the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development

11/05/2015

Dr. Francisco Guajardo shared the stage and some inspirational stories at TEDx McAllen. You can see his platica here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-1xqyec-Y

The stories from the border of South Texas help create who we are. Helping children write their own stories and contribute them back to our area can sometime...

10/06/2015

Llano Grande's co-founder Dr. Francisco Guajardo will be giving a TEDx talk at 2:30 pm CST. There are other great speakers and stories being shared all day. Click here for a live stream link: http://livestream.com/tedx/tedxmcallen

07/31/2015

We are so happy to host the planning committee of the North Dakota Study Group. It is always great to see old friends and make new ones. The committee is meeting over the next few days at the Trueba House to plan for NDSG's Annual Meeting which will once again be held across South Texas in February 2016.

07/27/2015

The Growing & Nourishing Healthy Communities Program is improving access to healthy foods in the South Texas counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr.

06/29/2015

We would like to thank Javier Munoz, Cesar Caceres, Armando Salinas and other family and friends that spent a long hot weekend repairing and renovating the carport/porch at the Trueba House. Water damage, birds and insects and time had rotted away some of the structure and these folks generously donated their time, tools and know-how. The painting party will be next weekend.

05/23/2015

This is a wonderful example of a board in action. Llano Grande board member Danny Gomez and his brother-in-law Jose are installing a new door at the Trueba House this morning. We were surprised to find brick behind the rotted out door frame. Let us hope that the weather holds up this morning.

05/12/2015

A thunderstorm came through South Texas last night. We had some trees and branches come down at the Trueba House but luckily we received no damage to the nearly 100 year old home.

05/08/2015

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04/21/2015

A new Daily Yonder study shows that rural counties with more immigrants also tend to be performing better economically. Rural America’s foreign-born residents may be moving to counties that have more jobs, but immigrants also create more economic opportunity when they get there, economists say.

03/21/2015

Over the weekend of February 26-28, students and faculty involved in the University of Texas-Pan American’s Mexican American Studies program attended the National Association of Chicana and Chicano...

03/03/2015

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