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To News Archive 2000 and 2001

august, 2004

FUTURO to Offer Loan Fund Management Training Course

On August 11-13, 2004 FUTURO Communities, Inc. is hosting a training that will demonstrate the steps involved in management and lending of funds. Those taking the course will be eligible to earn credit in the EDFS/DFTC Certification Program in Small Business Loan Fund Management.

For more information you may download the attached curriculum and registration packet.

It is available as a:

PDF File - 400k
Word Document - 372k
Word Form - 376k

The PDF and Word Form documents are forms that can be filled out, printed and mailed to the included addresses.

november 30, 2003

CTC Pages Removed

As the CTC Program has been cancelled, you'll have noticed that the link to those pages on this site has been removed. The pages still exist on the site, however, and can be reached via this link. We just want to thank everyone who participated in the program, the center managers, and all those organizations that supported our efforts at providing access to technology.

june 20, 2003

CTC Program Terminated

Due to lack of funding for the Community Technology Center program, all centers except for the one in Uvalde have been closed. Mary Jane Salgado, coordinator for the program has left the organization. Please forward any inquiries to fcinfo@futurocommunities.org.

june 23, 2002

FUTURO Moves to New Location

The headquarters has been moved to more spacious offices at 330 East Main Street in the Willie De Leon Civic Center. Phone and fax numbers have remained the same, as have office hours. The CTC Coordinator, Mary Jane Salgado, has also moved her office here from the second floor of the main library in Eagle Pass to this location to better serve the needs of her program's clients and the objectives of the Community Technology Centers Program.

june 17, 2002

FUTURO Wins Web Award, Nominated for Two Others

At the recently held Annual Community Development Awards, FUTURO Community was nominated in three separate divisions for the work they have done in the past year as one of many participants of the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of Community Development's Empowerment Zone Program. They were nominated for the 'Outreach and Grab Them Award' (for bringing in new businesses or organizations into the community's planning and execution this fiscal year), the 'Dot.Com.Dot.Award' (for developing the best descriptive, informative, web site highlighting or linked to empowerment objectives), and the 'Tooting Your Own Horn Award' (for a community who submits the most weekly report items during the past 12 months).

FUTURO won the Dot.Com.Dot.Award for 2002. This web site is a testament to the work that FUTURO has done in the past three years, and the work they will continue to do until all the objectives of its strategic plans have been met or exceeded.

february 1, 2001

FUTURO Invites Members to Empowerment Zone Award Signing Ceremony

On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at the Eagle Pass Multi Purpose Center at 480 S. Adams, FUTURO is hosting the signing ceremony for the award of Empowerment Zone by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Present will be the Honorable Henry Bonilla, and Gilbert G. Gonzalez Jr., Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development with the USDA. The ceremony will begin at 6:45 p.m. and entertainment will be provided by FUTURO spokesperson Gary Hobbs.

Celebrations are also planned in each of the other four newly designated EZ zones that help to constitute the FUTURO region. A schedule of celebrations for all the locations is available for download.

january 11, 2002

FUTURO Receives Empowerment Zone Designation

The USDA's Secretary Ann M. Veneman today announced the selection of Middle Rio Grande FUTURO Communities, Inc. to receive the designation in the Round III competition as the latest rural Empowerment Zone (EZ). Only two communities were selected by the USDA in Round III bringing the total number of rural EZs designated since Congress initiated the program in the early 90s to ten.