Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Education
Family
Values
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Social Development:
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Education
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| Geographic scope: |
Regional
Latin America and Caribbean
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| Country of activity: |
Colombia
Spain
Uruguay
Argentina
Chile
Mexico
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2012 |
| Organizational structure: |
Grupo Sólido organization is based on the work of its staff and volunteers through four actions: tours, online education, social media and the development of local groups. The staff keeps the cohesion and coordination of all activities and volunteers, making space for local groups proposals. Eight local groups led by volunteers are spread all over Argentina and in other countries such as Spain, México, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Uruguay. Their responsibility is to organize tours, invite professors, develop a relationship with other institutions and local authorities to promote a better understanding of family policies in all branches of our national government. The staff in Buenos Aires helps to this activities providing contacts, information, and once a year organizes a trip to each location to strengthen ties and promote local activities. This trip is a tour where GS staff addresses high school students, debates with college students and usually meets the local authorities. Intellectual formation of the members of GS is an important key in our mission. On a yearly basis the volunteers gather a whole weekend to organize the next year activities and attend classes on sexual education, public speaking and new trends in family policies. Education continues during the year in each group: lectures, closed classes, after-office meetings with relevant personalities, etc. Our latest and hugest success in education has been our two online courses addressing these topics. Online education helps us to reach new places, form local communities, and spread our message in a better way. It also helps the economic sustainability of the NGO as the courses fees are paid by the students who take it, enhancening a more accountable relationship with the public. These courses gathered 65 participants in 2013 and 238 in 2014. For more information: http://gruposolido.org/ega/ Institutional Development of GS is one of its strengths: GS tours are an excellent tool to produce a strong impact on young people (college and high school students), and with local authorities. We've been in Panamá, United States, Chile, Paraguay, España, México and Uruguay; and in more than half of the argentine provinces (at least 23 cities). Online education has become a crucial way to keep in contact with all these people: we have students from 15 different countries in our online courses. Social Media has become a day-to-day tool to inspire young people about the importance of sexual education. We became an important organization in Latin America Facebook community, having reached more than 172.000 likes. In this way we are able to promote our activities, goals and ideas in places we cannot reach, keeping in touch, providing materials to our local groups. Facebook is one of the most popular social media network in Latin America, especially among teenagers. Twitter is also a helpful tool to reach the social media community. For the strategic decisions we rely on two important boards: an International Academic board that helps us to keep up date on social trends, providing us with new data, research and educational course, and an Economic board to help us to improve the use of our resources. This last board is formed by businessmen in Buenos Aires, most of them donors of GS. |
| Number and type of members: |
Grupo Sólido has almost 300 members. 3 members are enthusiastically and full time committed to fulfill the mission and goals of GS: the founder and president of GS, Ignacio Ibarzábal; the executive director, Jaime Martín Grondona, and Mario Alfonzo, the director of operations. Eight groups of 20 volunteers spread all over the country (Buenos Aires, Rosario, Santa Fe, Cañada de Gomez, Córdoba, Tucumán, Jujuy and San Juan); four more in Chile, Spain, México, Guatemala, Colombia and Uruguay. Last, but not least, there are two councils for strategic decisions: the Economic board, formed by ten businessmen who support GS’s mission and the Academic board to give us advice in issues such as relationship with the media, educational development, links with think tanks, universities and other academic institutions. Important figures such as John Finnins (Oxford and Notre Dame), Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard), Robert P. George (Princeton), Helen Alvare (George Mason) and Michael Novak (Ambassador) are part of the Academic Board, as they support our mission. Since the beginning of GS, more than 250 students and young professionals have been involved in our mission and almost 20000 people have attended our conferences. |
| Funding structure: |
Fundraising campaigns
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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