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COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS | FUNDERS | MANAGING PARTNERS
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PROFILE
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Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte A.C Edificio Plaza Barrancas 4to piso
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WHO ARE WE?
We are a recently created foundation, borne of the desire to grow into a true Community Foundation.
The foundation’s board of directors is made up of the city’s leading philanthropists, individuals who have consistently demonstrated a profound love for the land in which they live. With their roles in the creation of this foundation they renew their commitment to the sustainable development and improvement of levels of well-being and quality of life for the Juarez community.
We believe that this foundation will be very well received by the community due to the vast experience and commitment to the philanthropic sector our founders posess and as a result of the many organizations they have established or played an active role in.
OUR COMMUNITY
From our inception we are adopting a focus on asset generation in order to create positive change in our community. We have established alliances with other community organizations with the aim of mutually supporting one another to better serve and have a greater impact on the projects that are supported by the foundation.
FACE OF FCFN
Karen Yarza has worked in the public sector since 1997 and joined FCFNAC as its Executive Director.
Before joining FCFNAC Karen served as Director of a corporate foundation in Juarez. She firmly believes that the only way by which the community’s problems can be solved is by combining efforts and creating concrete plans of action that bring together knowledge and experience with key philanthropic actors.
She is an active participant of various community groups such as, Centro Humano de Liderazgo, A.C. (Cehlíder), Patronato Amigos del Museo de la Ex – Aduana, Impulsa al Joven Emprendedor (Junior Achievement), y Profesionistas Emprendedores con Responsabilidad Social (PERS).
OUR TREASURES
"This partnership is a historic event. Two very different countries come together to address common critical needs through a philanthropic network. Mexico and the US assume shared responsibility," said Enrique Suarez, from Fundación Comunitaria Frontera Norte in the First Learning Community.
In our very short history the FCFNAC can feel proud of having involved, since its inception, the community’s key philanthropists and having launched its operations with its own resources. Such resources include the generous initial contributions made by the foundation’s founding partners totaling $300,000.00 USD, an act that reiterates their profound commitment to the community and city of Juarez.
We have already begun to receive responses from local donors who have channeled resources through the foundation to local civil society organizations.
OUR HOPE
The foundation's goals for the next 3 years are the following:
- Develop the necessary organizational capacity.
- Be recognized as an institution that belongs to, and is for the community
- Launch a fundraising effort that generates a minimum $750,000.00, of which 23% should be derived from individual community member donations
- To devise short, medium and long term plans of action directed at addressing the most pressing needs of the community, consequently improving the levels of well being and quality of life of residents of the city of Juarez
- To strike a consensus among all the various philanthropic actors on a plan of action that brings together the joint efforts, resources, and work of the group directed towards its goals
- To finance various projects
that address the most critical needs of the community
To have built an endowment by the next three years with a minimum value of $300,000.00
- To become self-sufficient in our operations as a result of the mobilization, integration and administration of the financial resources of FCFNAC and other philanthropic institutions.