Kiwi Brings Production to Southwest Creations, NMBW

Southwest Creations Collaborative has a new client bringing manufacturing to Albuquerque from Los Angeles, and an opportunity to grow again, although the prospect does carry risks.

The social venture nonprofit employs 25, most of them Hispanic women, and offers domestic production and manufacturing services for wholesale and retail businesses. It provides on-site day care and adult...
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Southwest Creations’ Case Study Featured on The Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes’ Website

Southwest Creations Collaborative – Case A, Case B, and Instructor’s Manual by Dr. Jeanne Logsdon of the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Business was recently published in the Case Study Journal and featured on the Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes website.

The two cases stretch through the life of SCC, from its inception in 1994 through the...
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View clip: Southwest Creations’ Partnership with Encuentro

Encuentro is an immigrant resource center based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This video project documents the creation of Encuentro with interviews of members from the three founding organizations, Enlace Comunitario, El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos and Southwest Creations Collaborative. Encuentro is approaching its one year anniversary, and they have created this video clip to share their...
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Listen in: KUNM: Southwest Creations & Social Enterprise

Southwest Creations was honored to be the subject of a special broadcast by public radio station, KUNM. The interview titled “Nonprofit Employs Low-Income Hispanic Women in Social Enterprise” aired on KUNM Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

An overview: Charitable dollars have been declining nationwide, even before the current recession. Many nonprofits have tried to blunt the...
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Ending Poverty, Creating Wealth: Southwest Creations featured in HandEye

Southwest Creations BY SUSAN MATTEUCCI | OCTOBER 7, 2010

Before launching Southwest Creations Collaborative, I worked with the Women’s Self-Employment Project in Chicago, and I organized the Full Circle Fund, a microlending initiative launched in partnership with Muhammed Yunus of the Grameen Bank. Although women...
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