OLA awarded $1.2 million in Community Education grants among twenty-nine 501 (c) 3 organizations in FY 2008. OLA’s Community Education grants seek to support the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services to the District’s Latino community, complement the education and training resources available in the city, as well as support appropriate and quality training and educational services that increase Latinos’ work skills or lead to decreased school drop-out rates of Latino youth.

Grantees under the Latino Community Education Grant program in FY 2008 are:

• Andromeda Transcultural Health Center
• ARRIBA Center
• Ayuda, Inc.
• Barbara Chambers Children’s Center
• Big Brothers Big Sisters - Latino Outreach Initiative
• Catholic Charities
• Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
• CentroNía
• DC Learns
• DC SCORES
• EOFULA (Educational Organization for United Latin Americans)
• GALA Hispanic Theater
• Hispanic College Fund
• Kids' Corner
• La Clinica del Pueblo
• Language ETC
• Latin American Youth Center (LAYC)
• Latino Economic Development Corp. (LEDC)
• Latino Student Fund
• Life Skills Center
• Mary House
• Multicultural Career Intern Program
• Multicultural Community Service
• Neighbors' Consejo
• Spanish Catholic Center
• Spanish Education Development (SED) Center
• The Family Place, Inc.
• Work Achievement Values Education (WAVE), Inc.
• Young Playwrights Theater