Social Business in Immigrant-Sending Regions.
The Interamerican Foundation is an independent agency of the US federal government. In 2004 the IAF granted a donation to MIDE-ac to promote the creation of social businesses in regions of Mexico that are represented by migrant organizations in the US. Through this representation, MIDE facilitates transnational and inter-regional alliances in order to support projects that generate income and employment.
The objectives of the program are as follows: to increase the income of families and to develop and replicate a social business model in which Mexican community-based groups and their migrants in the United States are represented. The program offers training, technical assistance, promotion, and marketing studies with an emphasis on local, regional, and transnational alliances in order to support local economic development.
MIDE-ac will replicate this social business model with other community-based groups in other regions of Mexican states with high levels of migration, where ties with the communities’ migrants in the United States already exist. MIDE-ac will develop materials that document and analyze the formation of social businesses in regions with high out-migration. These materials will be used as a form of support for other organizations interested in migrants and their communities of origin.
The objectives of the program are as follows: to increase the income of families and to develop and replicate a social business model in which Mexican community-based groups and their migrants in the United States are represented. The program offers training, technical assistance, promotion, and marketing studies with an emphasis on local, regional, and transnational alliances in order to support local economic development.
MIDE-ac will replicate this social business model with other community-based groups in other regions of Mexican states with high levels of migration, where ties with the communities’ migrants in the United States already exist. MIDE-ac will develop materials that document and analyze the formation of social businesses in regions with high out-migration. These materials will be used as a form of support for other organizations interested in migrants and their communities of origin.