Annual Report 2022

A year marked by the power of partnerships and collaborative work to overcome challenges and trascend borders.

Alfonso Márquez

Chairman of the Board

Message from our Chairman

"If you want to travel fast, go alone...
If you want to travel far, let's go together."

Some time ago I learned this African proverb and its wisdom helped me reflect about what we achieved at Fundación Paso del Norte in 2022.

Our organization entered a stage of maturity and consolidation that allowed us to go further and see beyond the borders of our community to connect with new ideas and initiatives.

With this conviction to transcend, we started the My Machine program in Ciudad Juárez, a program born in Belgium that had never been implemented in Mexico. We also traveled to Lima and Tarapoto in Peru, to train more than 400 teachers the Coaches Across Continents methodology as part of our Escuelas de Bienestar program. Finally, we launched the Juárez Giving Day campaign for the first time, to replicate the successful crowdfunding strategy carried out by our sister foundation Paso del Norte Community Foundation in El Paso.

During 2022, we were able to connect with more than 170 donors, including companies, organizations, and individuals, to whom we owe our deepest gratitude. Your generous support allowed us to mobilize and invest in the community more than $18 million pesos and allocate them to programs that improve the quality of life in Ciudad Juarez.

This report, in addition to being an account of what has been achieved with dedication, responsibility and a commitment to excellence, is the manifesto of our gratitude and appreciation to each of our donors, the Board of Directors and the staff of our foundation for making all this possible.

To achieve more and travel even further, let us continue working together and innovating to elevate the quality of life of the families in our community who need it so much.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alfonso Marquez - Chairman | Novamex

Carlos Terrazas - Vice Chair | Crowe

Michelle Betancourt - Board Secretary | Imagen Diagnostica

Estuardo Alvelais | Transtelco, Novamex

Ernesto Ávila | Sunflower Bank

Sandra Salinas | Grupo Axcel

Isabel Sánchez | Counselors International

Cristina Saracho | Saracho Juárez

Rafael Tirado | Núcleo Médico Hospitalario

Benjamín Torres Barrón | Baker McKenzie

Tracy Yellen | Paso del Norte Community Foundation

Highlights 2022

We connected with over 170 donors thanks to our projects, events, and funds. This allowed us to invest more than $18 million pesos in nonprofits and community interventions.

We transformed our partnership with FICOSEC into a permanent fund to support our Gender Violence Prevention Strategy. Through this strategy, we fund the programs of 7 organizations to address and prevent gender violence and child sexual violence, jointly investing more than $9M pesos.

We established an partnership with My Machine Global Foundation to bring their methodology from Belgium to Ciudad Juárez. With the sponsorship of Microsoft, we carried out a successful pilot in which 70 elementary school students drew the machine of their dreams. 4 drawings were selected, and university students and secondary education students worked in teams to build them and make them come true.

We realized the seventh edition of our Challenge Grant program with the participation of 8 organizations. Through this program, $2.8M pesos will be invested in their community programs.

We started the Second Cohort of REALIZE Transformational Leadership. This program serves leaders and executives of nonprofit organizations who live an experience for 10 months to transform their leadership and strengthen their organizations.

We successfully realized the seventh edition of our annual Juárez en Acción campaign. This year, Juárez en Acción achieved the participation of 19,273 volunteers and the realization of more than 65 community projects. With the support of Terrafina, as part of this program we were able to invest more than $160 thousand pesos in the equipment and renovation of the Bahía Blanca linear park in Parajes del Sur.

We organized the first conference “Entrelazando Redes” in partnership with FICOSEC to discuss the challenges and advances in the prevention of gender violence. The event closed with Olimpia Coral Melo as keynote speaker, she is recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

For the first time, we organized a workshop with the organization Proyecto Cantera of Ciudad de Mexico for Physical Education teachers and coaches of our Escuelas de Bienestar program. This year, we also traveled to Peru to give a workshop on this methodology to more than 400 participants.

Our Mission

Advance partnerships and initiatives to improve the quality of life of the people and community of Ciudad Juarez.

Our Vision

To be a leading organization that invests in the quality of life of Ciudad Juarez through a binational model of partnerships and charitable funds.

Our Distinctive

We are a foundation with a binational structure that fosters philanthropy in the region and strengthens the nonprofit sector.

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

NELSON MANDELA

Transparent Finances

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REVENUE

International Foundations – $9,229,622.75 39% 39%
Designated Funds – $11,128,525.72 47% 47%
Challenge Grant – $2,002,593.12 8% 8%
Annual Gala – $1,088,662.89 5% 5%
Local Partnerships – $78,000 0% 0%
Other Gifts – $157,348.66 1% 1%

As part of our sustainability strategy, the Fundación carries out a fund development program that allows us to connect with international foundations, local allies, companies, and individual donors to support our general operation.

In 2022 we mobilized $23,648,753.14 pesos from private sources. The Fundación does not recieve or manage public funding.

We are externally audited. The audit of the financial statements corresponding to the year 2022 will be conducted by the firm Bakertilly. The auditors' opinion will be available on our website on July of this year in the Transparency section.

EXPENSES

Grants – $16,051,467.92 70% 70%
Donativos de fondos designados – $1,509,509.98 7% 7%
Program expenses – $882,848.22 4% 4%
Operations expenses – $3,663,105.36 16% 16%
Administrative expenses – $677,982.77 3% 3%

Over 80% of our expense have a direct impact on the community, since they are donations or contributions made to other nonprofits, community initiatives and expenses of the Foundation's programs or our designated funds.

In 2022 our expenses were $22,784,914.20 pesos.

As a policy and in compliance with fiscal regulations, the Fundación maintains an annual administrative expense of 3% or less.

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With their contributions, each donor becomes a crucial part of our mission and allows us to continue working to improve the quality of life in our community.

We extend our special gratitude to

For having renewed their support and trust in our foundation with a matching funds grant of ONE MILLION DOLLARS for the period 2021-2025. Thank you for your vision, generosity, and trust.

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