The Seymour Taylor Foundation
Hard work deserves
a fair chance.
We stand with the H-2 workers who feed this country, with their families back home, and with the towns they come from. Effort travels further when somebody clears the road in front of it.
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What a worker can become
What we're here to do
Walk alongside the people who do the work.
We exist to back H-2 visa workers and the communities they come from in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Real training. Real tools. Real outcomes you can measure. No charity that keeps people dependent — just the kind of help that puts more in a man or woman's hands than they came with.
Seymour put it plain: Go for it. We build with workers, not for them. Every tool we hand over is meant to be used, mastered, and passed down the line.
See Our Programs arrow_forwardWhere we're headed
Migration ought to be a choice.
We want a world where leaving home is something a worker decides to do — not something they're forced into. Where the months spent away come back as something more than a paycheck: skills, savings, a business, a kid in school, a stronger town.
And where everything we offer has the proof to show it works.
Our Story
The man behind it
Talent is everywhere.
The chance to use it isn't.
Seymour Taylor saw what plenty of folks missed. He spent his life around migrant workers and recognized something the rest of the world overlooked — people who showed up early, stayed late, learned fast, and asked for nothing but a fair day's pay.
Give them a chance, they'd outwork the room.
Give them a standard, they'd raise it.
Give them a paycheck, they'd build a future with it.
“Give the right people the right tools and watch what happens.”
Effort with direction stops being personal. It becomes something a whole community can stand on.
Carrying it forward
Lydia Hock
Co-Founder · Founder, LaborMex LLC
Lydia Hock (founder of LaborMex LLC) and her brother Jonathan Taylor (CEO and founder of Sucro) established the Seymour Taylor Foundation to support migrant workers, drawing from their shared family heritage and complementary expertise.
Growing up in modest circumstances in Mexico shaped their deep connection to Latin American communities. Jonathan's work in the sugar industry — with operations and sourcing across Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America — creates jobs but also exposes him to the harsh realities faced by seasonal and migrant workers in sugarcane production.
Lydia brings over 20 years of direct experience recruiting Mexican workers for U.S. employers through legal H-2A and H-2B visa programs. Her focus on ethical, fair recruitment gives her intimate knowledge of the challenges workers encounter during recruitment, travel, workplace adaptation, and family separation.
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Jonathan Taylor
Co-Founder · CEO, Sucro
Together, as siblings, they formed the Seymour Taylor Foundation to go beyond their for-profit businesses. The nonprofit allows them to provide targeted support — such as worker rights education, health resources, skills training, emergency aid, and integration assistance — while strengthening ethical labor practices and supply chains.
In short, the foundation combines their personal roots, industry insights, and commitment to empowerment into a unified philanthropic effort to improve lives for migrant workers and their families.
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What we do
Three programs.
One idea.
Hard and soft skills, community development, recognition
Program 01
The "Go for It" Program
Show up ready. Hard skills, soft skills, mental health, your rights as a worker and a person, money sense, and enough English to get by and then some.
Program 02
Community Growth
Your work doesn't end at the paycheck. It reaches your family, your hometown, and the kids who'll come up behind you. Personal grit, multiplied.
Program 03
The Seymour Taylor Award
Honoring the workers and community leaders who didn't just talk about going for it — they did it, and they brought others with them. Two categories: Excellence in Migration, and H2 / Community Impact Leader.
Program 01 — Up Close
Showing up ready
to succeed.
“Confident, capable workers who stand out — not just as good employees, but as ambassadors for where they come from.”
Hard Skills
The job-specific know-how that makes you worth more in the field, the packing house, or wherever the work takes you. Built around agriculture and services.
Mental Health & Well-Being
The grit to handle stress, time away from family, and life in a new place — and come home stronger than you left.
Soft Skills
Communication, leadership, working with a crew, keeping your head when things get hot. The stuff that gets you noticed.
Human Rights
Plain-language understanding of what every person is entitled to. So nobody takes advantage of your effort.
Labor Rights
What the law says you're owed at work. Knowing it protects you and the crew next to you.
Financial Literacy
Turning a paycheck into something that lasts. Saving, sending money home the smart way, and making it grow once it gets there.
Practical English
Enough English to handle the job, the grocery store, and the doctor's office with confidence. Every word opens a door.
U.S. Culture & Adaptation
How things work here — at work and in town. Don't just land. Fit in.
Every participant adapts, performs, and gets the most out of the season.
Program 02
One person's work.
A whole town's growth.
The Community Growth Program makes sure a worker's effort doesn't stop at the border. It comes home — as money put to good use, as new businesses, as kids in school, as towns that don't lose their people because they don't have to.
The worker leaves
Mexico · El Salvador · Guatemala
A determined person leaves home with effort as their main asset.
Builds something in the U.S.
Go For It Program
Skills, money sense, awareness of their rights, and confidence — built on training that's been tested and proven.
Comes home
With tools, savings, and a plan
Not the same person who left. Stronger. With something to build on.
The town feels it
Community Growth Program
A new business. A kid in school. A leader stepping up. Change that outlasts the person who started it.
One person's effort becomes a community's foundation.
Breaking the cycle that keeps people stuck
Community Growth Areas
Smart Use of Remittances
What you send home should do more than cover the bills. We help families turn it into savings, a business, a future.
Starting a Business at Home
Plan it, launch it, grow it. Real opportunity built right where you came from — for you and the next person who needs work.
Access to School
Scholarships and pathways for you and your kids. Doors that stay open after the season ends.
Early Childhood
The strongest possible start for the little ones — the foundation that shapes who they become.
Human & Labor Rights
Know what you're owed. Stand in your full worth, on the job and off. Your effort is never something to be taken advantage of.
“The Foundation exists to multiply these stories. To find the people with the drive — and put what they need in their hands.”
— The Seymour Taylor Foundation
Program 03
The Seymour Taylor
Award for Excellence.
Honoring workers and community leaders who turned determination into something the rest of us can see. People who didn't just say go for it — they went.
Excellence in Migration
- check_circleOutstanding work in the United States
- check_circleCarries themselves with ethics and responsibility
- check_circleRepresents their country well
H2 / Community Impact Leader
- check_circleMakes a difference back home
- check_circlePuts remittances to productive use
- check_circleCreates jobs, schools, or chances for others
How nominations are judged
Get involved
Be part of it.
Go for it.
Whether you're a worker ready to grow, a company ready to partner, or somebody who wants to honor real excellence — there's a spot for you here.
Empowering Journeys
Your journey
inspires the next.
Every H-2 worker carries a story of determination and growth. Share yours — and help the next generation go for it.
Get in touch
Let's build something
that matters.
Worker, partner, or supporter — we want to hear from you.
Invest in people
Every dollar goes further than a dollar. It multiplies through workers, families, and the towns they come from.
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