Aid for Life – Celebrating 25 Years of Transformative Work in Latin America
This year is AID for AIDS’ (AFA) 25th anniversary and together with Jesus Aguais, the founder and CEO of AFA
This year is AID for AIDS’ (AFA) 25th anniversary and together with Jesus Aguais, the founder and CEO of AFA
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I invited Kathy Durán, Executive Director for our Soy niña, soy importante (SNSI) Camp and Education Manager for Fundación Tropicalia, as guest writer to share her progress on SNSI in a Box, an evolution of our all-girls summer camp that came as a result of the pandemic. Despite the hurdles, we’ve witnessed incredible milestones for […]
I sat down with Romi Bhatia, Executive Director of The Idea Center at Miami Dade College for a conversation about leadership, running a family business and navigating in a post Covid world.
As 2020 comes to an end, we could not be more excited about some breaking news from AST SpaceMobile, a satellite venture in which Cisneros invested in July 2018, through the company’s Series-A round. After meeting its founder, Abel Avellan, and understanding the greatness of what he was set to accomplish, we immediately knew we […]
It is with great pride that we announce that my mother, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, has been inducted to the 2020 member class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an immense recognition for her decades-long work in enhancing appreciation of the diversity, sophistication, and range of art from Latin America. Founded in 1780, […]
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Ten years ago, as I was preparing to take over as CEO of Cisneros we started working on an idea to launch a new division in the digital space. Our company, which has been around for almost 100 years, has never been afraid of venturing into uncharted territory. With the support of our Board I […]
Every year, 300 girls from Miches attend the Soy niña, soy importante (I’m a Girl, I’m Important) camp. The program encourages and teaches them to design a positive life plan, to build confidence and to empower themselves to make age appropriate decisions such as continuing their studies, preventing untimely pregnancies, and avoiding and escaping situations of violence.
I asked Maria Ignacia Arcaya, SVP of Social Impact and Institutional Relations, to be my guest writer for this post. I wanted Maria Ignacia to share with you the amazing work that the team has been doing around COVID19. In the last few weeks we have all in one way or another had to rethink […]