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Inver Grove Heights,
MN
Midwest |
| Academia Cesar Chavez (ACC) works to improve educational opportunities for children and families. ACC is a culturally competent community school dedicated to a community-based holistic approach to education through quality academics. ACC is open for full-day kindergarten through 5th grade and will add one grade every year through 12th grade. ACC programs focus on helping students achieve academic success through strong programs that are aligned with Minnesota state graduation standards and high academic achievement expectations. ACC also integrates Latino culture, language, and values throughout the academic program using thematic teaching approaches. To supplement the student education programs, ACC also offers after-school academic enrichment (NCLR’s Academia del Pueblo), parent educational support, and seeks strategic partnerships with CBOs, businesses, and higher education institutions. At ACC, the staff share a commitment to modeling values such as respect, dignity, responsibility, social justice, and teamwork. |
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Los Angeles,
CA
California |
| Academia Semillas del Pueblo is a public charter school dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant and native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values, and global realities. The school opened in August 2002 to 125 students in grades K-3. Semillas will continue to add a grade level each year, through the eighth grade. Semillas will enrich standard course offerings with dual-language immersion; global language and cultural studies; visual, performing, and martial arts instruction; and a living curriculum. The school offers a small school environment in order to give rise to a regenerative school culture that embraces the customs and traditions of those served. The communal Academia Semillas del Pueblo school culture will be emboldened my multi-age, looping class configurations that further accelerate learning through a collective educational practice. |
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Columbia,
SC
Southeast |
| Founded in 1995, Acercamiento Hispano de Carolina del Sur promotes the dignity and well-being of the Hispanic community, including migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families, through education, health promotion, social services, referrals for employment, and legal assistance. |
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Toledo,
OH
Midwest |
| Adelante, Inc. was founded in 1996 as a community-based family services and resource agency. The agency is committed to helping its culturally and ethnically diverse Latino community to move forward. Its vision is a healthy, empowered Latino community that is able to celebrate its diversity, history, and contributions to the greater Toledo community. Since its inception, Latino families have benefited from Adelante’s culturally-specific programs in violence prevention and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention services. The organization currently offers services in mentoring, tutoring, mental health awareness, crime awareness, HIV/AIDS prevention, and a smoking cessation program. |
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Albuquerque,
NM
Far West |
| Founded in 1975, the mission of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce is to advocate, strengthen, retain, and expand small businesses by fostering economic development locally, nationally, and internationally, with an emphasis on the Hispanic business community, thereby promoting a better quality of life. The Chamber achieves this by providing its members with workshops and seminars, health plans, membership luncheons, a resource center, and other relevant services. The Chamber also provides technical assistance to minority businesses and promotes the City of Albuquerque as a convention city. |
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New York,
NY
Northeast |
| Alianza Dominicana is a multiservice, comprehensive, integrated community-based organization for children, youth, and families in northern Manhattan. Alianza has emerged as the largest and most comprehensive Dominican human service and community development agency and is the leading authority on the Dominican community in the United States. Alianza's main strategy consists of developing programs and networks designed to deliver services that promote economic and social development, such as youth development and community revitalization programs, mental health services, and preventive care programs. |
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Chicago,
IL
Midwest |
| Alivio Medical Center was founded in 1989 as a bilingual, bicultural, nonprofit community health center in the heart of Chicago's Pilsen community. Alivio is committed to providing access to quality, cost-effective primary health care to the uninsured, undocumented, and working poor. Services offered include pediatrics, family and adult medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, midwifery, nutrition classes, individual and family counseling, WIC, family case management, health education, home visits, prenatal classes, family planning. Health promotion, health education, and preventive health care are integral parts of Alivio's comprehensive programs. |
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Los Angeles,
CA
California |
| Founded in 1969, AltaMed Health Services Corporation provides medical care to socially and economically diverse communities, and administers one of the largest community-based, long-term care programs for the elderly in California. AltaMed is a community-based, comprehensive health care center in East Los Angeles with a 95% Hispanic clientele. It also provides multispecialty medical services, case management programs, adult day health care, and substance abuse treatment, and conducts an AIDS prevention and awareness program. |
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New York,
NY
Northeast |
| Amber Charter School was founded in September 2000. Sponsored by Community Association of Progressive Dominicans/Asociación Comunal de Dominicanos Progresistas (ACDP, an NCLR affiliate), Amber is New York City’s first charter school founded by a minority community-based organization. Designed to reverse inner-city school failure and to educate leaders for the diverse city and world, Amber prepares all students to meet New York State Learning Standards at high levels of achievement while becoming fluent in both English and Spanish. Amber Charter School offers a challenging curriculum based on the idea that children learn best through engaging in meaningful and purposeful work. The arts are integrated into the curriculum. Assessment is closely tied to instruction. Portfolios of students’ work are developed and analyzed by students and faculty. Individual needs are given great attention to ensure that no student falls through the cracks. Parents are deeply involved in children’s education, both in their own child’s learning and through participation in school governance. Amber utilizes a “partial-immersion” model of language instruction in which all children are immersed 50% of the time in English-language classes and 50% of the time in Spanish-language classes, beginning in kindergarten. This has been shown to be an effective way to teach English and to teach English-speaking children a second language from an early age. |
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San Jose,
CA
California |
| The American GI Forum was founded in 1948, Corpus Christi, Texas, to fight against discriminatory practices toward Mexican Americans in the areas of military benefits, education, employment, medical care, and housing. This movement spread into neighboring states, gaining national prominence through the organization of more chapters. The San Jose Chapter was founded in 1959 and is now the largest membership chapter in the western United States. The organization’s objectives are to 1) improve cultural exchange, 2) empower disenfranchised citizens, 3) improve support services to veterans, and 4) assist local ethnic minority students entering college through scholarships. Programs include a residential program that assists young men overcoming alcoholism to transition back into the community; annual scholarship program granting, on average, $50,000 to a number of students per year; annual toy drive giveaway; the annual Cinco de Mayo and Fiestas Patrias parades and outdoor festivals, which include more than 100 parade entries and festival vendors of community groups, government agencies, and local and corporate businesses; and on-call support to veterans to assist with military benefits. |
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