The Polidore Foundation is dedicated to supporting Hispanic immigrants as they journey across the United States, helping them adapt, gain acceptance, and thrive in their new communities. Through our civic education initiatives, we empower immigrants to become role models and civic leaders within a culture of sustainability, fostering peaceful coexistence in a diverse society.
Our mission is rooted in the Rule of Law, promoting respect for local regulations and social conventions, ensuring that all citizens are treated equally. Polidore is committed to combating discrimination and creating an inclusive environment where every community member can reach their full potential.
Recognizing the talents and potential of immigrants, we focus on civic education, emphasizing both rights and responsibilities to help them avoid pitfalls and build better lives.
Our Polidore Civics Program (Civic Leadership: Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future) is grounded on three fundamental dimensions:
1. Pop-Law (Make the Law accessible to all): Underlines the importance of civic education and the understanding and respect of the law and social norms of the United States.
2. Sustain-App (Culture of Sustainability): Cultivating future leaders whose vision aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by fostering a collective mindset and commitment to sustainability.
3. Bridging the Divide (Promoting Civic Education for Stronger, More Cohesive Communities): Civic education is essential in promoting effective communication, collaboration, adaptability, and teamwork between public authorities and the community.
“It is all about future civic leaders”
This program consists of counseling and mentoring for young people between the ages of 18 and 30 years. The main objective is to create civic leaders. On one hand, it seeks to turn participants into role models within their family and community.
The program also seeks to support them in their efforts to perform successfully in an area of their interest. The program brings experts in the areas of interest of young participants, while our foundation accompanies them for a year as a mentor. For example, if one of these young people is interested in filmmaking (SEE BELOW PDF 3 -Polidore Civics Maria´s Case), our foundation will look for an expert in that area to dedicate one to three hours of his or her time and have a conversation to address the young person's concerns.
Both the young person and Polidore will take note of the expert's guidance. Then, the mentoring will take place. At the end of the year, the expert, the young person and the foundation will meet again to evaluate the progress, obtain testimonials, compile the experiences in a publication and hold a face-to-face meeting, if possible, with all the participants.
The Polidore Civics program works in a 4 Poli-Gear Model ⚙︎ process.
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“Make the Law accessible to all”
This program consists of workshops, seminars and the use of social networks. It is aimed at the entire immigrant community.
The program's main objective is to create awareness that the United States is a country of opportunities and that it is important to know the rules in order to navigate the system successfully.
It consists of several groups, one of law, economics and sociology students identifying legal topics of interest, who will share their knowledge with another group formed by artists, creatives and athletes, who in turn will disseminate the content in a way that is accessible to the community.
Feedback from the community is very important to enrich the work of the groups of experts and creatives. For example, for immigrants getting to understand the school system in the United States can be challenging. (SEE BELOW PDF 6 - Pop Law School Policies’ Case).
This exercise is similar to what is done with scientific dissemination, but here we do it with the law, other rules and norms.
The Pop Law program works in a 3 Poli-Gears Model ⚙︎ process.
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"To foster mutual understanding between immigrants and authorities"
This program consists of workshops aimed at the entire immigrant community.
The main objective is to promote a dialogue between the community and public authorities. Through this, we seek for all parties to lose the fear of interacting with each other, value their role in society and understand that authorities are not there only to violate their rights.
This program seeks to make immigrants feel more comfortable and confident before authorities and understand why the authority acts the way it does. While, on the other hand, authorities understand why immigrants behave and react in a certain way.( SEE BELOW PDF 9 - Unity Ville’ Case)
It is common for government representatives to give a lecture and receive some questions, but in the end, there is no real interaction, communication or understanding. The program consists of two teams formed by representatives from the authority and the community who are asked to solve a case together.
Cases have already been solved before. Our interest is in the work dynamic itself that provokes the interaction between authorities and individuals who normally do not talk to each other.
Polidore Foundation is apolitical, non-activist and respectful of everyone's way of thinking, therefore, it does not use ongoing cases that could have an undesired effect due to the different sensitivities of participants.
An essential element of the pact revolves around promoting an increased understanding as a need for the Cross-Cultural Community.
The Bridging the Divide program works in a 2 Poli-Gears Model ⚙︎ process.
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