Sausalito – Viña del Mar Program Drives Online Innovation The cornerstone of the Sausalito - Viña del Mar program is a group called AGEP — Asociación Gremial de Empresarias y Profesionales, or Union of Women Business Owners and Professionals. This group of approximately 50 women supports and does business with each other in the Viña del Mar/Valparaiso region. Since 2011, the Sausalito VDM Ops [...]
Vina Del Mar was the first sister city in Sausalito, established in 1964 under the President Eisenhower people-to-people diplomacy program. We re-established our Sister City relationship in 2011 when Mayor Reginato introduced us to a group of women small business owners and their professional organization: Asociación Gremial de Empresarias y Profesionales de la Región de [...]
The 2019 Sausalito Wine Experience was a spectacular afternoon, and we were overwhelmed by your support. Thank you all for making this year’s event such a wonderful success!
By Harrison Chapman It’s been quite a powerful 31st year for the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program. As everyone knows by now, our long-time mentor, pillar, and friend of the program, Herb Weiner passed away just days before we were set to launch our 2019 program in July to Sakaide, Shikoku, Japan. Our 11 students unfortunately [...]
By Cheryl Popp The 5th annual YSE this past July was a resounding success, and the new Praça de Cascais plaza on Bridgeway in downtown Sausalito is starting to bloom! The landscape is complete and the plaza is already attracting locals and visitors alike. The Pistache tree leaves are budding, the ground cover foliage is [...]
By Cathy Stierhoff Leadership for Change, Empowerment to Innovate, Collaborate to Succeed: This was the theme of the 2019 visit from delegates from our sister city, Viña del Mar, Chile. For 10 powerful days in August and September, the Viña del Mar Operations Council (VDM Ops Council), took that theme to heart. The cornerstone of [...]
This year’s Sister City Fundraiser and the Third Annual Sausalito Wine Experience, www.sausalitowineexperience.org, will take place Sunday, October 13th 3-6pm. This is a first class afternoon and evening in the Alexandrite Suite and JUNTO at Casa Madrona.
2019 Program Updates Sakaide, Japan The 2019 Sakaide-Sausalito program's "Submittal Window" for applications for this summer's Student Delegation to Sakaide has now closed. We're going through our internal due diligence, but it looks like we have a great group of delegates once again! Delegates will travel to Sakaide in late July as part [...]
By Cathy Stierhoff, Sausalito-Viña del Mar Women in Business Sister City Last fall, twelve women from our Operations Council traveled to Viña Del Mar for an amazing week, continuing our mentorship of the women business owners that we have been working with since we re-ignited our sister city relationship with Viña in 2011. AGEP (pronounced [...]
Thank you for joining us on Saturday, March 30, at the Spinnaker Restaurant for a fun evening of cocktails, dinner, live auction and raffle benefiting Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. We sincerely thank the Rotary Club for selecting us as their gala beneficiary this year, and thank you all for attending this fantastic event! Tom Clark, [...]
