Chicano Organizing and Research in Education

Mission Statement: Our mission, through advocacy and research, is to inform policy makers, educational leaders, institutions and other interested entities about issues relating to the Chicano/Latino community across the Preschool – Graduate School (P-20) educational system.  Ultimately, C.O.R.E. aims to ensure that all Chicano/Latino students are provided an education that allows them to choose career and life paths based on their interests and goals.

Dear CORE Supporters,

It is with great regret that I announce that we will be suspending the 13th Annual Que LLueva Café Scholarship this year due to the impact that the COVID-19 global pandemic has had on our organization.

We recognize CORE's scholarship has been one of the few scholarships available solely to undocumented students over the past 12 years and suspending our scholarship this year will limit opportunities that the class of 2021 will have for applying to scholarships like ours. This is something we do not take lightly in making this decision. However, given the impact the pandemic has had on our small organization, we feel it is the responsible thing to do until we are able to restructure and provide the level of response and awards our past scholarship recipients rightfully expect of us and that we expect of ourselves.

Please note that we still plan on awarding our 12th Annual recipients by this summer and we apologize to those applicants for our delay.

Our plan moving forward is that suspending our scholarship for 1 year will allow us to restructure and come back this December, 2021 with the release of our 13th Annual Que Llueva Cafe Scholarship and resume providing this needed scholarship opportunity for future applicants.

Please feel free to reach out to me for any and all inquiries,

Jaime L. Del Razo

Executive Director

jdelrazo@ca-core.org