In 1972, a group of concerned citizens founded Community Family Centers (formerly Chicano Family Center) to provide
community-based social and educational services to low-income families in Houston’s Greater East End. Today, CFC is an
agency with a $2.7 million annual operating budget, 48 staff members, and more than 500 volunteers, who serve over
40,000 clients each year. CFC works towards its mission by providing a safe and nurturing environment for children to
excel and adults to learn, by strengthening community partnerships, and through the promotion of cultural understanding
and community empowerment.
CFC became a United Way agency in 1978, and in 1998 purchased its main facility – a 32,000 square foot building in the
heart of the East End barrio. In December 2004, CFC began an extensive capacity building campaign aimed at ensuring
the agency’s long-term growth and service to the community. Phase I of the project, the construction of the John P.
McGovern M.D. Community Sports and Recreational Building, was completed in 2011. In 2015, an additional 7,000 square
feet of space was renovated to welcome the Los Niños Montessori Program. The former Los Niños program now houses
Bezos Academy. In addition, a youth soccer field was completed in 2016 in the back field of th John P McGovern Building
