Henry Mendoza

About Him

Henry Mendoza leads with heart and vision as our CFO.

Henry Mendoza serves as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Renacer Foundation and as Principal of Calao Corporation, a strategic partner providing professional services support to Renacer’s operations. A trained industrial engineer originally from Bucaramanga, Colombia, Henry brings extensive experience in quality assurance for educational programs and a systems-level approach to community programming, applying engineering principles of efficiency, process design, and resource optimization to the operational challenges of nonprofit management. He previously served as Director of Educational Quality Assurance for the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga in Colombia, where he led Christian education initiatives and built deep operational expertise in faith-based educational program design, instructional quality, and large-scale program implementation. In Central Florida, Henry served as Director of Outreach and Health Initiatives for a network of churches, addressing hunger and health disparities in the Azalea Park and Oviedo communities, and co-founded Corpus Care, Inc., a 501(c)(3) promoting health education and access to healthcare in Central Florida. As CFO and Vice President of Renacer, Henry oversees the organization’s financial operations, operational infrastructure, and program implementation across the foundation’s full portfolio, and directs content creation and educational quality assurance, supervising the Calao Corporation production relationship and managing quality assurance across all media and educational outputs, including Renacer’s FCB-approved PUENTES Community Health Worker training program. He has served as the operational architect of Renacer’s Nuestros Bosques urban reforestation program, an $825,000 USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry initiative that planted more than 1,000 trees, generated $1.3 million in economic impact, and addressed 41% of the local canopy gap while serving as a mental health intervention for communities navigating displacement and acculturation.

Recognitions

Henry’s service has been acknowledged through an entry in the Congressional Record of the 118th Congress by Rep. Darren Soto of Florida (June 16, 2023, Vol. 169 No. 106, Extensions of Remarks E581) during National Immigrant Heritage Month.