Articulate Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to potentiate the impact of Civil Society Organizations in Latin America through the identification of needs, capacity building and connection between them and with key actors.

Reimagine the way in which Civil Society organizations achieve social transformation under a resilient, collaborative, innovative and articulated look.

The Articulate Foundation works through three key competencies or mandates that make up a comprehensive methodology to achieve social transformation.

Articulate Foundation Investigates
International cooperation, the strengthening of civil society organizations (OSC) and the public sphere require research, identification of trends, systematization of best practices, among others. Making correct problem statements is the key to the development of successful actions and generating shared knowledge of such actions presents an added value to CSOs to become competitive and sustainable; we work in:

Articulate Foundation Power
We believe that all civil society organizations (CSOs) have the capacity to generate added value in their area of expertise. However, it is well known that the dynamics of CSOs generally tend to be poorly planned and in some cases with opportunities for professionalization. The origin of many of these organizations is due to the motivations and wishes of activists with a desire to change their environment, but who do not necessarily have previous experience in project management, fundraising, personnel management, defense and protection in vulnerable environments, among other factors, not predominant, but determinants in the quality execution of the projects.
In adverse contexts, the availability of existing funds, as well as the organizations' access to them, can be affected by duplication of efforts, little coordination of efforts on the ground, and the need to have a trusted entity that understands their dynamics. and facilitate your organizational processes to generate change. In this sense, we want to highlight even more the talent of these organizations that are already generating an impact, through the strengthening of their capacities and generating a resilient and sustainable model to achieve an articulated community of cooperation with the best standards of quality, efficiency and transparency. We achieve this by providing support to CSOs in four aspects:

Articulate Foundation Connect
We are convinced that collaborative work between civil society organizations allows results to be achieved in the face of common problems, which each of the parties separately could not fully assume. We offer the various actors of international cooperation (civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, donors and international cooperation agencies) a methodology to build relationships of trust and efficiency to work on the issues of Human Rights, Democracy and Sustainable Development in Latin America.

During the last few years Articulate Foundation has played a support role for allied organizations in adverse contexts such as Venezuela, supporting them in the process of articulation and coordination between them and for an effective response, as well as, in obtaining and accessing international cooperation funds and in accountability processes so that they can carry out their work, reflecting on the state of democracy and human rights in the Americas. Likewise, Articulate Foundation has served as a coordination platform between donors and allied organizations to achieve important advances in the field of advocacy for democracy, human rights and citizen participation. As an outstanding aspect, the organization has the status of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) 501c tax code, which has facilitated the process of obtaining subsidies. Thanks to the consortium methodology with the aforementioned organizations, the following achievements can be highlighted:

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Latin American civil society organizations have been financially benefited by international development cooperation; through our experience, strengths and capabilities for the identification, formulation and international management of projects.

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Latin American civil society organizations have been trained in tools for the defense of human rights, which include the identification of violations, the documentation of cases, as well as the formal exercise of denunciation and finally disclosure.

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We have served as partners and representatives of consortia of Latin American civil society organizations in more than 50 projects, offering safe environments and with the capacity to maintain transparent and auditable administrative processes.

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Countries where we have built a platform for attention, accompaniment and monitoring of Latin American civil society organizations

• Coalition of civil society organizations in authoritarian environments in Latin America.

Objective:

Identify, explore and propose strategies and tools so that civil society in the Latin American region can prepare, anticipate and challenge in an articulated and coordinated manner attacks on both democratic institutions and processes, as well as civic space.

• Promotion and defense of the right to political participation of Venezuelans inside and outside Venezuela for the 2024 and 2025 electoral processes.

Objetive:

Articulate civil society organizations (CSOs) to promote and defend the right to political participation and citizen organization processes of Venezuelans inside and outside Venezuela in view of the 2024 presidential and 2025 parliamentary elections.

• Permanent lobbying before international bodies on the human rights situation in adverse contexts in Latin America (with emphasis on Colombia and Mexico).

Objetive:

Systematically support the international lobbying of Venezuelan human rights and humanitarian organizations before the European Union and its institutions (Parliament, EU Council, Commission and Foreign Action Service); the governments of the European Union (chancelleries), plus Switzerland, Norway and England; the UN human rights system (Geneva) and the embassies of UN member countries (delegations to the UN in Geneva), the ILO and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

• Effective coordination of civil society organizations through knowledge management and exchange of good practices

Objetive:

1. Donor Directory. (Previously Posted)
2. CSO Board – We seek to understand what value it is for CSOs to be on the board.
3. Identification of key/priority issues/trends in Latin America (emphasis on adverse environments for CSOs and civic space).
4. What is the impact of international cooperation in Latin America?
5. Democracy: research to generate proposals to strengthen response mechanisms in the face of threats to democracies.