Legacies of love... Stories
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and donations to non-profit organizations.
PGA Legacy Fund: A testamentary legacy for the love of Puerto Rico
With the objective to contribute to the welfare of Puerto Rican society, Peter G. Alfond left a testamentary bequest that established in the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (PRCF), the PGA Legacy Fund for Puerto Rico. The fund was motivated by Peter's love for Puerto Rico, a love he demonstrated during his lifetime with other philanthropic initiatives that he executed under anonymity.
The social capital of community aqueducts is strengthened with the union of voices under the Association of Community Aqueducts of Puerto Rico.
Before the anniversary of its constitutive assembly, the Association of Community Aqueducts of Puerto Rico Inc. (AACPR) had already achieved two of its main goals: to attract the leadership of dozens of community aqueducts to promote an organizational structure that would represent them; and the recognition by local and federal government institutions of an organization that groups and represents the interests of the community.
The María “Taty” Garay Fund is established to support the scholarship program of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola.
A group of friends and alumni of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, in San Juan - Class of 1993, had been raising funds for more than a decade to strengthen the school's Project Program, which offers scholarships to low-income students with high academic potential, mostly from the public education system.
Sophia Reyes Robles: “I will return to Culebra”.”
A Sandy Hill Memorial Fund scholarship recipient, she is pursuing a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus, and longs to return to the island municipality to contribute to its progress.
Liliana Cotto Morales Solidarity Fund promotes missions of youth organizations that strengthen citizen participation
The urban sociologist hopes that others will see this philanthropic vehicle as an alternative to support transformations that stimulate autonomy, decolonization and the exercise of our multiple sovereignties from the community base.
Rosa Bell School graduate creates painting to thank and honor the memory of Sebastian Deliz
In 1998, his twin brother, friends and family established the Sebastián Deliz Foundation Scholarship Fund at the Community Foundation of Puerto Rico (FCPR) to help dozens of students continue their studies at the educational institution where he had studied.
Encounter between a donor and his grantee...
The scholarship representative of the PGA Legacy Fund for Puerto Rico, José Ismael Irizarry, recently had the opportunity to meet the fund's second grantee, Francisco Betancourt Morejón.
May water never be lacking...
The goal and objective are very clear: to have energy redundancy, that is, more than one source of energy, to avoid interruption of the water service that reaches their homes through the community aqueducts.
Gonzalo Aponte Foundation Fund celebrates two decades of a legacy of love for Puerto Rico's communities
In the summer of 2001, exactly two decades ago, the Aponte Family decided to look for a way to perpetuate the philanthropic legacy of Mr. Gonzalo Aponte, a born philanthropist who understood the value of giving to others. Since then, there have been many who have benefited from the philanthropic investment of the Gonzalo Aponte Foundation Fund which already exceeds one million dollars.