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With your help, we can lift the tide of a
sea change sweeping California's Great Central Valley. While new
immigrant leadership, organizations, and communities organize to assume
powerful roles in its affairs, the Valley's civic, cultural, economic,
and political importance is growing rapidly. Migrants, immigrants, and
refugees are broadening its economy beyond agriculture, and investing
new energy and leadership from diverse, fresh perspectives. As they
help create the Valley's future, they challenge the institutional
legacies created by an historical pattern of attracting, then
exploiting and marginalizing, immigrant workers. Their movement is not
easy-nor is their full civic engagement assured. The right to full
civic participation is never given. It must be won.
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP)
provides migrants, immigrants, and refugees with an essential
cross-cultural infrastructure of encouragement, assistance, networking,
solidarity, and support as they secure their just place in the life of
the Valley.
Since 1996, the CVP-thanks largely to
support from the James Irvine Foundation-has collaboratively applied an
array of diverse and integrated approaches that promote immigrant civic
engagement throughout the Valley. An independent evaluation last year
concluded that the CVP has engaged 15,000 community members in civic
projects; provided 2,100 emerging leaders and organizers with
leadership training; awarded 175 Civic Action Network grants to
grassroots organizations; assisted 19,300 immigrants in 63 communities
in the naturalization process; and helped 3,900 immigrants learn
English.
We are just beginning. The CVP's viability
is growing as it broadens its funding support. Recently, CVP was one of
9 rural funder-practitioner collaboratives chosen from among 284
applicants to receive support from the National Rural Funders
Collaborative, a major new initiative for expanding resources for rural
communities and families facing persistent poverty. In 2003, The
California Endowment provided a two-year, $400,000 grant to support our
Immigrant Leaders Fellowship Program and leverage new funding.
Join us in supporting the vision. Contact
Noe Paramo at (209) 499-8637 or
paramont@sbcglobal.net
to discuss the possibility of your:
Core Support-including both operating
support for organizations committed to the mission, collaboration, and
learning of the CVP, and administrative and operating costs of the CVP
itself; or
Program Support-including support for
any of these CVP programs (Click on the programs below to see
descriptions of each):
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