure that social entrepreneurs and their innovations continue to inspire a new generation of local changemakers to create positive social change.
AYUDA (American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad, Inc.)
American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad, Inc. (AYUDA) is U.S. citizen sector organization that provides diabetes education to children and adolescents. Since its establishment in 1996, AYUDA has worked with local diabetes communities to develop and implement sustainable diabetes programs primarily throughout Latin America. Each of its programs unifies diabetes communities through participation in educational, recreational and advocacy programs while simultaneously teaching youth the leadership skills necessary to act as agents of change. To date, AYUDA has organized educational programs in four Latin American countries, while incorporating over 200 volunteers and representatives from diabetes communities in over 20 countries. For more information about AYUDA, please visit: www.ayudainc.net
Bert Corona Leadership Institute
The mission of the Bert Corona Leadership Institute (www.bcli.info) is to promote civic participation, education, and economic advancement among youth living in immigrant and farm worker communities. BCLI uses the power base of Washington, DC by working directly with the U.S. Congress, U.S. Agencies, businesses, and labor organizations to provide "hands on" learning for the Experience in Democracy Programs-intense one-week training sessions for immigrant and migrant youth in Washington, DC. BCLI embraces the spirit and energy of its visionary, Bert Corona, by continuing to provide "hands-on" training programs aimed at bringing developing youth and adult populations into the American political mainstream. As such, the Institute has developed the motto of "Participation, Empowerment, and Leadership."
 CentroNía
CentroNía (www.centronia.org) is a non-profit community development organization based in Washington, DC that provides early childhood education, before and after school services and comprehensive family support services to working families in DC and suburban Maryland. Services are currently provided at their Columbia Heights headquarters, two satellite sites, and 10 local schools. CentroNía’s mission is to educate children and youth and strengthen families in a bilingual, multicultural community. The organization is strongly committed to the values of social justice, lifelong learning, family health and economic wellness, and community empowerment.
Free the Slaves
Founded in 2000, Free the Slaves (www.freetheslaves.net) is a non-profit, non-partisan human rights organization dedicated to ending the enslavement of 27 million women, men and children held against their will and forced to work without pay. In addition to empowering former slaves and their communities to assert their human rights, Free the Slaves produces print and visual media to raise awareness about modern slavery around the world; educates policymakers and holds the U.S. Government to its anti-slavery commitments; works to rid slavery from product supply chains; and conducts social science research into the nature and scope of modern slavery and the most effective responses in combating it.
GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving (www.globalgiving.com) was founded in 2002 by two former World Bank executives who decided to use the Internet to create a highly efficient marketplace. GlobalGiving connects individual and institutional donors directly to social and economic development projects, as well as environmental causes, around the world. The GlobalGiving platform enables more funding to reach projects throughout the globe, and, at the same time, provides a more transparent, engaging way for donors to give. GlobalGiving offers more than 400 high-impact grassroots level projects at any given time in more than 60 countries worldwide. Projects themes range from education and economic development to health and environment.
InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
When it was created in 1978, the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC) was the first staffed organization in the U.S. and almost certainly in the world to engage the Islamic as well as the Jewish, Protestant and Roman Catholic faith communities and their leaders in a metropolitan area both to build a just community and to deepen understanding. The InterFaith Conference continues its pioneering work, now also involving the Baha'i, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Latter-day Saints, Sikh and Zoroastrian faith communities in this region to advance justice, build community and nurture understanding in metropolitan Washington. For more information, please visit: www.ifcmw.org
 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
Since 1939 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) has fought tireless to keep America's doors open to those fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity. With a primary focus on refugees, immigrants and their families and children, LIRS has created a wide variety of programs developed specifically to help establish a peaceful and welcoming transition for the three main groups. They work with churches and organizations across the country to create welcoming communities for immigrants and refugees. LIRS foster cultural integration and financial self-sufficiency for those starting over. They are also engaged in finding loving homes for unaccompanied migrant children. LIRS advocates for policies and legislation that uphold the rights and dignity of all newcomers. They are a non-profit organization that serves regardless of race, religion and national origin.
Mobilize.org
Founded by college students at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, Mobilize.org is a youth-led all partisan organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase their civic engagement and political participation. Mobilize.org shows young people how public policy affects our lives, and conversely, how we can affect public policy. Mobilize.org believes that young people have the untapped ability to amass political power and encourage organizations and institutions to appreciate and earn our participation. Their programs, partnerships, and events are reflective of their belief that young people can have a profound and long-lasting effect on public policy.
Population Action International
Population Action International (PAI) is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights. Founded in 1965, PAI is a private, non-profit group and accepts no government funds. PAI fosters the development of U.S. and international policy on urgent population and reproductive health issues through an integrated program of research, advocacy and communications. PAI seeks to make clear the linkages between population, reproductive health, the environment and development. Serving as a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities, PAI disseminates strategic, action-oriented research publications; participates in and sponsors conferences, meetings and seminars; and works to educate and inform policymakers and international colleagues in related fields. For more information, please visit: www.populationaction.org
Student Movement for Real Change
Student Movement for Real Change (www.studentmovementusa.org) is a national nonprofit that empowers young people to improve health and education in neglected regions of the world. SMRC was founded by Saul Garlick in Denver, Colorado in 2001 after a coffee-table conversation with friends about the state of education and the lack of student voices in the shaping of public policy and the national agenda. It has since grown to be a national organization endorsed by The Nelson Mandela Foundation with an esteemed Board of Advisors including Ambassadors, academics and business leaders.
 TechnoServe
Founded in 1968, TechnoServe (www.technoserve.org) helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries. Since its inception, TechnoServe has helped to create or improve more than 2,000 businesses, benefiting millions of people in 32 countries. In 2006, TechnoServe assisted 215 clients who generated nearly $97 million in sales and purchased about $52 million worth of products from more than 173,200 rural producers. They have also trained thousands of people in business and entrepreneurial skills. The Financial Times has rated TechnoServe as one of the world’s top five NGOs for corporate partnerships. TechnoServe has also been recognized as one of the world's "Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs" by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and as one of “America’s 100 Best Charities” by Worth magazine.
 Youth Service America
Youth Service America (www.ysa.org) is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally. Founded in 1986, YSA's mission is to expand the impact of the youth service movement with communities, schools, corporations, and governments. YSA envisions a global culture of engaged youth who are committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership and achievement. One of YSA's most important activities is National & Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) which is the largest service event in the world. GYSD mobilizes youth to address the needs of their communities through service while also educating the public, media, and policymakers about their year-round contributions. Together with a consortium of international organizations, and more than 100 National Coordinating Committees, Global Youth Service Day has grown from 27 participating countries since its inception in 2000 to more than 115 countries in 2006.
 Youth Venture
Youth Venture (www.genv.net) inspires and invests in teams of young people to start their own sustainable ventures that create lasting benefit to their communities. Launched by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Youth Venture is building a movement of young changemakers who are redefining the role they play in society as capable leaders of positive social change by inspiring and investing in young people to start social ventures, and by building a powerful global Youth Venture network. Youth Venture seeks to launch hundreds of thousands of teams of "Venturers" around the world and connect them into a global network. Since 1996, Youth Venture has launched over 650 teams across the US, involving an estimated 16,000 young people as founders, leaders, staff and participants. By fostering a generation of Venturers, Youth Venture will help tip society such that it will become common for young people to take initiative and lead in their communities, ultimately resulting in a dramatically higher number of changemakers in society.
More Information
A 2-minute video about Youth Venture
The Youth Venture Website
The Youth Venture Atlas Corps Fellow Profile
Partners in India:
Atlas Corps is developing a strong network of partners in India. Here are just a few of the organizations we are working with here:
Partners in Colombia:
 Compartamos con Colombia
Compartamos con Colombia is a non profit that provides professional services to other Colombian non profits, aiming to improve their management and impact levels, increase the flow of international donations into the country, create awareness of the importance of corporate social responsibility among young entrepreneurs, and facilitate and structure profitable social investment projects.
 Conexión Colombia
Conexión Colombia is a successful international initiative that seeks to unite Colombians all around the world, as well as country friends, by:
-Providing useful and interesting information for Colombians abroad, so that they can stay in touch with their homeland, while offering a common space to comment, share their thoughts, and make their inquiries online.
-Channeling donations in kind, money, and time for nearly thirty non-profit organizations that have been carefully selected for their capacity, know-how and efficient use of resources. These organizations work for thousands of vulnerable people in different regions of Colombia, and are permanently monitored by Conexión Colombia to ensure transparency and adequate use of the received donations.
 Fundación Saldarriaga Concha (FSC)
FSC is a non profit organization that seeks to foster a more fair and caring social development in Colombia, by promoting the practice of values that favor and facilitate a healthy and peaceful coexistence, by providing health and education opportunities to specific population groups, by means of integral rehabilitation. FSC’s mission is to support financially, technically and managerially other non for profits devoted to social adaptation, integral formation rehabilitation for the disabled and elderly wellness, in order to contribute to the strengthening of the rehabilitation sector.
 Colombianitos
Colombianitos was created with one purpose: to make the difference. Its love for the Colombian children and conviction that the future of a country lies in the hands of the little ones, has led us to create integrated education proposals, recreational and rehabilitation programs for all those children whose life is lived among bullets, crimes, drugs and shortage. Colombianitos presence aims to reduce their pain, to make their existence more bearable, and to put a smile on their faces.
Colombianitos main objective is to reduce the devastating consequences of violence and terrorism on the lives of Colombia's most valuable asset: its children. Colombianitos devotes all its knowledge and effort to offer Colombian children education, recreation, rehabilitation, thus supplying basic needs for the most impoverished.
Atlas Corps is developing a strong network of partners in Colombia. Here are just a few of the organizations we are working with here:
 
Atlas Corps is currently looking for partners in the citizen sector, business sector, and government sector. To learn more about partnering with Atlas Corps, please email kimi(at)atlascorps.org or alejandra(at)atlascorps.org if you are in Colombia.
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