REVIVE EL CAFETAL PUERTORRIQUEÑO

Coffee is not only very special for Puerto Rico’s culture, but also key to the socio-economical development of the island, especially in the communities where it grows. Given the continuous need to access coffee seedings in the island, Hispanic Federation launched on February 2020 its newest program Revive el Cafetal Puertorriqueño, to subside part of the cost of 2.25 million of high-quality coffee seeds for Puerto Rico.

This program is part of a larger initiative to revitalize Puerto Rico’s coffee industry. This initiative, spearheaded by Hispanic Federation, is a multi-sector effort between various nonprofit organizations, the private sector and Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Miranda family. It seeks to attend to the challenges that coffee growers have pointed out as most pressing and that still linger after the 2017 hurricane season.

AMANECE/CAMINO A LA RECUPERACIÓN

In November 2017, Hispanic Federation announced the Amanece/Road to Recovery initiative as part of our UNIDOS Disaster Relief and Recovery Program launched after hurricane María. Since the storm brought unparalleled devastation to the islands of Puerto Rico, tending to basic human needs after the disaster was most pressing and most of the resources raised have been used to address those needs. However, Hispanic Federation firmly believes that Puerto Rico also needs a vision of how the island can overcome the present crisis and emerge stronger than before.

Hispanic Federation strongly considers that local non-profit organizations and the communities they serve should have a primary role in creating this vision of a new Puerto Rico.

Therefore, the goal of the Amanece initiative is to finance innovative projects that have a long-term vision of recovery and reconstruction for the island and its communities, with an emphasis on sustainability, self-sufficiency, and local collaboration and coordination. These non-profit projects should focus on strengthening infrastructure as well as supporting and reinforcing the socio-economic development of the residents of Puerto Rico. 

POPTIENDAS

Hispanic Federation will soon announce the second round of the Small Business Revitalization Program “PopTiendas” Initiative, part of its UNIDOS Disaster Relief and Recovery Program.

With a budget of over $1M available, the goal of this initiative is the donation of eco-friendly steel shipping containers specially adapted for use as shops (commercial establishments) to help in the renovation or startup of retail businesses and services in Puerto Rico.