About HACER
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) is a nonprofit, community-based research organization that originated in 1988 as a collaborative effort between Ramsey County Human Services, Communidades Latinos Unidos en Servicio (CLUES), and Metropolitan State University to address the lack of information about Latinos and Latino issues in Minnesota’s public discourse. HACER is housed within the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA).
Our Mission
HACER’s mission, is to provide the Minnesota Latino community the ability to create and control information about itself in order to affect institutional decisions and public policy.
HACER identifies research needs and delivers quality research products that strengthen the Latino communities of Minnesota. We do so through collaborative research efforts that are timely, methodologically sound and culturally appropriate.
HACER engages in partnerships with community members to inform policy around immigration, education, public health, housing, criminal justice, social welfare, employment and income disparities, public safety, community development, migrant work, and demographic change.
HACER also facilitates cooperation among agencies that serve the Latino community, and evaluates government and nonprofit programs that target Latinos in the state.
For these efforts, HACER was named CLUES Community Collaborator of the Year in 2002, and a University of Minnesota School of Public Health Star Community Partner in 2006.
NEW LINK: Events
NEW!: We will be launching the Second Minnesota Latino Non-Profit Leadership Academy! More information to come!
Make plans to attend the 8th Annual National Public Health Week FILM FESTIVAL.
April 2-6, 2012. Details sph.umn.edu/fimlfest