Larry Coben
ESCALA WINS STATE DEPARTMENT AWARD!
ESCALA WINS STATE DEPARTMENT AWARD!
ESCALA Business School, Peru, Pachacamac, BiciTour Pachacamac
Larry Coben
Empowering More Women Entrepreneurs as ESCALA ...

We put the ESCALA Business School online, allowing us to provide our curriculum and scale at an accelerated rate in spite of the pandemic and economic climate.

Empowering More Women Entrepreneurs as ESCALA Goes Digital!
COVID-19, ESCALA Business School
Larry Coben
Supporting Poor Entrepreneurs in a Time of ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, it has left the world's poorest and most vulnerable people at greatest risk - including many of the entrepreneurs trained by SPI in Peru, Tanzania, Bulgaria, and Guatemala. However, thanks to your tremendous support for SPI’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, entrepreneurs and artisans now have the resources to step up as local leaders, keeping their families and communities safe.

Supporting Poor Entrepreneurs in a Time of Crisis
Chotuna-Chornancap, Peru
Larry Coben
Filomena's Message to Women Around the World

Meet Filomena Pingo Tejada, one of the traditional weavers involved in SPI’s Chotuna-Chornancap project in Peru. Together with the Chotuna-Chornancap Site Museum and the Brüning National Museum, SPI is helping the artisans like Filomena develop their experience as weavers into a sustainable and profitable business which offers a real income and preserves the site in doing so.

Filomena's Message to Women Around the World
BiciTour Pachacamac, BiciTours, Bicitours Túcume, Cajamarca, Chan Chan, ESCALA, Kaole, Kilwa, Ollantaytambo, Pachacamac, Peru, SISAN, Tanzania, Tucume, WAUTO-Kaole
Larry Coben
Look at Everything Our Donors Helped us ...

We couldn’t have done any of it without you! With 2020 around the corner, we ask for your support once again so SPI can continue to elevate women and other marginalized entrepreneurs globally. If you make a gift by January 10th, your donation will be matched! 

Look at Everything Our Donors Helped us Accomplish in 2019

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Celebrating Our First Graduating Class!

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Celebrating Our First Graduating Class!

Congratulations to the first graduating class of entrepreneurs from SPI's ESCALA (ESCuela de negocios para la Avance de Latino América) Business School!

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SPI Bids Farewell to Our Director of Latin America as He Becomes the Peruvian Minister of Culture

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SPI Bids Farewell to Our Director of Latin America as He Becomes the Peruvian Minister of Culture

Congratulations to Sustainable Preservation Initiative’s Director of Latin America, Dr. Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, who has been named the Peruvian Minister of Culture! On July 8, 2019, Dr. Castillo Butters was sworn in by President Martin Vizcarra in the nation's capital city of Lima. 

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Bringing Basic Business Education to Marginalized Groups Around the World

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Bringing Basic Business Education to Marginalized Groups Around the World

We are setting up mini-business schools all over Peru and Tanzania for small scale artisans and entrepreneurs. The first two will be at Pachacamac, Peru and Bagamoyo, Tanzania, sites of existing successful SPI projects. And that is only the beginning!

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Holidays Gifts from SPI Artisans, and More

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Holidays Gifts from SPI Artisans, and More

The jewellery of our artisans at the site of Kaminaljuyu in Guatemala is now available online! The Rebirth Kaminaljuyu line was produced by and designed in conjunction with the 12 women cooperative there, drawing upon both their lives and the incredible archaeology and iconography of this urban site. Necklaces, bracelets and more. 

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SPI Partners With National Geographic

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SPI Partners With National Geographic

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with the National Geographic Society!  We will conducting several of our sustainable development and capacity building projects in Peru in association with the GlobalXplorer project.