We're celebrating our 63 Year Anniversary of Sister City connections between Viña Del Mar, Chile, and Sausalito, California — and new emergency preparedness training for our friends in Viña Del Mar. Celebrating 63 Years On December 22, 2022, a disaster took place in our Sister City of Viña Del Mar, Chile. It all [...]
Paula Tejeda is a member of the Viña del Mar Sausalito Sister City Ops Council. She is also one of our translators, event hosts when the women are here, and all-around small business inspiration! Paula owns Chile Lindo, serving authentic empanadas and other Chilean delights in her store at 2944 16th in San Francisco. The [...]
In 2020, it was our turn to visit Viña Del Mar, Chile. COVID had other plans for us, but we didn’t let that slow us down. We turned our focus directly to our relationship with AGEP, the women’s business organization in Viña Del Mar and Valparaiso that we have been mentoring since 2011. Instead of [...]
Sausalito, CA August 30, 2021 3:00 pm: Sausalito Community Leaders, Chilean Consul General and Chile-California Council Gather to Celebrate 2021 Prestigious International Sister City Award for Best Program. Sister Cities International recognized and awarded the Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. Viña del Mar Operations Council for “Innovation for Business, Trade, and Professional Exchange for a City [...]
On behalf of the Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. (SSCI) Viña del Mar (VDM), Chile Operations Council and the Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. Board of Directors we thank Sister Cities International for the very prestigious award for the Sausalito-Viña del Mar, Chile program for “Innovation in Business, Trade and Professional Exchange, for a population under 25,000.” This is [...]
Our Sausalito-Viña del Mar Sister Cities program is an international exchange intended to promote cross-cultural understanding. Through this program, we unite entrepreneurs and businesswomen in California and Chile for training
In honor of International Women’s Day 2021, Sausalito Sister Cities hosted a virtual celebration with our Sister City of Viña del Mar, Chile. On March 8th, we joined our fabulous collaborators at AGEP (the Union of Women Business Owners and Professionals) to celebrate courageous women past and present. We honored the Female Entrepreneur highlighted in [...]
Presented by Cathy Stierhoff for the Sausalito Sister Cities International Women’s Day 2021 celebration. Translated by Brenda DeBruyn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWS6Mmhn5AA I am going to tell you about a woman from our very own home town of Sausalito, a woman who re-invented herself many times during her lifetime: Her name is Sally Stanford, someone who [...]
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 [...]
