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We seek out grassroots organizations that serve Latino youth and families.
Our staff and consulting team actively look for faith & community-based organizations that operate resourcefully at the neighborhood level. These grassroots groups know the needs of their communities from the inside. They bring a unique combination of sensitivity, compassion and effectiveness to the work they do, especially in dealing with hihg-risk youth.
FundWe provide grant support to these organizations.As an intermediary nonprofit, we "get to give" by accessing federal, state and philanthropic funding and then distributing it to local faith & community-based organizations. In addition to makin gsub-grants to these local groups, we help them identify further funding opportunities and we assist them in applying for grants and other funding sources.
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We provide technical assistance and capacity-building training.
We help our sub-grantees shape their programs by giving them expert technical assistance, and we help them solidify their infrastructures by giving them ongoing capacity-building training. We believe in the adage, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Our objective is to empower the organizations we support by preparing them for long-term sustainability.
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We promote the work of our sub-grantees and highlight their accomplishments.
Through many forms of media, we help Latino-serving grassroots groups tell their stories to the public. We assist with outreach efforts within the neighborhoods they serve, and we publicize their programmatic achievements to the community at large. In doing so, we offer recognition for the valiant work they perform. We also make more prospective beneficiairies—and more prospective funders—aware of the excellent services that these groups have to offer.
Key Projects
Equal Sides Everywhere (ESE)
The Latino Coalition is one of 44 intermediary organizations selected by the federal Administration for Children and Families to provide capacity-building assistance to local faith-based and community groups through the Compassion Capital Fund.
The LC’s grant, in the amount of $978,551, is being used to help groups that work with Latino youth in Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ, Hartford, CT; Portland, OR; and Bakersfield, CA. The project is called “Equal Sides Everywhere (ESE)” and its cornerstone is our Capacity Building Academy—a series of hands-on workshops designed to strengthen organizational competence in areas such as fundraising, strategic planning, and governance.
Subjects covered in Academy workshops include:
- Grantsmanship. The emphasis here is on program planning—producing the kinds of clear, coherent plans that grantmakers want to invest in.
- Becoming a 501(c)(3). This process starts with basic questions about identity and legal status. For example, is the group incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit? Should it be?
- Evaluation. Participants learn how to gather the data necessary to verify a program’s impact and measure its real outcomes.
- Marketing. This training covers the basics of public relations, media campaigns, and other forms of outreach, and shows how greater visibility can lead to increased funding.
- Enterprise Development. With earned income, an organization can shore up its bottom line by generating unrestricted revenue. We examine both the risks and the opportunities in creating nonprofit business ventures.
To avoid a one-size-fits-all approach, the LC conducted detailed needs assessments before devising this curriculum, tailoring it to the stated needs of participants.
One major benefit for attendees has been the opportunity to network and to learn from each other’s experiences. Already, they’ve begun forming collaborative relationships, laying the groundwork for joint projects in the future.
Reclamando Nuestro Futuro (RNF)
In 2004, the Latino Coalition was awarded a three-year, $10,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to provide education and workforce development-related services for 3,000 Latino adjudicated and at-risk youth. The grant is being used to fund long-term partnerships between faith and community based organizations, local workforce investment boards (WIB), one-stop career centers, juvenile justice systems, and the business community. The grant funds are also being used to strengthen the administrative and financial capacity of faith and community-based organizations to serve adjudicated and at-risk youth more effectively and efficiently.
All funding to subgrantees depends on availability of funds as appropriated yearly by Congress and the Department of Labor (DOL) / Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Subgrantee Locations: Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX.
Recidivism Rate Goal: less than 4.9%
Retention Rate Goal: over 90 %
Services Offered: Skills training, community services, subsidized and unsubsidized work experience, internships, job preparation, occupational training, GED preparation, basis and remedial education, substance abuse services, and mentoring.
