Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities to grant $500K to cultural organizations
April 9, 2020
The Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities will grant $500,000 to cultural organizations that have been economically affected by the COVID-19 emergency. These funds are available due to a special allocation from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Endowment for the Humanities Executive Director Margarita Benítez said. “The $500,000 grant to the Puerto Rican […]
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New free digital platform helps nonprofits continue to offer social services
April 7, 2020
The quarantine in place to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Puerto Rico has left many community and nonprofit organizations with a limited ability to offer social services — which are essential for the island’s vulnerable populations. To remedy that, Puerto Rican company Propulsa, LLC has created Sociants, a free digital platform that […]
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Symptom tracking ‘vital’ to control contagion of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico
April 3, 2020
A coalition of academic and private-sector organizations has unveiled the Epidemiological Surveillance System platform, which allows the tracking and publishing results on the evolution of COVID-19 contagion in Puerto Rico. The platform’s creators include the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust, a program of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, Ponce Health Sciences University […]
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Parallel18 to host first ‘Virtual Demo Day’
April 2, 2020
Demo Day, Parallel18’s main event in which companies present their products and services before a panel of judges and investors, will take place April 3rd at 1 p.m., this time in a completely virtual way. The event will be streamed through the Sceenic platform, created by past generation P18 participants. “This generation has too much […]
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$500K grant will kick-start telemedicine, telehealth programs in Puerto Rico
March 25, 2020
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust announced the start of a pilot project to establish local telemedicine and telehealth programs, with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture grant. With the funding, the nonprofits will buy specialized equipment that will allow remote health services […]
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Feeding America CEO visits to inaugurate new $3M Food Bank of Puerto Rico HQs
March 11, 2020
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, traveled to Puerto Rico this week to inaugurate the new 30,600 square-foot facilities of the Food Bank of Puerto Rico in Carolina, at an investment of more than $3 million. Because Feeding America is the largest organization for the mitigation of hunger in the United States, her trip to […]
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Perspectivas Globales program has $100K for new startup in P.R.
February 28, 2020
Accelerator program for emerging companies, Perspectivas Globales in Mayagüez, has opened the call for Puerto Rican entrepreneurs and technologists to participate in its 2020 New Startup Competition, which will grant $100,000 in seed funding for a new company to be founded by the competition’s winners. During the competition, participants will begin to define what their […]
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Stateside nonprofits grant $11M to Vimenti by Boys & Girls Clubs of P.R.
February 25, 2020
The Peter Alfond Foundation and Comic Relief US have awarded a combined $11 million to Vimenti by Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico, calling to action other investors, organization leaders and individuals to join them in their support. Both nonprofits seek to break the generational child poverty cycle in Puerto Rico. Peter Alfond Foundation […]
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Open Society Foundations opens 2nd round of youth fellowships in P.R.
February 24, 2020
The Puerto Rico Youth Fellowship is opening the call for a second round of funding, the first in 2020, to support community activism in Puerto Rico with up to $45,000 in scholarships to continue developing and connecting a network of young leaders on the island. “The people of Puerto Rico continue to suffer the consequences […]
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Clintons to announce new projects at conference in P.R. this week
February 17, 2020
President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will convene members of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network in San Juan for the fifth meeting since 2018, on Feb. 18-19. The Action Network brings together leaders from business, government, and civil society to make commitments to accelerate recovery from natural disasters […]
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Study reveals consequences of not addressing child poverty in P.R.
January 23, 2020
The Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico presented its study “A future of child poverty in Puerto Rico: How much does it cost us and what can we do about it,” which revealed the economic consequences of not paying attention to child poverty in Puerto Rico, plus 10 initiatives that can reduce the problem in […]
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Nonprofits have potential to fully develop as companies using startup techniques
December 31, 2019
Nonprofit organizations have the potential to develop to the fullest, increasing their social contribution, if they incorporate successful and innovative business strategies that use startups, said Attorney Olvin Valentín, executive director of the Nonprofit Institute, which offers education in administrative and business skills to these types of organizations. “For too long, nonprofit organizations have been […]
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Toyota Foundation grants $101K to 7 environmentally friendly nonprofits
December 23, 2019
Toyota Foundation announced that seven nonprofits in Puerto Rico dedicated to education, research and natural resource conservation will split $101,958 to move their initiatives forward. During a recent ceremony, Saskia Gómez, public relations executive for Toyota de Puerto Rico, which sponsors the foundation, said through education, voluntarism or innovation, the Environmental Donations program annually identifies […]
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FIDEVI trust grants $102K for rehabilitation projects
November 21, 2019
The Puerto Rico Housing and Human Development Trust (FIDEVI, for its initials in Spanish) announced the granting of $102,000 in funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction projects to various nonprofit entities that address affordable and accessible housing needs for vulnerable and very low-income populations. The funds awarded will be allocated to three projects initially, including: Worthy […]
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Bravo Family Foundation opens call for Rising Entrepreneurs Program
November 1, 2019
The Bravo Family Foundation — a philanthropic entity founded by Puerto Rican businessman Orlando Bravo — announced an open call for its Rising Entrepreneurs Program, one of the foundation’s key initiatives, that promotes entrepreneurship among Puerto Rican youth. Those interested in participating must fill the online application no later than Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. “This […]
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