The Dolores Huerta Foundation organizes and develops leadership within low-income predominantly Latino farm worker communities. Our geographic scope currently spans Lamont, Arvin, and Weedpatch in Southern Kern County and Lindsay, Woodlake, and Cutler/Orosi in Tulare County. Core programming includes: 

Vecinos Unidos (United Neighbors) Project:  Organizing marginalized community residents into cohesive neighborhood organization capable of assessing and prioritizing local needs, mobilizing for direct action on issues of mutual concern, and engaging experts, public officials, and agencies in collective problem solving.

Youth Leadership Program:  Engaging youth ages 12-18 in self-directed educational, recreational, community service, and policy advocacy opportunities. In 2008, members collaborated with the Vecinos Unidos in Arvin to successfully advocate for increased funding for youth recreation through a one cent tax increase (Measure L).

Daughters of Tradition:  Engaging at-risk young women 12 -17 years old in curriculum-based exercises that cover healthy decision-making, native traditions, the natural world, and learning from elders, peers and community members.

Dolores Huerta Community Organizing Institute:  Training organizers to form grassroots community organizations and develop local leaders using fundamental principles of community organizing, focusing on base-building, strategic action planning, issue analyses, power analyses, civic participation, and media advocacy.

Policies of Conscience:  Mobilizing organized constituencies to advocate for public policy reforms that support economic, environmental, racial, reproductive, and social justice on a local, statewide, and federal level.

Dolores Huerta Popular Education Program:  Dolores Huerta, DHF board, and staff travel throughout the nation and abroad to lead training workshops that emphasize the restorative role of grassroots organizing, leadership development, and policy advocacy.

1527 19th street
Bakersfield, CA 93389
http://www.doloreshuerta.org/

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209-982-5419
Sandra Beddawi