La Raza Community Resource Center

read moreMelba Maldonado is the Executive Director of La Raza Community Resource Center. Under her stewardship, the agency has become one of San Francisco's well-known Family Resource Center for the Latino Community; providing innovative programs; such as Immigration, Social Services and Community Education, with the goal to help Latino families, women, and individuals achieve self-sufficiency. Melba Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico and immigrated with her family to New Jersey. Melba began her political and community organizing work as a factory worker in Newark, New Jersey and later as student at Rutgers University, doing outreach to the Puerto Rican and Black community on tenant rights, welfare rights and as an advocate for Puerto Rican Studies at Rutgers University.

read moreLa Raza Community Resource Center is a bilingual, multi-service, non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the social service, immigration, educational, and leadership development needs of low-income families and individuals. The majority of La Raza participants are Spanish-speaking families and individuals of all ages, living in the Mission District of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. But we serve a diverse body of individuals from the vast and various ethnic groups in the community.