Partners
ACTS is 100% reliant on people-power.
People fuel our success. They are the Hondurans who participate in and lead projects, our friends, family, and neighbors who contribute funds to buy what’s needed for projects, and the many other organizations who bring expertise, connections, and resources. Thanks everyone - you are what makes it possible.
Active Partner Organizations
The Children’s Initiative: ACTS has partnered and collaborated on several educational projects with The Children’s Initiative, based in Portland, Maine and directed by Charlie Miller. In 2022, The Children’s Initiative and ACTS began discussions to combine efforts and resources in a more formal and sustained manner.
Partners of the Americas: Founded in 1964, PoA is a non-profit based in Washington DC that endeavors to “match resources, knowledge and passion to need... and develop lasting solutions to our hemisphere’s toughest challenges, together.” When PoA was in its early years, the State of Vermont was partnered with the country of Honduras. In 2017, PoA helped to support the Vermont Honduras Partners Conference organized by ACTS in Vermont that brought together several non-profits based in Vermont that work with Hondurans.
The Rotary Club of Hanover: The Rotary Club of Hanover has provided both financial support and volunteer support for a number of specific projects.
The Dr. Margo Krasnoff Fund: In honor of Dr. Margo Krasnoff’s passion for supporting ACTS and Hondurans, The Fund continues her legacy providing financial support with an emphasis on health related projects.
Restoring Vision: Thanks to Restoring Vision, ACTS has been able to provide free reading glasses to hundreds of Hondurans in El Rosario and the surrounding villages. Restoring Vision is an NGO devoted to providing vision care in impoverished communities. In addition to supplying high quality low cost reading glasses they supply tools and guidance for screening and dispensing the glasses. Hundreds of Hondurans now have the ability to read, cook, sew, fix tools, and perform any task that requires near vision.
The Zondervan Foundation: The Zondervan Foundation has provided multiple grants over more than a decade, usually related to literacy and putting books in the hands of people who have never had the chance to use a book to learn something interesting. From toddlers to adults, everyone in the ACTS catchment area has access to books thanks to their work.
Associates
Academy of Dentistry International • Alice Peck Day Hospital • Antioch New England College • Coverys Foundation • Dartmouth Cancer Center • Dartmouth College • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center • Engineers Without Borders • Geisel School of Medicine • Gifford Memorial Hospital • Keene State College • New Holland Apparel • Norris Cotton Cancer Center • Simmons College • Sustainable Harvest International • The Center for Genomics and Advanced Testing at Dartmouth • The Lyme Bargain Barn • The United Church of Dorset (Vermont) • University of New Hampshire
The Honduran PESCA program of Dr. Suyapa Bejarano’s well-trained medical students provide essential study personnel and are the front-line people interacting directly with the study participants. Above, a truck full of men arrives for the Men’s Jornada where they were screened for five cancers.
To prepare teens for health decision making, ACTS conceived a program called Taking Care of You for 72 students. We are grateful to the Dr. Margot Krasnoff Foundation for funding. Hondurans César Alas MD and Karla Molinaro MD developed and are evaluating the curriculum. The series began with Taking Care of Moms for post-partum mothers.
ACTS' U.S.-based cancer partner is Dartmouth Cancer Center; in Honduras, it is La Liga Contra el Cancer. The medical students in Dr. Suyapa Bejarano's Honduran PESCA program are the front-line people interacting with the study participants. Above, a truck full of men arrives for the Men’s Jornada where they were screened for five cancers.
The Dartmouth Center for Global Oncology’s Mary Chamberlin MD onsite in El Rosario briefing the PESCA group of Honduran medical students who will serve as study personnel for a Women’s Jornada to screen for cancer.
The Yoro Public Hospital is a key provider for residents of the ACTS catchment area. ACTS contributes materials and funds, most recently to finish this maternity dormitory that houses women pre- and post-partum in a safe location where they are examined daily and relax and rest before returning home with a new baby to a houseful of responsibilities.
With research led by Gregory Tsongalis PhD, DHMC Pathology has been critical to research with ACTS. We learned what high-tech equipment could function in that environment, how to find workarounds to could replace expensive devices, and identified new knowledge about high-risk HPV in Honduras compared to the U.S., Tanzania, and Kosovo.