Renown marine wildlife artist and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey will join forces with Pesca, Playa y Ambiente, a Puerto Rican nonprofit organization, and hundreds of volunteers in a massive cleanup effort in a San Juan lagoon and estuary system highly-regarded as a tarpon habitat.
Several entrepreneurial, self-starting projects that promote economic independence and job creation in communities throughout the northern part of the island will be receiving a boost from a collaboration between metropistas (Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico, LLC) — the company in charge of managing Highways PR-22 and PR-5 — and the Sila M. Calderon Foundation.
Iniciativa Comunitaria, a nonprofit that seeks to provide Puerto Rico youth the opportunity to move away from high-risk behaviors, while reinventing themselves through art and innovation, is looking to raise $550,000 through the Fundly digital crowdsourcing site.