RBS - Other Organizations

Other Organizations

Social and Cultural Commitment – Other Organizations

Agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico
In October 2007, Grupo Salinas, Fundación Azteca America and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) signed an agreement to support the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in the United States. Initially, the UNAM offered English survival courses at its extension facilities, starting in San Antonio and later in Los Angeles and New York. The eight-week courses aim at teaching language basics and cultural values of the United States. In addition, Azteca America and the UNAM will produce and broadcast a televised weekend version of the course. Azteca America will also support the satellite B@UNAM high school course through its 62-station television network in the United States and on its portal www.aztecaamerica.com and
www.fundacionaztecaamerica.org. The network’s national newscast, Noticiero Azteca America, will also work intensely with UNAM teachers on community issues. The agreement was signed October 30, 2007 in Mexico City by UNAM President Juan Ramón de la Fuente and Ricardo B. Salinas, founder and President of the Board of Grupo Salinas.

Clinton Global Initiative

Fundación Azteca and Fundación Azteca America, organizations created by Mexican entrepreneur Ricardo B. Salinas, joined the Clinton Global Initiative, one of the most influential groups of world leaders, with innovative efforts in the areas of education and the fight against poverty in the Hispanic communities of Mexico and the United States. This year’s initiative targets education for Latino residents in the United States, utilizing the wide influence and communications tools of Azteca America, a Hispanic television network with affiliates in 62 local markets throughout the United States. As part of the Clinton Global Initiative, they joined forces with some of the world’s most important organizations.

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

The International Organization for Migration is a non-governmental body created in 1951 dedicated to the principle that orderly migration in humane conditions benefits both migrants and society. It has 122 member states, 18 observer states and offices in more than 100 countries. It offers out-services and advisory services to both governments and migrants.

Ricardo B. Salinas has been a member of the IOM Director General’s Business Advisory Board since September 2007. This board is a network of contacts to help the IOM face the challenges of migration

in the broadest sense, with the aim that the IOM and the private sector forge an active, effective partnership with an eye to development, planning and carrying policies and practices around issues of mobility.

Pensar México

Given the polarization on the political scene as the 2006 presidential race approached, Grupo Salinas and TV Azteca decided to create a plural forum to bring together Mexico’s most influential politicians, analysts, academics and opinion leaders (among others, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and current President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa) and renowned foreign researchers to open up a public, respectful, serious, pro-active debate about the country’s most important issues. “Pensar México” was the name given to the symposium Grupo Salinas organized April 4 to 8, 2005, in one of the world’s most prestigious centers of learning: the University of California at Berkeley.

This institution produces more doctoral graduates than any other university in the world and has been the alma mater of 18 Nobel Prize laureates. This forum was different because it centered on the citizen, and for that reason, it was decided to give it wide dissemination, taking it out to the public through TV Azteca and Azteca America broadcasts, creating an audience instead of waiting for the audience to come to the organizers.