They built the skyline. Now build the future they deserve.
The HCC Foundation funds workforce training, education access, community health, and affordable housing for Hispanic construction communities across the country.
One Organization. Two Missions.
The Hispanic Construction Council operates as a dual nonprofit. Our 501(c)(6) trade association advocates for Hispanic businesses, produces national research, and shapes federal policy. Our 501(c)(3) Foundation exists for a different purpose entirely: to invest in the people and communities behind the hard hats.
Too many nonprofit models funnel resources upward to a national headquarters. The HCC Foundation does the opposite. We fund grassroots organizations already embedded in the communities they serve, equip them with training and data, and use our national platform to amplify their impact.
Dollars and support flow down, not up. Every program is measured by one standard: did it change someone's life?
Local leaders get the backing of a national board with expertise spanning real estate, engineering, architecture, finance, insurance, and construction. The result is a network where resources reach the people who need them most.
501(c)(6)
Trade Association
National research, federal advocacy, data tools, and business resources for Hispanic construction professionals and companies across 50 states.
501(c)(3)
The Foundation
Charitable programs funding workforce development, education access, community health, and affordable housing through grassroots partnerships nationwide.
Four Pillars of Community Impact
The Foundation does not chase trends or spread itself thin. Every program we fund maps back to one of four pillars that address the biggest gaps facing Hispanic construction communities today.
4.4M
Hispanic construction workers in the U.S.
Workforce Development
Funding apprenticeship pipelines, contractor boot camps, and small-business accelerators so Hispanic workers can move from jobsite labor into ownership and leadership. The goal is a construction industry where the people doing the building also run the companies.
35%
of the U.S. construction workforce is Hispanic
Education Access
Removing the cost and language barriers that keep skilled tradespeople from earning OSHA certifications, project-management credentials, and business licenses. When a master carpenter cannot get licensed because the exam is only offered in English, the system is broken.
1,000+
construction workers killed on the job each year
Community Health
Construction kills more workers than any other industry in America. We fund safety training, mental-health resources, and family-support programs for the communities hit hardest. Keeping workers alive and healthy is not a benefit. It is a baseline.
7.3M
affordable rental homes short of demand nationwide
Affordable Housing
Connecting Hispanic builders, developers, and local housing authorities to close the gap between the people who build homes and the communities that need them most. The same workers who frame houses in new subdivisions should be able to afford to live in one.
Resources Flow Down. Impact Rises Up.
Most national nonprofits build chapters. We build partnerships. Instead of replicating what local organizations already do well, we give them the funding, tools, and national visibility to do it better.
HCC National Board
Expertise, funding, national visibility
Grassroots Partners
Local nonprofits, training programs, community orgs
Hispanic Construction Communities
Workers, families, local businesses
Impact rises up
Fund Grassroots
We send money to local organizations already embedded in the communities they serve. Not to a national office that decides what those communities need from a thousand miles away.
Build Capacity
We give grassroots partners the training, data, and operational support to grow on their own terms. The goal is partners who no longer need us, not partners who depend on us.
Amplify Impact
A local workforce program cannot get a meeting with a Fortune 500 contractor. We can. Our national board opens doors that grassroots organizations cannot reach alone.
Create Opportunity
Every dollar we invest is aimed at one outcome: moving Hispanic construction professionals from labor into leadership, from hourly work into ownership.
“The people closest to the problem are closest to the solution. They just need the resources to prove it.
David Arenas, Co-Founder
They Need Builders. They Need You.
Every dollar funds real programs in real communities. Apprenticeship pipelines. Safety training. Bilingual certification. Affordable housing. This is not overhead. This is outcome.