"MAC: A Better World for ALL Children"
Be
the First to support MAC's 40-Day Fundraising Campaign! We are grateful for
your continued support. It allows us to focus on the needs of young children
and their families by engaging multilingual communities in cross cultural
leadership and advocacy to achieve educational equity.
WHO WE ARE
The Multilingual Action Council (MAC)
has been in operation since 2002. MAC is a membership
organization comprised of multilingual parents of children ages 0-5, teachers,
directors and family child care providers of early childhood education. MAC
serves families in low-income communities and offers support to teachers and childcare
providers who are on the frontline, striving to bridge cultural and lingual
divides while providing education to multilingual children. While we serve
families who speak a variety of languages (8) we predominantly work with
Chinese, Haitian, Latino, Vietnamese and Portuguese communities.
With a large immigrant family base, MAC works
to ensure greater involvement of immigrant communities in the social, political
and educational life of the U.S., and promotes immigrant parent and provider
leadership in schools, communities, MAC and the Early Education field.
Partnered with a strong group of members and
allies across the state, MAC works to build alliances in and across communities
to ensure a better world for all children. MAC accomplishes this
lofty goal through education and training for early childhood care providers,
leadership development, organizing, policy analysis and advocacy on behalf of
multilingual families.
Since 2005, MAC has convened dozens of
community outreach and education forums and parent leadership
activities. MAC has provided training and technical assistance
to hundreds of multilingual child care workers, parents, partner agencies and
families. Trainings have included a review of public school and Head Start
systems, cross-cultural communication for teachers and parents, ELL and the
Sheltered English Immersion Program, parent involvement in schools, school
readiness expectations and support, discipline frameworks in the U.S. versus
home countries, parent/teacher communication strategies, and more.
HOW WE WILL USE THE MONEY
Through its mission to engage multilingual communities
through cross cultural leadership, community development, advocacy and
educational equity MAC strives to meet increasingly essential needs for schools
and early childhood programs. We believe that we have
developed and implemented a local model that is needed statewide and nationwide. We
may once have been a luxury; now we are a necessity.
Your urgent support will keep us going. Your
contribution will allowed us to do as well as we did last year:
· Train over 400 Early Childhood educators and
providers around cultural competency.
· Provide School Readiness workshops in Greater Boston
and beyond to more than 300 families.
· Offer oral and written
translation to various linguistic communities
· Create a local model for
higher quality early care and education
