Last Sunday April 22nd, incense glowed inside the CLI building. More precisely, “Earth Scent” and “Full Moon”, and candles were burning as well. Was it a spiritual ceremony? Actually, that occurred the previous day before when the Huitzilopochtli dance group performed an indigenous ritual blessing for the sedums. An hour later, volunteers nestled them into [read more]
The CAPACES Leadership Institute will be a hub of training and collaboration for the CAPACES network where farmwokers and immigrants’ rights movements’ leaders of today and tomorrow understand and embrace the path of the unlikely doing improbable to achieve amazing social change substantial volunteer labor and no debt On track to be the first certificated [read more]
We are always in need for volunteers with or without construction skills. We welcome the support of any individual or of groups of 10, 20, 30 or more people. Take a look at more specifics about what we need.
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 “It is a wrap”In Hollywood, that means we’re all done. In construction, not quite so. For the CAPACES Leadership Institute, it’s “Hydro-Tex” wrap—the weather barrier stapled over the “Dens-glass” sheathing —another step closer to completing the building exterior In mid-January, we’re, poised for a spurt of very visibly progress, not unlike the one that took the building from [read more] |
 Key Accomplishments and Activities in October 2009 thru September 2011Raising the resources to establish and operate the Institute Raised $697,000 and moved the capital campaign past the 93% level, leaving about $53,000 to raise in order to meet the goal of $750,000, an amount sufficient to build the Institute’s building and operate it through its first year; Received 20 grants and grant commitments from [read more] |
 Capaces Leadership Institute Appeal“Do we have the leadership it will take to sustain and advance our movement through its fourth decade and beyond?” Even as we press for immigration reform and make a difference every day in the lives of thousands of farmworkers and immigrants, that question is increasingly on our minds. Our answer is “no…”and therefore, we’re [read more] |
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Imagine a built environment which has the power to inspire its surrounding community, as well as its builders and inhabitants. Imagine that the construction of a single office building could teach some of the country’s most disenfranchised laborers the skills necessary to join the “Green [read more]
