At PEACE, we know about giving. We’re in the giving business. Giving is POWERFUL, in its application and within the giver. It is only with your generosity that we can support local communities, and we’d like to expose you to our immediate needs in order to fulfill our commitment to them.

Help us Stay at our Casa Campesina Headquarters!

We have a deadline to build a new roof for our headquarters costing $13,000 USD. The Casa Campesina (farmhouse) has been PEACE’s home base for the past three years and was given to us by the local ejido (a native land-owners association.) PEACE has full use of the house in exchange for restorations and we cannot remain here unless we raise $13,000 and repair our leaky roof. Please give whatever you are able and allow us to stay in our community home!

A new roof will provide the necessary dry space for our alternative school, after school program and PEACE Boutique, as well as a usable work space for staff and community members. It is a safe, clean, and friendly environment that adds stability, integrity, and beauty to the Punta de Mita community.

We do not want to uproot our home. PLEASE DONATE whatever you can by clicking here.

Send a Child to Camp!

Experiences at summer camp can shape a life from childhood into adulthood. PEACE is creating lifelong memories for kids in the Bahia de Banderas who often grow up too fast, and in many cases have never been on an athletic team, taken an art class or participated in any kind of organized activity. Our camps not only give them that experience, but allow them the freedom (they may otherwise not have) to just be kids! These kids are the FUTURE – help us empower them!

Last year we had 300 campers! Your donation of $75 USD will send one child to camp for 3 weeks, helping them retain knowledge from the school year, and allowing them to experience a SAFE, POSITIVE and FUN summer!

We cannot fund our camps without your support. Please help us provide this experience for local children by donating here.

Support our Mobile Classroom!

Starting this summer, a traveling classroom will be accompanying our animal clinic to 35 towns! Our fun-loving, bilingual teacher will conduct a literacy-based curriculum about animals and the environment reaching 6,210 kids every year.

In order to educate our youth and continue to spread this powerful message over the course of one year, we need to raise $15,000 USD. Please help us reach our goal by donating here.

EVERYBODY can give, and we need everybody! THANK YOU for being a part of our giving team, and experiencing the power of impacting lives in our community.

Manos Unidas por la Mujer Makes Transition to PEACE Boutique

Manos Unidas por la Mujer (United Hands for Women,) has transitioned from an educational PEACE non-profit program, to what is now the PEACE Boutique, a Mexican art distributor and social enterprise. PEACE Boutique seeks to provide artisans and cooperatives from small communities in Mexico the opportunity to sell their products in stores and markets throughout North America. 100% of generated profits are donated to PEACE.

Officially started in 2007, Peace Boutique has gone through a series of transitions to reach where it is today. When functioning as the Manos Unidas por la Mujer (MU) cooperative, local artists benefited from increased finances, in addition to the over-arching focus on education and camaraderie. Women participated in bi-monthly workshops focused on ecology, self-esteem, parenting and nutrition. Now women who were previously in MU, have the opportunity to start their own business, and use the PEACE Boutique to help distribute and sell their products, increasing their exposure to an international market.

We are so excited about this, as sales opportunities have grown enormously! Artisans can become more financially independent this way, while continuing to attend educational workshops through our Casa Comunidad (Community House) adult education program.

Artists, including many of the same women from the MU cooperative, receive 50% of revenue, allowing them to impact entire communities through their new-found buying power. The change is affording us the opportunity to include other talented artisans similar to Manos Unidas. We are putting a focus on groups that assist artisans in maintaining their cultural identity like the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival in Sayulita, Nayarit and an embroidery group in the mountains of Oaxaca called Chidobueno.

By generating business for these individuals, they can contribute to their families and communities from their homes instead of traveling for work. They can handle fairly substantial levels of production, which creates further sales opportunities and ultimately more financial support for PEACE.

Co-Directors KT Kirkpatrick and Jennifer de la Torre will be traveling to Colorado and New York this summer to introduce the new PEACE Boutique line and develop sales through various public and private events. Venues include the Greenhorn Valley Music Festival in Colorado and the New York International Gift Fair, one of the largest wholesale markets in the world!

With proceeds from the summer festivals, PEACE Boutique will open storefront in Puerto Vallarta upon their return. Due to high rental fees and unstable tourism trends in Punta de Mita, the PEACE Boutique has closed their previous storefront in Anclote, Punta de Mita, and the airport kiosk. Puerto Vallarta is strategically the best place to expose artists and generate sales over the long term. We are very excited about the steps that have been made thus far, and to see these artists succeed worldwide!

From the hands of a Huichol artisan in the Sierra Madre mountains or a fisherman’s wife in Punta de Mita, to the streets of New York City, Mexican artists are now creating peace, one product at a time.



Manos Unidas Por La Mujer hace la transición a PEACE Boutique


Manos Unidas Por la Mujer se ha transformado de un programa educativo sin fines de lucro de PEACE, a lo que hoy es el PEACE Boutique, un distribuidor de arte mexicano y una empresas social. El PEACE Boutique busca proporcionar artesanos y cooperativas de las comunidades pequeñas en México la oportunidad de vender sus productos en las tiendas y mercados de toda América del Norte. 100% de los beneficios generados son donados a PEACE.

Con un comienzo oficial en 2007, PEACE ha pasado por una serie de transiciones para llegar a donde está hoy. Cuando existía la cooperativa artesana Manos Unidas Por la Mujer (MU) artistas se beneficiaron de un aumento en sus ganancias, además del enfoque en la educación y la camaradería. Las mujeres participaron en talleres dos veces al mes centrados en la ecología, la autoestima, la paternidad y la nutrición. Ahora las mujeres que estaban anteriormente en MU, tiene la oportunidad de iniciar su propio negocio, y el uso del Boutique PEACE para ayudar a distribuir y vender sus productos ha aumentando su exposición a un mercado internacional.

Estamos muy entusiasmados con esto, ya que las oportunidades de ventas han crecido enormemente! Los artesanos pueden llegar a ser financieramente más independientes, sin dejar de asistir a talleres educativos a través de nuestro programa educación de adultos, que forma parte de Casa Comunidad.

Artistas, incluyendo muchas de las mismas mujeres de la cooperativa de MU, reciben el 50% de los ingresos, lo que les permite impactar a sus comunidades a través de su poder de compra. El cambio nos está ofreciendo la oportunidad de incluir otros talentosos artesanos similares a las mujeres de Manos Unidas. Estamos poniendo énfasis en los grupos que ayudan a los artesanos en mantener su identidad cultural como el Centro Cultural Huichol en Sayulita, Nayarit y un grupo de artesanos llamado Chidobueno que hace bordados en las montañas de Oaxaca.

Mediante la generación de negocios para estas personas, pueden contribuir a sus familias y a sus comunidades desde sus hogares en vez de viajar al trabajo. Pueden manejar niveles bastante sustanciales de producción, lo que crea oportunidades de ventas adicionales y, finalmente, un mayor apoyo financiero para PEACE.

Co-Directoras Kirkpatrick y Jennifer de la Torre van a viajar a Colorado y Nueva York este verano para presentar la nueva línea del PEACE Boutique y para desarrollar ventas a través de varios eventos públicos y privados. Cedes incluyen el Greenhorn Valley Music Festival en Colorado y el International Gift Fair en Nueva York, uno de los mercados de venta de mayoreo más grandes en el mundo.

Con el ingreso de los festivales del verano, PEACE Boutique abrirá una tienda en Puerto Vallarta. Debido a los altos costos de alquiler y las tendencias inestables del turismo en Punta de Mita, El PEACE Boutique ha cerrado su tienda en El Anclote, Punta de Mita, y el kiosco del aeropuerto. Puerto Vallarta se encuentra estratégicamente en el mejor sitio para exponer los artistas y generar ventas a largo plazo. Estamos muy entusiasmados acerca de los pasos que se han hecho hasta ahora, y de ver a estos artistas tener éxito globalmente.

De las manos de un artesano huichol de la Sierra Madre a las calles de Nueva York, los artistas mexicanos son ahora la creación de la paz (PEACE), un producto a la vez.