Julián Castro plans to build a $250M endowment for Latino community groups across the US Southwest

Tamara Ceaikovski

NEW YORK (AP) — Former housing secretary Julián Castro sees at least one constant throughout the next decade. That’s the need to build lasting philanthropic support for U.S. Latinos — who are among the country’s fastest-growing racial or ethnic groups and who he sees facing a “five-alarm fire” with rollbacks to education, business and immigration opportunities. So, the one-time presidential hopeful is working to increase the assets and footprint of the California-based nonprofit he has led