James Mc Carthy

James J. Mc Carthy, was born on
february 15, 1929 in New York City,
married to Helen Mc Carthy and
up until his death, lived in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Jim Mc Carthy graduated from penn
state university with four degrees. His
professional career began as a teacher
in New York city. He later became a
director of various higher education
institutions; professor at famous
universities, field investigatorand
educational advisor in the united states
and at two mexican universities.
After retiring from a successful career
in educational system in the U.S.

In 1990, James Mc Carthy began
another career as a member of UVC
in Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos
participating in the creation of the
Eagle’s Wings Foundation.
Jim Mc Carthy has been the president
of the eagles wings foundation since
he founded it.
He devoted himself full time. He fell
in love with Puerto Vallarta and with
its people from the first day.
He quickly began making many
friends in the hotel chatting with the
personnel who were inviting him into
their homes and even became their
godfather.
But Jim knew another side of town,
not the touristy one but the one with
people in need.
He was trying to think of a way to help.
So he approached some of the
associations and learned about the
big effort that they made toward his
programs.
This was the beginning. When his
idea of creating a foundation was wholeheartedly supported by the
proprietors of the particpiating
hotels, the task became promoting the
objectives among the vacationers that
had time shares.
It didn´t take long to bear fruit. When
the tourists were leaving Puerto
Vallarta, they had the opportunity to
leave a donation for the amount they
wished, from as little as a dollar, and
this how the foundation was born.
Jim himself was looking for
associations to support; he was visiting
the facilities to verify progress and
advances as well as their needs; he
visited the organizations along with
the generous tourists who donated
so that they could see for themselves
the nature of his labor as well where
their donations were going; he made
it possible for Puerto Vallarta to
receive donations in kind; and he was
delivering the donations personally in
annual meetings in port Vallarta and
Los Cabos.
Jim or “Jaimito“ as he was
affectionately called by his many
friends in Puerto Vallarta, achieved
tremendous benefits for our community
by believing in it.
This saturday jim mc carthy suffered a
brain hemorrhage from which he never
recovered; he passed away on monday,
april 18 leaving behind a legacy and
a great number of friends who will
always remember and appreciate him
in loving memory.
Muchas gracias! James Mc Carthy,
Descansa en paz.


Eagle´s Wings
Foundation

In 1998, James Mc Carthy, member of
the Universal Vacation Club, had the
vision of inviting the proprietors and
directors of Villa Del Palmar (Fernando
González, Luz María Towers, Owen
Perry and Robert Kistner) to create
a foundation giving back to society
and providing needed support to the
community that they lived in, Puerto
Vallarta:
The Eagle´s Wings Foundation was
founded in july, 1999. An altruistic
organism with the aim to improve the
quality of life in the communities of
Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San San Lucas,
B.C.S. and Bahía De Banderas, nayarit
through donations in cash and in kind
to institutions and associations in
order to facilitate the development of
community programs and targets.
The foundation is headed by a board
made up of twelve members that
represent both, participating hotels as
well as the community.
All donations requests are carefully
analyzed for approval by a donations
committee which consists of two
community representatives and two
members of the board.
The members of the committee have to
cast a vote in regard to every donation.
Since its beginning, the foundation has
raised more than 2 millon of dollars in
cash and in kind.
It is important to mention that the
funds generated by the Eagle´S
Wings Foundation are primarily
voluntary donations from tourists or
vacationers who own time shares in
the participating hotels.
Every year these donations are
dispursed during the month of
september. In other activities of the
foundation like the “bring something”
program, members of uvc and time
share owners, donate coloring books,
pencils, pens, clothes, personal
hygiene products, toys, etc.,
That are given to different organizations
like the dif, schools with limited
financial resources and orphanages.
In the “left over pesos” campaign,
tourists can deposit their “left over”
mexican coins before departing on
voyage home.
Yet another program is the bazaar in
which donations from different items
and equipment that the hotels recycle,
are on sold at reasonable prices raising
money for needy families.
These articles generally include
mattresses, microwaves, towels,
lamps, sheets, pillows, furniture, and
coffee pots among others.
The foundation has also received a
number of donations like computers,
medical supplies, a truck, an
ambulance and 2000 pairs of new
nike sneakers; all of which has been
distributed amongst the associations
and benefited institutions.
The volunteers program invites guests
of the hotels who wish to donate some
of their vacation time to particpate
in helping any one of the supported
charities in Puerto Vallarta, mostly
those who don´t have the necessary
funds to hire full time employees
or staff and difficulties in finding
volunteers themselves.
The administrative expenses of the
foundation represent a mere 1 % thanks
to both, the support of the board whose
members are quite active, and the
hotels and developments that facilitate
the meetings of the foundation.
Eagle´S Wings Foundation is very
careful about supporting associations
and institutions and does so with full
transparency to ensure their work truly
benefits the community.
The foundation is interested in
supporting chidrens and youth
programs such as scholarships, the
free medical clinics; disabled persons
as well as assistance for the elderly and
senior citizen homes.
The foundation received its 1st
philanthropic arda award in 2001 and
is the first organization of its kind in
the time share industry worldwide.
Other hotels and tourist developments
have since then followed suit and
formed similar foundations.