Action Against Hunger
A world without hunger will never be achieved alone. We collaborate with communities, foundations, companies, governments, and humanitarian partners to achieve zero hunger.

 
Actívate (Get Active)
Actívate is that social tool that seeks, through activations, to inform in an efficient and truthful way the social problems that are experienced in Mexico and allow all people to be part of social change.

 
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a global nonprofit organization providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to over 1,600,000 people in 45 countries.

 
AITE Drawing a Future
AITE’s mission is to enrich at perpetuity the Mexican nonprofit sector strengthening their capacity, leadership and connecting their causes onto international funding to achieve their goals.

 
Angels for Mexico
Angels for Mexico is a non-profit charity that was started in Calgary in 2007. Although initially one of our main programs was the support of emergency service departments in Mexico, we have evolved into something that looks different from this.

 
Banderas Bay Charities, Inc.
We aim to increase educational and economic opportunities that support an improved quality of life by working hand-in-hand with communities and organizations surrounding the Bay of Banderas and beyond.

 
Border Angels - Love Has No Borders
Border Angels is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to the US-Mexican border.

 
Canadian Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation
The CCSHF’s mission is to provide financial, material, and volunteer support to children and their families in the Bay of Banderas.

 
Casa Huichol
Huichol Health House is the AICAW AC assistance project where 2nd and 3rd level Wixaritari patients are supported with orientation, rehabilitation and medications.

 
Center for Victims of Torture
We provide a bridge between torture victims, the local community and society as a whole, working to restore the dignity of the human spirit one survivor at a time.

 
Charity Navigator
Since 2001, we’ve been empowering millions of donors by providing them with free access to data, tools, and resources to guide philanthropic decision-making.

 
Charity: Water
charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. The water crisis is massive, but together, we can solve it.

 
Childrens Shelter of Hope Foundation
This primary purpose of this organization is to support the needs of children and families living in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, area through direct cash grants and donations of needed equipment or items.

 
Circle of Concern
Have you ever considered going on a mission trip but decided it is too risky, too much planning, too far, too much money? Bucerias is an outreach that will provide you with an awesome ministry opportunity without any of the concerns.

 
CivilTalk
Help your local community and those around the world by connecting with good samaritans, nonprofits, and other organizations dedicated to helping those in need.

 
Colectivo 50+1
We are a group of women politicians, academics and specialists with extensive experience and knowledge with the purpose of generating, supporting and promoting mechanisms for the empowerment of women.

 
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. We defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal.

 
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
CARE works through partners in Mexico to further the rights of domestic workers and is working on an application to further this goal of improving the economic, social and labor conditions of paid domestic workers.

 
Corazon - Building Something Life Changing
Corazon is an active group of committed volunteers that build homes and open doors for youth, adults, and communities for our neighbors in Mexico.

 
Democrats Abroad Mexico
The Costa Banderas chapter of Mexico Democrats Abroad represents US citizens residing in Puerto Vallarta, as well as in the emerging, new gringo "colonies" located just to the north of the well-known tourist resort in the state of Nayarit.

 
Eagles Wings Foundation
The Eagles Wings Foundation offers economic assistance to civil institutions in Puerto Vallarta, the Bay of Banderas and Cabo San Lucas, helping them to accomplish their goals, with a focus on providing financial support to organizations and services that benefit children.

 
Equality Now
Our mission is to achieve legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world. We aim to live our mission through the feminist principles of equality, anti-discrimination, inclusion, autonomy, and dignity.

 
Expats in Vallarta
The motivation for Expats in Vallarta came from Sara and Mike Wise’s experiences searching for the perfect place to spend the next chapter of their lives. They were tired of the past harsh winters and wanted to live in a tropical paradise.

 
Firefighters Without Borders
Firefighters without Borders is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting fire departments around the world in need of specific skills, training or resources.

 
Fly For Good - Volunteers Discounted Travel
Their mission is to create opportunities for non-profits to save money on travel and other professional services, and connect with like minded organizations and volunteers.

 
Fundacion Carmen Sanchez MX
The Carmen Sanchez Foundation was born with the aim of preventing, treating, eradicating, investigating and punishing attacks with corrosive substances on Mexican women for situations related to sexist violence.

 
GayPV • Discover • Play • Explore
Launched in 2011, GayPV is Puerto Vallarta’s favorite gay visitor publication and destination website. GayPV was the first LGBTQ publication officially recognized by Puerto Vallarta Convention & Visitors Bureau.

 
Give A Mile
Give A Mile is a group of dedicated volunteers who strongly believe in the power of visits from loved ones for people in palliative or critical condition.

 
Habitat for Humanity Mexico
Government estimates state that one million families live in substandard housing, but these calculations do not include the many families who rent rooms or live cramped inside another family members home, as do many of the families that Habitat for Humanity serves.

 
Hand Me Ups
Hand Me Ups obtains support from clothing brands and manufacturers who generously give their new, excess, unsold stock to be donated to millions of children around the world in a state of poverty.

 
His Will His Way Ministries Puerto Vallarta
Dennis & Faye Janson are active missionaries in Mexico, teaching English at Casa Hogar Orphanage. They need donations, sponsors and volunteers.

 
I Need to Abort Network
We are a group of women convinced that access to a safe abortion is a right that should be available to everyone, regardless of the entity in Mexico where you live.

 
Information Group on Reproductive Choice
Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida or “GIRE” is a feminist organization, whose mission is to achieve a cultural transformation in Mexico through the demand for reproductive justice, from a human rights perspective.

 
Integral Planet
Integral Planet is a media production business with a focus on environment, nature conservation and energy issues. They produce coordinated visual media materials that integrate video programs with the Internet in order to maximize public participation and learning.

 
International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent organization working to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world.

 
Kiva - Make a Loan, Change a Life
We envision a financially inclusive world where all people hold the power to improve their lives. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone’s life.

 
Las Libres
We are a feminist organization founded in 2000, to promote and defend the human rights of women, to demand the fulfillment and guarantee of all rights for all women throughout the country.

 
Mexi-Can Vet Project
Mexi-Can Vet Project comes to Mexico from Canada to participate in spay and neuter clinics in Jaltemba Bay, Nayarit, and also sponsors the Adopt a Dog from Mexico Program.

 
MOVii Mexico
MOVii is an organization committed to equality and the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community. We work to promote inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination in all its forms.

 
Network for Good
Network for Good helps small nonprofits cultivate donor relationships and advance their missions with simple, smart fundraising software, personal coaching, and online resources.

 
New Beginnings Mexico
New Beginnings is a non-profit ministry to improve the life of the less fortunate in Mexico. They provide physical, educational, spiritual and community service support. They need your help of time, supplies or donations.

 
Optics for the Tropics
Optics for the Tropics is committed to saving our shared birds and the many migrants from Canada and the United States which depend on the same tropical highland forests in Mexico needed by highly threatened resident species.

 
Oscar’s Place Adoption Center & Sanctuary
Have you ever wanted to save the life of an innocent creature? It takes a special kind of person to find the strength to care for something that can never repay the kindness. Right now donkeys are in crisis and need help from humans that care.

 
Outreach International
Since 1979, Outreach International has facilitated community-led development to sustainably address poverty-related issues worldwide.

 
Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF)
Overseas Vote Foundation helps overseas and military voters participate in US federal elections. We do this by providing public access to innovative voter registration tools and services. The OVF goal is to make it easy for you to get your ballot and vote.

 
Partners in Flight
Partners in Flight was launched in 1990 in response to growing concerns about declines in the populations of many land bird species, and in order to emphasize the conservation of birds not covered by existing conservation initiatives.

 
Planet Water Foundation
We are a non-profit organization focused on alleviating the global water crisis by bringing clean water access and water-health and hygiene education programs to the world’s most impoverished communities.

 
R3D: Digital Rights Defense Network
Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) is a Mexican organization dedicated to the defense of freedom of expression, privacy, access to knowledge and free culture in the digital environment.

 
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Reporters Sans Frontières is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information.

 
S.A.C.R.E.D. Using Spirits to Improve Lives
SACRED is a not-profit corporation and 1% for the Planet Nonprofit Partner that helps improve lives in the rural Mexican communities where heritage agave spirits are made.

 
Survival International: Uncontacted Tribes
Over 100 tribes around the world choose to reject contact with outsiders. They are the most vulnerable peoples on the planet. This is their story.

 
Therapies Unite
Therapies Unite works with disabled children and adults with musculoskeletal and neurological problems to improve their mobility and provide them with access to healthcare that they would otherwise not be able to afford.

 
Vallarta Consular Agencies
Should you require consular assistance or face an emergency, please contact your Canadian or United States Consular Agencies in Puerto Vallarta. They are there to help.

 
Vallarta Trans Collective
Colectivo Vallarta Trans is a non-profit organization that fights to promote equal opportunity, respect, and dignity for all transgender people in our community.

 
Voluntarias Judeo Mexicanas
We are a group of women concerned about the welfare of our country. We selflessly help society on behalf of the Jewish community in Mexico.

 
Vote From Abroad
Vote From Abroad has one goal - to make sure every US citizen abroad has the information and tools you need to easily vote from abroad.

 
Vote.org
Vote.org uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase nonpartisan voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy.

 
Water Mission International
Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing countries and disaster areas.

 
Women Donors Network
Women Donors Network (WDN) is a national network of women with power and the courage to wield it to build a just world.

 
World Child Cancer
World Child Cancer improves cancer treatment for some of the world’s poorest children who live in low and middle income countries.

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