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A mini revolution in Latin America: centering a human rights NGO’s funding model on the local community – It can be done!

Can a human rights organization in Latin America free itself from the traditional model of financial sustainability that depends nearly 100% on international funders? Yes, it can. Español

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Can a human rights organization in Latin America free itself from the traditional model of financial sustainability that depends nearly 100% on international funders? Yes, it can. At the Buenos Aires-based Legal and Social Studies Centre (CELS) we have exciting, incipient but concrete evidence to show that this is, indeed, possible.

And the changes we’re making in our financial sustainability model have both provoked and accompanied shifts in our model of activism toward much greater mobilization of and alliances with new social actors, with growing synergies between the two.