From the field to the global conversation.
CMAX Foundation brings practical experience in rapid habitat, emergency response and preparedness to global forums, partnerships and policy conversations. This is the institutional record: each activity with its date, venue, participants, documents and what it contributed to the mission.
CMAX Foundation has held special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2021.
Institutional record
2021
Recognition · United Nations
Special consultative status with ECOSOC
United Nations Economic and Social CouncilCMAX FoundationCMAX Foundation
Consultative status gives the Foundation access to ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, to the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, and to events organized by the President of the General Assembly. It is the channel through which CMAX brings field experience in preparedness and rapid habitat into UN processes.
9 December 2019
Intervention · United Nations
The Revolution of Priorities — intervention at the United Nations
United Nations Headquarters, New YorkNicolás García Mayor, founder of CMAX FoundationCMAX Foundation
The intervention argued that catastrophic, human-caused crises require a change of priorities toward collective care, and that preparedness should be driven by compassion rather than fear. It framed the Foundation's work on rapid habitat and readiness as a question of what a society chooses to prepare for.
March 2015
Intervention
CMAX system presented to Pope Francis
Vatican CityNicolás García MayorFounder, personal capacity
An early international recognition of the rapid habitat system that CMAX Foundation was later created to bring to humanitarian use.