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Colabora con nosotros por la innovacion social en Costa Rica. Empoderamos a los jovenes. Promovemos la integracion de educacion y tecnologia. Fomentamos el emprendimiento. Solo la idea de hacer una diferencia no es suficiente. Es hora de poner las Ideas en Accion. Ideas en Accion es una organizacion sin fines de lucro que identifica, ejecuta y difunde programas de innovacion colaborativa con alto potencial de replicabilidad y relevancia a nivel global para el desarrollo sostenible. En el 2013 a partir del crecimiento de los eventos TEDxPuraVidaJoven, en donde se reune a mas de 20 000 personas en Costa Rica, con ideas excepcionales para compartir y cambiar nuestro mundo; el equipo organizador identifico una oportunidad para fomentar formalmente esas ideas y transformarlas en iniciativas reales. Nuestro maximo objetivo es contribuir al desarrollo sostenible en Costa Rica y la region, y lo logramos trabajando en conjunto con nuestra comunidad para identificar buenas ideas y convertirlas en acciones, de ahi nuestro lema: "Innovacion colaborativa". ------------ Collaborate with us for social innovation in Costa Rica. Empower youth. Promote the integration of education and technology. Encourage entrepreneurship. Put your Ideas into Action. We are a collaborative community that identifies, executes and spreads social innovation projects with high potential of replicability, scalability and international relevance for sustainable development. Our vision is to contribute to the sustainable development of the country, serve from a platform that looks to implement and keep track of ideas with high impact potential in the field of innovation and social entrepreneurship in Costa Rica. In 2013 from the growth of the TEDxPuraVidaJoven events, where over 20,000 people come together in Costa Rica with exceptional ideas to share and change our world, the organizing team identified an opportunity to formally encourage these ideas and transform them into real initiatives. Our greatest objective is to contribute to the sustainable development in Costa Rica and the region, and that we achieve it by working together with our community to identify good ideas and convert them into actions, hence our motto: "Collaborative innovation".

1.- To support each community in the effort to create and develop its community museum, to strengthen our awareness of our past, its impact on the present, and the possibilities for building a future based on the values of our ancestors. 2.- To unify our communities, sharing our concerns and supporting each other by developing networks at a state, national and international level. 3.- To strengthen community action in education, training, and the recreation of collective memory and practices, through projects that benefit all participating communities.

To promote agroecological principles and rural entrepreneurship through capacity development and South-South exchange of quality farmer-to-farmer training videos in local languages.

We are a non-profit organization that works to transform the lives of people at risk and social vulnerability, through specialized programs that improve their quality of life.

The mission of Soy Nina is (1) to empower girls who live in conditions of vulnerability, offering a safe space to get to know themselves and meet with their peers so that through their own experiences, meaningful learning, playful activities and the collective construction of knowledge, they can develop and strengthen their socio-emotional skills that allow them to take care of themselves, stay in school and make informed decisions regarding their own lives and (2) to create awareness on the unique challenges that all girls under 18 face in Costa Rica and globally. After almost three and a half years since their beginning, they have worked mostly with girls aged 6-12 years in three vulnerable communities in Desamparados, San Jose, Costa Rica. Their program is on-going and the great majority of girls have stayed in the program throughout the years. Soy Nina's main program is "Club Nina" (Girls Club), a free-of-charge after-school program with affinity to the public education system's calendar, based on life-skills development, human rights, early comprehensive sexual education, all with age-appropriate information and activities.

Created in 2002, Vision du Monde is a French humanitarian organization, belonging to World Vision international partnership, which aims at helping the most vulnerable children. Thanks to its Christian DNA and driven by stewardship and human centred values, our NGO is dedicated to tackle the causes of poverty and injustice. We help the most vulnerable children to experience fullness of life, by growing, learning and achieving their dreams in a caring and secured environment. Vision du Monde works with the world's most vulnerable people in the most remote or unstable areas of the world. It serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Our staff of 25+ deals mainly with global relief, development and advocacy. We pursue this mission through integrated, holistic commitment, working closely with children, families, communities, local authorities. We make sure that each one of them are interviewed and committed from design to fulfilment in our development programmes. Empowered step by step during the ten to fifteen years of a programme, we empower them to set their own goals, settle autonomy and pass on skills and knowledge in a sustainable and community-based outlook. Vision du Monde runs 17 development programmes in 12 countries across 4 continents. It benefits from the 70 years of experience of World Vision, first child sponsorship NGO and first Clean water humanitarian provider in the world, operating in 99 countries with offices in 85 of them. Our mission encompasses, in a global and sustainable development approach, 6 key sectors across clean water, sanitation and hygiene; food security; health; education; child protection and economic development to enable families transform relationships, build resilience and secure source of revenues. World Vision recently launched a new global strategy called Our Promise 2030, contributing to reach Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing energy and resources on increasingly fragile contexts and hard-to-reach areas, the organization strengthens his advocacy against violence, exploitation and human rights violations. Vision du Monde is dedicated more than ever to reach the most vulnerable children in the world, in difficult areas, relying on the expertise and cultural understanding of local teams, 97 % of them originating from the country. Alliances with other NGOs such as Red cross, Cares, Coordination sud or public organization such as EU or World food programme or International Labour Organization, make our action more efficient.

Our mission is to provide the necessary resources so that all children born with malformation Cleft Lip/Palate (all over the country) can recover in a complete and thorough manner. Although we are an independent association, we work together with the National Children's Hospital of Costa Rica (which is where they perform surgical treatment) in order to have a multidisciplinary equipment, needed for a proper rehabilitation. In Costa Rica, each year, we received an approximately of 85-90 babies with the Cleft Lip/Palate, so our effort is reflected in the smile of all recovered children, but our mission continues standing with each new baby born that presents the malformation.

AIPC Pandora is a non-profit organization that works to generate the knowledge and the capacity of action needed at the international level for the construction of a more just and peaceful world. For this, we develop Global Learning Experiences for educational, intercultural, solidarity or professional insertion in one of the 57 countries in which we are present. We work both in Outbound / Outbound and Inbound / Host projects in Spain, offering transformative experiences based on the "Learning-Service" methodology that form global citizens in how to intervene in the great challenges of the world today.

Make the adolescent and young adult population with cancer visible in Costa Rica and provide them with tools that allow them to face their illness in the best way, through accompaniment, education, recreation and the creation of infrastructures appropriate to their age.

Glasswing's work is rooted in community engagement. Our holistic, cross-sector approach forges partnerships with international and local governments, corporations, non-profits, foundations, and civil society - leveraging their resources and capabilities - to strengthen existing education and health systems, and deliver innovative, high-impact, and sustainable solutions.

How many beneficiaries have you reached in each of your services/programs? How do they reach their ideal population? MExoxo started in 2013 in Mexico with 2 women, expanded in the USA and Latin America supporting 1000 women and scaled up to 11 countries impacting 5345 women, as of today. Our mission is to empower, educate and connect literate and competent women (who have limited access to education or opportunities) via interactive and personalized methodology, aligned with the SDGs and focused on sustainability, social innovation, entrepreneurship, and STEM education. We offer our support through 3 main pillars: Empowerment that is performed by life-coaches and psychologists; Education on business and financial literacy that is offered by business mentors; Connectivity which happens via MExoxo's global network that offers women additional specialized education on their field of expertise to implement their projects through direct or indirect seed funding opportunities. The organization has educated 5345 women, of 14-55 yrs old, in 11 countries who have received $1M in value for their projects in actual money or growth opportunities. It should be underlined that MExoxo has recorded an indirect impact of 21,380 women as for every woman the organization empowers she supports 4 more within her family or community. Finally an important statistic is that 60% of our women participated have created or grow their own projects.

"Enhancing sustainable human development, with a focus on rights through equal opportunities having an impact on children and the community."