After School Art Program

Our Lil Green Thumbs

3 youth painting a sky and sun

The youth in our After School Art Program had a BLAST collaborating with local artist Adrian Garcia “AWER” to design and paint a mural on their grow box in the classroom. They titled it “Our Lil Green Thumbs”, inspired by the plants they’ve been growing. The students then each chose a plant, flower, tree, cloud,…

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Springtime in the Classroom

Our After School Arts Program at El Rancho del Arte in Mesa was gifted a grow box from Local First Arizona back in the beginning of March. The students in the program have been very excited and having so much fun gardening and learning how to grow their own food! Our partners at El Rancho…

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Mariachi STEAM Program Receives Funding

Cultural Coalition is excited to share that we have been select as part of the 2023 Cohort for the Equity in STEAM Initiative 2.0 from YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix and Intel! Working with youth mariachis and volunteers from the Intel Latinx Group Chapter and ASU’s student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Cultural Coalition…

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Why I Give: Donor Spotlight with Carmen Cornejo

Photograph of couple Marcos and Carmen

Cultural Coalition is lucky to have so many dedicated longtime supporters. People who have seen the organization evolve and are genuinely invested in seeing us continue to grow! Two of our biggest supporters over the years have been a dynamic couple in our community, Carmen Cornejo and Marcos Garciaacosta. Marcos is the founder and Managing…

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Expanding Our El Rancho Music Program

Thank you to the wonderful women of Wells Belles for their amazing fundraising efforts which raised over $3000 in support of our El Rancho del Arte after school program! On Thursday, December 8, at their annual holiday luncheon, Cultural Coalition Executive Director Carmen Guerrero spoke about all the work our nonprofit does with youth at…

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