Latinos Progresando

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service in the state of Illinois and offers arts programming, a speaker series, and scholarship funds for students. Latinos Progresando also convenes the Marshall Square Resource Network, a social service coalition of 45 agencies in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood that collaborate to increase each member’s capacity to advance collaborative solutions in health, education, and peace. With this award, Latinos Progresando aids Chicago residents in accessing COVID-19 vaccines through its own efforts and through regrants to other community-based organizations engaged in vaccine distribution.

 

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service in the state of Illinois and offers arts programming, a speaker series, and scholarship funds for students. Latinos Progresando also convenes the Marshall Square Resource Network, a social service coalition of 45 neighborhood agencies that collaborate to increase each member’s capacity to advance collaborative solutions in health, education, and peace. With this award for place-based community economic development, Latinos Progresando and the Marshall Square Resource Network pursue resident-driven, equitable development that addresses the neighborhood’s dual challenges of racial inequity and economic recovery from COVID-19.

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service in the state of Illinois. It offers arts programming, a speaker series, and scholarship funds for Latino students. Latinos Progresando also convenes the Marshall Square Resource Network, a social service coalition of agencies that collaborate to improve local communities. With this award, the senior leadership of Latinos Progresando engages a consultant to provide development infrastructure planning and executive coaching.

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service in the state of Illinois. It offers arts programming, a speaker series, and scholarship funds for Latino students. Latinos Progresando also convenes the Marshall Square Resource Network, a social service coalition of 22 agencies that collaborate to improve local communities. With this award, Latinos Progresando educates the immigrant community and expands its legal services in response to shifts in federal policy that target immigrants for deportation.

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service organization in the state of Illinois. With this award, Latinos Progresando offers information workshops and legal screening to immigrant communities facing aggressive federal enforcement policies. The workshops encourage immigrants who are eligible to naturalize to do so. They educate other residents on the types of immigration status they may seek. Latinos Progresando also educates Chicago Public Schools about the potential impact of enforcement policies on neighborhoods schools, students, and families.

Founded in 1998, Latinos Progresando serves communities on Chicago’s southwest side with the mission of providing high-quality information and resources for residents to build secure, healthy, and productive lives. The organization manages the largest Latino-led immigration legal service in the state of Illinois. It offers arts programming, a speaker series, and scholarship funds for Latino students. Latinos Progresando also convenes the Marshall Square Resource Network, a social service coalition of 20 agencies that collaborate to improve local communities. This institutional support award enables Latinos Progresando to expand its senior leadership team and strengthen its administrative structure.

This grant to Latinos Progresando will support the development of a training and technical service program for immigrant legal service organizations in Illinois and the Midwest. Latinos Progresando will assist community based and immigrant-serving groups to create or expand legal service programs, building regional capacity to reach underserved populations. This effort will augment the quantity and quality of representation for immigrants in anticipation of a federal legalization program, which could affects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Illinois and the Midwest.

To support an ongoing cross-cultural artistic exchange between Chicago's Little village community and Mexico.

To support strategic planning and implementation for Teatro Americano (over two years).

To connect immigration impacted youth in Pilsen/Little Village with central Mexico neighborhood youth.