Pana Mia

The Future
Is Local

Pana MIA Club promotes everything local in South Florida in order to achieve a more regenerative future.

Welcome Pana!

Panas gathered outdoors in front of hand-painted Pana Mia banners

What is Pana MIA?

A club that connects South Florida to its own: the small businesses, creatives and organizations who make this place what it is.

Panas around a long dinner table, leaning in together for the photo

What's a pana?

/pah·nah/

South American and Caribbean slang for friend. Around here it also means someone who shows up for the place they live.

Claribel Avila and Anette Mago, who started Pana MIA Club, sitting together

Why was Pana MIA started?

So that nobody with an idea for how to make South Florida better had to start at ground zero.

Map of Florida with the three South Florida counties Pana Mia covers picked out

Why local?

Because communities know their own needs best, and they are the ones best equipped to meet them.

Pana MIA Pillars

Not three departments — three halves of the same argument, that a place gets better when the people in it own the tools, the gatherings and the stories.

The Point

How do I get involved?

Pana MIA is built by and for locally based creatives, organizations and small businesses across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Join the directory, or start by finding someone already in it.

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