OUR WORK

"Building Strong Leaders and Strong Families Through Innovative Community-Directed Projects"

  Our Approach:  Holistic Integration (Integración Holistica)

CWC animates positive cultural and economic contributions from its communities using ‘holistic integration’ - an organic, grassroots method involving:
1)    popular leadership education and training and cultural work;  and
2)    Self-determined, cooperative economics.

Holistic integration sees community members as contributors- not clients. Through developing social consciousness and cooperative decision-making, it animates the resilience, ingenuity, and compassion characteristic of their rich cultures and life experiences.

Holistic integration works not only to empower CWC participants, but also to bridge the class and racial divide in Marin by dignifying social and economic relationships and practices in public and commercial spheres.

Our Work Areas and Programs

Leadership and Economic Development:     
Presente: A fellowship for Young Adult Community Leaders
La Placita: Marin’s multicultural open-air market
VESL: Vocational English language education for domestic workers

Arts & Culture:                          
  • Escuelita de Artes Project: visual arts and traditional art education for children and families -
  • Dia de Los Muertos: Marin’s annual Fall Celebration of life
  • Cultural Cafe: a mobile gallery and performance venue ‘under the canopy’

Social and Restorative Justice:              
  • Partners for Success: Family/community-centered healing and counseling for at-risk Marin youth
  • CONSEJO for Restorative Justice Project

Community Engagement:
  • Food Distribution project
  • Holiday Season in the Canal
  • Marin Climate Change Project (Shore up Marin)