Navigation
Outreach in the Latino community can be challenging for those on the outside. Years of discrimination, exploitation, and the rising threat of deportation have created well founded fears of working with outside organizations, even those with the best intentions. For Mano a Mano, this isn’t just our work, this is our lived experience, our community and our families. We utilized this unique asset to help bridge the gap in trust that exists between our community and organizations seeking to uplift them.
Our team specializes in connecting your organization to the Latino community. We do this through activities like door to door canvassing, organizing and hosting community oriented events and workshops, or conducting surveys at popular community locations, like local mercados; our team ensures that you have trusted navigators representing your organization. Whether your organization needs to inform the community about an upcoming initiative or program or gather critically important information, our team is here to help.
Service Design
For those who are not actively living in our communities and doing this work everyday, the most effective strategies for reaching our community may not always be obvious. Our team is here to help you create a better strategy to get in contact with the Latino community. With over 50 years of combined experience in community organizing, and lifetimes of lived experience, we are confident in our ability to design outreach strategies that will maximize your desired result.
Design sessions can help with everything from clarifying you goals, to building an effective messaging and outreach plans. We will help you understand where the community is already gathering in order to target outreach efforts and ensure you avoid using off-putting, confusing, or triggering language in your campaigns. Save money and time by working with our team of experts to create more efficient and effective campaign strategies.
Education
Organizations in Colorado often strive to serve our communities with the best intentions, unfortunately, sometimes this intentions differ from the impact they have on the community. Often, this gap between intentions and impact comes from a lack of understanding of the cultural nuances of working in the Latino community.
Our team of navigators will work with your organization to understand some of the common pitfalls and mistakes made by outside organizations working in our community. Understanding is the first step to building meaningful and trusting relationships across differences. Our educational workshops help you to build a deeper level of understanding of how to navigate work in our community, bridging the gap between your organization and our community.