OUR PARTNERS

TWP Tours balances cross-cultural exchange with adventure to provide socially conscious travelers an opportunity to Travel With Purpose. By visiting our local partners and projects of our sister organization, Trees, Water & People, travelers with TWP Tours get a safe, rich, and unfiltered introduction to community life in locations throughout the Americas. We also collaborate with partners based in the US with whom have extended relationships and they either take a part in our tours to visit local communities and projects, or they host our tour groups to give them an opportunity to see their work on the ground. The relationships and collabrations with local partners locally and abroad are a vital part of of tours and allows us to create a unique cross-cultural and educational exchange.

  • Cafe Imports is "an independent importer and developer of some of the world's finest specialty green coffees. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with warehouses in Australia, Europe, and the United States; and with international representation in global offices worldwide, we source, sell, and ship green coffee around the globe."

    Cafe imports staff joined us on a trip to Honduras in 2018 to learn more about our local projects, working with coffee farmers, and about other conservation projects that can help improve the well being of local people and the environment. They visited projects that they help support through Trees, Water & People's carbon offset program.

  • The Green Team Real Estate group based in Fort Collins, Colorado has been an active supporter of TWP Tours by joining various tours around Central America and helping with promotional materials and recruitment for our tours. They also advocate and share our mission with local supporters in Fort Collins.

  • The Cheyenne River Youth Project, founded in 1988, is a grassroots, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the youth of the Cheyenne River reservation with access to a vibrant and secure future through a wide variety of culturally sensitive and enduring programs, projects and facilities that ensure strong, self-sufficient families and communities.

    In 2019, TWP Tours took a group of high schoool students to visit CRYP and volunteered in some service projects. They helped clean and add new seedlings on the communal garden, painted walls and learned all about their local culture. CYYP is great organization that focuses on Native Youth Programs and is a perfect spot to visit during a tour in South Dakota with students.

  • Dutch Bros’ Foundation: "Social Impact team serves the community like our broistas serve our customers at the window. Our philanthropy is dedicated to building deeper connections through engagement in the communities we serve. Through the Dutch Bros Foundation, giving is strategically prioritized into three focus areas: youth, health, and origins."

    Dutch Bros coffee company staff joined us on a trip to El Salvador in 2019, where they had the opportunity to meet the local coffee farms where they source their coffee from, interact with coffee farmers and partners on the ground. They also learned about TWP's work through some community visits. Now, the Dutch Bros Foundation has become a huge supporter of TWP and we plan on creating expanding on some other projects and designing new trips for the future.

  • TWP started working in the Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where we co-founded the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center in 2007. Since then, we’ve hosted dozens of renewable energy workshops and helped local leader Henry Red Cloud launch a Native-owned renewable energy company, Lakota Solar Enterprises. We have also worked to reforest burn areas across Pine Ridge with a native Ponderosa Pine, bringing new life, future windbreaks, erosion control, and beatification to Lakota lands.

    Now, TWP Tours has taken students groups from different parts of the US to visit Pine Ridge and get to know our local partners such as Henry Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center. Students and visitors learn about renewable energy, living on a reservation, get to experience some cultural activities such as drum groups while also conducting service projects in their community.

  • Succulent coffee roasters from Los Angeles joined us on a trip to Honduras in 2019 where they had the opportunity to meet their coffee partners, farmers, coffee companies, exporters and farms. They also learned about the work of TWP on the ground, talked to different cooffee farmers that have been working with our local partners in the area, and have now become supporters of TWP.

  • Human Nature Expeditions is your boots-on-the-ground travel company. Deep relationships with the communities we serve and visit are core elements to your experience. Immerse yourself in culture and nature guided by local experts right from the source.

    Our expedition leaders live and work alongside our local community partners. We provide an authentic and meaningful experience for our travelers.

    Human Nature works with teachers, school administrators, students, groups, and life-long learners. Our team customizes itineraries to exceed the needs of an educational travel experience for anyone looking to travel intentionally.

    Human Nature expeditions parterned with TWP Tours to launch our first pilot tour to New Mexico with the Steamboat Mountain HIgh School. We took students and chaperones around New Mexico in 2021 to meet our local partners, and learn about the different conservation and sustainability projects aorund the area. They also learned all about Native American history and cultural humility.

  • Thunder Valley is a regenerative community development project that offers community members the chance to participate in initiatives such as: Lakota Langage, hosing and ownership, community development, education, food sovereignity, regional equity, social enterprise, workforce development and youth leadership.

    TWP Tours will be visiting Thunder Valley for the first time in 2021 and we are excited to get to know thier culture, their community initiatives and bring students groups or tour participants to learn about their project incentives and goals.