La Encantada Charities

Fresh Start Women's Foundation
Westcor is proud to unite our centers and retail partners in a long-term partnership with the Fresh Start Women's Foundation. Fresh Start Women's Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women help themselves.
Please click here for more information regarding Fresh Start.

Tucson Community Food Bank
The Community Food Bank opened in 1976 and presently distributes enough food to prepare 32,793 meals every day of the year. Perishable food is saved from waste from restaurants, learning institutions, resorts, and grocery stores; other food is donated through food drives, from farmers, produce brokers, the United States Department of Agriculture, and corporations. This food is distributed to children, families, and individuals in Pima County through over 380 community-based agencies and organizations. La Encantada Westcor employees volunteer their time at the Tucson Community Food Bank every month. For details on how you can contribute, please contact Kristen Hershberger, Volunteer Coordinator, 520-622-0525 ext. 204 or visit www.communityfoodbank.com

Angel Courtyard at La Encantada "Paver Program"
This program is not only a wonderful way to be part of a new community landmark, but the funds will be used to help Angel Charity for Children, Inc. increase its services to children's causes throughout Pima County. Founded in 1983, Angel Charity for Children, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children in the community. This is accomplished through an established program of fundraising for beneficiaries selected annually by general membership. The Endowment Fund will be used to provide additional support for children's causes that desperately need it. For more information about the Angel Charity for Children Inc. Endowment Fund, please visit angelcharity.org or call 520-326-3686.

To find out more about the paver program, please visit westcor.com and click on the La Encantada link. You can also call 520-299-3566 for a complete packet.

Parseghian Foundation Wishing Well
La Encantada is also proud to sponsor the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation. The Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation is a grassroots, charitable organization based in Tucson with the goal of finding a treatment and cure for Niemann-Pick Type C (NP-C). This genetic disease interferes with a child's ability to metabolize cholesterol. It's progressive, degenerative and alwaysâ€¦until a cure is found...fatal. The Tucson community has rallied around the Parseghian family who in 1994 received the diagnosis that three of their four children had NP-C. More than $22 million dollars have been raised and 20 top labs around the world, including two at the University of Arizona, are racing toward a cure. Sadly, the three Parseghian children have died as a result of complications of the disease. The resolve of the Parseghian family and Foundation, as well as the Tucson community, is as strong as ever to keep the battle waging so that other families living with NP-C will not have to experience what the Parseghians have. Inspired by the millions of coins collected by Catalina Foothills school children over the past nine years to benefit the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, La Encantada has designed a permanent Wishing Well at the new shopping center to help carry on this wonderful tradition.

La Encantada has designated the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation as one of its designated charities through its community partnership program. La Encantada patrons are encouraged to make a wish by tossing coins into the well, designed by Dino Alfaro of Antigua de Mexico, and support the mission of the Foundation.

Stores can participate in this worthy cause by displaying countercards directing customers to the center's wishing well or placing collection containers for coins in the store.

For more information regarding the Ara Parseghian Foundation, please contact Glen Shepherd or Peg Ramano at (520) 577-5106, or write:
The Ara Parseghian Foundation
3530 E. Campos Abieto, Suite 105
Tucson, AZ 85718-3327

Visit: http://www.parseghian.org/

Contribution Requests
Each year, La Encantada will contribute a preset amount of funds in the form of Westcor Gift Cards, merchandise and use of property to a diverse group of organizations. Hundreds of requests are anticipated each year. Donation recipients may include civil organizations' education programs, food banks, foundations, hospitals and healthcare organizations, youth programs, performing arts and museums, and many more. Each request is reviewed carefully. However, not all requests can be granted. Please submit your request to:

La Encantada
Attn: Marketing Department
2905 E. Skyline Dr., Suite 279
Tucson, AZ 85718

The request should include:
* Request date.
* Name of your organization.
* A description of how the gift will be used.
* The date the donation is needed.
* A contact name, mailing address, phone, fax number and email address.