Support multilingual outreach and culturally grounded facilitation, not just translation
Challenge/Local/State
Priority Area: Meaningful Engagement and Community-driven Decisions
Description
Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Community Program Implementation )
Existing Examples of Progress: Spanish-language organizing as leverage: In one case, a community organizer intentionally spoke in Spanish at a board meeting to force board members to struggle with translation, highlighting neglect of a 1,000-member Spanish-speaking church. This action mobilized 200 residents to show up at a Saturday meeting and submit 115 letters of support, shifting the agency’s stance
Region: Los Angeles
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