Evolve is part of growing community dedicated to community prosperity

Evolve is a sister organization of Farmworker Housing Development Corporation (FHDC), a culturally specific community development organization founded in 1991 in the Willamette Valley, Oregon to improve the lives of farmworkers and their families through affordable housing, social services, education, and economic development.  FHDC now serves a linguistically and culturally diverse resident community in agricultural and rural communities statewide. FHDC’s emphasis on sustainable housing development to support the prosperity of resident families led them to form Evolve Workforce Development & Multifamily Housing in October, 2015.

Evolve is proud member of the Alianza Poder Network, established in 2003. AP is a collaborative of 10 sister organizations, hosted and coordinated by the Capaces Leadership Institute (CLI), whose organizing and leadership models are rooted in supporting working families and communities of color across the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. Together, our organizations share a common vision to create the conditions to support collective liberation and community prosperity grounded in and driven by our Latine/a/o/x, Indigenous, and Mesoamerican cultural, political, and economic heritage and power. AP’s guiding values are: Equity, the Spirit of Si Se Puede (yes, we can), Dignity, and Respect.

Who we are:

• CAPACES Leadership Institute (CLI):  Empowers leaders to lead and support social justice work through building wellness, capacity, and political consciousness through organizing, networking, and community building. 

• PCUN - Pineros and Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste: Advocates for and mobilizes Oregon working Latine families through political action and advocacy, building community, workers rights, collective-bargaining, and fostering equitable employee-employer relationships. 

• Centro de Servicios Para Campesinos (CSPC): Provides legal medical, labor, and education representation and assistance, referrals, notary and translation services to more than 1,000 people per year, 

• FHDC - Farmworker Housing Development Corporation: Develops farmworker leadership for stronger and more secure families and communities through affordable housing, social services, education, and economic development. Affordable housing and supportive services span Woodburn, Stayton, Sublimity, Independence, Salem, Silverton, Lebanon, and Albany, Oregon.

• Evolve Workforce Development & Multifamily Housing: Empowers multicultural workers and communities that have historically been oppressed by housing policies to explore careers in affordable housing management and related nonprofit careers, and offers third-party property management services to culturally specific housing developers. 

• Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas (MLP): Promotes economic and leadership development for immigrant and farmworker women. During the holiday season, the women sell special edition wreaths that promote women’s economic security, and social and gender justice in the immigrant rights movement.

• KTUP Radio Poder 98.3 FM: A multimedia radio station and platform that centers its reporting and communications on local and national issues that impact the Latino community and other working family communities in the Mid-Willamette Valley. 

• Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS): Develops Latino youth leadership, and serves many youth in the Salem-Keizer area around issues affecting their daily lives. From school-to-prison pipeline issues, to reproductive justice, to environmental justice, youth leading the way on the issues of today and the future.

• Mano a Mano Family Center:  Helps Latino families become self-sufficient and active members of the community. With multiple centers in Salem, MaM supports Salem families with direct services like food pantries, and citizenship classes.

• Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality: Partners and advocates with Latino families, schools, and communities to ensure equitable educational outcomes.