Our Mission
Founded in 1993, the Hispanic College Fund (HCF) is a national non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., with a mission to develop the next generation of Hispanic professionals. For 19 years, the Hispanic College Fund has provided educational, scholarship, and mentoring programs to students throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, establishing a career pipeline of talented and career-driven Hispanics.
The Hispanic College Fund has awarded millions of dollars, impacting thousands of students through high school to college to career. HCF has been recognized by USA Today as one of the nation’s top 25 charities and has twice received Charity Navigator’s top four-star rating for fiscal responsibility. In 2010, the College Board recognized HCF for program innovation.
Mission
To develop the next generation of Hispanic professionals.
We accomplish our mission by providing Hispanic high school and college students with the vision, resources, and mentorship needed to become community leaders and achieve successful careers in business, science, technology, engineering and math.
Vision
The next generation of leaders in the United States will reflect the diversity of the country's population; this includes a substantial presence of talented Hispanic professionals.
History
Seeking financial support to attend college, a young man wrote a moving letter to the editor of Hispanic Business Magazine in which he expressed his disappointment in not finding support from the business executives featured in the magazine. This letter brought attention to the need for a scholarship organization to address the specific barriers facing Hispanic youth in the United States. In 1993, a small group of Hispanic businessmen founded the non-profit in light of this need.
Since then, the Hispanic College Fund has awarded nearly $15 million in scholarships to more than 5,400 Hispanic youth and has expanded its programs to include the Hispanic Youth Institute, Hispanic Professionals Institute, HCF University Chapters, and the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative. These programs help connect successful Hispanic professionals and corporate sponsors to Hispanic College Fund scholars in order to equip students with the vision and resources needed to succeed.