Nancy Martin visited San Ramón on one of our cultural immersion ecotours in February, with the group Active People on the Move. Below are her reflections from her trip. For the past several weeks I have been able to think and talk of little else but the seven days I spent in Nicaragua on a… Read More →

Lonna Harkrader founded Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua with her husband Richard in 1993. They come down every year and spend some time in San Ramón to work with us and visit their long-time friends. I asked Lonna to share a little about makes San Ramón so special to her. Here is her answer…. Read More →

In general, all non-profits share certain day-to-day struggles: maintaining funding from year-to-year, stretching dollars to cover project costs, trying to keep operating costs down while still running an efficient organization, etc. But perhaps one of the most insidious and toxic problems is mission creep. Mission creep is when an organization gradually moves away from its… Read More →

This year, we welcomed Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), Kate Crowley, to our Board of Directors. As an organization founded by RPCVs and led by yours truly, another RPCV, Kate is like a duck in water at SCSRN. We invited her to write about why she decided to get involved with our work. As a… Read More →

As anyone who works in the non-profit sector can tell you, projects rarely go exactly as you plan them. None of us like to brag about our failures, but let’s face it: no matter how lofty your goals are or how meticulously you have planned your project, making a real, sustainable change involves a lot… Read More →