Partners

Partners

We do not operate alone. Each pillar exists thanks to a specific alliance: Platzi for training, INROADS for placement, CTN and Iluméxico for connectivity and energy. Each open hub exists thanks to a sponsor who covered that point.

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Strategic partners

Bring technology, training, or employment networks. Core of the model.

  • Platzi

    Latin America's professional online education platform, the first Latin American startup admitted to Y Combinator (2014). Contributes the program's certified digital technical training through a scholarship-style discount scheme: the training that operates after the initial digital literacy phase.

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  • INROADS México

    Mexican non-profit that drives the talent of youth facing inequality. Contributes its employability methodology and a network of 220+ allied companies. With Héroes Digitales it adapts its model (built for 18–29-year-olds) to adolescents outside the school system.

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  • unconnected.org

    UK charity and the social marketplace for connectivity. It does not build infrastructure or run programs: it aggregates demand and negotiates access to connectivity solutions (Starlink among them) so local partners deploy and sustain them. It is the access layer that made connecting the Costa Chica community centers possible.

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Corporate sponsors

Fund one or more complete hubs per year. Receive quarterly reports.

  • Fomento Social Banamex

    Non-profit civil association created in 1992, philanthropic arm of Citibanamex. Patron of the Manos de Guerrero program, funding in-person workshops, digital microlearning, and commercial linkage for 623 artisans on the Costa Chica.

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Operational partners

Sustain field infrastructure: connectivity, energy, transport.

  • CTN (Cloud Telecom Networks)

    Connectivity and telecommunications infrastructure partner; Starlink partner for social impact. Operates the self-sustaining community wifi of Pillar 1: connectivity designed to cover its own cost by reselling excess bandwidth to the community.

  • Iluméxico

    13 years bringing solar energy to communities without reliable grid power in Quintana Roo, Puebla, Baja California Sur, and other regions. Addresses the pre-condition for Pillar 1: without stable energy there is no sustained connectivity. Partner on the model's basic-infrastructure line.

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  • New Ventures

    Impact-enterprise accelerator in Mexico since 2000, founded by World Resources Institute. Organizes the Latin American Impact Investing Forum and co-operates, with Fomento Social Banamex, the Manos de Guerrero program. It is the territorial partner that opens the door on the Costa Chica.

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Institutional partners

Articulate the program with public networks and provide institutional legitimacy.

  • UNETE

    Union of Entrepreneurs for Technology in Education. 26 years equipping classrooms, training teachers, and supporting public schools across all 32 Mexican states. Connectivity partner: contributes a network of schools to connect and technical guidance to validate school-infrastructure standards.

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  • Gobierno del Estado de Guerrero

    Institutional partner of the Manos de Guerrero program through the Secretariat of Promotion and Economic Development (SEFODECO). Coordinates municipal commissions and local authorities on the Costa Chica so the workshops arrive with public backing.

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Types of partnership

(1) Hub sponsors: people or companies who cover the annual operating cost of a complete hub. (2) Strategic partners: institutions that contribute technology, training, or employment networks. (3) Operational partners: providers that maintain field infrastructure. (4) Institutional partners: bodies that legitimize and articulate the program with public networks.

Want your organization to partner?

Write to aliados@fundacionhd.org or use the contact form selecting "I want to partner". We respond within 48 business hours.

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Sponsor a hub. Connect a community.

Each sponsored hub is an activated school, a trained cohort, and a family that decides to stay. You choose the amount and frequency of your donation.

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~80 lives People with direct internet access per connected hub
1 cohort / year 15-25 youth per sponsored cohort. The first generation is under way