Our Partners
Collaboration for Community-Driven Development
Our Partners
Corporate Partners
Because Success Is More than the Bottom Line
Zingerman’s is a world-renowned community of food businesses located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Zingerman’s has supported ATC since 2010.
Business Connect is the water filter distributor for our Mayan Power and Light program. Their mission is to provide citizens living in the Global South with affordable and easy access to clean water through the creation of a sustainable, local business model.
Estufa Doña Dora is a Guatemala-based social business that supplies all the clean cookstoves distributed through our Mayan Power and Light Program.
Academic Partners
Engaging Universities to Harness the Ingenuity and Energy of Youth
University of Michigan partnered with ATC in 2015 to design and test solar food dehydrators that are in use by cooperatives in Guatemala, in 2013 to design a bike-powered shredder for recycled plastics and in 2010 to design mobile medical examination tables for Project Mesa in Nicaragua.
Michigan State University, from 2008-2009 we designed and built a solar vaccine refrigerator. This senior design project was used in India and is estimated to have saved over a million lives. This design received the Edison Prize in 2009.
With two groups of students from University of James Madison, we installed solar power on an un-electrified school in 2017 and a community center in 2018.
University of Mount Union installed solar power on a school and built a low cost house out of bamboo and other natural materials.
SUNY Oneata, Department of Limnology worked with us to assess an aquaculture project and at a permaculture community on the Lake Atitlan watershed.
Rutgers University Engineers Without Borders worked with ATC from 2012- 2014 to design and build a water supply system for Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, a village of 4,500 people.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago helped design solar LED lights in 2012.
Implementing Partners
Working Hand-in-Hand to Pool Resources
Asociación para la Educación e Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Sostenible, from 2014 – 2020 AEIDS has served as our principal partners for operations in Guatemala. Dedicated to research and education for sustainable development, AEIDS served as a platform to test our technologies and programs in Guatemala. Our cooperation with AEIDS led to formalizing the Mayan Power and Light program as an independent non profit organization.
Soluciones Energéticas Apropiadas (SEA) Since 2013, SEA is Mayan power and light’s first solar business and lead partner to educate the public and install solar power in rural communities.
Finca La Florida A permaculture farming cooperative near Colomba, Quetzaltenango where over 45 families produce natural food in the region, yet remain in precarious economic conditions. 2016 Solar Center at their community building carried over to 40 households obtaining solar power at home.
Cooperativa Kuxya A permaculture cooperative near San Lucas Toliman, Solola, is run by 22 young mayan farmers. They have a permaculture demonstration center featuring appropriate technologies – including our solar dehydrators.
Ecologic Development Fund empowers rural indigenous people to restore and protect tropical ecosystems in Central America and Mexico.
Entremundos supports organizations addressing poverty and human rights, transforming them into multiplying agents for sustainable development.
Comite Campesino del Altiplano organizes campesinos as agents of development, promoting human rights and socially responsible business.
The Black Caucus Foundation of Detroit MI and The Boys and Girls Clubs of Highland Park MI hosted ATC for solar energy and circuit classes as part of ATC’s emerging Detroit Solar program.
Foundations
Lasting Relationships with Passionate Supporters
IEEE Foundation supports programs that improve access to technology, enhance technological literacy, and support technical education.
Rotary International provided the crucial financial support for ATC to launch the Mayan Power and Light Essential Technology and Social Ventures program in Guatemala.
The Blossom Fund supports economic justice for women, among other focus areas. They provide operating expense support for the Mayan Power and Light programs.
The Anne and Charles Lindbergh Foundation supports organizations that balance technology and the environment. They helped launch the ATC Solar LED Light Initiative in 2008.
The Clif Bar Family Foundation supports projects that protect Earth’s beauty and bounty. They funded ATC solar education classes for students at the University of Michigan and CECAP in Guatemala.
OUR SUPPORTERS
We have a long time commitment to John and this organization and to John’s family who has so strongly supported him in this work. Also and very importantly the justice focus of this work along with the very creative use of technology and linking it all to oppressed people in the third world as well as here in the U.S./Detroit. One can’t find many giving opportunities as “right-on” as this one.