~~San Antonio Area Foundation Brings You
Quick Connections
The San Antonio Area Foundation is excited to bring you Quick Connections, a 20 minute conversation covering the latest news and updates happening in our community. These phone calls will provide you with an opportunity to ask questions and find out how you can get involved with our work in the community.

Our first call is Wednesday, April 15 from 8 – 8:20 a.m. CST with Sandie Palomo-Gonzalez, Director of Education and Strengthening Nonprofits at the San Antonio Area Foundation. Sandie will share recent developments with our Strengthening Nonprofits Initiative and how it has helped many San Antonio nonprofits become efficient and focused in delivering their program services to the community.

Mark your calendars today!
All Quick Connections will take place from 8 – 8:20 a.m. CST. To join these calls, please dial 1-712-775-7031. Our meeting ID is 979-500-399. Please note that you don't have to R.S.V.P. to join the calls.
• Building Stronger Nonprofits in San Antonio
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
• Inside the Community: LISC, Predatory Lending, Open Table
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
• Charitable Gift Planning – Which Assets are Best?
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
• San Antonio Area Foundation's Nonprofit Certification Programs
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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Community Involvement

Wayne is committed to community service and pro bono legal assistance focusing on access to justice, corporate social responsibility, and economic development at the local, state, national and international levels. Some of the projects on which Wayne has worked in the past include:

Combating school violence by helping to organize and implement a peer mediation project in the US in collaboration with the American Bar Association and in San Antonio in collaboration with the San Antonio Bar Association
Advisor to the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico in the drafting of the first Alternative Dispute Resolution legislation at the state level in Mexico
Advisor to the American Bar Association on a USAID funded project to implement community mediation centers throughout Mexico
Co-Planner (in cooperation with Hague Conference on Private International Law, United States Department of State (Office of Children’s Issues), Law School of Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Organization of American States, American Bar Association Latin American Law Initiative Council, Texas-Mexico Bar Association, and International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children) of The Latin American Judges’ Seminar on The 1980 Hague Convention on The Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction – Monterrey, N.L., Mexico (December 2004)
Advisor to the Chamber of Commerce of Buenos Aires, Argentina on a World Bank funded project to implement an online dispute resolution program
Former Member | Board of Trustees (1994-2000) World Affairs Council of San Antonio
Former Member | Board of Directors (1992-1996) Greater Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council,Inc.
Former Member | Board of Directors and Chair of the membership committee of the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio
Former Member | Board of Directors of the San Antonio Bar Foundation
Former Member | Board of Directors of Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center

Currently Wayne serves as:

Chair | The Dee Howard Foundation
Co-Founder and President | San Antonians United for the Protection of Hardberger Park
Member | Board of Trustees San Antonio Airpower Heritage Foundation