The Foundation for Puerto Rico unveiled its Center for Strategic Innovation, whose mission will be to transform Puerto Rico’s socioeconomic development. The entity will be led by former gubernatorial candidate Alexandra Lúgaro. The Center seeks to achieve transformative change in Puerto Rico and the rest of the world through research and cross-sector partnerships, the nonprofit […]
Sixteen aspiring entrepreneurs recently completed the Foundation for Puerto Rico’s Emprende 360° business education program to turn their business ideas into reality. After a 12-month process with leading organizations in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the cohort developed 11 business ideas for the Coamo and Ponce region and was awarded $2,000 in seed capital to jump-start each […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico President Annie Mayol recently received the Clinton Global Citizen Award, an honor bestowed to “outstanding individuals for their commendable leadership and work toward positive and lasting social change,” the organization founded by former President Bill Clinton said. Mayol’s path at Foundation for Puerto Rico began in 2018, shortly after the devastation that Hurricane María caused on […]
Liberty Puerto Rico was one of seven companies that received the 2020 Partners for Good Award from Foundation for Puerto Rico (FPR) in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), it announced. The company was honored for its efforts to aid Puerto Rico’s recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane María in 2017, the earthquakes that […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico (FPR), in collaboration with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), held the first Partners for Good Awards 2020 during which they recognized the work of seven companies, as well as the role each played in Puerto Rico’s recovery after hurricanes Irma and María, and the earthquakes that affected the southern region of […]
Responding to the back-to-back crises that have affected Puerto Rico since 2017 — Hurricane María, the January 2020 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic — Foundation for Puerto Rico has launched the “For Good” initiative to continue its philanthropic work throughout Puerto Rico. The nonprofit’s virtual fundraising campaign offers people three ways to help: “Raffle for […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico announced plans to hold the first two virtual meetings of the Destination Plan for the regions of Luquillo-Fajardo and Ceiba-Naguabo. These sessions are aimed at community members from the municipalities, as well as nonprofit and/or community organizations and municipal governments, among others, FPR said. The meetings seek to include all community […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico will host its First Community Resilience Conference, a three-day event that is part of its Whole Community Resilience Planning Program, from Sept. 9-11. The program is an initiative funded with CDBG-DR funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the local Housing Department of. To participate, click on […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico (FPR) announced it has disbursed $80,000 to 22 entrepreneurs affected by the earthquakes in the southern area to boost their businesses. As part of the initiatives established by FPR to support entrepreneurs in the southern part of the island, the organization reactivated the Small Business Support Program (SBSP) through the Puerto […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico has joined forces with the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network to conduct a virtual series of Educational Seminars on Resilience Small Business in Puerto Rico, comprising four virtual workshops focused on increasing the economic resilience of small businesses, the nonprofits said. “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, nonprofit organizations, the government, entrepreneurs, […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico is launching a series of virtual conversations named “Stay Open. Stay Safe,” which will focus on the reopening of the island as a destination and with the participation of experts in the visitor economy. This series of weekly talks comes from the proposal that the nonprofit recently presented, in which it […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Housing Department, unveiled the Social Capital Interactive Maps, a new digital tool that it developed as part of its Whole Community Resilience Planning Program. This pilot platform allows citizens to visualize data and interactive maps that contribute to improving planning, promoting economic development and resilience […]
A survey of 450 businesses in Puerto Rico revealed that about 92% of them will be unable to continue making payroll, as the island enters its third week of a sweeping government-mandated lockdown to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Furthermore, 85% of the businesses surveyed do not have a contingency fund, and 59% […]
The Foundation for Puerto Rico received a $291,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create a multi-stage incubation program for entrepreneurs in communities outside the San Juan metropolitan area. The program will begin next month in the Coamo-Ponce region, foundation officials said. This is the first time that a Puerto Rican entity receives […]
Foundation for Puerto Rico President Annie Mayol joined Nate Mook, executive director of World Central Kitchen and Kevin Thurm, CEO of the Clinton Foundation for the panel on “Building back stronger: Disaster response & preparedness in the Caribbean” during The Concordia Americas Summit in Bogotá, Colombia. During this session, Mayol presented the importance of multisectoral […]
A Dow Jones/Factiva content provider since 2014
Subscribe to our Dollars & Sense podcast!
NIMB ON SOCIAL MEDIA