Center for Community Advocacy Holds the 18th Annual "Dia de Los Muertos" Fundraiser Sunday, November 3rd

Save the Date for the 18th annual "Dia de Los Muertos" tardeada (afternoon party) at University Center at California State University Monterey Bay. End Quote

Salinas, CA (1888PressRelease) June 25, 2013 - Center for Community Advocacy, 22 W. Gabilan St, will hold their 18th annual "Dia de Los Muertos" tardeada (afternoon party) will take place Sunday, November 3rd beginning at 4:30 pm at University Center at California State University Monterey Bay to honor this year's recipient of CCA's Ben Heller Award. Center for Community Advocacy will also present the Sam Karas Farm worker Leadership Award. This never fails to inspire us all, a mark of the success of CCA - as well as the farm workers themselves.

This year's Ben Heller Award recipient is The Monterey Bay Aquarium.

In addition, Center for Community Advocacy announces its Inaugural Volunteer Hero Award on Darlene Din, Ag Land Use & Public Policy Consultant, and a tireless worker on the Center for Community Advocacy Annual Dinner. As a volunteer hero Darlene has worked tirelessly over the past 10 years on behalf of CCA and helped raise more than $500,000. She is our volunteer hero! She will be honored at the Center For Community Advocacy Annual Dinner at CSUMB University Center on Sunday, November 3rd at 4:30 p.m.

As always, the Center for Community Advocacy has much to celebrate. CCA has completed yet another year of training farm workers in leadership roles that enable them to negotiate with their landlords for improvements in their housing units. Those same skills have empowered these farm worker leaders to become purveyors of preventive health information at their housing sites and teach farm worker parents to read in Spanish.

The dinner begins at 4:30 p.m. and ends at 8:30 p.m. in the tradition of Mexican tardeada or afternoon party. Reservations for the CCA banquet are $100 per person and be obtained at the CCA office at 22 W. Gabilan in Salinas or by calling 831-753-2324.

Center for Community Advocacy Background:

The Center for Community Advocacy was established in 1989 with the express purpose of training farmworkers to help themselves, conducting health outreach and educational programs at labor camps and other housing sites. CCA also connects newly developed farmworker leadership with established political leadership, officials and other stakeholders in efforts to improve the health of individual farmworkers and of the communities where they reside.

Contact: Marci Bracco/Chatterbox PR (831)747-7455

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