Skip to main content
Home

El Directorio Guatemala

  • Home
  • Directory
  • Events
  • Members
  • About
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Log in
  • EN
  • ES

Directory

Search keywords:

Filter Your Search

Target populations

  • Girls (20) Apply Girls filter
  • Women (20) Apply Women filter
  • Boys (19) Apply Boys filter
  • Indigenous peoples (17) Apply Indigenous peoples filter
  • Youth (16) Apply Youth filter
  • Men (15) Apply Men filter
  • Elderly (4) Apply Elderly filter
  • Entrepreneurs (3) Apply Entrepreneurs filter
  • Artists (2) Apply Artists filter
  • Disabled (2) Apply Disabled filter
  • Animals (1) Apply Animals filter

Focus areas

  • Education (21) Apply Education filter
  • Leadership/Capacitation (15) Apply Leadership/Capacitation filter
  • Health (12) Apply Health filter
  • Human Rights (12) Apply Human Rights filter
  • Agriculture (10) Apply Agriculture filter
  • Development/Community infrastructure (10) Apply Development/Community infrastructure filter
  • Youth (10) Apply Youth filter
  • Art and culture (9) Apply Art and culture filter
  • Environment (8) Apply Environment filter
  • Children at risk (7) Apply Children at risk filter
  • Family (7) Apply Family filter
  • Water and sanitation (7) Apply Water and sanitation filter
  • Entrepreneurship/Business (6) Apply Entrepreneurship/Business filter
  • Justice (6) Apply Justice filter
  • Civil participitation and policy (5) Apply Civil participitation and policy filter
  • Volunteer/Sustainable travel (5) Apply Volunteer/Sustainable travel filter
  • Energy (2) Apply Energy filter
  • Government (Local or international) (2) Apply Government (Local or international) filter
  • Immigration (2) Apply Immigration filter
  • Inclusion/Special needs (2) Apply Inclusion/Special needs filter
  • Sports (2) Apply Sports filter
  • Animal welfare (1) Apply Animal welfare filter
  • Construction (1) Apply Construction filter
  • Emergency relief (1) Apply Emergency relief filter
  • Housing (1) Apply Housing filter
  • Microfinance (1) Apply Microfinance filter

Department

  • Zacapa (3) Apply Zacapa filter
  • Totonicapán (7) Apply Totonicapán filter
  • Suchitepéquez (5) Apply Suchitepéquez filter
  • Sololá (11) Apply Sololá filter
  • Santa Rosa (6) Apply Santa Rosa filter
  • San Marcos (11) Apply San Marcos filter
  • Sacatepéquez (8) Apply Sacatepéquez filter
  • Retalhuleu (3) Apply Retalhuleu filter
  • Quiché (13) Apply Quiché filter
  • Quetzaltenango (10) Apply Quetzaltenango filter
  • Petén (3) Apply Petén filter
  • Jutiapa (5) Apply Jutiapa filter
  • Jalapa (4) Apply Jalapa filter
  • Izabal (10) Apply Izabal filter
  • Huehuetenango (10) Apply Huehuetenango filter
  • Guatemala (10) Apply Guatemala filter
  • Escuintla (7) Apply Escuintla filter
  • El Progreso (2) Apply El Progreso filter
  • Chiquimula (5) Apply Chiquimula filter
  • Chimaltenango (9) Apply Chimaltenango filter
  • Baja Verapaz (11) Apply Baja Verapaz filter
  • (-) Remove Alta Verapaz filter Alta Verapaz

Organization type

  • Non profit organization (12) Apply Non profit organization filter
  • Registered association (3) Apply Registered association filter
  • Foundation (2) Apply Foundation filter
  • Non-registered organization or association (1) Apply Non-registered organization or association filter
  • Private Company (1) Apply Private Company filter
  • Registered charity (1) Apply Registered charity filter
  • Social enterprise (1) Apply Social enterprise filter
Showing 25 organizations in all target populations, all focus areas, 1 department.

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala

As a fair trade organization, Sharing the Dream works with more than 20 groups of artisans around Guatemala, helping them to improve and sell their products. We operate an Elder Center in Santiago, where we provide meals, medical care, and care to more than 60 Maya elders. We also provide scholarships to a small group of promising students who must attend tutoring sessions, complete volunteer hours, and participate in reading activities in exchange for their scholarship.

View full profile
Women
Girls
Boys
Elderly
Visit website
Education
Human Rights
Entrepreneurship/Business
Art and culture
Development/Community infrastructure
Leadership/Capacitation
Volunteer/Sustainable travel
Contact via email
Sololá (San Lucas Toliman), Chiquimula (San Jacinto), Petén (Flores), Quiché (Chichicastenango), Alta Verapaz (Tamahu)

La Casita Ch'ina'us

Non-registered organization or association

We are a budding community center in the Chaimal Village, San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz. Our small center is constructed with some boards and sheets, with a compacted earth floor, benches made of wood with blocks, a table, and several children, women, and youth from nearby villages who use our space for workshops, storytelling sessions, reading hours, book loans, and some strengthening courses. Our services immediately connect with the communities through programs that promote reading, critical thinking, creativity, and the empowerment of women with cultural relevance.

View full profile
Women
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Artists
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Children at risk
Family
Inclusion/Special needs
Environment
Animal welfare
Art and culture
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz (San Pedro Carchá)

New Sun Road Guatemala

Social enterprise

New Sun Road Guatemala (NSR), is a corporation founded in 2019 that actively works in indigenous communities implementing Digital Community Centers (DCC), which have been funded by USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative, USAID-MujerProspera and Microsoft. The Digital Community Centers generate economic opportunities for indigenous women by providing access to solar electricity, internet connectivity and training programs in digital, financial and leadership skills.

View full profile
Women
Indigenous peoples
Entrepreneurs
Visit website
Education
Energy
Entrepreneurship/Business
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz (Tucurú), Huehuetenango (Nentón)

Asociación para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Cuenca del Lago de Izabal -Sa' Komonil-

Non profit organization

THE ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BASIN OF THE LAKE OF IZABAL" "CODESCLI" and commonly called SA' KOMONIL ASSOCIATION which is a second level organization, civil, formative, educational, non-profit, apolitical and non-religious based, This allows us to interact in order to generate alternatives in the social, environmental, agrarian and productive areas, for the search of a sustainable development and the Good Living that allows to improve the living conditions of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous Communities; achieve an ecological balance and peaceful coexistence with the

View full profile
Men
Indigenous peoples
Human Rights
Justice
Immigration
Development/Community infrastructure
Agriculture
Leadership/Capacitation
Government (Local or international)
Contact via email
Izabal (El Estor), Alta Verapaz (Panzos)

Partner for Surgery

Non profit organization

Partner for Surgery serves with the goal to improve health, empower communities, and overcome barriers. We are on the front lines of medical and surgical care in rural Guatemala focusing on bringing quality health care and surgical solutions to where most impoverished Guatemalans live. Our service model allows us to bridge language, distance, and cultural barriers. And our health promoters, staff, volunteers, and donors all partner to ensure our programs secure the solution each patient needs, from the time we meet them in their communities until we return home with them after surgery.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Elderly
Disabled
Youth
Visit website
Education
Children at risk
Family
Health
Leadership/Capacitation
Volunteer/Sustainable travel
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Quiché, Jutiapa, Sacatepéquez, and 7 more

Asociación para el Desarrollo Rural Integral -ADRI-

Non profit organization

We are a non-profit Guatemalan civil organization, created on March 1, 2010 in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with the purpose of promoting integral community development in rural areas of the country. We have a 100% local work team, dynamic, strengthened and committed to the scope of the development indicators established by the association; with intervention in the municipalities of the departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Quiche.

View full profile
Women
Men
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Health
Environment
Water and sanitation
Development/Community infrastructure
Agriculture
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Quiché

Asociación Futuro Vivo

Non profit organization

Non-profit association, with more than 20 years of work in Guatemala through the Futuro Vivo project, which seeks to provide tools and opportunities for a better future to families in extreme poverty in zone 16 of Guatemala City and in Samac Cobán, Alta Verapaz. A project strengthened by the spirituality of the Carmelite Sisters of the Teaching Missionaries, which provides quality education, food, health, community development, productive workshops, literacy to the families that are part of the project.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Education
Youth
Children at risk
Family
Health
Sports
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Guatemala, Alta Verapaz (Samac)

Fundación Nueva Esperanza Río Negro

Foundation

The Foundation was created in 1996, in the context of the struggle of the survivors of the Rio Negro/Rabinal massacre, to build paths of hope for future generations, especially for the Mayan Achi people.

View full profile
Women
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Children at risk
Human Rights
Justice
Health
Art and culture
Agriculture
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz

FUNDACIÓN TRECE AGUAS

Non profit organization

Fundación Trece Aguas, a non-profit organization that began operations in 2007. Our actions in the communities are carried out in close coordination and collaboration with community leaders and public institutions. Our main purpose is to contribute to improve the living conditions of 24 communities in the municipality of Senahú, Alta Verapaz. For the development and implementation of our programs we rely on donations from Grupo Secacao, which cover administrative and operating costs and contribute to the execution of projects.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Elderly
Youth
Visit website
Education
Health
Water and sanitation
Development/Community infrastructure
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz (Senahu)

CARE Guatemala

Non profit organization

CARE works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. It is a leading global organization with more than 75 years of experience that puts women and girls at the center because it recognizes that poverty cannot be overcome until all people have equal rights and opportunities.

View full profile
Women
Girls
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Education
Human Rights
Entrepreneurship/Business
Environment
Water and sanitation
Agriculture
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Guatemala, Chimaltenango, Sacatepéquez, Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, and 10 more

Fundación Mundo Azul

Non profit organization

Like many other Latin American countries that share the Pacific and Caribbean coastline, Guatemala is experiencing a crisis of development and overfishing, exacerbated by the lack of opportunities, income alternatives and the scarcity of scientific knowledge about the true state of the different fishery resource populations, mainly chondrichthyans. Faced with this situation, Mundo Azul Foundation has initiated its efforts to generate scientific information that advances the level of knowledge about sharks, rays and other fisheries.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Animals
Entrepreneurs
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Environment
Development/Community infrastructure
Agriculture
Leadership/Capacitation
Civil participitation and policy
Contact via email
Guatemala (Guatemala City), Alta Verapaz, Izabal (Livingston), San Marcos (El Quetzalito), Santa Rosa (Las Lisas), and 1 more

Cooperative for Education

Registered charity

Since 1996, Cooperative for Education has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. Our sustainable textbook, computer, reading, and youth development programs have transformed the lives of more than a quarter million students. We empower rural Guatemalan communities to transform their own quality of education, with a focus on evening the playing field for girls, who are typically excluded from education.

View full profile
Girls
Boys
Youth
Visit website
Education
Children at risk
Contact via email
Izabal, Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, El Progreso, and 8 more

Fundación Oxlajuj N'oj

Non profit organization

We are a foundation whose nature is private, non-partisan, non-profit, with social projection and humanitarian assistance.

Our vision is to educate the population through training and research on gender, ethics and human rights issues, promoting sustainable empowerment for the youth and women of the Central American region, shortening gender gaps and reducing violence based on in gender.

View full profile
Women
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Human Rights
Art and culture
Leadership/Capacitation
Civil participitation and policy
Contact via email
Guatemala, Jutiapa, Sololá, Quetzaltenango, Chimaltenango, and 6 more

WINGS/Asociación Alas de Guatemala, ONG

Registered association

Asociación Alas de Guatemala (WINGS Guatemala) is a non-profit organization that provides quality reproductive health education and services to underserved, primarily rural Guatemalan youth, women, and men. 

View full profile
Women
Men
Disabled
Youth
Visit website
Education
Health
Contact via email
Sacatepéquez, Chimaltenango, Sololá, Totonicapán, Quiché, and 11 more

Fundación LuzAgro

Foundation

LuzAgro is a Guatemalan foundation that was created in 2020 in order to improve the quality of life of families and agricultural communities through reliable programs and tools that will promote their development.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Visit website
Education
Health
Agriculture
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Quiché, and 7 more

Food for the Hungry / Fundación contra el Hambre

Non profit organization

Food for the Hungry / Fundación Contra el Hambre is an international non-profit organization that works with the objective of facilitating holistic transformation in 215 communities in Guatemala. We work together with families to build self-sustainable communities in the departments of Alta Verapaz, Quiché and Huehuetenango, focused on ending chronic childhood malnutrition.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Visit website
Education
Children at risk
Family
Human Rights
Health
Entrepreneurship/Business
Water and sanitation
Development/Community infrastructure
Agriculture
Emergency relief
Contact via email
Huehuetenango (Santiago Chimaltenango), Quiché (Chajul), Alta Verapaz (San Juan Chamelco)

Techo en Guatemala

Non profit organization

TECHO is an organization present in 19 Latin American countries, which seeks to overcome the situation of poverty that millions of people live in overcrowded and under resourced settlements, through the joint action of its inhabitants and volunteers.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Youth
Family
Human Rights
Justice
Immigration
Water and sanitation
Construction
Art and culture
Development/Community infrastructure
Agriculture
Housing
Volunteer/Sustainable travel
Civil participitation and policy
Contact via email
Guatemala, Santa Rosa, El Progreso, Quetzaltenango, Sololá, and 8 more

Semilla Nueva

Semilla Nueva fights malnutrition with better corn. We produce and sell high-yielding, climate resilient, biofortified corn to farmers at an affordable cost. Our corn improves farmers’ incomes and the nutrition of their families and corn consumers. The seed contains higher zinc, iron, and protein quality compared to traditional corn and closes dietary gaps for women and children who consume the corn.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Visit website
Health
Agriculture
Contact via email
Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chiquimula, Escuintla, Huehuetenango, and 12 more

Bibliotecas comunitarias Riecken (Fundación Riecken)

Non profit organization

The Riecken Foundation promotes a network of innovative community libraries in Honduras and Guatemala that awaken the spirit of discovery and social participation through activities in the libraries. We have shown that community libraries are essential to a democratic society. Libraries are institutions that citizens use to make informed decisions and reach their full potential. They provide essential knowledge, encourage critical thinking, and encourage self-education and lifelong learning.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Human Rights
Health
Entrepreneurship/Business
Environment
Art and culture
Development/Community infrastructure
Leadership/Capacitation
Contact via email
Izabal (Morales), San Marcos (Tajumulco), Alta Verapaz (San Juan Chamelco), Quiché (Chiché), Quetzaltenango (Huitán), and 3 more

Asociación por Una Vida Digna

Registered association

Asociación Por una Vida Digna trains marginalized community leaders to promote their own development, actively participate in global networks to strengthen civil society organizations, and address citizen security, education and strengthening civil society.

Founded 2012 in Guatemala, as a private, non-profit, non-religious, non-partisan organization with its own assets. With the sole purpose of being a platform that promotes sustainable human development.

View full profile
Women
Men
Girls
Boys
Indigenous peoples
Youth
Visit website
Education
Youth
Children at risk
Human Rights
Sports
Environment
Art and culture
Leadership/Capacitation
Volunteer/Sustainable travel
Civil participitation and policy
Government (Local or international)
Contact via email
Guatemala (Villa Canales), Sololá, Izabal, Quetzaltenango, Zacapa, and 1 more

See more results:

  • 1 of 2
  • next ›
Questions? Email info@directorioguatemala.org
El Directorio Guatemala © 2023. All rights reserved.