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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.
Located in National City, CA at the former property of the Walton family, the International Community Foundation Center includes a Princess Anne Victorian home, a pool house and pool, and a small Craftsman house and a large organic garden. Beyond being the International Community Foundation’s headquarters the property is intended for meetings and conferences aimed at bringing together civic leaders from the public, private, nonprofit, and academic sectors from both the United States and Mexico. The goal is to improve the level of cross-border understanding to address emerging issues and challenges in the San Diego-Baja California border region through facilitating dialogue expected to expand philanthropy and volunteerism in the region. 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. With additional funding, the garden will be expanded by an additional acre and programs are being developed to promote healthy eating and nutrition, with an emphasis on diabetes and obesity prevention among under-served communities in San Diego’s South Bay. 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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