PAU LA L. ET TEL BRICK AWAR D
THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
REPRESENTING MORE THAN 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide, Te Human Rights Campaign is the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, from its base in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1980, HRC advocates on behalf of LGBT
Americans through its grassroots activities around the coun- try, and endorses and strategically helps to elect fair-minded candidates to office. In addition, HRC educates the public about LGBT issues. “HRC is responsible for the advancement of all LGBT
Americans, so reaching out into diverse communities is an inherent part of our mission,” says Rob Falk, HRC’s general counsel. “We recognize that we must both build partnerships
to advance our communities’ welfare and give back. “For instance, in our recent state marriage initiatives, we had
an active program to reach out to African American ministers in a number of states,” Falk says. “We partnered with the NAACP.” Some programming that specifically targets the Latino com-
munity includes its “La Familia” program, a bilingual guide to foster dialogue with Latino families and churches about sexual orientation. In addition, HRC actively participates in the “Ya es Hora” program, where volunteers help immigrants apply for either permanent status or citizenship in the United States. HRC’s partnership with the Ya Es Hora campaign, a
national non-partisan citizenship and voter registration program, mobilized more than 2,500 volunteers for 60 citi- zenship workshops in 20 communities including Las Vegas and San Diego. As a result of this partnership, many Latino leaders and organizations pledged to support LGBT issues. “We fully understand that in order to be effective, we
have to have staff who are culturally competent to work in many different types of communities,” he says. “It is through building bridges with all American communities that we will be successful in accomplishing our mission.”
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Congratulations to our partner Jose Valera on being recognized as a “rainmaker” by Diversity & The Bar.
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