Mission Statement

AltruVistas Mission:

AltruVistas inspires you to engage your passion, explore the issues you care about, share with communities around the world, and build dynamic philanthropic relationships. AltruVistas promotes transformational philanthropy in the sustainable travel industry through three program areas.

The Three Core Program Areas:

Our Meso-financing program’s mission is to provide communities with the financial tools they need to improve their lives and benefit from the tourism sector.
Our professional fellowship program matches community grantees with emerging or service-seeking tourism professionals in order to implement community development programs, support the capacity building of the community, and bridge cultural norms.
Our Custom Journeys program creates privately branded trips for our partners by utilizing the pillars of experiential education, philanthropy, and social responsibility.

While AltruFunds and AltruFellows are run through our foundation, our AltruVistas Journeys are powered by and operated as a socially responsible business. For each journey, 50% or more of every tour dollar stays in and benefits the host economy. Additionally, donations are built into each journey in order to benefit our local partners and collaborator organizations. Through socially responsible and ecologically conscious tourism, AltruVistas Journeys insightfully adapts your vision, mission, or curriculum, and crafts it into a unique, transformational experience.
 Your journey benefits you, your members, and the communities that you visit.

AltruVistas offers our services and professional expertise to foundations, organizations, membership associations, educational institutions, businesses, travel agencies, and “VIPs” with the desire to create their own incomparable brand of travel worldwide. AltruVistas Journeys provide a natural interlocutor between the desires of the global traveler and the socio-economic needs of some of the world’s most remote, heritage-rich communities and their natural and cultural sites. 

Share your ideas and learning or donor goals with us, and together we will craft an immersion journey for you. Let us take care of the logistics and customer service while you relax with the confidence that you are offering a one-of-a-kind, privately branded tour solely for your members. Membership organizations and other travel companies can be reassured that we will never market to your members or solicit donations for our foundation.

Our goal is to provide you with ethical, comprehensive, educational, and philanthropic travel-planning services so that you can have the adventure of a lifetime: a culturally insightful, engaging, comfortable, and worry-free journey that synergistically benefits the local economy, your hosts, and important causes— and even highlights the good work you are doing in the world!