Letter from CEO & Board Chair
Strategic Plan Priorities
• Increase Our Impact/Growth
Be a Part of Our Mission
It is hand in hand with community members that we are making an impact on the lives of individuals and families. If you’re
interested in being part of the transformation, please consider the following ways to get involved.
• Programmatic and Organizational
Excellence
• Leadership Development
• Long-Term Sustainability
Volunteer
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Provide an in-class workshop
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Learn more about our Career Training
programs opportunities
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Stand outside one of the two campuses of the Carlos 45 graduates to college and vocational programs, The political climate and the unwelcoming environment Our work is more important than ever. Your partnership
Rosario School on any given day and you will see created a new mentorship program matching graduates for immigrants across the country had a heavy impact and support is more important than ever as well. Thank
students coming and going for morning, afternoon, with local professionals, built out our civic engagement on our community during the 2016-17 school year. In you for your continued support of the Carlos Rosario
evening, and Saturday classes. Walk inside and you program, which included registering 119 students and response to a community need for information and School mission. We invite you to peruse the 2016-17
will find a place that is like a mini United Nations with community members to vote in the 2016 election, support, we partnered with legal services nonprofits annual report to learn more about our work over the
adult learners from over 80 different countries speaking and trained more than 200 D.C. residents through to provide information sessions, Know Your Rights past school year.
over 50 different languages, learning together. Our new small business program and Spanish language workshops, and one-on-one legal advising to hundreds immigrant community and adult learners are amazing, construction management pilot. We are grateful to of community members and their families and will working at times multiple jobs, driven to learn how to the 2,000+ stakeholders – students, staff, Board of continue to do so as long as is needed. survive, navigate, and thrive in their new homeland. Trustees, and friends – who helped shape our plan for
They are local heroes like our recent ESL graduate
the School’s future.
Ange, a resilient single mom from Cameroon who by
day is a home health aide helping the elderly to live
with dignity and independence, and by night attends
the Carlos Rosario school to pursue her dream of
becoming a nurse, an inspiration to her daughter to
grow up to be whatever she wants to be.
We hit the ground running guided by our new Strategic
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Plan in 2017. We increased our annual enrollment
by 200 students, increased our capacity to serve our
college bound students by creating a Transitions office
and raised $90,000 in scholarship funds to send
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CARLOS ROSARIO SCHOOL
Annual Report 2017
We increased our enrollment
to serve an additional 200
students this school year
CARLOS ROSARIO SCHOOL
Annual Report 2017
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