Coffee makers in Granada give added value to the coffee bean and form an alliance with Pyme

CALI II Fellow, Gian Marco Palazio, emphasized the quality of the coffee that he grows.

Wendy Álvarez Hidalgo
economia@laprensa.com.ni

The nomination pediod for CALI III has now been officially closed! The selection and interview process for CALI III is now going on!

Second Amigos del Aprendizaje (ADA) National Congress gets inaugurated by the Minister of Education, Leonardo Garnier and the founder of INBio, Rodrigo Gamez, in collaboration with ADA, where CALI II Fellow Renata Villers’s is a founding member and executive director.

From July 23-26, the second class of Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) Fellows, self-named "Calidos" (a play on words meaning both warm-blooded and CALI class II in Spanish), gathered at the Aspen Meadows for their second of four seminars – the Executive Seminar, in which they discussed their vision of “a good society” by reading, discussing and relating the writings of a wide range of thinkers to their present-day conditions.

In celebration of 10 years of Henry Crown Fellows, Aspen Trustees, Fellows and members of all global leadership initiatives (AGLN), gathered in Aspen, CO on June 28 through June 30, 2007.

Alajuela, May 25, 2007. On May 25th at 5:00 p.m., at the Walter Kissling Gam campus, in Alajuela. The official ceremony was carried out to hand over the command of INCAE.

Dr. Robert Artavia Loría, who occupied the position of Director of the Institution since 1999, and became the first graduate in holding this position, handed over his command on Friday to the Ecuadorian Arturo Condo, who held the position of Dean of Faculty and Masters Programs and Director of CLACDS/INCAE.

CALI representative Mirei Endara de Heras meets for the first Aspen Global Leadership Network workshop, which took place from May 2 though May 4 of 2007. Among the participating members where individuals representing Trustee, AI Leadership Initiatives, Henry Crown, Liberty, Rodel, ALI, ILI, Education, Catto, John P. McNulty Award, AI Development and AI Communications.

Twenty three of Central America's most entrepreneurial young leaders from the worlds of business, civil society, and government came together at the Managua campus of INCAE (Central America's leading business school) for their first of four Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) seminars. During The Challenge of Leadership Seminar, Fellows explore the attributes of leaders from Martin Luther King and Gandhi to Margaret Thatcher and Ricardo Semler. They determine what effective and enlightened leaders do and what they do not do, and create leadership handbooks of their own.

In July of 2006, the first group of CALI Fellows graduates in Antigua, Guatemala.