Nonprofit Association of Latino Professionals in Finance & Accounting, or ALPFA, recently hosted a meet-and-greet networking event gathering more than 100 young business professionals from different organizations and colleges looking to form alliances to strengthen Puerto Rico’s economy and education through collaborations, initiatives and creative solutions that pursue positive results.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking applications from rural small businesses and agricultural producers for funding to make energy efficiency improvements or to install renewable energy systems, both on the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.
Backed by a market study that measured the level of recognition on the origin and other attributes of rum, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company and its Rums of Puerto Rico program, unveiled a new uality seal that, for the first time, will uniformly identify rums manufactured locally.