The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership defines itself as
a backbone intermediary organization within a collective impact model.

BAckBone Intermediaries

As a backbone intermediary, we:

    1. Guide vision and strategy of the movement of community reinvestment.
    2. Support aligned activities.  The LCCL provides scaffolding and infrastructure for community organizations to “plug into: program data systems, fiscal support and accounting systems, organization and program policies, procedures, and operations infrastructure support.
    3. Establish shared measurement practices.  Our projects have established performance measures which then the LCCL can use to provide performance management, create feedback loops and align resources to both needs and performance.
    4. Build capacity of emerging and nascent community and faith-based organizations.
    5. Build an eco-system of CFBOs, government and key stakeholders to advance services to marginalized and rural communities.  
    6. Build public trust.  The LCCL is able to demonstrate ROI through performance and fiscal stewardship.  
    7. Work to educate and inform policy.  
    8. Mobilize funding.  The LCCL “gets money to give money” and drives it deeply in marginalized communities of color and rural communities.

The Role of the intermediary

The role of an intermediary is sometimes misunderstood as a “pass-through” or as a “middle-manager” for funding. We believe this is because there are so many different types of intermediaries that exist: from universities to community foundations and from international aid NGOs to incubators and accelerators, different models provide different roles, connections, and value in our communities.

 

 

Our Methodology

The mission of LCCL is to Find, Fund, Form, and Feature nonprofits in marginalized communities meeting the needs of individuals and families. The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership operates as a national intermediary to give voice, leadership and resources to rural communities and communities of color.

Find

We seek out grassroots faith and community based organizations serving low-income youth and families. These providers are uniquely skilled to meet their community needs with a level of cultural sensitivity, understanding, and competence.

Fund

We seek funding to provide funding. As an intermediary organization we are in a position to access Federal, State, Philanthropic and Corporate funds we then re-grant to our sub-grantee partners to enhance and expand their services.

Form

We provide technical assistance, training, and capacity building. Following the leadership principle: “give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime”, all our sub-grantees are empowered in all aspects of organizational development for long-term sustainability.

Feature

Giving “voice to vision” is an important theme we strive to serve our sub-grantees with by helping them tell their stories on a larger platform to expose them to their community stakeholders, as well as funders at the Federal and State level.

OUR VALUES DRIVE OUR CULTURE

 

At the heart of the LCCL is a culture based on a strongly shared set of values and beliefs that are supported by strategy and structure. These core values are reflected in our collective work behaviors and activities and create an organizational culture at the heard of everything we do. When values drive work, we can focus on the why of the world and let out staff and partners lead the way in
how it happens. 

Personal trustworthiness

We take responsibility for the level of trust people have in us. Every person builds competence and proves integrity, character, and high trust in service of the mission.

COMPASSION

We believe in redemption and the value of building authentic relationships with a deep sense of caring and desire to help.

Excellence

We have a personal commitment to high performance through learning, self-growth, and mastery.