
Acacia Network
Since opening our doors in 1969, the Latino based agencies that make up our network have matured into a dynamic and unified community based organization offering a unique constellation of services in the area of health, housing and economic development.
We honor the Latino pioneers that struggled to create these entities by continuing to expand their vision.
Our mission to partner with our communities, lead change, and promote healthy and prosperous individuals and families guides and inspires us to stay grounded while pursuing our goals.

AmeriCorps New York State

Bailey House
Riverside Park Conservancy

Camba
CAMBA is a full-service, community-based organization providing employment, education, health, housing, legal, social, business development and youth services to 30,000 individuals each year. LAPA assigns six government grant writers (on average) per year to complete about a dozen complex government grants.

Camp Speers-Eljabar YMCA
Camp Speers-Eljabar was founded in 1948 to provide the first inter-racial overnight YMCA camp, and it has since grown to a year-round program serving close to 10,000 children and families each year. LAPA provided campaign services to CSEY for a $5M campaign.

Community Food Advocates
LAPA provided private grants research, analysis, and grant submission management for private and corporate foundations.
CFA works to expand and improve child nutrition programs to support children’s health and learning capacity, and increase access to nutritious food for all New Yorkers, especially the two million living in poverty. CFA specifically focuses on New York City’s School Breakfast and Lunch Programs in public schools; the Summer Food Service Program; and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children), seeking innovative ways to increase participation in these programs.pursuing our goals.

COOPI
Cooperazione Internazionale
LAPA conducted a feasibility study for grants of private foundations based in the United States. LAPA also provided assistance, through a legal partner, for possible sponsorship or incorporation of a 501(c)3 in the State of New York.
(Cooperazione Internazionale COOPI) is a humanitarian, non confessional, and independent organization that fights poverty through disaster relief and assistance to regions in conflict. Founded in 1965 by Vincenzo Barbieri, COOPI is based in Milan and has 24 offices throughout the Global South.

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
LAPA provided seminars on fundraising and board development as needed over a two-year period.
Fortune Society
LAPA conducted a development audit, and from this created a detailed development plan.

Greater Life
Greater Life helps 1,500 youth in Newark’s South ward each year improve their grades, behavior, health, social skills, and community involvement, as well as their entrepreneurial and leadership skills. LAPA is providing campaign and grants management services to purchase a new facility.

Moreau Emergency Squad
Moreau Emergency Squad, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation providing emergency rescue services to the town of Moreau, and surrounding areas, in upstate New York. The emergency squad is a mostly volunteer organization that has been in existence for over 52 years. LAPA fundraising conducted a $1.2 million dollar capital campaign for MES.

Hispanic Federation of America
LAPA managed government grant writing services for the Hispanic Federation’s member organizations.

NESF
Newark Emergency Services for Families
Newark Emergency Services for Families provides emergency food, clothing, shelter, utilities, rent, and other basic necessities to Newark families facing a crisis. We are working with NESF on government grants and major gift research.

NYCID
New York Center for Interpersonal Development
New York Center for Interpersonal Development (NYCID) is a not-for-profit organization on Staten Island that promotes the improvement of human relationships and the strengthening of communities as fundamental to achieving a civil society. We provide youth, community and professional development programs, as well as dispute resolution services that educate and inform the public about constructive problem-solving, effective communication and intercultural awareness.

Open Society Foundations
The Open Society provides technical support to nonprofits for the purpose of capacity building. LAPA was assigned six nonprofits to manage their fund development programs, their community marketing efforts, and their outreach programs.
Latino Justice -PRLDEF
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
LatinoJustice (formerly PRLDF) partnered with LAPA Fundraising to conduct a planning study to assess their board of directors and to research their ability to retire a $6 million office mortgage.

Riverside Park Conservancy
The Riverside Park Conservancy is to restores, maintains, and improves Riverside Park in partnership with the City of New York.
The Conservancy supports the preservation of the park’s historic landscape, structures, and monuments, engage the community in active stewardship of the park, and provide a wide range of public programs. LAPA Fundraising manages the private foundation’s portfolio of the park. Our work began with a comprehensive assessment of funders likely to support the park and continues with the writing, submission, and management of the park’s private foundation grants.

Sharing Community
LAPA created marketing and outreach materials, as well as secured private grant funding.

St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation
LAPA completed a federal Department of Education application.
The St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation is a nonprofit, nonsectarian community-based organization founded in 1975 with a mission to serve as a catalyst to improve the quality of life for Williamsburg-Greenpoint residents by addressing economic, educational, health, housing, and social needs while preserving the vibrant and diverse character of the entire community, particularly for low- and moderate-income residents.

United Way of New York City
The United Way of New York City provides technical support to nonprofits for the purpose of capacity building.
LAPA was assigned four nonprofits to manage their fund development programs.

VIP Community Services
Vocational Instruction Project
LAPA analyzed existing health care programs in order to assess expansion of their Article 31 licensed mental health facility, and assisted with application for their establishment as an Federal Qualified Health Center.
LAPA also constructed a three year business plan projecting how the revenues from the new programs would affect current operations.
Founded in 1974 to fill the need for vital social services in The Bronx, VIP plays a key role in sustaining life in the community. Inspired and led by Father Robert Banome, residents and community leaders in the East Tremont/Crotona section of the Bronx joined together to grapple with the neighborhood’s most pressing problems: safety, family disintegration, drug abuse, unemployment, and housing abandonment. Vocational Instruction Project (VIP), became a safe place where individuals could get help with their addiction, learn a vocation or trade, and get back on their feet.

Volunteers of America
Founded in 1896, Volunteers of America is one of the nation’s oldest, largest, and most effective human service organizations. The Greater New York division has a budget of $90 million and is by far the largest of the affiliates.
LAPA accelerated the VOA-GNY grants program and designed a major donor campaign for the organization.

Westchester Institute for Human Development
Westchester Institute for Human Development is a leader in addressing major social and health issues affecting people with disabilities and vulnerable children, by developing and delivering medical, clinical and support services to individuals, their families and caregivers.
WIHD creates better futures for these individuals through the creation and dissemination of innovative research, professional leadership education and best practices training – nearly 50 programs and services to families and professionals throughout Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley.

American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem

Good Shepherd Services

Lutheran Social Services of New York

YMCA of White Plains and Central Westchester

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