PR-SBTDC seeks to turn local businesses into world-class companies
March 7, 2018
Following the economic challenges the island is facing after Hurricanes Irma and María, the Small Business & Technology Development Centers will offer a series of intensive workshops to promote the development of local businesses.
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‘Caguas Compite’ graduates 51 new entrepreneurs
July 3, 2017
The sixth edition of the “Caguas Compite” business training program — an incubator and mentorship project for micro-entrepreneurs — closed with a total of 51 people trained, 12 businesses in operation, about 20 new jobs and $1.2 million in projected sales in the first year.
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Op-Ed: A hidden treasure of talent for our workforce
September 28, 2016
I firmly believe that if entrepreneurs don’t rescue and use the huge amount of potential talent we have in our extremely high school dropout statistics, not only are we doomed to waste valuable resources, but we will also pay a huge social price.
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Public health program kicks off to respond to fiscal crisis
June 23, 2016
This week marked the start of the “Advancing Public Health Leadership in Times of Crisis Program,” which will be conducted through the summer to equip public health leaders with tools respond to Puerto Rico’s on-going fiscal, economic and social crisis, organizers said.
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Loisaida Inc. partners with Puerto Rico to offer training
May 4, 2016
Loisaida Inc., a leader in intergenerational programming that supports the needs of the Latino community in New York City, announced Tuesday the expansion of its services to offer programming that equips entrepreneurs with the basic tools for success.
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19 co.’s graduate SBA’s Emerging Leaders ’15 training
November 11, 2015
The U. S. Small Business Administration Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands district office on Tuesday graduated 19 companies from the first ever Emerging Leaders training series delivered on the island.
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Transcita trains, certifies reps on mental health first aid
October 2, 2015
Non-emergency health transportation services company TransCita recently started a program to train and certify its passenger service representatives with a course titled “Mental Health First Aid.”
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Codetrotters Academy to train P.R.’s ‘hacker’ talent
May 28, 2015
By 2020 there will be 1 million more computing jobs in the United States than students graduating in those fields, the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show.
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Boys & Girls Club creates tourism development program
May 5, 2015
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico, along with the Department of Housing and the Public Housing Administration, recently re-inaugurated its first club at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing project in Río Piedras.
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SBA program trains 25K transitioning service members
April 22, 2015
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s “Boots to Business” program has trained 25,000 transitioning service members over the past two years, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, the SBA announced Tuesday.
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Statistics Institute opens enrollment for trainings
March 9, 2015
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute has begun the registration period for the second half of its workshops cycle, which are offered each semester to offer the theoretical and practical foundations for statistics-related topics.
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San Juan joining SBA’s entrepreneurship training initiative
December 22, 2014
The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched its 2015 Emerging Leaders executive-level training series in 48 cities and communities across the country, including San Juan, which is joining the program for the first time.
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Guayacán lands grant to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico
November 5, 2014
The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded Grupo Guayacán Inc. a $62,000 technical assistance grant to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico, a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.
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PR MBDA receives $100K for aerospace industry training
October 15, 2014
The Puerto Rico Minority Business Development Agency Center, a nonprofit run by the Puerto Rico Products Association, received funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce to establish a technical assistance program to help minority companies join the aerospace industry supply chain.
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Puerto Rico wants to be ‘medical tourism powerhouse’
September 24, 2014
The Government of Puerto Rico took an important step Tuesday in its efforts to become a medical tourism powerhouse in the Caribbean and Latin America when the Department of Economic Development and Commerce signed an agreement with the Medical Tourism Association to have the MTA provide educational training aimed at obtaining certifications for service providers in Puerto Rico.
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