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Empowering Home-Based Child Care Providers: Educadores RISE Training Program

Educadores RISE is designed to meet the unique needs of home-based child care providers. The program combines evening virtual sessions…
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Two Generations of Financial Literacy Through Co-op Capital Loans

Economic independence and cultivating generational wealth is crucial for Latina women. Veronica Avalos, originally from Mexico, now an Abriendo Puertas/Opening…
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Our Public Allies: Learning, Growing, and Fighting for the Future

Meet Ismael Hernandez and Jaime Tovar With a mission to create a just and equitable society and diverse leadership to…
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Child Savings Accounts Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide

By Javier Martínez Every child should have what they need to grow, live, and thrive with dignity—and financial security is…
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Co-op Capital Loan Series: Norma Casas

Starting and sustaining a small business is no easy feat, for one community member in particular, being connected to the…
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Announcing PCA’s New Executive Director: Nichelle Gilbert

Partnership for Community Action is thrilled to announce Nichelle Gilbert as our new Executive Director.  Nichelle joined the PCA team…
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Parents for Change: How Parents Involved in Policy Can Make a Difference

Partnerships for Community Action (PCA) is invested in supporting families and parents by working with organizations like United Parent Leaders…
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Building Justice: Leaders for Change Fellowship

Partnership for Community Action, along with many other organizational partners and community leaders, partnered with Generation Justice on their Leaders…
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Family friendly things to do this summer

We know it can be challenging to keep your children occupied during the summer and to find activities that work…
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Letting Young Parents Lead

The Partnership for Community Action has a longstanding commitment to supporting families by providing opportunities to develop parent engagement and…
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Why the legislative session is so important, and how to get involved

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer for PCA “Our system of government has never been automatic. If we want our…
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PCA Family Recipes: Celebrating Posada with community culinary traditions

Every year, to bring our community together and celebrate the holiday season, we host our Holiday Posada.  It is a…
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The PCA Challenge: Creating an Emergency Savings Plan

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer for PCA This blog was originally written in Spanish My washing machine is broken!…
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Child Care Providers Are Key to Community Well-being — and They Need Our Support

More about Educadores Para los Niños del Futuro, PCA’s Home-Based Child Care Provider Network Fostering the long term development and…
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Back to school starts in 3… 2… 1!

By Zully Rodriguez This article was originally written in Spanish. The fall is here, back to school starts at 3……
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Post Pandemic Parenting

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer for PCA This article was written originally in Spanish.   A little over a…
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Parents Grapple With Sending Students Back to School: What We’ve Learned

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action As we look back at the past months when our…
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Back-to-School Safety: State and National School COVID Re-entry Guidelines

As COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up across the nation and infection rates decline, schools are beginning to fully reopen. Re-entry plans…
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Will a mandatory extension to the school year make a difference in our children’s academic results?

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action With an education crisis in the State of New Mexico…
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Would it be easier to control infections if schools were smaller?

By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action Normally, the return to school is accompanied by funny memes…
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PCA Opens South Valley Colibrí Children’s Play Garden and the Cariño Lending Library!

PCA Partners with UNM Cariño to Open South Valley Lending Library ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The Partnership for Community Action (PCA)…
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It’s time to replace high-stakes testing with real learning

Adrian Pedroza, PCA’s Executive Director, recently published an Editorial that was featured in the Albuquerque Journal. The editorial offers insight…