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In 1973, Accion staff in Recife, Brazil, began to focus their efforts on helping informal businesses. An Accion organization in Recife called UNO coined the term "microenterprise" and began issuing small loans, pioneering the field of microcredit. 1960s. Accion was founded in 1961 by a UC Berkeley law student named Joseph Blatchford.
e. Founded in 1967, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) is a community development corporation whose goal is to make sure the residents of Villa Victoria in South End, Boston keep long term control over their housing and neighborhood. They offer many programs for community development and organization, such as art, culture, and human services ...
El Puente (coalition) El Puente is a non-profit arts and social justice organization located in the communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. El Puente was founded in 1982 by the late Luis Garden Acosta [1] and co-founded with Eugenio Maldonado, and Dr. Frances Lacerna. Garden Acosta's mission was to stop the epidemic of ...
The National Hispanic Media Coalition is mounting a campaign to educate Hollywood leaders about the economic value of the Latino audience as well as the need to bring more Latinos into senior ...
Acción Española ( Spanish pronunciation: [aɣˈθjon espaˈɲola], Spanish Action) or AE was a Spanish cultural association active during the Second Spanish Republic, meeting point of the ultraconservative and far right intellectual figures that endorsed the restoration of the Monarchy. [1] It was also a political magazine of the same name.
The National Plan for Hispanic Ministry. The 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC), the highest legislative body of the organization authorized the development of a comprehensive national plan for Hispanic ministries, but first a committee to gather information about demographic changes and trends, and ministerial needs of 320 Hispanic congregations in the country was ...
Popular Action ( Spanish: Acción Popular ), until 1932 National Action (Spanish: Acción Nacional ), was a Spanish Roman Catholic political party active during the Second Spanish Republic . The group was formed after the fall of the monarchy and the defeat of monarchist parties in the 1931 elections, in order to defend the interests of Roman ...
The tanda is one of the most commonly followed informal associations in Mexico with 31% of the population actively participating in one. [5] A tanda may be managed in different ways. The way it usually works is a group of people that know each other get together to collect money (either weekly, monthly, yearly) to help each other financially.