Through the partnership between Festival Cordillera and Páramo Presenta, via Páramo Impacta, every Festival Cordillera ticket purchased supports the protection of 1,200 m² of Amazon Rainforest and finances bioeconomy businesses led by Indigenous and local communities.
"Echoes for the Amazon" is the impact investment fund created by Festival Cordillera and Páramo Impacta to protect this essential ecosystem, working hand in hand with those who have safeguarded it for generations. Every transaction helps create sustainable cycles of care, regeneration, and long-term impact.
Bogotá. August 20, 2026. In May, the launch of "Echoes for the Amazon" was announced, a new impact fund created by Páramo Presenta through Páramo Impacta and Festival Cordillera and managed by NESsT, an organization that invests in and accelerates social enterprises in Colombia that create quality employment opportunities for underserved populations, including women, Indigenous peoples, smallholder farmers and producers, and youth.
Through direct business support and patient capital, NESsT helps these enterprises strengthen and scale their business models, access new markets while strengthening their social and environmental impact, and enhance their governance.
The organization recently announced a new partnership with Páramo Presenta, through Páramo Impacta, and Festival Cordillera to launch "Echoes for the Amazon," an impact investment fund that connects two territories that share the same heartbeat: the mountains and the rainforest.
By purchasing a ticket to the Cordillera Festival, you can support the stewardship of 1,200 m² of Amazon rainforest.
Through this initiative, every Festival Cordillera ticket purchased helps safeguard 1,200 m² of Amazon Rainforest, strengthens bioeconomy businesses led by Indigenous and local communities, and finances sustainable cycles of care and regeneration.
"The rainforest and the mountains share the same heartbeat, and Echoes for the Amazon proves that music and culture can move capital to where it matters most. This fund is a tangible mechanism that allows festival attendees to become direct allies of those who have protected the Amazon Rainforest for generations," said the Páramo Impacta team.
Who is NESsT?
AMITLI is an enterprise led by Indigenous women in Vaupés
NESsT has supported enterprises in Colombia for more than five years. In 2025, it closed the year with 13 active enterprises, 3,765 dignified jobs created, and 231,231 people positively impacted.
According to the NESsT 2025 Annual Report, 31% of the enterprises in its portfolio have Indigenous leadership, and 29.4% have women as the majority in decision-making positions.
According to Alejandra Ramírez, Country Director of NESsT Colombia:
"Social enterprises do not need charity; they need the right kind of capital and sustained support. When both are provided at the same time, the results follow: formal employment in territories where it did not previously exist, conservation of ecosystems under pressure, and more resilient local economies."
Examples of local enterprises include:
Indigo, a rose exporter in Cundinamarca, which sustains 350 formal rural jobs in municipalities with high poverty rates.
BioIncos, an Indigenous company from Putumayo, which transforms wild forest fruits into natural oils for the European cosmetics industry while working with more than 170 Amazonian suppliers.
AMITLI, which organizes the collective production of food products by Indigenous women in Vaupés.
“Social enterprises do not need charity; they need the right kind of capital and sustained support.”
Globally, 2025 was marked by cuts to international development cooperation funding for Latin America. Nevertheless, NESsT closed 2025 with significant growth. The organization expanded from 88 to 142 enterprises in its global portfolio, generated or sustained 50,405 dignified jobs, and improved the lives of 624,659 people across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Poland, and Romania. In 2025, NESsT disbursed USD $10.4 million to social enterprises, whose average sales grew by 22%, while workers linked to these enterprises experienced a 32% increase in income.
About NESsT
NESsT is a nonprofit impact investor founded in 1997 that finances and supports social enterprises creating dignified employment in historically excluded communities while conserving the ecosystems where they operate. NESsT focuses on the "missing middle," the structural gap where high-potential social enterprises are too large for microcredit but too small for traditional banking. Operating across seven countries, NESsT has channeled more than USD $2.4 million to social enterprises in Colombia since launching its work in the country.
About Páramo
Páramo Presenta is Colombia's leading live entertainment company and the organizer behind events such as Festival Estéreo Picnic and Festival Cordillera. Beyond producing events, the company works to transform music and culture into platforms for positive social and environmental impact.
Through Páramo Impacta, its sustainability and impact platform, Páramo develops initiatives focused on climate action, biodiversity conservation, circular economy solutions, social inclusion, and community development. The platform connects artists, businesses, organizations, and communities to advance solutions that generate environmental and social benefits both within and beyond festival settings.
