International Community Foundation Center
- To engage, grow, and promote healthy communities and dialogue through civic engagement and philanthropy in the San Diego-Baja California border region.
Vision:
- To empower citizens to improve the health and quality of life of people and communities in our binational region.
The International Community Foundation Center, a supporting organization of the International Community Foundation, has been established in order to promote expanded binational programs, outreach, dialogue and exchange to foster healthy livable communities in the San Diego-Baja California border region. The goal of the International Community Foundation Center is to encourage experiential learning and voluntary service in order to further cross-cultural understanding, collaboration, and expanded philanthropy in the San Diego-Baja California border region as well as around the world.
The International Community Foundation Center features a one half acre organic garden which is currently being used to harvest produce for the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center’s Healing Foods Program. The Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center is recently been established on an additional ˝ acre parcel of land with the goal of connecting and motivating students and families from diverse backgrounds through organic gardening, environmental stewardship, and nutrition education, empowering them to be healthy and active citizens. Through Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center, the ICF Center seeks to reconnect students and families to the natural environment through food, education and community engagement.
Because of the historic significance of the Noyes House, constructed in 1896, the International Community Foundation Center is not only committed to the historic preservation of its property but also using its facilities to educate individuals of all ages about the unique cultural heritage in the region, and in particular, Rancho La Nación, the former Spanish land grant property of which the referenced property used to be a part.
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