2018 was the second year of HACER’s Leaders of Tomorrow
LOT) program. This program is a four day summer camp at Macalester College for Latino and Latina teenagers. Through a variety of speakers and activities, the program
aims to increase the participants’ confidence, leadership skills, and college readiness.
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This report seeks to describe the experience of participants through
leadership training called “CreAndo Lab: Latino Leaders innovating for
community betterment.” It highlights the main lessons learned from this
experience and provides some recommendations to consider for future implementation.
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The Austin Area Minority Business Project (AAMBP) is a program funded by Bank of America to stimulate entrepreneurship and economic vitality in Austin, MN by reducing legal barriers in immigrant status and business. In doing so, it improves local economic development, empowers underrepresented community members, improves accessibility to social services,
and increases civic engagement.
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The following report presents the results of the final evaluation performed to assess the Stand Up Participate (SUP) program lead by Asian Media Access (AMA). Initially, we explain the program context considering racial breakdown in the corresponding sites. We then explain the SUP program’s intended outcomes, our evaluation methods, and project results. Lastly, we will
discuss the dissemination plan and the lessons that were learned through collected qualitative data, following up with recommendations based on the results of our assessment, and a
sustainability plan to aid in towards continuing the work of SUP.
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The following report presents the results of the evaluation performed to assess the Stand Up Participate (SUP) program. Initially, we offer a context analysis that contains some of the
foundations of this community-based program. We then explain the SUP program by providing some background information, describing a stakeholder analysis and explaining the logic behind the programming. We also go through the evaluation framework which includes a statement of the evaluation questions, methodology, and limitations of the evaluation process. Lastly, we discuss the evaluation findings and provide some recommendations based on the results of our assessment.
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At the end of the 2017 Leaders of Tomorrow program, all 17 participants completed an evaluation survey of the program. This report will analyze the results of this survey. The quantitative section of this analysis involves questions 6-11 and 13, since the responses to these questions were given on a numeric scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest score and 5 being the highest. Each of the activities was a different speaker or presentation.
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The aim of the Austin Area Minority Business Project (AAMBP) is to stimulate entrepreneurship and economic vitality in Austin, MN by reducing legal barriers in immigrant status and business; thus, improve local economic development, empower underrepresented community members, improve accessibility to social services, and increase civic engagement.
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With the idea of having a deeper and comprehensive understanding of how the Latino communities in Red Wing live under a rather though political environment, a group of leaders
were called by Hispanic Outreach (HO) to discuss the best ways in which business leaders, political representatives, police leaders, and community members and leaders could collaborate in facilitating better conditions among members of the different Latino communities who live in the city.
Being Latino in Red Wing: Perspectives and Expectations During Hard Times Report I Read More »
This report evaluates the Stand Up Participate (SUP) program for its performance and outcomes of the second program year (September, 2015- August, 2016). SUP program is a three-year community-based program focuses on at-risk minority youth in North Minneapolis, Brooklyn
Park, and Brooklyn Center. With the changing demographic characteristics in the state of
Minnesota, especially fast rising African American and Southeast Asian American population, makes the issues of minority educational disparities, youth violence prevention, and bicultural healthy living conditions increasingly critical in these minority-concentrated areas.
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This report is a joint effort between Waite House and HACER and consists of a summary of a study on the issues that interest and concern the Latino and Chicano communities in Minnesota. This research provides real data from a survey of 123 respondents regarding Latino health issues, education, drivers’ licenses, immigration reform and housing. We present an overview of the results of the interviews, the study process, brief overview of the methodology, and the key findings and conclusions.
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