Partners’ Inter-American Center for Community Education is established, with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, to promote community education programs that bring citizens together to find solutions to local needs.
The PATH Program – Partners Appropriate Technology for the Handicapped – is created to expand the work in rehabilitation that was started under PREP. PATH resource centers are established in 12 countries over the next five years.
Between the end of 1978 and the end of 1983, Partners’ programs experience a major growth period. The number of government, foundation and corporate sponsors jumps to nearly 80 and the value of partnership projects increases from $10 million to $32 million.