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With his book A community foundation for all time: 38 years of philanthropic action, the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (FCPR) presents to the Puerto Rican community its evolution and philanthropic trajectory.
The content was written by the writer and journalist Tatiana Perez Rivera and the foreword by Luis Alberto Ferré Rangel; the graphic design was in charge of Edder González Palacios. The text includes testimonials from non-profit organizations such as. FISH, the Sister Isolina Ferré Centers and the communities of Black Bull, in Ciales, and Corcovada, in Añasco. In addition, scholarship recipients of some funds. It also integrates the voices of donors, members of the Board of Directors -present and past- and representatives of allied foundations in the United States.
Sixty people related in one way or another to FCPR funds or programs were interviewed, among them: César Rey, former secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education; architects Elio Martinez Joffre and Edwin Quiles, former director and founder, respectively, of the Community Design Workshop of the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico; the mayor of Loíza, Julia Nazario; and past members of the Board of Directors, including Manuel Cidre, Secretary of the Board of Directors. Economic Development Department; Manuel “Coco” Morales, Carlos J. Vázquez Camuñas.
Enjoy what you will read in its pages, testimony of a Puerto Rico that works in unity to transform its reality.
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Proceeds from the book will strengthen the operation of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation.
“This book presents us with an honorable trajectory of patriotic work and concrete examples that validate the successful formula of a service foundation for all times. It presents us with more: A clear path towards what is possible to build in the form of new community, sector and country projects.”.
-Luis A. Ferré Rangel
Foreword