Prospera Development Foundation
We build for Latin America.
young people without professional networks
youth unemployment in rural Colombia
hectares of forest lost per year in Latin America
of global philanthropy reaches the region
ILO, DANE, FAO, Candid
Selvitas
Forest restoration and community development in rural Colombia. Carbon finance, agroforestry, and land tenure for the families who steward the land.
selvitas.com →YouthAtlas
An AI platform that matches young people to scholarships, fellowships, and internships worldwide. Free and updated daily.
youthatlas.com →Expedicion Jaguar
A documentary following scientists and Indigenous communities in Colombia's tropical forests as they fight to protect jaguar corridors.
expedicionjaguar.com →The Environmental Measurement Lab develops open, reproducible methods for measuring conservation outcomes on tropical working lands. We combine satellite and drone remote sensing, field plots from partner coffee cooperatives in Colombia, and causal inference. Outputs are working papers, open datasets, and open code.
Environmental Measurement Lab →Prospera believes the most undervalued resource in Latin America is the willingness to build. Research accumulates. Conferences convene. Reports circulate. And still, the institutions that could act on all of it remain scarce.
Prospera was founded to be one of those institutions. We work where conservation meets community, where technology meets access, where stories meet the people living them. Latin America has everything it needs. It just needs more people building.
Founded by Federico Perez, Colombian conservation strategist and dual-degree candidate at Yale University.
federicoperez.co →