In January 2006, HIP's Board, Leadership Council and Strategic Planning Committee met in Oaxaca, Mexico.  We have posted two papers which were presented during the meetings, "From Potential to Productivity: Remittances, Migrant Organizations, and Development in Mexico" and "US-Mexico Binational Indigenous Migration", as well as a report on Mexican and Uniteds States Civil Society (in Spanish), a presentation from the Institute for Mexicans Abroad with supplemental data, and photos below from the meetings and from a site visit to Bii Dauu, a Zapotec cooperative using traditional organic methods to create handmade rugs.

Board Members Julene Perez Gonzalez, Elsa Holguin, Elisa Arevalo and Helen Dorado Alessi with the head of the Bii Dauu Cooperative.

Maria Teresa Rojas, Elsa Holguin and Miguel Satut participate in a strategic planning session.

Members of the HIP Board, Leadership Council, Strategic Planning Committee and Staff at Monte Alban.

Dolores, who's father runs the Bii Dauu Cooperative, shows off her first weaving which she completed during her break from school.

Hugo Morales of Radio Bilingue, Candido Morales of Institute for Mexicans Abroad, Rufino Dominguez Santos of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations, and HIP Board Member Jorge Villalobos of Cemefi (Centro Mexicano Para la Filantropia) participate in a panel on Transnational Initiatives in Oaxaca.

HIP Board Members Gloria Rubio Cortes and Ron Gallo with strategic planning consultants John Vogelsang and Barbara Taveras.