The beauty of entrepreneurship stems from the many different reasons why people decide to become entrepreneurs in the first place. For many, entrepreneurship is the key to liberty and independence, for Maribel and her daughter Karen, entrepreneurship meant the opportunity to keep a dream alive.
On Oct. 17, the Latino Entrepreneurship Program, called “Innovative Entrepreneurs” or “Empresarios Innovadores,” hosted their first free workshop.
Elkhart County hopes to boost business by empowering the Latino community with its brand new Latino Entrepreneurship Program.
Entrepreneurship can be a hard and lonely journey if you let it. Like with many things in life, however, it is all about perspective and one's personal outlook along the way. This is what we learned from Esther Santiago, proud of owner of Esther's Beauty Salon located in Elkhart, IN.
Gilberto Perez, Jr., former senior director of intercultural development and educational partnerships, has been named the new dean of students at Goshen College.
The Mexican consulate in Chicago has awarded Goshen College $50,000 for scholarships from its Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) Becas fund to provide financial assistance to students of Mexican heritage.
Gilberto Perez, Jr., and Richard R. Aguirre, received the Elkhart City Bar Association’s 2017 Liberty Bell Award for their leadership and numerous outreach activities to provide resources, education and support within the local immigrant, Latino and wider communities.
Goshen College is co-sponsoring a conference titled “Shared Opportunity, Shared Success: Latinos, Higher Education, Indiana’s Future,” in conjunction with Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), at the University of Notre Dame on April 13, 2017.
When Marlette Gomez graduated from Goshen College in 2013 with a degree in social work, she knew she wanted to focus her career on giving back to the immigrant or Latino communities. She now works as the college prep coach at Goshen High School, helping first-generation students make their college dreams a reality.
Mennonite leaders will pick up the work of the Minority Ministries Council from the 1960s and 1970s during a conference titled “Black, Brown, and Mennonite: Lessons from the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Black Freedom Movements for the Mennonite Church,” March 30 through April 1, 2017.
