This paper, co-authored by Susan Appe, is published in the Nonprofit Policy Forum at https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:101:1-2505040703046.728618301204

In this article, we explore the question: how do local nonprofits respond to
migration crises? We focus on the migration context across Colombia and Venezuela,
two countries situated in the Andean region of South America with histories of
migratory patterns, and geographies where public goods and services by government are limited, leaving nonprofits often as primary service providers. We explore
our research question through the case study of the nonprofit organization Fundación Huellas. The Fundación Huellas case study outlines a local, community-based
nonprofit responding to a migration crisis in Medellín, Colombia. While microterritorial in scope, we posit that the case helps to understand the role(s) of nonprofit
organizations in migration crises and demonstrates an important dimension to
localization in the provision of public goods and services in such contexts. We find
that localization should be explored and understood in Latin America as including
the dimension of “acompañamiento” (or accompaniment in English), which can
manifest in daily nonprofit practice. We use our case study data to introduce and
explain the dimension of“acompañamiento”in localization and migration crises and
to call on the field and funders to better recognize and support this orientation in
local nonprofit responses.