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The Ecumenical Program in Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA) describes itself as a faith-based organization in solidarity with the poor of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. It is the publisher of Voices and Images: Mayan Ixil Women of Chajul, the book on which MBF Program Committee member M. Brinton Lykes collaborated.

The Funding Exchange is our "parent" organization. Founded in 1979, it is a national network of fifteen regional foundations and a $3 million national program making grants to a broad spectrum of organizations engaged in progressive social change. Grants from the Funding Exchange are made through three activist-advised funds and a number of donor-advised funds.

Grassroots International recently facilitated the Martín-Baró Fund's support of an oral history project at the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine. GRI supports a variety of progressive development projects throughout the world.

The Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago offers an essay prize to its students in memory of Ignacio Martín-Baró, who received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University. The essay must deal with human rights issues, but need not focus on Latin America. Some of the winning essays for the past few years can be read on this website.

Ignacio Martín-Baró: Leader of a College Under Fire is a 1984 interview conducted at MIT by David P. Hamilton.

The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador: A Research Guide was compiled by the St. Peter's College Library.

Liber-accion is a web-based journal published by a network of psychologists and mental health workers who are committed to pursuing a psychology that responds to the realities of marginalized communities, and identifying the resources that they bring to the liberation and transformation of their individual and collective lives. In the tradition of Ignacio Martìn-Baro, the work published in Liber-accion should be of interest to donors as well as recipients within the Martin-Baro Fund community.

Memorial Fund Aids Oppressed Around the World is a 1996 article from the Boston College Chronicle describing the founding of the Martín-Baró Fund by, among others, BC faculty Ramsay Liem and M. Brinton Lykes.

The Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico has profiles of Martín-Baró and the other UCA martyrs, as well as a moving commemorative speech by U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) on the anniversary of their murder: "Over a decade ago, the Jesuits of the UCA taught me that a life commiteed to social justice, to protecting human rights, to seeking the truth is a life filled with meaning and purpose. I hope my life will be such a life..."

School of the Americas Watch has fought for years to focus public attention on the U.S. Army's so-called School of the Americas, where many of the soldiers who carried out the UCA murders were trained. The group's founder, Father Roy Bourgeois, was honored for his work at last year's MBF fall event.

The University of Central America, José Simeon Cañas, where Ignacio Martín-Baró taught, and where he was murdered, has a website commemorating the fallen Jesuits.

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English to Spanish translations
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