Sinergia
I learn something new almost every day about organizations in the area that serve the Latino community. And today thanks to a blurb in the Journal Star, I learned of the Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation. They are, according to their website,
“…a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Latinos with opportunities to stimulate economic growth and to develop a healthy and sustainable future for themselves within the Greater Omaha community.”
As far as I gathered from their website, they are dedicated to economic growth in the Latino community in and around Omaha. Small business development and access to credit were my primary focus in Peace Corps, and I particularly like their first goal/objective, again from their website…
“Goal 1: Supporting the creation of new Latino businesses, maintaining stability of the established Latino businesses, and, increasing by 20% the number of small businesses in the Greater Omaha area.
1.1 Objective: By 2012, the MLCDC will add $1 million in capital available for small business in the Greater Omaha area.
1.2 Objective: By 2012, 250 business owners will be transitioned into traditional lending sources.”
MLCDC is in the news because they recently debuted a database of bilingual service providers in the area. I love the idea, and I think it could be very useful for the non-profit community. My only qualm would be that there are only five institutions from Lincoln in the database, and El Centro is missing. I wish either that Lincoln had something similar to this or that information from both cities could be included in the database..
