The Ferré Foundation was created by the late don Luis A. Ferré

Luis A. Ferré

Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico...

, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

's first pro-statehood governor

Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

, as well as an industrialist and philanthropist. The foundation is fed by a portion of the revenue of the many businesses founded and owned by Ferré, who died in 2003 at the age of 99. Don Luis, as he was known, founded the Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico's foremost art museum, housed in an Edward Durrell Stone-designed building in Ponce

Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

, currently closed for a two-year-long renovation. He was also a strong supporter of Centro Sor Isolina Ferré, founded by his sister Isolina Ferré

Isolina Ferré

Isolina Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun. Known as the "Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico", she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her humanitarian work....

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