Fundación Carlos Díaz Vélez

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Fundación Carlos Díaz Vélez (FCDV) is a nonprofit organization in Argentina that promotes agricultural and cattle education in all its forms. It was created in 1990 in Buenos Aires by Matilde Díaz Vélez, who left three fields—Patina, Tita and Rincón del Quequén—in the Buenos Aires Province to fund the foundation and honor her father, Carlos Díaz Vélez. Its mission is “Together for agricultural education,” and it aims to grow the sector by working with schools, NGOs and other groups.

The foundation has seven board members, and Belisario Álvarez de Toledo serves as the President of the Administration Council. Its work is organized into three complementary programs:

1) Strengthening agricultural schools: The foundation started with the Eustoquio Díaz Vélez Agricultural School in Rauch, Buenos Aires, and later expanded to thirteen of Argentina’s twenty-three provinces. It runs two annual calls to support educational productive projects that promote agricultural development and ongoing training for students, teachers and the communities around schools.

2) Carlos Díaz Vélez Scholarships: Since 2007, the foundation offers scholarships to high-achieving high school graduates who lack financial means to access tertiary studies in agriculture. About twenty scholarship holders are currently enrolled in higher education at the National University of the Center of Buenos Aires Province (UNICEN), in Tandil for Veterinary Medicine and in Azul for Agricultural Engineering.

3) Training for managers and teachers: A program designed to train and strengthen the capabilities of school leaders and teachers in agricultural education.

Impact and recognition: In 2015, the foundation received an award for best educator in the XIII edition of the La Nación–Banco Galicia Agricultural Excellence Prize.

Location and reach: The foundation is based in Buenos Aires and serves Argentina as a whole.

Website: fundaciondiazvelez.org.ar