Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Capacity building and development: Washington Latino nonprofit leadership academy (wa lnla) provides training and leadership programs to increase the capacity of small sized Latino nonprofit leaders to meet the growing population's needs. Lcf also provides technical nonprofit management and advising services to new and emerging nonprofits that address issues of importance to communities of color. Lcf also gives direct general operating grant awards to latino-led, latino-accountable nonprofit organizations throughout the State to assist with unmet needs and increase their capacity to better serve children and families.

Covid-19 pandemic relief: provide emergency economic relief to individual latinos, latino-owned businesses, and latin-supporting non-profits due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic.

Civic engagement and advocacy: alianza is a student-led program that serves Latino youth by providing opportunities to succeed educationally and develop leadership potential through service learning. Latino equity network (len) coordinates engagement of grassroots Community members to engage in advocating better policies and systems improvement for their families. Len organizes and activates the voices from within the Latino Community for improved outcomes on multiple issues that include education, immigration, environmental justice, etc. Len builds a grassroots movement of informed and engaged Community members to advance racial and economic equitable policy and systems improvements for latinos in Washington. Both alianza and len work to increase civic participation of latinos.

Leadership and programs: empowers spanish speaking families to improve the well-being of their families and communities by accessing information and engagement. Healthy Latino families and latinos in tech are two such group strategies. Healthy Latino families initiative: improve access to health services of Latino individuals and communictiies by providing free and unbiased health care coverage counseling, Community engagement outreach, and education services. Economic emplowerment initiative: increase attention to economic and social development strategies that are globally recognized as critical aspects of sustainable development and are among the 17 sustainable development goals set by the united nations for 2030. Empowering latinos to participate fully in economic life across all sectors is essential to build stronger economies, achieve goals for development and sustainability and improve the quality of life for everyone.