Local wisdom, global impact.
Building bridges for a thriving planet.
El Puente - meaning "the bridge" in Spanish - is a charitable foundation to support indigenous communities & ecosystems, mainly in their relationship with regenerative projects and enterprises focused on the use of their traditional medicines, always from an intercultural and ecological approach.
El Puente facilitates access and benefit-sharing with Indigenous, Originary Peoples & Nations by making grants and investments into projects owned by, operated by, and supporting native communities & ecosystems, promoting biocultural preservation of ethnobotanical legacies, ecological restoration of endangered areas, environmental education & resilience programs.
Pillars
We are activating a 4 pillar approach of Sovereignty, Education, Regeneration & Reciprocity to reverse the ecological and climate crisis by supporting indigenous lead conservation projects capable of returning our planet's life sustaining ecosystems back to their natural, flourishing state.
El Puente promotes Indigenous sovereignty and inclusion through the recognition of Indigenous rights & territories and implementation of long-term agreements between existing organizations working on the ground to support the needed recovery of indigenous land for reserves, own languages, ancestral life-support systems, policies, & governments.
Sovereignty
El Puente works in the convergence of ancestral wisdom with the new ecological paradigms of science to support the knowledge transfer both ways and the sharing of best practices between bioregion, community, and organization. This includes training, certification, and qualification of local stakeholders to scale up existing projects in their bioregions while maintaining a database of knowledge and essential metrics to support the success of future initiatives. And to develop intercultural curricula from their own worldviews and practices.
Education
El Puente connects, promotes, and sponsors regenerative projects for ecological restoration, agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, large-scale native trees reforestation, and intercultural eco-development.
Regeneration
El Puente aims to make grants and investments focusing on capacity building through Indigenous owned and directed projects, creating opportunities for conversation and collaboration based upon El Puente 4 Pillars, for co-creating ecological & socially responsible business cases for the benefit of each community & ecosystem involved
Reciprocity
Our Partners
Open Impact Platform
We invite you to learn more about El Puente’s pilot projects, view project development and stakeholders, monitor progress and view our metrics dashboard, and engage with our ecosystem partners on the Open Impact Platform. The platform builds the capacity of on-the-ground bioculture efforts and matches nonprofit organizations with the resources they need to scale. Join our central hub for all measurement and tracking of our projects linked to the Amazon Basin.
