RDI provides a growing suite of Spanish-language services and programs to rural Latinos throughout the Pacific Northwest.
RDI has delivered the Pasos al Éxito program — a two-part Spanish-language financial literacy and business training for new and aspiring entrepreneurs — throughout rural Oregon since 2012. In 2022, we began providing sector-specific Spanish-language trainings for starting and running small childcare and food businesses, and also started offering a Spanish-language version of our popular Ready, Set, Grant! program. (Learn more below.)
We continue to grow our Spanish-language services and bilingual facilitation staff. RDI is proud to have been selected for a nationwide cohort formed to learn more about Latino financial education, and we are currently developing a new Spanish-language curriculum that provides skills related to investment and wealth building. A Spanish-language Rural Civic Engagement Program is also in development, and we are exploring interest in Spanish-language leadership trainings as well as additional sector-based entrepreneurial programs and technical support.
For more information about RDI’ s Spanish-language services and programs, contact Brenda Brown, Bilingual Senior Program Manager: 541-653-4824, bbrown (at) rdiinc.org