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An effort to promote expanded binational programs, outreach, dialogue and exchange aimed at fostering a healthy, more livable communities in the San Diego-Baja California border region and Baja California peninsula as well as to encourage educational learning and voluntary service furthering cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and expanded philanthropy around the world, the International Community Foundation is establishing the Center for Cross-Border Philanthropy (Center). The Center will be located in National City, California in the former home of John and Christy Walton otherwise known as the Noyes House, with the goal of bringing together diverse civic leaders from the public, private, nonprofit sector and foundations from both the United States and Mexico with the goal of improving the level of cross-border understanding to address emerging issues and challenges in the San Diego-Baja California border region and beyond with the goal of facilitating dialogue that will lead to expanded philanthropy and volunteerism in the region. A key focus of the Center will be to provide opportunities for experiential learning on issues related to environmental and health impacting the border region. Partnering with other local area nonprofits, Center’s organic garden will be used to promote healthy eating and nutrition among under served communities in San Diego and Tijuana. The Center’s future meeting facility will be designed using the latest in cost effective green design elements so as to serve a model aimed at encouraging building designs that are both energy and water efficient. Recognizing its commitment to community, the Center will develop specific community based service based programs designed to educate and engage local school children and youth (K-12) on U.S.-Mexico border related issues and the impacts of globalization on our fast changing world with the view towards demonstrating how philanthropy and voluntary service can play in making a positive impact in under-served communities beyond our borders. Because of the historic significance of the Noyes House, the Center is not only committed to the historic preservation of its property but also using its facilities to educate individuals young and old alike about the unique cultural heritage in the Las Californias region, and in particular, Rancho La Nación, the former Spanish land grant property which now encompasses much of what we today know as National City.
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