THE INSTITUTIONS THAT DEFINE THIS WORK
These are not sponsorships. They are the institutional thresholds where Legacy Projects meet diplomatic access.
Government & Diplomatic
Smithsonian
Government & DiplomaticThe world’s largest museum and research complex. Project authors engage the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo—not as visitors, but as practitioners whose Legacy Projects intersect with collections that archive the hemisphere’s scientific, cultural, and artistic record.
Embassy of the Dominican Republic | Washington DC
Government & DiplomaticWhere Futuro projects find diplomatic voice—amplifying Futuro innovation into policy conversations that shape the Caribbean & beyond.
Organization of American States (OAS)
Government & DiplomaticThe principal hemispheric forum for multilateral political dialogue. FUTURO has convened at OAS headquarters for G20 sideline sessions and diplomatic engagements, connecting project authors with the institutional machinery of hemispheric governance—where policy is not discussed in the abstract but authored in real time.
Embassy of Mexico | Washington DC
Government & DiplomaticFor years, the Embassy of Mexico in Washington has been a genuine collaborator—where Futuro projects are presented, diplomacy is forged, & hemispheric collaboration comes alive.
US Library of Congress
Government & DiplomaticThe world’s largest library and the institutional memory of the hemisphere. Project authors access its 173 million items not as researchers browsing a catalog, but as authors engaging a living archive whose Hispanic Division and inter-American collections provide the documentary foundation for Legacy Projects with cross-border reach.
Embassy of Panama | Washington DC
Government & DiplomaticOur bridge to the isthmus—where we’ve long presented Futuro projects, and where in 2026 we will host Futuro MMXXVI | City of Knowledge, uniting local impact with global vision.
G20
Government & DiplomaticThe premier forum for international economic cooperation. BeNeXT has participated in G20 sideline events, positioning project authors and their Legacy Projects within the world’s most consequential conversations about economic policy, development, and hemispheric integration.
Biblioteca Vasconcelos
Government & DiplomaticMexico's monumental public library and one of the most ambitious civic-cultural institutions in the Americas. Operating under the Secretaría de Cultura, the Biblioteca Vasconcelos serves as a living archive of Mexican letters and a public threshold where the country's intellectual record opens to every citizen. For Futuro project authors, the library represents what Mexico has built on the scale of a national cultural commitment — a counterpart in Mexico City to the Library of Congress in Washington.
Academic Institutions
Georgetown University
Academic InstitutionsThe intellectual anchor of FUTURO in North America. Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and its Jesuit tradition of cura personalis—care for the whole person—provide the academic architecture where project authors formalize Legacy Projects at the intersection of governance, diplomacy, and hemispheric policy.
Universidad Mondragón
Academic InstitutionsThe Mexican extension of the Basque cooperative tradition. Mondragón’s model—where education, industry, and social enterprise converge—has provided FUTURO with an institutional foothold in Mexico’s industrial corridor. Project authors engage a university built not on theory alone but on the architecture of cooperative economies.
Universidad Panamericana
Academic InstitutionsOne of Mexico's most consequential private universities — founded in 1967 and rooted in the same Catholic intellectual tradition that produced IPADE. Universidad Panamericana ranks fourth in the country by QS World University Rankings and is the second-ranked private institution nationally, with campuses in Mixcoac, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, and Santa Fe. Its motto — ubi spiritus, ibi libertas, where the spirit is, there is freedom — frames a Catholic liberal-arts seriousness that has shaped generations of Mexican engineers, lawyers, physicians, and business leaders. Panamericana sits inside the BeNeXT institutional life as something rarer than a recruiting partner: it is the formation institution of a meaningful share of the ecosystem's leadership, ledger, and project authors.
Mortara Center for International Studies
Academic InstitutionsThe Mortara Center for International Studies sits inside Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service as the research engine of one of the most consequential international-affairs schools in the United States. Founded inside Georgetown's SFS at 37th and O Streets in Washington, the Center promotes interdisciplinary scholarship on the international political, social, and economic questions that shape global governance — from the political economy of the energy transition to international development and the dynamics of global political economy. Across its programs — the Mortara Research Seminar, the Political Economy Seminar, the Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellowships (MURF), the Lepgold Book Prize, the ASAP grants for faculty research — Mortara has built a generation of scholarship at the highest level of academic seriousness about how the world actually works.
IPADE Business School
Academic InstitutionsMexico City graduate business school. One of the leading executive education institutions in Latin America. Faculty in Control and Management Information areas regularly collaborate with the ecosystem on case work and convenings.
International Organizations
City of Knowledge
International OrganizationsAn international campus on the former Clayton military base in Panama, where barracks became laboratories and a canal zone became a knowledge corridor. The City of Knowledge convenes international organizations, research centers, and academic programs at the geographic crossroads of the Americas.
EarthJustice
International OrganizationsThe largest nonprofit environmental law organization in the United States. EarthJustice’s attorneys have litigated landmark cases that define environmental protection across the hemisphere. Their collaboration with FUTURO connects project authors to the institutional frontier where environmental law meets advocacy.
National Women's Law Center
International OrganizationsWith the National Women’s Law Center, we drive justice & women’s leadership—where advocacy meets innovation to shape lasting impact.
Council of International Schools (CIS)
International OrganizationsA global membership community of international schools and post-secondary institutions. CIS has provided BeNeXT with access to its network of schools across the Americas, connecting the institution with educators and administrators who identify emerging project authors within their student bodies.
La Peña Art Gallery
International OrganizationsA cornerstone of Latinx art, music, and education in Austin since 1981 — founded and stewarded by sisters Lidia and Cynthia Pérez. La Peña Art Gallery has spent more than four decades championing cultural equity and connecting visual art with social justice, history, and heritage — a grassroots cultural hub on Congress Avenue where creativity and community converge. Admission is always free, by institutional design.
Corporate Collaboration
SXSW
Corporate CollaborationThe convergence of technology, film, music, and education in Austin, Texas. SXSW EDU has featured BeNeXT’s approach to hemispheric leadership development, placing the institution’s methodology alongside the world’s most innovative approaches to education and civic engagement.
Polydelta
Corporate CollaborationWith Polydelta, founded by Jay Finch, we’ve learned that innovation isn’t just about technology—it’s about purpose. Through our partnership, Futuro has come to see entrepreneurship and AI not as ends in themselves, but as instruments for social impact and the public good. Jay’s quiet pride in standing with us affirms that progress must be measured not in profits, but in how systems serve humanity.
Jarritos
Corporate CollaborationMexico's most iconic carbonated beverage and one of the country's most enduring cultural brands. Founded in 1950 and operating for more than seventy years, Jarritos has built itself around natural fruit flavors and a single positioning principle: flavored by culture. The brand has carried Mexican authenticity into every market it has entered, from neighborhood taquerías to global cultural collaborations.
Quixote and Associates
Corporate CollaborationThe consulting firm that helped author BeNeXT Global into existence. Quixote and Associates was the institutional architect behind the 2012 launch — and behind the earlier campaigns that taught BeNeXT what serious, message-disciplined institutional building actually requires. Diana Ramírez and Getsemani Ñáñez carry the firm's institutional memory into the BeNeXT ledger as principals who were there when the ecosystem began.
Tito's
Corporate CollaborationAn Austin institution distilled in Texas by Fifth Generation, Inc., and one of the most consequential corporate philanthropies in the United States — more than $200M in giving over the past five years supporting 20,000+ nonprofits annually through Love, Tito's. Tito's stood with BeNeXT as a hometown Austin sponsor of our SXSW launch in our founding year, contributing the production scale that let a new institution introduce itself to a hemispheric audience for the first time.
Danone
Corporate CollaborationOne of the most consequential consumer-goods institutions operating across Latin America. Grupo Danone has been part of Mexican life since 1973, with more than 15,000 employees across the country and a portfolio that runs from Activia and Danonino through Bonafont, Silk, and Oikos — the brands that have, for half a century, shaped how Mexican families actually eat and drink every day. Danone organizes its work around the Ruta de Impacto Danone — Salud, Naturaleza, Personas y Comunidades — a framework that aligns directly with the kind of long-horizon institutional thinking BeNeXT places at the center of its hemispheric thesis. Inside the BeNeXT ecosystem, Danone's institutional voice arrives through Gerardo Cárdenas, Central & South America BD Commercial Head, who has spent fourteen years inside the firm building the regional commercial infrastructure of one of the world's most recognizable food brands.
Foundations
Mexican Cultural Institute
FoundationsWith the Mexican Cultural Institute, we fuse heritage & innovation—where art becomes diplomacy and culture powers social entrepreneurship.
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