Ana María García

Founder, Instituto Nueva Escuela (partners in the SEEDS PrograM)

Submitted after Friends of Puerto Rico lent assistance post January 2020’s devestating earthquakes.

“Friends of Puerto Rico embraced the Institute Nueva Escuela in our most vulnerable situation. Their assistance helped us re-install running water in the town of Guayama, where one of the schools adapting the SEEDS initiative is located, and helped re-establish the educational services to our community’s children.”

 Laura Cantero

Executive Director of Grupo Guayacán

Submitted after Friends of Puerto Rico provided seed capital and support in 2018 to alba.enid, a female-owned small business in Puerto Rico specializing in resort and swimwear, through the Grupo Guayacán EnterPRize competition.

“We have been fortunate to partner with Friends of Puerto Rico in order to continue increasing our impact on women entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico…In addition to financial support, Friends of Puerto Rico offers a broad network of individuals and organizations that share a common passion for supporting Puerto Rico, particularly as it continues its recovery after the devastating impact of Hurricane María. We are honored to have Friends of Puerto Rico as one of our collaborators.”

Alejandra Peña

Executive Director, Museo de Arte de Ponce

“The donations and support we received from Friends of Puerto Rico allowed us to further develop educational programming around our temporary exhibitions so that both public and private schools that visited the museum could enjoy guided tours and artistic workshops.”

Karen Price-Ward

Corporate Community Affairs Manager & Grassroots Regional Leader,
Southwest Airlines, CO.

"Southwest Airlines and Friends of Puerto Rico hare a common mission and dedication to people and the improvement of their circumstances…Southwest Airlines is honored to partner with and support Friends of Puerto Rico by connecting people to what's important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and Southwest low-cost air travel and to further Friend of Puerto Rico’s mission of helping create the island/world that they envision."

Portal de Amor

Hogar Albergue de Niños San Germán, Inc.

“The Hogar Albergue de Niños San Germán, Inc. Portal provides shelter to neglected children with the help of our donors. We are constantly knocking on doors asking for donations. In all these years, after submitting countless proposals, we have never received a donation as generous as the one provided by Friends of Puerto Rico.