Julieta Mendez is program officer for the International Community Foundation, assisting senior staff in the due diligence and oversight of International Community Foundation's grantmaking. Her responsibilities entail working closely with grantees to ensure the highest level of transparency and help improve the grantmaking process.  Mendez also serves as the foundation’s special projects coordinator.  Currently she is assisting the President & CEO in developing International Community Foundation’s health & human services initiative to increase the foundation’s level of giving to health nonprofits serving the San Diego-Tijuana border region.  She is also the editor and coordinator of the Foundation’s annual report and quarterly newsletter.  

Mendez’s service at International Community Foundation began in September of 2004.  Since that time she has done extensive research on Mexican migrant transnational communities and is working to develop the Foundation’s portfolio of migrant led economic and community development projects to alleviate poverty in Mexico’s southern migrant sending regions. She also participated as co-author of the study “Corporate Giving Trends in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region”, an initiative led by the Border Philanthropy Partnership that looks at the levels of maquiladora philanthropic contributions in Mexico’s border communities.  Other roles that she has held at International Community Foundation include special assistant to the President & CEO and office manager. 

Ms. Mendez graduated with a Masters degree in international development with a focus on Latin America from the Graduate School of International Relations/Pacific Studies (IR/PS), at the University of California San Diego. In March of 2006, she was recognized as an “Emerging Leader” fellow by the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society based at the City University of New York; where she explored ways in which U.S. community foundations are partnering with Mexican immigrant grassroots organizations to better serve the changing American community. She holds a B.A. in Business Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.