Core programs include annual conferences to teach the study of instruments including trumpet, violin, guitar, vihuela, guitarron and harp and to provide mariachi music education from some of the most famous mariachi performers in the world. We also provide ballet folklorico dance training to students at his annual conference with the most famous ballet folklorico teachers in the world. We then provide college scholarships annually to those students who participate in the Mariachi in the Schools programs and the Southwestern Community College District and the ballet folklorico programs in the same schools. The foundation also provides opportunities for these students to perform with world famous mariachis and ballet folklorico dancers in various large theatre venues in California. During the pandemic, being unable to meet in person, the foundation provided a virtual mariachi summit, providing over 200 videos to instructors to teach students, reaching over 20,000 students in California, throughout the United States and all over the world.