Founded in 1999, Carmen Pampa Fund is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based non-profit organization that generates financial and human resources to assist with the growth and development of the Unidad Académica Campesina-Carmen Pampa (UAC-CP). The UAC-CP is a Franciscan college located in the rural mountain village of Carmen Pampa, Bolivia. It provides women and men from impoverished and marginalized populations with the opportunity to study at the college level. Since 1993, the UAC-CP has prepared young Bolivians with the academic and practical skills necessary to not only contribute to the workforce, but to also be leaders who, inspired by Christian principles, are capable of generating work and addressing the social and economic challenges of rural communities in some of the country's most impoverished areas.