2O21 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY OUR MISSION: | To establish permanent charitable funds | To provide a vehicle for donors’ varied interests | To promote local philanthropy | To provide leadership and resources to address local challenges and opportunities ON THE COVER The El Paso region’s borderless blue sky inspired the cloud-shaped design of the El Paso children’s museum and science center. A MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY What’s the old adage? Hindsight is 2020. drive-ins around town, plus online features – and the show will go on. The Children’s When we look back on 2020, we see loss of Museum and Science Center is quickly life and suffering caused by the COVID-19 rising from the ground in downtown El Paso. pandemic. The El Paso Community Our partner, El Paso Matters, is providing Foundation worked to address the fair and balanced journalism; Microsoft community’s economic and health needs has partnered with the El Paso Community – mindful that the best thing for our health Foundation as well, to amplify that effort as was not always best for the economy, and we build the Puente News Collaborative. vice versa. The Foundation is working with El Paso County and UTEP to address critically The El Paso Community Foundation needed access to broadband internet. pioneered Get Shift Done for El Paso, which We are working with the State of Texas to connected laid-off food service workers resurrect the Wyler Aerial Tramway. We are to essential jobs at nonprofits, such as the partnered with the City of El Paso to refresh El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank. Murchison Rogers Park at Scenic Drive. In 2020, almost half of the unemployment “The Intersection of Possibilities,” which claims in Texas were from food service provides media and content for economic and hospitality workers, whom we gave a development, is receiving national helping hand and the dignity of work. The attention. These are just a few initiatives of Foundation worked with local government the Foundation. to provide the El Paso Community Debit Card to the people who needed it most, so COVID-19 lingers, of course, but we are they could buy groceries and prescriptions. learning to lead more normal lives. I am The Foundation supplied more than a glad 2020 is in our hindsight, and looking million pieces of PPE – face masks, mainly forward to a better future. Sincere thanks – to first responders, health workers, law to all of our donors and partners. enforcement, and nonprofits in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Before the pandemic, we already had plenty to do – and we continue the work. The El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival took the movies to the Eric Pearson, President / CEO streets in 2020 with 11 nights of pop-up COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NATIONAL STANDARDS BOARD The El Paso Community Foundation is Intended as a blueprint for internal recognized by National Standards for organizational development and as a tangible operational excellence. set of benchmarks for external assessment What does that mean? The National of performance, the 26 National Standards Standards are philanthropy’s most rigorous, address five key areas of community with some of the highest measuring sticks for foundation operations: accountability, transparency, and continuous | Mission, structure, and governance self-improvement. | Resource development The El Paso Community Foundation is among | Stewardship and accountability more than 700 community foundations in | Grant-making the United States. We are a member of the Council on Foundations and are confirmed to | Donor relations, community leadership, be in compliance with the National Standards and communications for U.S. Community Foundations. In the words of Vikki Spruill, former President Community foundations provide a simple, and CEO of the Council on Foundations, powerful, and highly personal approach to “Each of us knows where a grant has made giving. As a public charity devoted to our a difference, a donation jump-started community, we offer a variety of giving tools an initiative, or a contribution catalyzed to help you achieve your charitable goals. a movement.” This is where the El Paso The National Standards Board guides the Community Foundation’s efforts to improve sound policies and practices that help our region come to fruition. community foundations achieve results and impact. It is our version of the Good Housekeeping seal and distinguishes us as a smart investment for philanthropists. EL PASO COMMUNITY HONORARY VICE CHAIRS EL PASO COMMUNITY Joe Alcantar, Jr. FOUNDATION FOUNDATION STAFF Russell Hill Eric Pearson BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marylee W. Jurecky President/CEO Joe Kidd, M.D. Janice W. Windle AND STAFF Senior Vice President Betty Moor MacGuire Carmen M. Vargas BOARD OF DIRECTORS Guillermo Ochoa Chief Financial Officer Mary Carmen Saucedo Kathrin Berg Manuel Pacillas, Chairman Vice President of Donor Relations Stephanie Otero Isha Rogers, Vice Chair Vice President of Operations G. Paul Porras, Treasurer PAST CHAIRS Gary L. Williams Senior Program Officer Lillian W. Crouch, Secretary John Schweitzer Mario Porras Chris A. Cummings H.M. Daugherty, Jr. Binational Affairs Director Sylvia Borunda Firth Hugh K. Frederick, Jr. Doug Pullen Richard H. Feuille Program Director Teresa Gallardo Betty Moor MacGuire Bonita Johnson Judith Gaskin Grants Manager Richard Hickson Yaranelly Castro Ruth E. Gillett John T. Kelley Executive Assistant to the President Mimi Reisel Gladstein Guillermo Ochoa Maggie Sanchez-Mercado Executive Assistant/Event Director Laura Tate Goldman Mary Carmen Saucedo Omar Carranza Sally Hurt-Deitch Joe Alcantar, Jr. Executive Chef Francis Roderick Axelson Jeannine Kennedy Lourdes Nunez Accounting Assistant Roger G. Ortiz, D.D.S. Margarita Kimmel Asia Gaye Saucedo Sharon Smith Kidd Logisitics Assistant Lyn McKee Leigh V. Bloss Katie Herron Rebeca Ramos Program Officer Tammy Vasilatos Luis Suira Program Assistant Jim Ward DIRECTORS EMERITUS Stephanie Acosta Joe Alcantar, Jr. Robert V. Wingo Program Assistant Leigh V. Bloss Nora Rose Helen Lund Yancey Chris Lane Program Assistant James Magee Rebecca Harding Intern EL PASO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER Construction started in January 2021 on El Paso’s newest wonder, the El Paso children’s museum and science center. The El Paso Community Foundation is partnering with the City of El Paso and other stakeholders on the $70 million project, which is transforming a dusty lot on the corner of Santa Fe and Main streets into a world class, one-of-a-kind museum and science center for kids of all ages and sizes. The awe-inspiring four-story structure, designed by the New York office of Norway’s Snøhetta, was inspired by the boundless blue sky and borderless clouds that are part of the borderland’s majestic appeal. The innovative design was unveiled last fall, shortly before the reveal of the museum’s unique exhibitions, designed by Gyroscope, Inc. of California as A view from the foot of the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation Anything’s Possible Climber. a series of 10 themed zones that encourage interactive exploration of water, sound, wind epcmuseum.org, and social media platforms. spark discovery. With its big, borderless “blue and more. Nine of those zones will feature A major capital campaign kicked off with sky” concept, the museum will provide hands- installations by El Paso-area artists. the announcement of a $5 million donation on interactive opportunities for children and from the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family their families to develop skills, such as creativity, Continuing the Community Foundation’s Foundation. collaboration, risk-taking and perseverance. desire to incorporate public input into the Every exhibit will provide novel opportunities The children’s museum and science center will project, a three-month Name the Museum for learning that complement children’s senses be a game changer for our region. Nothing like Challenge was launched in January. The of wonder, discovery and exploration. It will help it exists in the area’s educational ecosystem – or public is taking suggestions for the museum’s children to imagine and build a new future for skyline. Its mission: Launch imagination and permanent name via its website, themselves, their home, and their world. The El Paso Community Foundation is leading the way on the conception, design, and fundraising for what promises to be a world-class museum from top to bottom, inside and out. Thanks to input from the community, teachers and educators, we plan to make El Paso’s children’s museum a community hub that is welcoming to every family in the border region. EPC MUSEUM BOARD OF DIRECTORS Josh Hunt, Chairman Tracey Jerome Miguel Fernandez Eric Pearson Ben Fyffe Cita Sanders Allison Glass Nicholas Tejeda Brian Grass The Flow exhibit depicts the movement of water and air. The stars come out at night in this exterior view from Santa Fe Street looking northeast. LEADERSHIP PROJECTS CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC and members of the city’s faith community, Like a global tsunami, the coronavirus including Temple Mount Sinai, the Catholic pandemic has rippled into every corner of Diocese of El Paso, the InterFaith Alliance the world, including our beloved Borderland. of the Southwest, the Both Sides/No Sides As of spring 2021, more than 134 million zen community, and Cross of Grace Church. people around the world have been The fund will help El Paso Electric customers infected, nearly 3 million killed, including who are behind on their bills because of more than 560,000 in the United States and the pandemic and in danger of being nearly 6,000 in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez- launch in the United States after its start disconnected. El Paso Electric will match Las Cruces, N.M. region. in Dallas. It has paid out more than $1.1 donations dollar for dollar. To donate, go to million in wages to more than 720 workers epcf.org/brighthearts.