Building Leadership Capacity

Latino immigrants have enormous potential to play key leadership roles in impacting regional and national policies that affect their communities. In order to realize that potential and develop as transnational civil society actors, Latino immigrant-led groups must strengthen their organizational capacities and understanding of policy processes. Enlaces América worked to build immigrant-led organizational capacity for change-setting agendas by providing leadership training and educational opportunities for migrant-led organizations.

Examples of our work in this area include:

The Chicago Immigrant Leadership Empowerment Project- now a project of CONFEMEX. For three years, beginning in 2002, Enlaces América carried out The Chicago Immigrant Leadership Empowerment Project, in partnership with seven Mexican Hometown Federations. In 2005-2006, this project was taken on by CONFEMEX, a Confederation of nine Mexican Federations and dozens of clubs in the greater Chicago area. Enlaces will continue to provide strategic and fundraising advice to this innovative new model of organizational and individual capacity-building.
Supporting the National Alliance of Latin American and Carribean Communities (NALACC)

Enlaces América's core programming around capacity-building and leadership development will be taken up by the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC). Connect to the NALACC website.