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ESCALA WINS STATE DEPARTMENT AWARD!
ESCALA WINS STATE DEPARTMENT AWARD!
Empowering More Women Entrepreneurs as ESCALA Goes Digital!
Empowering More Women Entrepreneurs as ESCALA Goes Digital!

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.

Supporting Poor Entrepreneurs in a Time of Crisis
Supporting Poor Entrepreneurs in a Time of Crisis

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.

What the COVID-19 Response Means for SPI Artisans in Peru, Tanzania, Bulgaria, and Guatemala
What the COVID-19 Response Means for SPI Artisans in Peru, Tanzania, Bulgaria, and Guatemala

For these vulnerable small business owners, new government restrictions to curb the pandemic mean less or no income at all in the coming weeks. Although these entrepreneurs are doing everything to adapt to this evolving situation, most do not have the resources to do so. Your support could be their lifeline.

Celebrating Women's Day: An Interview With the Pachacamac Museum Director
Celebrating Women's Day: An Interview With the Pachacamac Museum Director

When I began to study archeology, we concentrated on hard research. Now, thirty years later, we realize that if the community does not participate, it is useless to continue doing archeology. I think through archeology we are opening spaces for these women, for these people, to have a chance to improve their quality of life.

Filomena's Message to Women Around the World
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.

Look at Everything Our Donors Helped us Accomplish in 2019
Look at Everything Our Donors Helped us Accomplish in 2019

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! 

What Better way to Celebrate the Holidays than Ending Inequality?
What Better way to Celebrate the Holidays than Ending Inequality?

A recent study highlighted that only 1.6% of all charitable giving goes to supporting women and girls. Women face countless social and economic barriers that bar them from financial agency and self-sufficiency. Our business school model tackles those barriers directly by building women-owned businesses that provide dignified income opportunities where people can earn living wages.

Celebrating Our First Graduating Class!
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!

Helping Marginalized Entrepreneurs Build Businesses from Tanzania to Peru
Helping Marginalized Entrepreneurs Build Businesses from Tanzania to Peru

In Tanzania, our WAUMAKI Kisiwani women’s group is kick-starting their business near the ruins of one of East Africa’s greatest empires. In Peru, SPI hosted a launch event for our long-awaited ESCALA Business School. Local entrepreneurs and their families are enjoying a holiday season filled with joy thanks to new opportunities and sustainable income made possible by SPI projects and your support.

Lawrence Coben, the Executive Director of Sustainable Preservation Initiative, speaks about economic development of local communities as a means to combat looting of archaeological sites and monuments.

Many of humanity's most important heritage sites co-exist with some of the world's poorest people. These communities damage their sites to survive economically because they have no alternative. Until now... 

Textile artisans enrolled in SPI's ESCALA Business School are now emergency mask makers for healthcare workers and other vulnerable people near Lima, Peru. #Quarantined in their homes near the archeological site of #Pachacamac, ESCALA entreprene
We nominate Luz Vicente for @vitalvoices #voicesofresilience! Luz is a small business owner in Lima, Peru who has been working tirelessly to make #masks for vulnerable members of her community and healthcare workers. Luz is curren
With few projects and resources dedicated to preserving this incredible archeological site in #Tanzania, SPI is stepping in to empower locals to take site conservation into their own hands 🇹🇿👐 find out more about how we are preserving Ki
Pedaling around #Pachacamac with BiciTour Pachacamac in Peru! 🚴🇵🇪
Las Señoras de SISAN are giving #embroidery workshops today at the Pachacamac Site Museum outside of Lima, Peru! 🇵🇪 🧶 Stop by for your chance to learn from these amazing SPI supported #artisans! Workshops start at 10am & 2pm - no experi
Congratulations to the first graduating class of entrepreneurs from SPI's ESCALA (ESCuela de negocios para la Avance de Latino América) Business School! On November 30th 2019 at the Pachacamac, Peru site museum,  fifty participants - thir