Get involved with local multilingual groups

Getting involved with multilingual groups and organizations can be a great opportunity to deepen your understanding of other cultures and build greater rapport with non-native English speaking clients, employees, and the community at large. We encourage you to seek out networking opportunities with these, and other multilingual organizations in our county. Cross-cultural understanding can lead to more effective marketing strategies to better reach various audiences, can help provide high quality, adaptable services to the community, and better understand and meet the needs of your employees.

Hispanic Leaders' Network

The Hispanic Leaders' Network strives to provide personal, cultural, and professional opportunities to inspire Hispanic leaders to serve and make a positive impact In keeping with their mission, they plan to provide opportunities for Spanish speaking individuals to participate in more community events By creating an interpretation device library organizations can rent out equipment to make their events multilingual In addition, they have plans to train and certify more Spanish interpreters in the community as well hln-waco org

Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is centered around developing partnerships that create economic growth, equip Hispanic leaders, and support our local businesses. The Chamber hosts an initiative called Escalando that provides classes and workshops for individuals hoping to start, or improve, their own businesses. These workshops are delivered completely in Spanish to eliminate the language barrier that is often present for Hispanic business owners. wacohispanicchamber.com

You can also visit facebook com/escalandowaco for regular updates

La Puerta is a faith-based community ministry organization that serves the Spanish-speaking community of Waco through empowerment and support in accessing the resources they need

Realizing that the Hispanic community's main barriers to access were regarding language, La Puerta was established to address those barriers. Their three main pillars are: educate, accompany, and advocate. La Puerta’s response to the language barriers is to provide an array of non-traditional programs that prioritize family support and technology, together with life skills training – all within a faith-based environment. They offer several classes such as ESL, Computer, Finance, Sewing, Cosmetology, Citizenship, affordable counseling in Spanish and in partnership with other organizations GED, Nutrition, Gardening and Diabetes classes. lapuertawaco.com

La Puerta Waco Inspiracion

Inspiracion is a non-profit organization that focuses on empowering at-risk Latino families to break the cycle of poverty by fostering parenting knowledge and skills that directly impact children’s development Using a two-generation approach, through the use of education, Inspiracion is committed to advocating for system change for the betterment of the Latino community inspiracionwaco org