Los Patios Hotel is an intimate boutique design hotel situated just beside the most historical part of Nicaragua's most alluring city - Granada. Los Patios, a homey 5-room hotel, offers a choice of four individual designed standard guest rooms, and a balcony suite up on the first floor featuring unique minimalism design combined with colonial style without compromising the luxury of modern living. For information & reservations, please visit us at www.lospatiosgranada.com

The CTI Water Chlorinator, a device designed by a St. Paul, MN nonprofit for treating bacteria-contaminated drinking water, has received official certification from Nicaragua's national Ministry of Health (MINSA). The CTI Water Chlorinator has been installed in 601 rural communities throughout Nicaragua and provides safe drinking water to more than 330,000 people.

Further extending its innovative business model and serving a rapidly increasing community of visitors and vendors, Best Places in the World to Retire announced that Belize was added today as the third country on its website.

Chantelle Adams is jumping out of an airplane, which is a huge fear, and falling 10,000 feet to raise $10,000 to build a school in Nicaragua with Free the Children. She has written a book, with 60 authors which is titled, The Courage to Fly.

With Solamon expanding into Latin America, upcoming Nicaragua meetings to unveil opportunites.

Companies are rushing in, and investors are once again turning their gaze on Nicaragua.

Construction of Phase One of the new Talanguera Townhome project in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua nears completion and unveils a time limited offer to new home buyers.

300 partygoers expected to attend the Charity Benefit Bash at Baja Bean; the party was rated by Style Magazine as one of the top places to "Ring in 2011," and over $6,000 is to be raised for the nonprofit.

Vermont-based NGO, People Helping People Global, has rolled out a new website that allows donors to connect with entrepreneurs in Central America who are being offered the opportunity to escape poverty through small business.

A growing demand for adventure tourism in Nicaragua and a higher than expected cost of living motivated this semi-retired couple to pull up their boots, saddle their horses and start up a tour biz that takes adventurous riders to the nearby beaches.

People Helping People Global (PHPG) is looking for event sponsors and participants for its 2010 Bowl to End Poverty. The event will take place August 12th to August 14th at AMF Shrader Lanes, 8037 Shrader Rd. in Henrico County.

-More than 200 water filters purchased by individuals, U.S. church groups, and volunteer organizations were distributed to Nicaraguan families over the month of December as part of a project begun by a team of firefighters in Bend, Oregon.

SkipJack Marketing and New York City based Avalon Partners have formed a strategic alliance to offer a broader, more complete array of services to their respective affluent clients.