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Organization: The Tandana Foundation

Based in: United States,   US EIN #: 20-4748423 add to cart Request Info

Quick Facts

To empower individuals of various cultural backgrounds with an increased awareness of the world, other cultures, themselves, and an expanded sense of their possibilities;

To promote positive, caring interactions between people of different backgrounds and encourage consideration and lessening of global inequalities;

To promote respect and responsibility toward one's self, all people, and the Earth.


Focus Areas: Education, Health, Poverty
Countries Served: Ecuador
Mali

Background

Date Founded: 2004
Number of Staff: 2

Description of Services:
We coordinate service projects for groups or volunteer vacations for individuals to contribute to communities in Ecuador or Mali while gaining a deep experience of the local culture and forming relationships with people of different cultures. We also provide scholarships to Ecuadorian students to continue their secondary education. We make small grants to local initiatives in Ecuador and Mali that increase educational opportunities.
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Additional Information

Additional Background Information:
Tandana can tailor service projects and volunteer vacations to meet the needs of groups of all kinds, families, and individuals. These experiences offer visitors to Ecuador or Mali the unique opportunity to be guests rather than tourists, to form cross-cultural friendships, to experience a rich indigenous culture, and to make a difference in the lives of new friends. We can tailor an experience to suit the needs and goals of your group, family, or individual desire to volunteer.


Our goal is to create and nurture real and responsible relationships among people of different cultures. Giving and receiving are inherent parts of those relationships, and contributing to community projects is a great way to make friends. Any foreigner who has worked in an Ecuadorian minga (community work day) knows how that works on the ground! We come to learn and to share.

Tandana is a Quichua word meaning "to gather together" or "to unite" and represents the spirit of our work.

Officers & Board

President:
Hope Taft
President Email: tandanafoundation@yahoo.com
Phone: 614-253-1531
Development Director:
Anna Taft
Executive Director
Email: tandanafoundation@yahoo.com
Phone: 614-595-1864
Volunteer Coordinator:
Anna Taft
Executive Director
Email: tandanafoundation@yahoo.com
Phone: 614-595-1864
Board of Directors and Board of Advisors:
Hope Taft, President
Columbus, Ohio

Jennifer Schlosser, Secretary
Columbus, Ohio

Jim Nelson, Treasurer
Austin, Texas

Doug Capelin
Durango, Colorado

Catherine Dison
Columbus, Ohio


Martin Evans
Portland, Oregon

Laurie Francis
Livingston, Montana

Rick O'Hara
Columbus, Ohio


Jill Rogers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Kyrie Thompson
Portland, Oregon

Elizabeth Weinstein
Cleveland, Ohio

Contact Information

Address:
2483 River Bend Dr.
Spring Valley , OH 45370
United States
Phone: 614-595-1864
Fax:
Email: tandanafoundation@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.tandanafoundation.org

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$300 - Scholarship for an Ecuadorian student
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