Impact of Gifts

The Trellis Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to the Hunt School of Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso to support stipends for students in the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. The funds will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, by the Texas Workforce Commission’s Texas Industry Partnership program, administered through Workforce Solutions Borderplex. 

Desert Imaging and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso announced the creation of two scholarship endowments that will help future generations of Hunt School of Nursing students and honor the memory of alumna Kharisma James.

Through my service on many nonprofit boards over the years, I have had the good fortune of witnessing and supporting the meaningful service carried out daily by El Paso’s nonprofit organizations.

In 2007, El Paso businessman Paul L. Foster donated $50 million to help create the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. His gift has also funded the tuition of dozens of medical students, known as the Foster Scholars.

El Paso Electric has a decades-long history of giving to the community. While the company has made $100,000, $500,000 and even $5 million gifts to TTUHSC El Paso, its smaller donations mean just as much.

For more than two decades, the Paso del Norte Health Foundation (PdNHF) has supported health and wellness in the Paso del Norte region — contributing more than $152 million to the cause. Now, thanks to its largest grant yet to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso), the foundation’s reach will go even further.

When Monzer Hourani first arrived in Texas 50 years ago, he was sorely disappointed. Where were all the cowboys and Indians? Not to mention the pistol-wielding bandits and defenseless damsels of the frontier.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is set to house Texas’ fourth dental school, thanks to a $25 million gift from the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation.
The Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine (WLHSDM) will be the first to open in Texas in nearly 50 years, and the first-ever in West Texas, and on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Throughout the process of building his company, Paul L. Foster wanted to give back to the community in a meaningful way. “I became convinced that building this medical school was the most impactful thing we could do for this region – long term. Not only in terms of health care, but in terms of economic development and all the other development that would follow.”