Our Mission
Promote participation and social commitment to empower communities to address their needs and enhance their quality of life an the environment.
Our Vision
Becoming the leader organization in urban community development driving innovation through programs that cultivate responsible and citizens engagement.
Our Values
Our Values
Results-Oriented
Support, monitoring, collaboration, and accountability. Give accountability to residents with the results of community projects to generate well-being and social trust.
Teamwork
This value gives us a sense of belonging, fosters social commitment, and offers equity and collective participation. From this foundation, a vibrant community can be built with positive interactions among its members, with neighbors working together toward a common goal and vision.
Transparency
We promote legitimacy and credibility, in compliance with the law, to encourage active participation in the design and implementation of community projects. Fundación Hogares reports and publishes objectives and results achieved, as well as documentation and evidence of the community work carried out.
Compromise
It is a value that encompasses social responsibilities and the capacity we possess as a group to support communities, promoting social cohesion; at all times, our work is to combat the economic inequality of the communities, with the development of social programs and the improvement of collective spaces.
Respect
This is the premise of a healthy social life, governed by respect for the opinions, rights, and obligations of others. It is a vital value in the organization and functioning of a community that aspires to full and dignified individual and family development.
We tackle challenges by strengthening neighborhood cohesion and co-designing public spaces through community collaboration, which also contributes actively to the following United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Sustainable cities and communities
Our projects aim to promote safer, more sustainable cities and foster united, resilient communities to face current an future challenges.
Reduce inequality
We work with communities in public housing complex facing challenges such as a lack of support networks, public spaces, basic services, and high insecurity to reduce the inequality prevalent in Mexico.
Gender equality
Gender equality is a fundamental human right for a healthy society. Our projects aim to promote the leadership of people who identify as women and empower their position within communities.
Climate Action
Our interventions focus on the environment, promoting ecological justice by reducing inequalities in access to green spaces and their benefits for mental and physical health.
Partnerships for the goals
We sensibilize and strengthen networks among key stakeholders in social urbanism to improve the long-term situation together.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OF FUNDACIÓN HOGARES
- Encourage social participation.
- Strengthening the social fabric in vulnerable communities through processes of transformation of the physical and social environment that promote the right to the city, the sense of belonging and the appropriation of inhabited spaces.
- To contribute to the comprehensive improvement of the urban environment and habitat, raising its social, cultural and heritage value for the benefit of collective well-being and the right to live in dignified and safe spaces.
- Developing the capacity of local residents to become agents of change in their community.
- Promote the creation of diverse community groups and representatives that encourage collective decision-making and the active inclusion of women.
- Increase the property value of public and private spaces.
- To promote social bonds of solidarity and shared responsibility.
- Improving the urban environment through a sense of belonging.
- Establish strategic alliances and synergies between different actors.
Nuestra historia
Founded with a seed capital from Infonavit, Fundacion Hogares was born to improve the quality of life of families living in low-income housing complexes
In partnership with Infonavit, we started our neighborhood rehabilitation program in 27 states
We conducted social research on crime prevention in high-crime and marginalized areas identified by the Ministry of the Interior.
We implemented new social and physical intervention programs with national scoope
We developed the “Neighborhood Social Cohesion Index (Índice de Cohesión Social Vecinal)” in partnership with México Evalúa to measure the impact of our work
We successfully impacted the lives of 1 million people, with our programs
We published the manual “Improve your Street” (Mejora tu Calle) in collaboration with UNAM and Lugares Públicos, A.C.
To expand and improve reading spaces and libraries, we released the articles “Reading Room Manual” (Manual de Salas de Lectura), “Improve your Reading Room” (Mejora tu Sala) and “Training Program for Reading Mediators” (Programa de Capacitación a Mediadores de Lectura)
We developed “Good Foundational Governance” (Buen Gobierno Fundacional) to strengthen our internal management.
With 15 years of experience, we have launched 650 projects focused on physical and social regeneration, benefiting over 2 million people across all 32 states of Mexico. Additionally, we have established more than 370 partnerships with public, private, academic, and civil society organizations.