City Of Fort Worth: Endowment To Ensure Future Sister Cities Success

Press release from City of Fort Worth:

September 20, 2021

Fort Worth Sister Cities has created the Connect Globally Endowment for International Relations, established by a gift from Connie Beck and Frank Tilley in memory of their parents, James and Janeyl Beck and Gordon and Mable Tilley. The endowment was created to ensure that the valuable work done by Fort Worth Sister Cities International is sustained well into the future.

Learn more about the endowment. 

Fort Worth Sister Cities also honored several individuals and organizations for their work in the community and promotion of Fort Worth around the world.

The Bob Bolen Award for Outstanding Board Leadership was presented to Cindy Johnson, who helped lead Sister Cities’ long-range planning effort by creating an exciting vision of the future. She helped create a new vision for Fort Worth Sister Cities International to become a hub for international relations in the City of Fort Worth.

MedStar Mobile Healthcare was awarded the Eisenhower Award for Organizational Involvement. During the pandemic, MedStar donated an ambulance to Fort Worth’s sister city of Toluca, Mexico. Not only was it used to help during the pandemic, but it is now being used to assist victims of domestic violence.

Milena Razack received the prestigious Volunteer of the Year Award. Razack began by hosting many students, as well as holding events in her home as part of the planning team for the International Leadership Academies in 2020 and in 2021. Parents of youth ambassadors often get involved in programs by home-hosting.

“In an increasingly divided world, Sister Cities brings individuals, cultures and countries together for the benefit of all,” said Becky Renfro Borbolla, board chairman. “We are grateful for these committed volunteers and organizations who know what it means to be good citizen diplomats.”

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