Paul Carl Velez ’75, MPA ’77 was honored astatine the Hispanic Heritage Celebration lawsuit earlier this autumn astatine the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, wherever helium announced his gift.Your large tin uncover overmuch astir your beliefs. When Paul Carl Velez ’75, MPA ’77 graduated with a bachelor’s grade successful societal work, followed 2 years aboriginal with a Master of Science successful Management-Public Administration — some wrong 5 years of FIU opening its doors — Velez indispensable person already held a heavy interest for nationalist wellness and the well-being of our society.
After teaching big acquisition successful Miami-Dade County Public Schools, helium turned his attraction to the wellness of South Florida and its communities by joining Borinquen Medical Centers, which connection everything from broad superior wellness attraction to attraction successful specialized areas of medicine and dentistry to assemblage and school-based outreach and prevention programs. He besides served connected the committee of directors, arsenic vice president for 4 years, and for astir 12 years arsenic committee chairperson.
Now, arsenic president & CEO of Borinquen Medical Centers, Velez has continued his devotion to assemblage well-being by giving backmost to the assemblage that prepared him for his career.
“FIU and Borinquen Medical Centers person a earthy alignment due to the fact that of our mutually shared committedness to service our Hispanic/Latino community,” Velez said.
This treble Panther has leveraged each dollar successful an effort to payment 2 assemblage programs.
A $50,000 acquisition from Borinquen Health Care Center, Inc. volition make a assistance wrong the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. The Borinquen Health Care Center assistance endowment volition alteration aesculapian students to defray the precocious costs and fiscal burdens faced by aspiring doctors. It volition assistance signifier a pipeline of FIU-educated expertise for the wellness attraction community.
The 2nd acquisition of $25,000 volition payment the Maurice A. Ferré Institute for Civic Leadership. Named for the archetypal Puerto Rican-born U.S. politician and the archetypal Latino politician of Miami, the institute has a ngo to beforehand civic enactment and engagement, societal justice, and inclusive civilian infrastructure. The acquisition volition beforehand the Ferré Institute’s research, acquisition programming, events and staffing.
“The College of Medicine and the Ferré Institute some align with Borinquen’s committedness to societal justice,” helium said.
Since helium is an FIU alumnus, Velez’s acquisition qualifies for the FIU Alumni Challenge, which matches alumni contributions ranging from $50 to $25,000 dollar to dollar.
Velez was recognized with a certificate of appreciation from the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board and County Commissioners — presented by Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava — for his generous endowment to the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and acquisition to the Ferré Institute during the Hispanic Heritage Celebration astatine FIU’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Sept. 10.
Velez has besides been recognized by the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for his outstanding committedness and dedication to serving the communities of South Florida.
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