Partners connects people and institutions across and within the Americas to create lasting solutions to the hemisphere’s toughest challenges through its Chapters, development projects, and exchange programs.
Explore our map below to learn about Partners’ current Chapters and programs by country.
Regions
Bolivia
Partners has been working in Bolivia since 1964, when our first Bolivia Chapter was founded. For 50 years, Partners has advanced justice and equality across the country, empowering citizens to be advocates for justice reforms, raising awareness about the impact of gender-based violence and training officials in the justice system to serve victims of gender-based violence. Since 2012, health professionals working on the diagnosis and treatment of autism have led seminars and presented new methodologies for families with autistic children throughout Bolivia.
Chapters
- Capítulo de Cochabamba
Overview
The Cochabamba Chapter is a volunteer strategy of Partners of the Americas in Bolivia, an institution created for the social development of the communities and has as its axis volunteers from different professions and interests in different areas.
The volunteer work is promoted from various subcommittees, such as art and culture, health, education, women and family, emergency prevention, rehabilitation, and special education, agriculture, sports, volunteer school, justice network, environment, teachers in residence and others. It was initiated in 1964.
The purpose of the partnership is to contribute to a healthy society, promoting human development through volunteering with social participation, community management and networking.
The Chapter works with volunteers and interested institutions such as universities and institutions of special education and rescue, agricultural production, prevention of family violence, arts, culture, languages, training, formation of young leaders, higher education, environment and recovery of green areas, rescue and salvage. It also carries out north-south exchanges with experts in different areas.
Leadership
Chapter Email: BO.Cochabamba.Capitulo@partners.net
Position Name Contact Information* President Elvia Claure Orellana Contact Vice President Danitza Choque Contact Treasurer Noelia Alejandra Colque Mercado Contact Secretary Clelia A. Calani O. Contact *(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!)Useful Links
(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!) - Capítulo de La Paz y el Altiplano
Overview
Leadership
Chapter Email: BO.LaPaz.Capitulo@partners.netPosition Name Contact Information* President Gary Limachi Contact Vice President Maria Patricia Espinoza Oretea Contact Secretary Liez Gutierres de Millares Contact *(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!)Useful Links
(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!) - Capítulo de Santa Cruz
Overview
Leadership
Chapter Email: BO.SantaCruz.Capitulo@partners.net
Position Name Contact Information* President Blanca Elena Saldaña Gil Contact Vice President Emilse Karol Aguilera Senzano Contact Secretary Ysabel Goitia Tórrez Contact Secretary Cesar Javier Perez H. Contact Treasurer Ytalo Sander Rocha Chino Contact Sub-Committee Coordinator Isaac Terceros Contact Secretary of Communications and Sports Marioly Limpias Serrano Contact Secretary of Culture Jenny Ingrid Montaño Mariscal Contact Secretary of Environment Martina Silvia Saldaña Gil Contact Secretary of Health Jorge Enrique Ibernegaray Urquidi Contact Secretary of International Relations Miguel Arrazola Gutierrez Contact *(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!)Useful Links
(Users must have a PartnersConnect account to access - log in or create one today!) - PartnersCampus Universidad Mayor de San Simón
100,000 Strong in the Americas
The 100,000 Strong in the Americas (100K) Innovation Fund expands opportunities for higher education institutions to create partnerships and launch innovative student exchange and training programs. This opens access to underrepresented student populations, improves workforce development training, increases public-private investment, and strengthens people-to-people ties between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative equips and builds a thriving, skilled workforce across the Americas through multi-sector partnerships and innovative regional education collaboration. Equipping students with technical and linguistic skills through exchange programs, 100,000 Strong helps develop a more skilled workforce and strengthens regional economies. In 100,000 Strong, the U.S. Government, the private sector and regional governments, and higher education institutions work together to strengthen regional prosperity and U.S. economic security.
$9.8million in grants awarded25countries and 49 U.S. states and territories benefited from grant programs572higher education institutions formed partnerships for international collaboration7,100+student and faculty beneficiaries
