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UTEP center brings together students, faculty and nonprofits
Imagine 1,000 college students out in the community, helping people, supporting social agencies, improving the world in which they live .That’s what UTEP’s Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) does each year.
Is running a nonprofit harder than running a business?
Ask most any executive at a nonprofit organization, and they’ll tell you this: It takes much more than a die-hard passion to make their organization work – it also takes lots of business knowledge.
Volunteers Needed
Jessie Miller, founder and executive director of Animal Cruelty Heartline of El Paso (ACHE), remembers a phone call two years ago from a woman concerned about her neighbors’ dogs. The ensuing hour-and-a-half-long conversation led to others, which led to a visit from the woman and then volunteer work.
Grooming future philanthropists? Better start young
Why is one person giving and the next isn’t? It runs in the family. Take Paul Foster, currently El Paso’s most prominent philanthropist. He explained to El Paso Inc. last year the rational behind his giving actions: “They [his parents] were involved in all the charitable and civic causes in their small town, and I just grew up that way.”
Paul Foster raises the bar in El Paso philanthropy efforts
Paul Foster, president and CEO of Western Refining, has been extremely successful in business, presiding over the sensitive and complicated process last year that saw his company go public, yielding hundreds of millions of dollars for additional acquisitions.
Women’s Fund: Big impact in short time
The Power of the Purse is an important concept for more than just retailers. In El Paso, it is also a force for women’s education. The Women’s Fund of El Paso has only been in operation for two years, but in its second Power of the Purse fundraiser, the fund raised over $110,000, according to Jeanne Foskett, board member and chair of the scholarships and grants committee.
New generation of philanthropists make their mark on El Paso
A young, and by all estimates, growing group of El Pasoans is making its mark on the community. Meet a few of the young men and women who a
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