Partners

It is both part or our operating philosophy and just common sense that Comunidad actively partners with organizations on both sides of the border. With our small size and limited budget, we utilize whatever resources we can: plus, it's good business and good politics.

Our partnerships are of three types: tribal, Mexican and US. On the tribal side, we work with the tribal councils to identify and prioritize our projects. We don't enforce our idea of what the tribes need: we listen to them. For their part, they realize that they need to prioritize based on collective need, even if it means that their tribal community's needs aren't immediately addressed. And every tribe knows that it needs to provide its own labor for every project that we do with them.

IN MEXICO, the government rewarded our spirit of partnership and cooperation by awarding Comunidad the keys to the city of Ensenada. In addition to DIF (the Mexican Department of Human Services) and ISSESalud (their Department of Health), we work with the following organizations:

  • CUNA: The Native Cultures Institute (CUNA) is a Mexican non-profit association working for the preservation of the native cultures of Baja California.
  • ADESU: An alliance dedicated to sustainable economies and preservation of native cultures for the indigenous of northern Mexico.
  • Casa Hogar: An orphanage in the town of Zorillo that we have supported for the past ten years. Our team, led by Chief Dentist Larry Tabor, DDS and Bill Rush, has just completed a dental clinic there.

STATESIDE, we partner with the following organizations:

  • The 1,000 Smiles Foundation: a non-profit organization focused on care of the less fortunate children in Mexico who suffer from lack of dental care and from maxillo-facial deformities such as cleft palate. 1,000 Smiles gives us the use of their dental clinic in Ensenada four times a year, allowing us to centralize and upgrade the services we provide our tribal patients.
  • Rotary International: Rotary Club of San Jose North, in partnership with the Ensenada chapter, are partnering with Comunidad to develop long-term economic sustenance programs with the tribes. We sponsor bilingual teachers to visit and live with the tribes, where they conduct health, education and infrastructure assessments.

Finally, we are grateful to the following partners:

  • LMN Group: One of Silicon Valley's top design firms, specializing in high tech and business-to-consumer. (Designed the Comunidad website and logo)
  • Eastwick Communications: A top public relations firm specializing in high tech, with accounts ranging from billion-dollar multi-nationals to startups. (Conducts all PR for Comunidad. Developed and implemented this site.)