Which NGOs have creative fundraising ideas?

1. CEFOCINE (Guayaquil, Ecuador) trains children and adolescents in the production of cinema and video. Their productions are of such high quality that some companies, municipalities and other NGOs have asked them for advice in making institutional videos. Contact Marivel Ruíz, cefocine@gu.pro.ec
   
   
2. Fundação Abrinq (São Paulo, Brasil) is one of the few foundations in Latin America which is funded through Brasilian sources. They have created an impressive network of small and large businesses which give money and other resources to NGOs working with children. Their model is well worth copying.
   Contact Itamar Batista Gonçalves, itamar@fundabrinq.org.br
   
   
3. Se essa fua fosse minha (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) secured its first funding through collaboration with certain Brasilian musicians. Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Xuxa, and Caetano Veloso, for example, record songs about street children and donate their profits to this NGO..
   Contact César, sessarua@visualnet.com.br
   
   
4. La Luciérnaga (Córdoba, Argentina) has 400 boys and girls who publish and sell 50,000 copies of a magazine (whose content concerns the lives of poor chidren) for US$1 each. They keep 75% of the receipts (a good job in this city) -- the remaining 25% goes for paying for printing, for the school run by La Luciérnaga, and for salaries for any professionals involved. Probably the most important result achieved in this project has been to change the public´s image of street children in Córdoba. People no longer view these children as a nuisance but rather as dedicated workers and as human beings.
   Contact Eliana Lacombe <elilacombe@yahoo.com>
   
   
5. Albergue Infantil de Irapuato (Irapuato, México) works with commerce students at Tec de Monterrey to fund small scale entreprises which donate their profits to this shelter. .
   Contact José Ramón Díaz de León albergue_99@yahoo.com
   
   
6. Casa de Passagem (Recife, Brasil) operates a shop in a large commercial centre where they sell clothes made by students in their workshop.
   Write Antônio Correa, Coordinador executivo, antonio@casadepassagem.org.br
   
   
7. Edelac (Escuela de la calle, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) receives more than half of its annual budget
   from Quetzaltrekkers, a tourism entreprise run by North American and European volunteers. This entreprise donates all its profits to Edelac and establishes connections with donors. They also provide training to children wish to become environmental guides-this kind of work is the most sought after in Quetzaltenango.
   Contact Guadalupe Pos, asoedelac@xela.net.gt
   
   
8. La Asociación Ayuda a un Niño (Caracas, Venezuela) serves 100 street children in 10 shelters without depending on funding from institutions. Its funding comes from private individuals and companies who are impressed by its transparency and the creative ideas of its founder.
   Contact Irma de Schoffel, asoayudanino@mipunto.com
   
   
9. El Caracol (Ciudad de México) collaborates with theUniversidad Autónoma de México by offering deplomas in street education. In addition to sharing its wealth of knowledge, this program provides important income for the program.
   Contact Martín García Pérez, Director, caracol@supernet.com.mx
   
   
10. Acción Educativa (Santa Fe, Argentina)
    La Casita, a health programme for poor women and children earns part of its funds through selling birth control tablets. Thanks to the fact that the woman are given primary health care training and that access to health facilities is easy in Argentina, they are allowed to prescribe these tablets and are able to buy them for very little thus benefitting La Casita and all women in the community.
    Contact Carlos Zagni accioneducativa@ciudad.com.ar