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- Established in 1988 to support migrant farmworkers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- First employee and office on State Street in Salem<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Causa (later known as Causa Oregon) fiscally sponsored by Mano a Mano in mid-1990s, defending against constant anti-immigrant laws and rules across Oregon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS) Youth Organization established in the mid-1990s, in response of large migrations to Salem from SW USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Gang Intervention Project (GIP), Zero Tolerance, Measure 11, and other punitive measures in response to the increase of gang activity, and an increase in the young Latino\/a\/x and Black population of the Salem-Keizer area<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality fiscally sponsored by Mano a Mano in 1999, when as much as 12% of the student population identified as Latiino\/a\/x<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) established in 2000 to provide mentoring and case management to youth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Partnered with other organizations to establish the CAPACES leadership network in 2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Collocated with Farmworker Housing Development Corporation (FHDC) at their Colonia Libertad site in SE Salem in 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Was part of the launch of the Fostering Hope Initiative (FHI) in 2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- La Casita (The Little House) was founded as part of the FHI, as a partnership with Holy Cross Lutheran Church and the Salem Leadership Foundation (via their former Neighborhood Lightning rod, Carrie Mahieu)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In 2015, Mano a Mano Family Center and Catholic Community Services became the first nonprofits in the Salem-Keizer area to employed a certified Community Heatlh Worker (CHW), Maria Lemus. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In 2017, the Capaces Leadership Network became the Alianza Poder (the Power Alliance), with the Capaces Leadership Instititute (CLI) as its backbone organization <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In 2018, toxic algae infested the water supply to Salem, triggering a city-wide crisis<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Mano a Mano operated a total of four sites across Marion and Polk counties, three in East Salem and an outreach satellite in Independence<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Radio Movimiento, our sister organization PCUN’s low-power radio station ended operations after nearly a decade in 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- On September 15, 2019, KTUP Radio Poder 98.3 FM started broadcasting as a full power FM station, in partnership with CC Media and with KMUZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Statewide crisis was declared by then-Governor Kate Brown in response to the growing spread of the Covid-19 virus, in March of 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- An ice-storm, wild fires, and a heat storm affected the state of Oregon between late-2020 and mid-2021, along with the continuing Covid-19 pandemic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- About 51% of the student population in the Salem-Keizer School District identified as non-White<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Salem-Keizer School District elected its first ever directors in May of 2021 — Osvaldo Avila, Karina Guzman-Ortiz, Maria Cecilia Hinojos-Pressey<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Covid-19 pandemic was largely agreed to have ended by mid to late-2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Alianza Poder, through the CLI with Mano a Mano, began working on a project to increase the number of bilingual and bicultural Latino\/a\/x CHWs working in Latino\/a\/x-led community based organizations in the Mid-Willamette Valley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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