Greetings!
This year has undoubtedly been filled with stress, fear, heartbreak and unknowns. All that being true, 2020 was also a year of impressive community leadership, unity, resiliency and empathy.
In this year's final newsletter, Carlos Santana's Milagro Foundation would like to acknowledge and celebrate our partnering organizations for their tireless efforts in meeting the changing needs of their communities. Please read about how some of these organizations have taken action with compassion.
We wish Stevie, Marsha, Miguel, Kim and Maria (our terrific Milagro Foundation Board members,) Carlos and Cindy and the Santana Band, staff and crew members, our many grantees, our Santana Brand Partners, and our wonderful supportive donors and friends the happiest and safest of holidays.
Click on the link below to check out a slide show from the Milagro Foundation's last board meeting. See our grantees doing what they do best.
Warmly, Ruthie and Shelley
Note: Some slideshow photos were taken pre-COVID. Regretfully not everyone in these images are wearing masks but should be!
Photo above: PlayMarin
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Horizon Community School
Marin City, CA
(Milagro grantee (founding) since 2018)
Horizon Community School is a culturally competent, Montessori-inspired pre-school curriculum in a nurturing environment that promotes cognitive, social and emotional development. Horizon Community School satisfies a growing need for a quality early childhood education in an underserved community of Marin County.
"Our core values embrace the ideals of inclusion, diversity and respect for the larger community."
-Stevie Lee, Marin Horizon Director of Diversity and Inclusion
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Canal Alliance
San Rafael, CA
(Milagro grantee since 2003)
Latinos across California are suffering disproportionately from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, at alarming rates, including high rates of co-morbidity and mortality.
Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success.
We are a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment.
We believe everyone has the right to achieve their dreams. Every day, we educate, empower, support, and partner with motivated immigrants and their families to best meet all their unique needs—from putting food on the table, to becoming U.S. citizens, to learning English, to graduating from college. Because when we support immigrants, we become a place where everyone can live, work, and succeed.
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Women's Audio Mission (WAM)
San Francisco, CA
(Milagro grantee since 2015)
Women’s Audio Mission is a San Francisco/Oakland-based nonprofit organization that uses music and media and an incredible “carrot” of a training environment – the only professional recording studio in the world built and run by women/GNC individuals – to attract over 2,000 underserved women/girls/GNC individuals every year to STEM and creative technology studies that inspire them to amplify their voices and become the innovators of tomorrow. During COVID-19, all GOTM classes are virtual.
Women’s Audio Mission addresses two critical issues:
- Less than 5% of the people creating the sounds, music and media in the daily soundtrack of our lives are women/gender non-conforming (GNC) individuals.
- The alarming 70% decline in women/girls enrolling in college STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) programs since the year 2000.
Some Accomplishments:
- 4,000+ classes given to 16,000 women/girls over the last 16 years.
- 750+ women have been placed in paid positions with Google, Pixar, SFJazz, NPR, Dolby Laboratories, KQED, recording Mary J. Blige & Hillary Clinton for Apple, Comedy Central, Tracy Chapman, Animal Planet, Electronic Arts, Sony, etc.
- The White House Office of Social Innovation visited WAM to learn about WAM’s revolutionary methods of educating young women and girls.
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Justice in Motion
United States Border
(new Milagro 2020 grantee)
The United States government deported hundreds of separated parents with no plan or intention to reunite them with their children. At Justice in Motion, they know that migrant rights cannot stop at the border. They mobilized their on-the-ground Defender Network of human rights lawyers and organizations across Mexico and Central America to collaborate with U.S. lawyers and help find the parents deported without their children.
Justice in Motion remains committed to reaching every family to make sure they have access to any available paths to reunification and that they are connected with resources to pursue justice and healing.
The United States government tore migrant families apart. With Milagro Foundation's help, Justice in Motion and their Defender Network will continue to help these families pursue reunification, justice and healing.
Together, we can ensure that these families are not forgotten and that they have access to the resources and services they need to reunite with their children.
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Cinnamongirl
Oakland, CA
(Milagro grantee since 2004)
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Cinnamongirl Inc. is a leadership development organization, volunteer run and designed to address inequities experienced by girls of color; its programs expand access and equity through mentorship, educational experiences, networking and self-exploration to increase cultural identity and establish a global mindset.
The goal of Cinnamon Girl is to empower girls of color to be visionaries, capable of creating resilience, healing and success for themselves, within their communities and the world around them.
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Shelley Brown
Ruthie Moutafian
415.460.9939
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