Multi Cultural Community Resource Center

                     PROUDLY SERVING THE NEEDS OF THE HISPANIC AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES SINCE 1975

Vision:
Hispanic and other ethnic minorities will experience acceptance, respect, independence, and self-sufficiency in our community.
 
Mission:
To facilitate the educational, social, political, and economic progress of the communities we serve. We will work to break down cultural barriers due to language, appearance, or ethnic traditions. We will actively promote and advocate the development, empowerment, and advancement of all people while preserving their cultural identity. We will work to educate the community to value diversity.
 
Agency History
On April 29, 1975, The Hispanic American Council was incorporated as a nonprofit organization. The Council was first located at the Spanish Apostolate, an Erie Diocesan Mission Office at 611 West 17th Street.  The Council started with no administrative funds and operated with volunteers and two paid staff.  In September of 2009, the organization’s name was changed to the Multicultural Community Resource Center to more accurately reflect the diverse and ever-increasing population served.  Today the Multicultural Community Resource Center employs more than 50 individuals and is located in the old Penn Schoolhouse at 554 East 10th Street in Erie.  Since the building was erected in 1880, it is gradually being refurbished to its original architectural prominence as a center of learning in Erie.
 
The Multicultural Community Resource Center provides a variety of educational and employment programs to the Immigrant and Refugee populations in Erie in a customer focused manner. The service needs of the clients are of prime importance. All services promote client self—sufficiency and improved economic, physical and/or social wellbeing.
 

The Multicultural Community Resource Center is funded by a number of sources that include:

  • Erie Community Foundation
  • Erie County Department of Health
  • PA Department of Education, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education
  • United Way of Erie
  • City of Erie - CDBG
  • Refugee Social Services
  • Erie County Department of Human Services - ASBG
  • Erie County Department of Drugs and Alcohol Abuse
  • PA DPW
  • Fee for Service

The Annual Budget is Approximately: $1,400,000.00

Agency history adapted from selected portions of Latinos in Erie, Pennsylvania  Myths and Realities: Growing Beyond the Stereotypes, prepared by Lillian Escobar Haskins, M.H.S., Syntonic Services Consulting, August 1995 for the Hispanic American Council of Erie.

MCRC 990 Form

MCRC Annual Report 2009-2010

MCRC Annual Report 2012

 

 

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