The Multicultural Institute

$10,000 granted for providing assistance for the immigrant community, including basic needs, employment, health, and legal assistance. (Fall 2023)

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$5,000 granted on 11/26/2021 to provide support for the Multicultural Institute’s Life Skills and Day Laborer Program.

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Economic and social inequity is most apparent in the ways that immigrant workers, unaccompanied youth, and sometimes entire immigrant families, encounter challenges and barriers related to underemployment, unfair treatment at work, lack of access to critical services in the communities where they live and work. Immigrant families are not always aware of their worker rights, services they can tap into, nor the vocational and educational opportunities that can assist them in qualifying for better paying jobs. Day laborers (men who seek work on street corners) and domestic workers (women who seek work locally in the community) are among these immigrant workers that commonly face wage theft, unpredictable employment, and discrimination based on their presumed immigration status.

MI’s Life Skills/Day Laborer Program assists day laborers, domestic workers, and other low-income immigrant families in a way that transcends them and reaches many others through their family and community networks. Program participants can benefit from an array of activities and services that address economic inequities and larger systemic and language barriers that result from unfair treatment at work, low wages, discriminating employment procedures, lack of access to resources and opportunities, and the technological gap.The support from the Community Fund of San Carlos will enhance the work accomplished through MI’s Life Skills/Day Laborer Program and continue to enhance its work addressing the economic, educational, language, and resource barriers that often lead to a lack of access to available resources. Through this program and support, this program will offer economic development, housing, and vocational skill opportunities to immigrant workers and other low-income individuals in the Redwood City/North Fair Oaks area reaching San Carlos residents, domestic workers, and day laborers that seek for work during the week at the San Carlos Home Depot.