This month, Glasswing received a $900,000 grant from Google.org and IDB Lab to help 340 young people in Panama seek gainful employment in the informational technology sector. With the launch of Google’s Professional IT Support Certificate in Spanish, these secondary school graduates will be given practical training to do IT support work, benefitting both the […]
Glasswing International partnered with Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (DV) to host ‘IdeaJam 2019’ at International High School at Union Square, a school for recently arrived migrant youth. DV volunteers worked with junior and senior students and taught them how to generate solutions from a given problem that would later result in a business or […]
This year, Glasswing, UNICEF, and the government of Costa Rica have been working on the development of a quality judicial mentoring network aimed at teenagers and young adults in conflict with the law. This initiative will provide a space for conversation, support, and counseling around the concerns, difficulties, and interests of young people that […]
During one of his most recent visits to El Salvador, Howard G. Buffett, CEO and Chairman of The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, announced that the organization would donate another $1M to work with Glasswing and communities on youth violence prevention programs in and around Parque Cuscatlán, as well as $5M to implement an integrated, ‘place-based’ […]
This summer, Glasswing New York joined forces with GlobalGirl Media in creating our first Summer Digital Media Academy, a direct learning educational media project training 15 adolescent girls ages 14-18 from low income backgrounds in New York City. The project included a three-week intensive journalism and media training focused on issues that matter to […]
The historic 80-year-old Parque Cuscatlán re-opened its doors to the public this September, quickly becoming a community hub and one of the safest public spaces in the city of San Salvador. We thank The Howard G. Buffett Foundation for its enormous financial contribution as well as the Mayor’s Office of San Salvador and USAID for […]
This summer, Glasswing New York joined forces with GlobalGirl Media in creating our first Summer Digital Media Academy, a direct learning educational media project training 15 adolescent girls ages 14-18 from low income backgrounds in New York City. The project included a three-week summer intensive journalism and media training focused on issues that matter to […]
Last week, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele; the Mayor of San Salvador, Ernesto Muyshondt; the Ambassador of the United States, Jean Manes; the Chairman and CEO of The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Howard G. Buffett; and the CEO of Glasswing International, Ken Baker, visited Parque Cuscatlan to see the progress of the revitalization […]
This past July 4th weekend, NFL players Marshawn Lynch and Marcus Peters came out for kids in El Salvador at the 2019 All-Pro Football Camp. The Salvadorian Association of American Intramural Football (SAAIF) and Fam 1st Family Foundation, in partnership with Glasswing International, hosted the Football Camp, where 700 youth and adults from different communities […]
On May 4th, over 5,000 young people from Central America came together for the Fourth Annual Generation Now Festival in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Glasswing and Televicentro, in partnership with Istmo Music, planned the event to celebrate and empower youth throughout the region by creating a safe space where they were able to enjoy performances by Colombian artists Mike Bahía, Alkilados, and other artists from the region, as well as learn how they could get involved and become agents of change in their communities.