Everyone thanks you for your support and generosity! Welcome to Acaté!
Thank you for taking the time to visit our homepage! We appreciate your interest and support for Amazon conservation and improving the livelihoods of indigenous peoples who protect the Amazon for all of us.
As a non-profit run by an all-volunteer staff, we depend solely on individual donations, institutional donations, and grant applications. We do not take donations from companies involved in Every ounce of time, funding, or support is greatly appreciated.
Helping the last guardians of the rainforest
Since Europeans arrived in America, we’ve continuously lost the indigenous heritage that helped shape the land many of us call home. As we reach deeper and deeper into our tropical rainforests, we are encountering people who’ve tried to flee our reach ever since first contact, and for good reason. They saw their cousins and neighbors die at the hands of Westerners.
Thankfully, with the information, knowledge, and awareness we now have access to, we can help the remaining tribes (both contacted and uncontacted) by helping them improve their self-sufficiency and strengthen their communities.
Our projects involving sustainable production of tropical medicines, a compendium of Matsés knowledge of healing medicinal plants, and permaculture pilot farms are already underway, but only due to the continued support of very few.
We are asking you to contribute in any small, or large, way to ensure that these projects continue so that they serve both the indigenous tribes they are integrated with, and the rainforest at large.
Financial Support
Recurring Donations
Consistent funding is essential to any organization, ours is no different. One-time donations are appreciated and welcome, but recurring donations help us to ensure a more dependable cash-flow for our projects.
One-Time Donations
Any donation is appreciated and very helpful for our all volunteer staff. Your donation will go directly to our work in the field. Our field projects are helping the Matsés people achieve greater social and cultural stability without needing to cave the lures and carrots offered by extractive industries like gold mining, hardwood logging, or petroleum interests.
Purchase an Acaté T-Shirt!
We’ve made a few dozen t-shirts with our organizations logo to help increase awareness here at home. Our shirts are made in the USA, are 100% cotton, and are printed in San Francisco by a small printing studio. We’re asking $45 for the shirts, which includes domestic shipping. For less common sizes, there may be a wait of a month or so if we have to print a
Volunteer Support
Grant Writing, Editing, and Procuring
Individual donations are just a part of fundraising and support, but relying on them solely hamstrings efforts due to the lack of reliability and fluctuations.
Grants are usually larger and more reliable forms of funding for our conservation projects. Our volunteer staff is currently sourcing, drafting, and submitting grants on behalf of our organization and projects.
If you have experience with grant writing, editing, applications, etc., please contact us or call (415.796.0335) today. Any suggestions for potential grant sources are also welcome!
Thank you for your time and interest in our conservation efforts!
The Acaté Team