Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio

11 Grants from 1996 - 2024

  • Total Amount Received: $4,807,420
  • Location: Saint Paul, MN

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) will develop and test a new model of shared space, accessible training and supports for childcare microbusinesses to increase the number of licensed Latina providers in Minnesota. The new Eastside Business Hub will include an incubator to help launch Latina-owned childcare businesses and improve the likelihood of their long-term success. The incubator will house several childcare microbusinesses and provide rental subsidies and supports that enable providers to establish stronger businesses. This ensures the continued growth and expansion of high-quality childcare businesses as owners move into other locations and new businesses move into the incubator. CLUES will also provide culturally relevant training, build networks for childcare providers in greater Minnesota, and advocate for policy changes to address many of the challenges currently faced by Latina childcare providers.

Grants received

$3,822,420 in 2024

  • Term: 38 Months

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) will develop and test a new model of shared space, accessible training and supports for childcare microbusinesses to increase the number of licensed Latina providers in Minnesota. The new Eastside Business Hub will include an incubator to help launch Latina-owned childcare businesses and improve the likelihood of their long-term success. The incubator will house several childcare microbusinesses and provide rental subsidies and supports that enable providers to establish stronger businesses. This ensures the continued growth and expansion of high-quality childcare businesses as owners move into other locations and new businesses move into the incubator. CLUES will also provide culturally relevant training, build networks for childcare providers in greater Minnesota, and advocate for policy changes to address many of the challenges currently faced by Latina childcare providers.

$35,000 in 2020

  • Term: 21 Months

Sponsorship of CLUES 2020 Community-Engaged Latino Artist Collaborative and Fiesta Latina

$100,000 in 2018

  • Term: 36 Months

To be a leader and learner as a member of Community Creativity Cohort 2, a 3-year participant-led capacity building effort to support organizations led by and serving people of color and Indigenous people, rural communities, and smaller cities and towns

$20,000 in 2016

  • Term: 5 Months

Sponsorship of 2016 Latina Leadership Awards

$5,000 in 2015

  • Term: 6 Months

Identify, recruit, engage and support a cohort of 15 leaders to attend bushCONNECT on May 4, 2015

$50,000 in 2008

  • Term: 21 Months

To test an interagency referral system for Latino families

$100,000 in 2008

  • Term: 12 Months

Reduce reliance on governmental funding for culturally competent behavioral health and human services to Latinos in Saint Paul by continuing two development and marketing manager positions

$375,000 in 2004

  • Term: 24 Months

Toward a capital campaign to lease space in Minneapolis and to build a mixed-use facility on St. Paul's East Side

$90,000 in 2003

  • Term: 24 Months

To add clinical and administrative staff, which will increase insured Latinos' access to linguistically appropriate and culturally competent mental and chemical health services

$135,000 in 1999

  • Term: 23 Months

To expand efforts to help Chicano and Latino families obtain social services

$75,000 in 1996

  • Term: 29 Months

To expand mental health and counseling services to Hispanic clients