After an extended history of migratory tradition, dating back to more than a century, Mexican migrants established hundreds of clubs based on their origin communities and since the sixties (from the past century), they initiated philanthropic activities such as the maintenance of the local church, gardens, parks and schools using their own resources. In the seventies, they initiated an informal collaboration with some majors, and they invested one dollar for every dollar donated by the clubs to finance such projects. In the nineties, that experience allows the institutional establishment of the 2 × 1 Program for collective remittances according to which the federal government and the state government invest a dollar each of them for every dollar invested by the migrant clubs to develop infrastructure projects in their communities. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, they created the 3 × 1 National Program for migrants when local governments decide to invest an additional dollar and because of the growing international migration to the US, this Program extends rapidly to many other states in the country. After more than 20 years the 2 × 1 and the 3 × 1 Program has supported more than 20 thousand projects of basic infrastructure, (approximately 5% of them are productive projects), and these projects have improved the quality of life in the communities where migrants originate, proving then, the success of transnational migration philanthropy. Nevertheless, there are some structural problems in Mexican transnational communities: economic backwardness and Mexico’s low capacity to generate employment and a precarious organizational and institutional situation of migrant organizations in the US, which in turn gives them a marginal political position in that country, in spite of being a very important community in terms of their numbers. Concerning the first problem, it is necessary to reorient the economic model towards internal markets and to create employment; with respect to the second problem, it is necessary to increase migrant investment and to generate alliances between sectors to strength their institutions.