New Award Recognizes Community Leadership
Alba Gomez
Published: October 5, 2009
Call for Nominations
Mujeres Latinas en Accion is proud to announce the Maria Mangual Leadership Award to recognize individuals in the community who have demostrated leadership to support Latinas and their families. Mujeres Latinas invites you to nominate someone you know who has made a difference in the community to improve the lives of Latinas and their families.
A Legacy of Social Services
Maria Mangual created a vision that lead to the establishment of Mujeres Latinas en Accion in 1973.
From grassroots beginnings, Mujeres has become the oldest incorporated non-for-profit social service agency serving Latinas and their families in the U.S. In this new millennium Mujeres has grown to provide a variety of programs for Latina women and their families, and serves more than 8,000 clients annually.
Maria Mangual devoted her adult life to providing leadership, education and social activism that reflected her original vision and resulted in the creation of services to Latinas in Chicago and beyond. As a community leader and activist, she was devoted to the very simple understanding that being a Latina brought a unique set of challenges and that the services her community offered often were not sensitive to those challenges.
An Award for Leadership
The Maria Mangual Leadership Award is an annual award given to an individual who exemplifies the leadership and advocacy characteristics that were the hallmark of Maria’s professional life; and who through their vision and leadership, continue the work Maria started – affecting change and advocating on behalf of Latinas.
In order for a nominee to be selected for this award they must demonstrate the following qualities:
·Be a seasoned leader with a history of identifiable success
·Be an agent of change
·Be visionary
·Risk taker
·Serve as a mentor
·Lead through a team
·Be respected by others
·Has had a positive impact on Latina lives
Honorees will be recognized at special event hosted by Mujeres Latinas en Accion in December. Download the nomination form at www.mujereslatinasenaccion.org or visit Mujeres page on this portal. Deadline is Oct 31.
For more information please call Alba Gomez at 773-890-7676.
Send completed nominations to:
Alba Gomez
2124 W. 21st Place
Chicago, IL 60608
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