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

Larry Coben

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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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Bicycle Tours, New Countries, and Yes Jeopardy

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Bicycle Tours, New Countries, and Yes Jeopardy

We inaugurated an exciting new project at the site of Pachacamac, Peru last month. Twelve women and men, ages 18-22, will be giving bicycle tours of the almost 5 square mile monumental site.  We developed an intensive business and bicycling training program, including site knowledge, customer service, bike maintenance, first aid, and management. 

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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.