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Healthy ecosystems underpin everything that humanity needs, but 75% of our Earth is degraded. Climate Disruption, the biodiversity crisis, desertification, flooding, loss of livelihoods, poverty and hunger are directly linked to collapsing ecosystems. Humanity is degrading and depleting its most important resource: functioning natural systems. The need for addressing these crises and for a change to a resilient, regenerative and sustainable co-existence with our natural world is understood. Yet, worldwide, people feel powerless to turn the tide. In response, we are catalyzing a global movement to restore and rehabilitate our degraded ecosystems and change the way we live with nature through introducing regenerative productive systems. Ecosystem Restoration Camps ("ERC") is a global, inclusive, bottom-up movement. We catalyse action towards restoring and rehabilitating natural systems to maintain the web of life. We do this by facilitating the emergence of Camps around the world. Camps are living labs where local communities, lay people, experts and scientists come together to restore and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. Camps empower local communities to restore their environments and livelihoods by providing them with the tools, skills, and knowledge to bring back abundance and increase their resilience. OUR VISION: We envision a fully-functional, peaceful, abundant, biologically diverse Earth brought about through cooperative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands. OUR MISSION: To work together to restore ecological functionality, to build Research, Training and Innovation Centers for Ecological Restoration, to engage people in inquiry into ecological restoration, and train people in how to restore degraded lands in perpetuity. OBJECTIVES - To train people in techniques for restoring land and provide practical opportunities for people to practice new approaches to landscape restoration. - To build research, training and innovation centers to engage people in ecosystem restoration. - To manage a flow of volunteers of all ages to restore agricultural and natural ecosystems. - To increase the organic matter, carbon content and water retention capacity of the soil to stimulate large scale carbon sequestration. - To improve the livelihoods of farmers, landowners and local communities around the camps. OUR VALUES Restoring Earth positively impacts both livelihoods and communities. To ensure that our contribution to humanity is ethically sound, we have embraced a set of core values that guide the work of the Foundation: - We believe that all beings are equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights; - We recognise that without thriving ecosystems we are nothing and feel a profound obligation to preserve and restore degraded land where it may be found; - We are not self-seeking but rather committed to working together towards a collective outcome that is bigger than any individual, that benefits us all, and that benefits future generations; - We voluntarily, joyfully and with peaceful intent wish to restore basic ecological function so that all people and other living things can live together in harmony; - We willingly share our knowledge, our time, our expertise and our labour, making it as accessible as possible, knowing that we are doing the right thing; - We treat one another with respect and as equals in our shared endeavour, no matter how much or how little each of us may be able to give; - We believe in collaboration, and therefore work with organisations, experts, and local communities in partnership; - We work as a bottom-up movement, each Camp is an independent entity designed and organised according to its own local context, ensuring that the benefits are really felt by the local population; - We communicate openly and honestly celebrating our diversity, and embracing our differences without allowing these to impede progress towards our shared goal; - We act with open minds and hearts, prepared to learn new skills and methods for land restoration from those with knowledge and expertise in this area; - We strive to communicate the essence of our work to others such that together we can build a movement that restores resilient abundance to land and ecosystems that we have degraded. ERC Foundation works with an executive Board of Directors, a volunteer and financially responsible Supervisory Board and a strategic Advisory Council made by the world's leading experts in agroforestry, permaculture, regenerative farming, and ecosystem restoration. ERC is a supporting partner to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Our mission is to protect endangered turtles through supporting turtle nesting beaches, cleaning up plastic waste, reducing the tortoiseshell trade, promoting equity in the sea turtle community, and educational programs.

We are a global champion for the human rights of women and girls. We use our powerful networks to find, fund, and amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo. By shining a spotlight on critical issues, we rally communities of advocates who take action and invest money to empower women.

Our mission is to improve the quality of education that children recieve in public elementary schools in Mexico through the integral development of the school community.

Move Forward is a dance, basketball, rap program to uplift traumatized children. Our coaches work in refugee camps, shelters and slums. We believe movement and music are effective ways for coping with trauma.

Centro Mexicano Alzheimer (CMA) is a non-profit organization, pioneer, and innovator in mental health care in Mexico. Through an interdisciplinary team, and with a deep human sense, we support people with dementia, family members and caregivers online and in person with drug-free therapies. The non-drug therapy applied is a scientific German model adapted to the Latin American context called MAKS. The multicomponent MAKS group intervention (standing for Motor stimulation, Activities of daily living stimulation, Cognitive and Social stimulation) is scientifically approved for its effectiveness on psychological symptoms in people with mild to moderate dementia. Centro Mexicano Alzheimer is a member of the Global HelpAge International Network, a global alliance that defends the rights of older people with 171 member organizations in 90 countries. We work closely with HelpAge International to support the needs and rights of older people in Mexico. Mission: Transform with human meaning the lives of people with dementia and their families towards inclusion and the exercise of their rights. Vision: To be a world leader in raising awareness about dementia and innovating its treatment and prevention.

Train and support people to develop their entrepreneurial potential and become agents of change.

To strengthen Mexico's community foundations.

Promote the personal growth of the university student through comprehensive training, enabling them to be agents of change and promoters of the common good.

EDUCIAC promueve y defiende el reconocimiento colectivo de las personas como sujetas de derecho a través de procesos participativos y de incidencia política que dignifiquen la vida, para la transformación social. EDUCIAC promotes and defends the collective recognition of people as subjects of rights through participatory processes and political advocacy that dignify life, for social transformation.

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

We are ChildFund, a global non-profit civil society organization present in 24 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, founded as a civil association in Mexico in 1973. We connect more than 144,000 children, adolescents, and youth (NNAJ) in situations of deprivation, exclusion, and vulnerability, with everything they need to grow up safe, healthy, and educated, in 7 states of the country (Chiapas, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz), in more than 300 communities. Our vision is of a world where children and youth exercise their rights, live in conditions that allow optimal development at every stage of their lives, and reach their potential. Our mission is to develop their capacities to improve their lives and become leaders who bring lasting, positive change to their communities.