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The Tia Foundation is a small, Arizona-based NGO dedicated to driving sustainable health solutions in rural Mexico.

Tia’s CEO Presents Model of Collective Impact

Tia’s ‘teach them to fish’ model of self-sustaining health development is one of those featured as an example of successful collective impact at the 19th Annual Nonprofit Conference on Sustainable Strategies.  This year’s conference is being held October 13th and 14th and is structured around the article “Collective Impact” recently published in the Stanford Innovation Review.

Laura Libman, Tia’s CEO will be presenting on Friday, October 14th at noon at the conference being held at the Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix.  For more information, go to http://lodestar.asu.edu/nlm-conferences/2011-conference or click here to download the pdf flyer.

This groundbreaking conference is presented by ASU’s Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation in collaboration with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).  Their agenda for the conference offers many excellent speakers and presenters.  Hope to see you there!

We Did it!

The Tia Foundation has been invited to submit a full proposal for the Secretary’s 2011 Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls!  We submitted our proposal last Friday.  The award is given to organizations whose models represent pioneering approaches to the political, economic and social empowerment of women and girls around the globe.  Two winners will be chosen and each will receive a $500,000 grant and will be honored at a ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Please cross your fingers for us!  If we should win, more than 75,000 people will have access to health care who did not have it before and there will be at least 150 new positive and strong female leaders in our villages!

Yet Another Recommendation for Models Like Tia’s!

A recently published and well-researched article, “Collaborative Impact“,  in the Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses the five conditions of collective success.  In other words, the best way to solve a community’s problems is through a collaborative effort if the solution contains certain conditions.  Those conditions are a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organization (in our case, Tia).

Tia’s model contains all five of these success criteria and works harmoniously with its training partner, UAG‘s PMC program (Dr. Rico and Dr. Miguelangelo on the left), Municipal and Community Representatives (on the right), other government entities like DIF, other NPOs and local partners.  This collaborative effort is what makes Tia’s model full self-sustaining.  Even if Tia would have to close its doors, the program would continue in perpetuity because of these remarkable, interconnected relationships.

Check out the article yourself at http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/2197.

Give Your Mom Something Better than Flowers!

Honor your mother by helping mothers in Mexico have healthy babies and live long enough to raise them!  New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof in his column on May 4th agrees, “In a few days Americans will celebrate Mother’s Day with roses, chocolates and fine dinners, inducing warm and fuzzy feelings all around. But, in addition, I’ll bet helping mothers less fortunate would also render any mom giddy.”

“If there’s ever a time when the needless deaths of women in childbirth — one every 90 seconds or so somewhere in the world, according to the United Nations — should be on our radar screen, it’s at Mother’s Day. And we know how to save those lives. ”

All you have to do is click on the Donate Now button on the right hand side of this page or mail your tax deductible donation to P.O. Box 36203, Phoenix, AZ 85067.  We are happy to mail your mother an acknowledgment of your generosity.