Community Building community. Colado Latino Network.
A Baltimore community for Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and people who are still deciding whether to start something. Another Monday built the platform it runs on.
What Colado Latino Network is.
Colado Latino Network is a Baltimore, MD community for Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and future business owners, founded in January 2026 by five co-founders. It runs ticketed networking events, a free business directory, and a matching program called Colado Connects.
It isn't a chamber of commerce and it isn't a festival. The five who started it were all raised in New York and all landed in Baltimore, and they built it because the room they wanted to walk into didn't exist here.
Economic mobility through genuine community. Building wealth without losing culture.
What the events actually do.
Every latino community event in Baltimore Colado runs happens inside a working local business, never a rented conference room. The first one opened at fifty seats, went to sixty, and sold out.
The third ran at The Empanada Lady downtown and drew 58 guests across 56 orders on a Thursday. Every attendee who answered the feedback form after the first event said they'd come to another.
Not every one is a full room, and that's deliberate. The second was a Coladito at Cafe Los Suenos in April, a small daytime gathering for a handful of people. The format moves with what the month needs: a sold-out evening when there's momentum to build on, a quiet table when the point is for a few people to actually talk to each other.
The through-line is that the host business is never a backdrop. Picking a Latino-owned room and filling it on a slow night means the community shows up for a business at the moment that business can feel it, which is a different thing from renting a hall and inviting people to it.
What Another Monday built for it.
Colado runs on a custom build, not a template. We designed and built the whole platform and we still run it: the events calendar, the reviewed business directory with a page for every approved listing, the Colado Connects matching program, the sponsorship page, and the lead paths behind all of them with conversion tracking wired in from the start.
It is the same kind of work behind our Baltimore web design projects and the rest of the businesses on our client roster, built on Astro and Netlify with a database behind the directory so a listing is a real page rather than a row in a spreadsheet.
A directory listing that's a real page, with a real link home.
That distinction is the whole reason the directory was built this way. A logo in a grid does nothing for a small business in search. A page carrying the business name, what it does, where it is, and a followed link back to its own site is an asset that keeps working after the event ends, and it is the part a member can actually point at.
The rest of the build follows the same rule: every piece has to do a job after launch. The events calendar sells tickets, the Connects form routes a real request to a person, and the sponsorship page gives a business a way to back the community without joining it, all of it reporting into the same analytics so the team can see which one is doing the work in a given month instead of guessing.
The business directory.
The latino business directory in Baltimore is free to join, and every submission is read by a person before it goes live. An approved business gets its own page and a link back to its own website, which is worth more to a small business than a logo in a grid.
Another Monday is listed in it, alongside businesses we work with elsewhere. That is also why the Colado member badge sits in our footer: we're in the directory, so we show it, and the badge links back the same way every other member's does. Businesses that want to back the community, without joining it, can sponsor the Latino community directly.
Our stake in this one.
Willis Aybar, who runs Another Monday, is one of the co-founders of Colado Latino Network. So this page isn't a neutral write-up of an arms-length client, and you should read it knowing that. The numbers on it come from Colado's own records and are the same ones Colado publishes.
We say it here because a page that describes a community, links to it four times, and puts its badge in our footer should be upfront about the connection instead of leaving you to find it.
Questions people ask about Colado.
What is Colado Latino Network?
Colado Latino Network is a Baltimore, MD community for Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and people who want to start a business. It was founded in January 2026 by five co-founders, and it runs ticketed networking events, a free business directory, and a matching program called Colado Connects. It isn't a chamber of commerce and it isn't a festival.
Who runs Colado Latino Network?
Five co-founders started it, all Latino and all raised in New York, and they built it because no equivalent space existed in Baltimore. Willis Aybar of Another Monday is one of them, which is why this page carries a disclosure instead of reading like a neutral client write-up.
Where are the Colado events held?
At Latino-owned and local businesses around Baltimore, which is the point of the format. Past events have run at Bodega and Vino in Locust Point, Cafe Los Suenos, and The Empanada Lady downtown. Hosting inside a working business puts the room and the guests in the same place.
Is it free to list a business in the Colado directory?
Yes. The Latino business directory is free to join and a person reads every submission before it goes live, so nothing is auto-approved. An approved business gets its own page on coladonetwork.com and a link back to its own website.
How do I get involved with Colado Latino Network?
Submit your business to the directory, or come to an event. Both start at coladonetwork.com. If you want help with your own marketing instead of an introduction to the community, that's the Another Monday side and there's a form at the bottom of this page for it.
Did Another Monday build the Colado website?
Yes. Another Monday built and runs the platform: the events calendar, the reviewed business directory with a page per listing, Colado Connects, the sponsorship page, and the lead paths behind all of it, with conversion tracking wired in. It is the same custom Astro build we do for other local businesses.
Want this for your business?
Colado's platform is the same work we do for local businesses. Tell me what you're building and I'll reply, usually within one business day.
Come to the next one.
The events are open and the directory is free. If you would rather talk about your own marketing, that's what the form above is for.
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