Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Capacity Building and Economic 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 latinoled, Latino-accountable nonprofit organizations throughout the state to assist with unmet needs and increase their capacity to better serve children and families.

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.