Special news featuring Friendship Bridge, microfinance, international development, and Guatemala.

In the News

2023 Media Coverage

• Out with the Old, In with the New: Replacing Kitchen Items (and 4 more spring gift guides) — My Four and More, March 15-29, 2023

• Lakewood-based nonprofit empowers and encourages women thousands of miles away – Next with Kyle Clark, March 16, 2023

• International Women’s Day celebration held in Denver, KDVR Fox31 News, March 8, 2023

• WorldDenver International Women’s Day honors champions for Indigenous women – CBS Colorado, March 8, 2023

• Interview with Marta Julia Ixtuc Cuc – Desde la cima podcast with host Rocío Durán, March 1, 2023

• In northwest Denver, a Guatemalan-inspired café is becoming a Latino community hub – The Denver Post, January 14, 2023

2022 Media Coverage

• Meet Constancia Leshin – CanvasRebel.com, November 17, 2022

• Best Colorado Companies and Startups – BestStartup.us, November 7, 2022

• Guatemalan-inspired, bilingual café opens in Denver – 9News, November 2, 2022

• Meet Maya Colop-Morales – Canvas Rebel, October 18, 2022

• Meet Ardis Strieby, volunteer member of the Evergreen Friendship Circle – Shoutout Colorado, October 18, 2022

• Lakewood Nonprofit Friendship Bridge helps thousands of Guatemalan Women – Denver7  News (ABC), October 14, 2022

• Lakewood Nonprofit Selling Artisan Goods to Coloradans Lifts up Rural Guatemalan Women – The Denver Post, October 3, 2022

• Financial Support for Guatemalan Mothers (page 11) – Colorado Parent magazine, October/November 2022 issue

• Meet Nicole Eubanks – Shoutout Colorado, August 23, 2022

• Local Nonprofit Changing Lives of Women Thousands of Miles from Lakewood – Jeffco Transcript, August 11, 2022

• Local Nonprofit Changing Lives of Women Thousands of Miles from Lakewood – Englewood Herald, August 8, 2022

• Local Nonprofit Sells Guatemalan Handicrafts To Empower Women Entrepreneurs – Empresaris, August 2, 2022

• Local Nonprofit Sells Guatemalan Artisan Goods to Empower Women Entrepreneurs – YourHub/Denver Post, August 1, 2022

• This Nonprofit Helps Indigenous Guatemalan Entrepreneurs Build a Better Life Through Microfinance, Education –We Are Mitú, July 22, 2022

• Boulder JCC Presents “Investing in Women and Girls for a Better Future” – Boulder Jewish News, May 2022

• How Friendship Bridge Helps Empower Women and Eliminate Poverty – Eide Bailly, March 2022

• Friendship Bridge Awarded for Creative and Sustainable Revenue Initiatives – Eide Bailly, February 2022

2015-2021 Media Coverage

• How Friendship Bridge Supports Guatemalan Women – BORGEN Magazine, Oct. 25, 2021
• Swittens sold by Friendship Bridge Volunteers: Bernie Sanders Mittens – FOX31 Colorado’s Own News, Jan. 27, 2021
• Mildred Chas: Whole Planet Foundation Award – Guatemala.com, September 16, 2020
• Hunger and Hope: Lessons from Ethiopia and Guatemala – Rick Steves Europe, February 1, 2020
• Watch Microlending in Action at a Guatemalan Beading Business – Rick Steves Europe, November 13, 2018
• 5 Organizations Helping Women Entrepreneurs Around the World – Small Business Trends, October 4, 2018
• In the Most Isolated Areas of Latin America, Microcredits are Saving the Lives of Indigenous Women – Univision, March 26, 2018
• The Guatemalan PPI – A Retrospective of 5 Years of Use at Friendship Bridge – Friendship Bridge and Innovations in Poverty Action. December 16, 2016
• When Dreamers become Leaders: Understanding a spectrum of needs among women entrepreneurs in Guatemala (full report) – Friendship Bridge and Freedom from Hunger, 2016
• Boulder Nonprofit, Guatemala Artisans Share Common Thread – Boulder Daily Camera, January 10, 2016
• Family Photos and Mass Graves Reveal Horrors of Guatemala’s Civil War – National Geographic, 2015

Press Releases

Global Textile Exhibit Opens at Kent State University – May 18, 2023
Friendship Bridge Honored by WorldDenver for International Women’s Day – February 17, 2023
Guatemalan Artisans Create Gifts that Give Back – October 1, 2022
Traveling Guatemalan Textile Exhibit Now on Display at Convivio Café – September 29, 2022
Friendship Bridge Ranked as the #1 Best Places to Work® for Women 2022 in Caribbean and Central America – September 27, 2022
Local Nonprofit Sells Guatemalan Artisan Goods to Empower Women Entrepreneurs – July 26, 2022
Colorado Nonprofit Ranks High in World’s First Microfinance Social Performance Index – July 18, 2022
Local Nonprofit Making Strides to Support Women Entrepreneurs in Guatemala for Women’s Entrepreneurship Day – Nov. 19, 2021
The Best Places to Work for Women in Central America and the Caribbean in 2021 – Nov. 12, 2021
Bridge to Success: Backed by $1 million grant from Target Foundation – Aug. 18, 2021

Books

• Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty – Muhammad Yunus Aurum Press, 1998
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism – Muhammad Yunus Public Affairs, 2007
• Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen Knopf, 1999
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time – Jeffrey Sachs Penguin Press, 2005
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, C. K. Prahala Wharton School Publishing, 2004
• Half the Sky: Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Knopf, 2009
• The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor – Marguerite Robinson World Bank Publications, 2001
• The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism: A Compelling Case for Microcredit – Jim Klobuchar and Susan Cornell Wilkes Kirk House Publishers, 2003
• Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, ed. – Sam Daly-Harris Kumarian Press, 2002
• Price of a Dream: the Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea that is Helping the Poor to Change their Lives – David Bornstein Simon & Schuster, 1996
• Women at the Center: Grameen Borrowers After One Decade – Helen Todd University Press Ltd, 1996

Books for Sale

We highly recommend the following books, which are written by friends and supporters of Friendship Bridge. You can read summaries of the books and purchase them at our online store.

• Traditional Weavers of Guatemala:  Their Stories, Their Lives – Deborah Chandler and Teresa Cordón
• Doing Good…Says Who? – Connie Newton and Fran Early
• Los Coyotes Tienen Suerte – Robert Hinshaw
• My Lake at the Center of the World – Robert Hinshaw
• The Rape of Hope – Robert Hinshaw