Latino Community Fund Grant Awards
2009 Award Winners
Economic Wellbeing, Entrepreneurship & Workforce Development Award Grant
Community to Community www.foodjustice.org To work for a just society and build healthy communities for Latino families through systemic change and creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global movements towards social, economic and environmental justice.
Latino Health and Wellbeing Award Grant
Entre Hermanos www.entrehermanos.org To promote the health and well being of the Latino Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and questioning community in a culturally appropriate environment through disease prevention, education, support services, advocacy and community building.
Consejo Counseling and Referral Service www.consejo-wa.org To enhance and improve Consejo’s Community Engagement Program; a social networking program utilizing a process whereby advocates meet with a focus group of low income, monolingual, socially isolated and traditionally underserved Latina women to discuss their relationships, lives, goals and dreams in an effort to classify the needs of the group.
Social Justice Award Grant
Leadership Development and Civic Engagement Academy [No webpage] To mobilize Latino parents in South King County to advocate for change within the educational system so their children have an equal chance for success.
Latino Led Art & Media Award Grant
Para los Niños de Highline www.plnwa.org To enhance art projects through Aprendamos Juntos (Let's Learn Together) which integrates child and parent learning to boost academic success, build children's emotional development, and support parenting.
Lifelong Learning Award Grant Application
Children of the Valley After School Program www.childrenofthevalley.org To enhance free afterschool cultural enrichment activities and academic support program for low income children and their families.
La Cima Bilingual Leadership Camp (Washington Student Leadership program of the Association of Washington School Principals) www.awsp.org/lacimacamp To support dual language education via a leadership camp for Latino students across the state.
Award categories were identified as a result of the priority issues in Summit 2009. Award winners were nominated by community members and selected by community members. More than 50 community members reviewed over 100 nominations, and finalists were voted on line by hundreds of community members.
2008 Award Recipients
Casa Latina
To develop Latina entrepreneurs to become self-sufficient by taking steps towards starting their own small businesses such as childcare, elder care and cleaning services through network, promotion, training and referrals.
Para Los Ninos
To provide quality early childhood education to approximately 80 Latino children (birth to five years old) and increase their school readiness.
Consejo Counseling & Referral Services
To help prevent 100 Latino youth from being recruited and initiated into gangs through positive social activities that result in healthier life choices.
UW Latino Student Union
To inspire 80 Latino students from nine different high schools in the Yakima valley to set goals of graduating from high school and enrolling in college.
Eastern Washington University MEChA
To help 200 Latino high school students from around Washington State to enroll in college while developing leadership of Latino college students and strengthening their commitment to completing a college degree.
Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs
Publish and disseminate the 2007 Washington State Latino/Hispanic Assessment policy research report.
