Honor Cesar Chavez on his movement’s 50th anniversary
Help continue his work at the 2013 awards dinners in Los Angeles and Phoenix
You can advance the continuing work of the movement Cesar Chavez began by joining the 2013 Cesar Chavez Legacy Awards Dinners on Thursday, March 21st in Phoenix and Thursday, March 28th in Los Angeles.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cesar's passing; this anniversary signifies how we as a Foundation have carried on his vision throught the four core programs we have developed and the communites that we serve.
Join the Cesar Chavez Foundation’s celebration of Cesar Chavez Day around his March 31 birthday, which is now an official holiday in eight states and countless communities across America.
All funds raised at these popular annual dinners directly aid the daily work of the Chavez Foundation, a 501(c) 3 non-profit charitable organization, in changing the lives of more than half a million people in five states. The Chavez Foundation keeps Cesar’s work alive by:
Past attendees and honorees at Los Angelesawards galas include then-Senator Hillary Clinton, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Reverend Gregory J. Boyle, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the late Yolanda King, Ethel Kennedy, Carlos Santana, Martin Sheen and Edward James Olmos.
Among those who have attended and been honored at the Phoenix awards dinners are America Ferrera, Eva Longoria Parker, the late Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, Dolores Huerta, former Governor Raul H. Castro, former U.S. Representatives Joseph P. Kennedy II and Patrick Kennedy, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Richard Chavez, Rev. Jenny Norton, Bob Ramsey, DREAM ACT Coalition, and former state legislator Earl V. Wilcox.
Present in 2013 at both the L.A. and Phoenix events will be Chavez family members plus hundreds of political, business, labor, and community leaders.
Cesar Chavez was always uncomfortable with personal recognition. He refused most personal awards. Now the best way to honor him is by embracing, in our own time and place, the enduring work of the movement he created on behalf of the people for whom he sacrificed.
Enriching and improving the lives of farm worker and Latino working families by meeting their essential human, cultural and community needs is the mission of the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
When Cesar began building the farm worker movement 50 years ago, he knew it would take a strong union to address the economic injustices workers suffer at the workplace. He was also convinced it would take a movement to overcome the heavy burdens of poverty, discrimination and powerlessness his people endure both in the fields—and beyond.
From the beginning, the United Farm Workers and what is now the Chavez foundation were key parts of the same movement. They serve and continue to assist farm and other poor Latino workers in separate and distinct ways. The UFW is dedicated to helping workers change their lives at the jobsite through self-organization. Since the 1960s, the Chavez foundation has also helped workers and their families overcome serious dilemmas they confront outside the workplace by providing affordable housing, educational Spanish-language radio and educational services.
Cesar Chavez Foundation continues working to preserve his legacy by inspiring people to embrace Cesar's life and values as well as improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of poor people whose plight he shared.
You can both honor Cesar’s memory and help advance his work by supporting and attending the Chavez foundation’s premiere annual fundraising dinners this year on March 21st in Phoenix, AZ and March 28th in Los Angeles, CA.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cesar's passing; this anniversary signifies how we as a Foundation have carried on his vision throught the four core programs we have developed and the communites that we serve.
Join the Cesar Chavez Foundation’s celebration of Cesar Chavez Day around his March 31 birthday, which is now an official holiday in eight states and countless communities across America.
All funds raised at these popular annual dinners directly aid the daily work of the Chavez Foundation, a 501(c) 3 non-profit charitable organization, in changing the lives of more than half a million people in five states. The Chavez Foundation keeps Cesar’s work alive by:
- Providing low-income working families and seniors with more than 4,300 units of high quality affordable housing plus extensive social services in 30 rental communities across four states.
- Operating a network of nine Spanish-language educational radio stations in four states reaching 500,000 daily listeners
- Implementing tutoring programs that boost academic achievement for poor and under-served students and preserving Cesar Chavez’s legacy through service learning in California and Arizona;
- Renovating and managing the 7,000 square foot Visitor Center and Memorial Gardens around Cesar’s gravesite, and Villa La Paz, the 17,000 square foot educational and conferencing center at the National Chavez Center in Keene, Calif., where Cesar’s dream of a place to train future generations of community leaders and activists is being realized
Past attendees and honorees at Los Angelesawards galas include then-Senator Hillary Clinton, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Reverend Gregory J. Boyle, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the late Yolanda King, Ethel Kennedy, Carlos Santana, Martin Sheen and Edward James Olmos.
Among those who have attended and been honored at the Phoenix awards dinners are America Ferrera, Eva Longoria Parker, the late Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, Dolores Huerta, former Governor Raul H. Castro, former U.S. Representatives Joseph P. Kennedy II and Patrick Kennedy, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Richard Chavez, Rev. Jenny Norton, Bob Ramsey, DREAM ACT Coalition, and former state legislator Earl V. Wilcox.
Present in 2013 at both the L.A. and Phoenix events will be Chavez family members plus hundreds of political, business, labor, and community leaders.
Cesar Chavez was always uncomfortable with personal recognition. He refused most personal awards. Now the best way to honor him is by embracing, in our own time and place, the enduring work of the movement he created on behalf of the people for whom he sacrificed.
Enriching and improving the lives of farm worker and Latino working families by meeting their essential human, cultural and community needs is the mission of the Cesar Chavez Foundation.
When Cesar began building the farm worker movement 50 years ago, he knew it would take a strong union to address the economic injustices workers suffer at the workplace. He was also convinced it would take a movement to overcome the heavy burdens of poverty, discrimination and powerlessness his people endure both in the fields—and beyond.
From the beginning, the United Farm Workers and what is now the Chavez foundation were key parts of the same movement. They serve and continue to assist farm and other poor Latino workers in separate and distinct ways. The UFW is dedicated to helping workers change their lives at the jobsite through self-organization. Since the 1960s, the Chavez foundation has also helped workers and their families overcome serious dilemmas they confront outside the workplace by providing affordable housing, educational Spanish-language radio and educational services.
Cesar Chavez Foundation continues working to preserve his legacy by inspiring people to embrace Cesar's life and values as well as improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of poor people whose plight he shared.
You can both honor Cesar’s memory and help advance his work by supporting and attending the Chavez foundation’s premiere annual fundraising dinners this year on March 21st in Phoenix, AZ and March 28th in Los Angeles, CA.
