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FUNDERS

The work of the BPP is made possible by the generous contributions of 12 funding foundations and corporations:

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. The primary mission of the foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and communities fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.

The Foundation has a long-term interest in understanding the ways in which various forces produce worse outcomes for kids and families; exploring interventions that will impact policy and practice in a positive way. To that end, the goal of the Foundation’s SW Border portfolios is to build on the strengths of families in these regions and to identify and develop data, tools, and strategies that help produce better outcomes for children and families living in these communities. AEC has been a strong supporter of border foundation efforts to improve the financial outlook of low-income border families through its Frontera Asset Building Coalition. AEC collaborated with Synergos staff to host a thematic meeting on border foundation support for Family Asset Building in November of 2005 in National City, California.

Established in 1926, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is an international grantmaking organization supporting civil society initiatives and partnerships with a special focus on Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa and the United States in addition to many other projects all over the world. The work of the Mott Foundation is governed by its founder 's vision of a world in which every person lives in partnership with mankind, where each individual 's quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally.

The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. The Foundation's goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. As part of the Asset Building and Community Development Program, one of the three programs of the Foundation, support is provided to the development of community-based philanthropic institutions that mobilize and leverage capital, knowledge, human skills and natural resources locally in a fair and responsible manner.

The Ford Foundation has been a key partner making the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership possible. Foundation representatives approached the Synergos Institute in early 2001 about creating a collaborative to support the development of philanthropy and community foundations along the US-Mexico border. Since its inception, Ford has supported the partnership and its community foundation members on both sides of the border.

Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte is a national Mexican grantmaking organization. The foundation has a special concentration on the community foundations found south of the border. The foundation primarily supports initiatives that address water and health issues.

Established in 1937 by Jesse and Mary Gibbs, Houston Endowment is a private, philanthropic foundation committed to enriching communities by supporting a broad spectrum of local charitable organizations in the city of Houston and state of Texas. The foundation concentrates its grantmaking activities on six key areas; the arts, community enhancement, health and human services, higher education, K-12 education and medicine. Participation in the partnership highlights Houston Endowment's commitment to supporting communities whether they are geographically based or formed around a common interest or cause. In addition to its general support for the BPP, the Houston Endowment has provided additional resources towards the consolidation of four border foundations from the South Texas region through the South Texas Challenge Grant Program.

The Inter-American Foundation is a grantmaking, independent agency of the U.S. government dedicated to supporting community-based organizations and funding partnerships of grassroots and non-profit organizations and their innovative, sustainable, participatory and self-help programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IAF's initiatives are directed at helping the poor improve their own quality of life, strengthening participation, and promoting democratic processes.

Since it's founding in 1972, the IAF has funded over 4,578 grants to a myriad of community-based and intermediary organizations totaling in excess of $586 million. Within the U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership, the IAF has committed substantial financial support to four emerging Mexican community foundation members, FIC (Baja California), FESAC Nogales (Sonora), FCFN (Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua) and FECHAC (Chihuahua)

In 2005 JPMorgan Chase became the first corporate contributor to the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership. Under the auspices of their Community Partnerships Division, their involvement is part of JPMorgan Chase's corporate social responsibility strategy to promote sustainable development in the communities they serve. In addition to its support for the partnership as a whole, this grant specifically supports five organizations and their work around Family Asset Building: the Brownsville Community Foundation in its Assets for Independence Program, the Frontera Women's Foundation for its rural El Paso Earned Income Tax Credit Program, the Arizona Community Foundation's Campaign for Working Families and its support for Hispanics in Philanthropy, and the San Diego Foundation to support the Family Asset Building Coalition.

McCune Charitable Foundation, established in 1989, provides grants aimed at enriching the cultural, health, education, environment, and spiritual life of the citizens of New Mexico. The foundation focuses its grantmaking activity on supporting programs that are flexible, responsive and effective in aiding the people of New Mexico reach their full human and spiritual potential. Funding is restricted to the state of New Mexico with a preference for community-based and community-driven projects in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. As such, the McCune Charitable Foundation has developed a very strong relationship with the New Mexico Community Foundation.

The Meadows Foundation is a statewide grantmaking organization dedicated to the mission of assisting the people and institutions of Texas to improve the quality and circumstances of life for themselves and future generations. The work of the foundation is motivated and inspired by the desire to honor the life´s work of its founders Algur H. Meadows and Virginia Garrison Stuart Meadows.

The foundation supports a number of local and state organizations that demonstrate imaginative and innovative approaches to solving their community problems through projects leading to organizational self-sufficiency and capital plans that enable projects to flourish. Meadows has also joined the Houston Endowment in providing additional resources towards the consolidation of four border foundations from the South Texas region through the South Texas Challenge Grant Program.

Pfizer Inc is dedicated to discovering and developing innovative medicines and making them available to people around the world. Pfizer's business is fundamentally about saving, improving and enhancing lives, in the belief that by being successful as a business we provide the greatest benefit to society. Pfizer's commitment to being an exemplary corporate citizen is reflected in its extensive efforts to improve access to healthcare, the core focus of our philanthropic initiatives. In 2005 Pfizer Inc. joined the BPP as its 11th funder. Pfizer's generous support of BPP provides resources through which border foundations can become increasingly supportive of local community health programs that improve the quality and well being of border families and communities. Pfizer's contribution support the BPP's first thematic meeting on Community Health in October, 2007 in Tijuana, Baja California.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 by breakfast cereal pioneer W.K. Kellogg. During his lifetime, he donated $66 million in Kellogg Company stock and other investments "to help people help themselves." Over the years, the Kellogg Foundation’s programming has evolved, striving to remain innovative and responsive to the ever-changing needs of society. Today, the organization ranks among the world’s largest private foundations. Grants are awarded in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa. The foundation has been particularly supportive of the BPP's Jóvenes Fronterizos Initiative. Providing a grant that helped to support the BPP's first thematic meeting on Youth in Philanthropy in Cd. Juarez in November of 2006.

Incorporated in 1966, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has as its mission the promotion of the well-being of humanity by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature within the scope of the foundation 's areas of concentration, conflict resolution, education, environment, performing arts, population and U.S.-Latin American relations. Additionally, the foundation seeks to support initiatives dealing specifically with neighborhood improvement and philanthropy.