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35TH ANNUAL BUILDING THE DREAM GALA PRESENTING SPONSOR MILLENNIUM PARTNER PRESIDENTIAL PARTNER BENEFACTORS CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE MAJOR SPONSORS COMMUNITY COMMERCE BANK TRUSTEES CIRCLE 2 35TH ANNUAL BUILDING THE DREAM GALA TELACU 1968 • 2018 THANK YOU PRESENTING SPONSOR TRUSTEES CIRCLE TOYOTA CAPITOL HILL PARTNERS MAJESTIC REALTY CO. MILLENNIUM PARTNER SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC ADVENTIST HEALTH THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY WHITE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION PRESIDENTIAL PARTNER REGENTS CIRCLE PEPSICO FOUNDATION ALTAMED BARRETO/REZINAS BENEFACTORS CHEVRON CIT/ONEWEST BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK EDISON INTERNATIONAL CORDOBA CORPORATION PURDUE UNIVERSITY-KRANNERT COUNCILMAN GILBERT A. CEDILLO SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT FAITH CHURCH SOCALGAS FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS TELACU INDUSTRIES HERBALIFE THE COCA-COLA COMPANY LOS ANGELES DODGERS UNION BANK NORTHGATE MARKETS VERIZON PARKING COMPANY OF AMERICA PAUL ESTRADA & FAMILY CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE THE LATINO COALITION AT&T BANK OF AMERICA CHANCELLORS CIRCLE HYUNDAI 1ST CENTURY BANK JPMORGAN CHASE AMG & ASSOCIATES SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ANTHEM & CAREMORE HEALTH TELACU CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER TELACU RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY TELACU WEATHERIZATION/ BBVA COMPASS INTER-CITY ENERGY SYSTEMS CABRERA CAPITAL U.S. BANK CAL STATE LA WELLS FARGO CALIFORNIA BANK & TRUST CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MAJOR SPONSORS NORTHRIDGE AETNA FOUNDATION CALIFORNIA WATER ASSOCIATION ANHEUSER-BUSCH EASTCOAST DEVELOPMENT CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION CORPORATION EAST WEST BANK CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS KXLA TELEVISION–44/RON ULLOA COMERICA MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS COMMUNITY COMMERCE BANK MAOF LOS ANGELES LAKERS MERUELO GROUP MARAVILLA FOUNDATION OGLETREE DEAKINS SOUTH COAST SHINGLE COMPANY OLIVAREZ MADRUGA LEMIEUX STATE FARM O’NEILL ADVENTIST HEALTH PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT WHITE MEMORIAL PEPSICO TAMAYO RESTAURANT UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC LATINO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WALMART SPONSORS 1 35TH ANNUAL BUILDING THE DREAM GALA FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018 • JW MARRIOTT AT L.A. LIVE! THE TELACU BOARD OF DIRECTORS DR. DAVID C. LIZÁRRAGA DR. MICHAEL LIZÁRRAGA HONORARY CO-CHAIRS HON. ERIC GARCETTI, MAYOR, CITY OF LOS ANGELES HON. ANTHONY RENDON, SPEAKER, CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY HON. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, CONGRESSMAN, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (RET.) GALA CHAIR AL SMITH, TOYOTA RECEIVING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY TELACU “CREO” AWARD THE HONORABLE XAVIER BECERRA ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF CALIFORNIA MILLENNIUM PARTNER JOHN RAFFOUL, ADVENTIST HEALTH WHITE MEMORIAL PRESIDENTIAL PARTNER RICHARD MONTAÑEZ, PEPSICO CORPORATE CO-CHAIRS JULIUS ROBINSON, UNION BANK JANET CLAYTON, EDISON PATTI WAGNER, SOCALGAS ABOUT TELACU TELACU was established in 1968 as a pioneering institution committed to service, empowerment, advancement, and the creation of self- create access to capital for small business sufficiency. For the past owners and hardworking families. Coupled BOARD OF DIRECTORS with your partnership, support and 50 years, TELACU has HECTOR V. BARRETO worked with partners belief in TELACU, our organization has JAY CANDELARIA grown to become the largest Community JOSE ELIZONDO like you who are equally Development Corporation in America. JAMES L. HODGES committed to equipping DR. MICHAEL LIZÁRRAGA BRIAN O’NEILL others with tools they At the forefront of TELACU’s community development mission is the TELACU CARMEN O. PEREZ ALEX SOTOMAYOR need to build their own Education Foundation, established 35 American Dream. years ago to empower Latino young people SENIOR EXECUTIVE STAFF and veterans with the most vital tool of DR. DAVID C. LIZÁRRAGA It was the late Senator Bobby all—an education. DR. MICHAEL LIZÁRRAGA Kennedy’s vision that the creation PAUL SAMUEL of Community Development In partnership with friends of TELACU— GERALD BARHAM Corporations would empower people donors, corporate sponsors, and our JAY BELL JASMINE BORREGO in underserved communities to access network of colleges and universities—the JOHN CLEM these vital tools: a job that pays a Foundation provides scholarships to ANA GONZALEZ living wage; a new home that is safe hundreds of college students each year. LAUREN LIZÁRRAGA and affordable; a loan to finance the Virtually all of these TELACU Scholars, PRISCILLA LIZÁRRAGA dream of owning a small business; a most of whom are first-generation young TOM PROVENCIO new school in which a child can aspire people from low-income families, earn JOSE VILLALOBOS to greatness; a scholarship to fund a their college degree. The Foundation also higher education. These are some of annually serves an additional 1,600 high the tools all people need to build a life school students, nursing school students at the highest level. and veterans, ensuring through our highly effective educational programs that these The TELACU model for community individuals stay in school, graduate and go development produces these tools. Each on to fulfill their purpose in life. and every business TELACU owns and operates supports a double bottom Because of your generosity, TELACU line—profitability that is inseparable Scholar Alumni can be found in places of from positive, tangible social impact. influence throughout the world around Significant financial investments are you. As we stand at the frontier of our made to spur economic activity and job next half-century, the women and men of creation in distressed communities. New TELACU stand unshakably committed community assets in the form of industrial to empower the next leaders of our parks, schools, infrastructure, shopping communities—communities we build centers, and municipal facilities are built, with partners like you. creating well-paying jobs for local residents. Quality, affordable homes are developed for first-time homeowners. Beautiful residential complexes are constructed and operated to provide safe environments for families and senior citizens. Responsive financial institutions are managed to 4 35TH ANNUAL BUILDING THE DREAM GALA TELACU 1968 • 2018 We are honored beyond measure to welcome you to TELACU’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, the 35th Annual Building the Dream Gala, presented by TOYOTA! Perhaps like no other year in history, the events of 1968 It is the promise of the women and men of TELACU that the represent both the supreme accomplishments and the establishment of our mission, the work of our minds and hands, basest expressions of America. We waged unmerciful and the commitment to which we remain standing will always wars, both on foreign nations as well as brother against be worthy of the dreams of all Americans who struggled to find brother. While some of our citizens fought in distant a better way for our nation in that year of great turmoil. lands, others fought here, many searching for solutions to change the direction of our nation: to protest against For TELACU, three elements of tonight’s 50th Anniversary violence, to end racial inequality, and to demand Celebration provide the greatest testament of that commitment. opportunity for all Americans. Our TELACU Scholars represent all that is good in our community; they hold the very future of our world in their hands. In the midst of this turbulence, two of our greatest Our 2018 “CREO” Award Recipient, California Attorney General ambassadors for the good of humanity—the Rev. Dr. Martin Xavier Becerra, embodies the proud achievements of the highest Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy—were order to which all immigrants in this great country aspire. brutally taken from our presence. And yet it was also the year that the world witnessed, spellbound on Christmas Eve, But most of all, it is YOU, our faithful partners, sponsors as the first people from Earth orbited the moon, sending and fellow believers in the American Dream, who 50 blessings to humankind from a ship in space where the years onward continue to inspire TELACU to remain a entirety of our fragile world was visible. It was in this pioneering institution committed to service, empowerment, context that on May 28, 1968, TELACU, The East Los advancement and the creation of self-sufficiency. Angeles Community Union, was formed. With eternal gratitude, DR. DAVID C. LIZÁRRAGA DR. MICHAEL LIZÁRRAGA FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT AND CEO TELACU Education Foundation TELACU WELCOME 5 ABOUT THE FOUNDATION Every year, the Foundation serves Our STEM & Business and Workforce Preparation Initiatives are designed 2,000 fi rst-generation high school, to meet the specifi c needs of our Scholars. Beginning in high school, college and graduate school students, students are exposed to careers in high-demand and well-paying STEM- as well as military veterans, from related and Business fi elds, previously underserved communities. believed to be unattainable for fi rst- generation students. Since most Scholars are also the fi rst professional in their family, we provide the training For the past 35 years we have been and personal coaching that enables transforming academic and professional them to develop the soft skills and outcomes for Latino youth—our confi dence to succeed; and as work nation’s largest and fastest-growing experience gains increasing importance demographic—by continually innovating in today’s job market, we connect them solutions that empower them to succeed! to critical internship and employment opportunities provided by Foundation Our Continuum of Education, a dynamic Partners and other major corporations. model created by the Foundation and comprised of the College Readiness and Historically, more than 75% of TELACU College Success Programs,