This page begins to describe that what we've tried to accomplish (refer to our webpages, both transparency and continuity) and why these requirements must continue to be an ongoing process that we've only started to work on beginning in 1996 (see the webpage on  beliefs).   This, in addition to the expected us$3,000,000 endowment we will have when our Founder dies (see history-estimates and founders will) and previous grants (see Our grants) and our described purpose (see Goals & Mission) is our legacy to the truly needy women and children of San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico.

In addition, some of our other community-minded work is referred to at various projects

Note added in 2012 - it seems as if our legacy has dropped a notch or two.  While we are happy that we brought transparency to the forefront and made (some version of it) it almost universal, we have failed at making certain portions of disclosure transparent to all (chiefly the percentage of overhead versus mission, and also the amount of salaries (and to whom - by classification) versus volunteer work, and also the cost of fund raising as opposed to just the net realized).  And our attempts at continuity have been even a greater failure as organization after organization has to constantly reinvent the wheel whenever there is turnover within the organization (turnover, in a town populated with so many older gringo people - amazing - who would have thought that?).   Well, we have made some contributions and we hope that in the next 2,000 or more years what we started might just take hold.   After all, the oldest of them, La Biblioteca, will only be 2,055 years old by then.

“Underpromise and Overdeliver”

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