Build the Latino Center
for Community Engagement
Invest in the future of Minnesota by joining our $20 million capital campaign to expand economic opportunity, exercise community leadership, strengthen civic participation, and foster belonging alongside Latine communities.
About COPAL
Bringing community knowledge, leadership, and priorities into the decisions shaping Minnesota's future.
Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina (COPAL) is a member-based, multi-issue organization that builds community power and creates pathways to generational wealth across Minnesota.
community members connected across Minnesota
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COPAL’s work is centered around these community-facing areas: the Primero de Mayo Workers’ Center, Health and Wellness, Environmental Justice, and the Immigrant Defense Network. Together, these areas connect through organizing, public policy, communications, research, leadership development to create pathways for community members to bring their experience into efforts to shape policies and systems.
The Latino Center for Community Engagement (LCCE) builds on this work by creating infrastructure designed around how people, programs, and partnerships connect. The Center will increase COPAL’s capacity to respond to emerging needs, strengthen collaboration, develop new approaches, and translate community knowledge and lived experience into action. The LCCE will bring together the people, programs, partnerships, and community knowledge that have fueled COPAL’s impact areas.
Café, Business Incubator & Commercial Kitchen
Builds on COPAL’s economic opportunity work by creating dedicated space for aspiring entrepreneurs to develop businesses, test ideas, and pursue pathways to business ownership and generational wealth.
Leadership & Civic Engagement Hub
Expands COPAL’s leadership and civic engagement work, strengthening the ability of community members across Minnesota to organize around shared priorities, exercise collective leadership, and influence the policies and decisions shaping their communities.
Workers’ Center, Cultural & Community Event Space
Expands COPAL’s Primero de Mayo Workers’ Center with dedicated space for workforce training and learning, while creating space for cultural celebrations and community gatherings that generate earned revenue to support the Center’s long-term operations.
Media & Storytelling Center
Expands COPAL’s existing radio, video production, communications, and storytelling capacity to reach broader audiences, strengthen community narratives, and bring community perspectives into public conversations.
Shared Community Space
Creates flexible space where community members, partners, and institutions can connect, share knowledge, collaborate, and respond to emerging needs and shared priorities.
Forward-Thinking, Energy-Efficient Infrastructure
Integrates geothermal district energy, solar, and energy-efficient design, advancing COPAL’s environmental justice work while creating opportunities for education and workforce pathways in Minnesota’s growing clean-energy economy.
Your
Role Impact
Your Investment Matters
The Latino Center for Community Engagement (LCCE) is more than a building—it is a promise to Lake Street and the future of Minnesota. By anchoring COPAL’s powerful statewide network to a history-rich corridor, we're honoring the immigrant pioneers, entrepreneurs, and cultural pillars who built this community. We're ensuring a permanent infrastructure where Latino Minnesotans will lead, ignite new opportunities, and boldly shape the next generation.
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Minnesota's Future, Together.
