The two events are: The Americas Heritage Festival2000 and The Americas Heritage Gala2000.

The purpose of the two events is multifold, says Pinzon. The two events are designed to launch the promotion and fund raising of our ambitious project to build and operate La Casa de las Americas in Washington. They will be the first major events of many more to come throughout cities in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and other countries. Additionally, the events will serve:

To celebrate our rich diverse Americas heritage and bring our diverse ethnic communities together, to work, achieve and live together

To promote the Metropolitan Washington area throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and Hispanic Latinos within the US

To promote the numerous programs and services TAF offers with local, national and hemispheric impact.

To establish new strategic partnerships and strengthen our existing ones such as "La Casa de las Americas" Gift Fund that we established at the Smithsonian Institution in 1999, and, To start LACAW’s exciting bricks and tiles marketing and sales program, another unique source of fund raising to build LACAW.
    We have been working and planning the logistics and complex details of these events for over two years, says Pinzon. He also asserts that we have the professional experience and know-how to plan, organize, and implement successfully these events. Yet, we invite anyone motivated and exited to join as volunteers in our numerous planning committees that provide a synergy of valuable and rewarding opportunities. Also, we invite corporate sponsors, particularly all those entities that are substantially benefiting from their involvement in the Hispanic and Latin American markets and communities. LACAW and these planned events serve for those entities to show their corporate social responsibility and commitment to said markets and communities. In addition, we will provide to our sponsors a valuable package of benefits.
    We are very grateful and delighted that the world renown The Washington Ballet is strongly supporting LACAW. As such The Washington Ballet agreed to give us a benefit performance for LACAW as part of our Gala at the Kennedy Center on October 15.
    In addition to Ambassador Toro Hardy, the other LACAW's Honorary Founding Members to date are:
Ambassadors Antonio de Oyarzabal of Spain, Dr. Jaime Daremblum of Costa Rica, Alberto de Nunez (Minister) of Argentina, Dr. Richard Bernal of Jamaica, Dennis Antoine of Grenada, Marcelo Perez of Bolivia, Rene Leon of El Salvador, Carlos Mora of Uruguay, Guy Pierre (OAS) of Haiti, James Murphy of Belize, Sir Arlington Butler of Bahamas; US Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland; US Congressmen and Congresswomen Thomas M. Davis of Virginia, Connie Morella of Maryland, Philip Crane of Illinois, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Bob Filner of California, Albert Wynn of Maryland, Carlos Romero Barcelo of Puerto Rico, Solomon Ortiz of Texas.