On October 2004, the first meeting of the Laredo Area Community Foundation was held and they conducted election of officers. The foundation became a member of the U.S.- Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership due to the Challenge Grant and the board worked to established an office and hire staff. In August 2005, An Executive Director was hired and the office was opened. In October 2005, a reception was held to celebrate the two inaugural donors to the foundation.
The community foundation acts as a driving force to develop a permanent endowment, to assess and to respond to emerging and changing community needs, to provide a vehicle and service for donors with...more
Teach for America is a social venture that hires graduating seniors from some of the most selective colleges and offers them with five-week training courses before unleashing them for a minimum of two years in some of the country’s worst classrooms.