There are millions of nonprofit organizations operating all over the world. Unfortunately, most organizations have siloed themselves and have limited cooperation, collaboration, or even communication with other organizations working in their sector, region, and even local community.

Community Enterprise Solutions (CES) has been working in Latin America for more than 15 years. They look to go beyond “teaching a woman/man how to fish” by mobilizing the capacities of individuals, communities and organizations to effectuate sustainable, positive impact in marginalized communities. They have worked with hundreds of organizations in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Ecuador in a variety of ways and methods. They see an opportunity to leverage their network of contacts and organizations to exponentially grow the impact in their communities by facilitating and igniting local collaboration as well as supporting cross border collaboration.

CES is now looking to take the next step towards building a virtual platform for a network of organizations that collaborate, share information, and produce exponential impact within their local community as well as throughout region and world. Their team has taken the first step, working with 35 organizations, to understand what the critical components of creating a platform for both local and cross-border sharing could look like. The team is now looking for assistance in building a model that would allow the organization to implement a ‘nonprofit collaboration platform’ that would capture best practices and create continuity, encourage communication and sharing, catalyze collaboration, and breathe innovation into local communities. In addition, they want to look at how to bring students and professionals in to collaborate from the US and other areas to offer support from a consulting, design, etc perspective to these organizations virtually.