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Hispanic Federation for Social and Economic Development records

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Corporate Author:	Hispanic Federation for Social and Economic Development (Creator)
Collection:	Hispanic Federation For Social and Economic Development Records
Collection Number:	MSS116
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	Spanish
Subjects and Genres:	Borinquen Federal Credit Union (Philadelphia, Pa.). Centro Pedro Claver (Philadelphia, Pa.). Coalition for Hispanic Advancement (Philadelphia, Pa.). Diaz, Luis P., 1948- Hispanic Americans > Housing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Hispanic Americans > Public welfare > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Housing rehabilitation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Housing surveys > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Nonprofit organizations > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement. Philadelphia. Office of Housing and Community Development. Puerto Ricans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions. Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia. Urban renewal > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Online Access:	Link to finding aid
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Physical Description:	9.6 Linear feet 9.6 linear feet, 21 boxes
Summary:	The Hispanic Federation for Social and Economic Development was a non-profit organization serving Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Philadelphia. Established in 1981, the organization mirrored the goals of its founder, attorney Luis P. Diaz, who perceived the need for an agency to serve as a middleman between the city's predominantly non-Hispanic banks, corporations, public agencies, and planning officials on the one hand and Philadelphia's growing - but socially and economically disadvantaged - population of Spanish-speaking inhabitants on the other. The Federation helped make resources and services available to a network of organizational members and affiliate groups made up of community-based organizations in Latino neighborhoods, until it went bankrupt in 1985. This collection is particularly rich in information that details the evolution of housing and community development programs involving Philadelphia-area Hispanics between 1981 and 1985. Included are correspondence, grant applications, reports, memoranda, financial records, newspaper clippings, project files for the Housing Initiative Program and the Human Services Program, and maps and other data collected by Federation staff during a 1982 Vacant Properties Survey of North Philadelphia. Portions of the collection are restricted. Addendum: ree 10/25/05. An annual banquet program from The Delaware Valley Hispanic Chamber of Congress from December 12, 1981 had been separated from its collection to be placed in the Special Print Collections of the Balch. During the processing of the Balch Ephemera Collection, it was placed with its original collection.

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9.6 Linear feet 9.6 linear feet, 21 boxes

Summary:

The Hispanic Federation for Social and Economic Development was a non-profit organization serving Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Philadelphia. Established in 1981, the organization mirrored the goals of its founder, attorney Luis P. Diaz, who perceived the need for an agency to serve as a middleman between the city's predominantly non-Hispanic banks, corporations, public agencies, and planning officials on the one hand and Philadelphia's growing - but socially and economically disadvantaged - population of Spanish-speaking inhabitants on the other. The Federation helped make resources and services available to a network of organizational members and affiliate groups made up of community-based organizations in Latino neighborhoods, until it went bankrupt in 1985. This collection is particularly rich in information that details the evolution of housing and community development programs involving Philadelphia-area Hispanics between 1981 and 1985. Included are correspondence, grant applications, reports, memoranda, financial records, newspaper clippings, project files for the Housing Initiative Program and the Human Services Program, and maps and other data collected by Federation staff during a 1982 Vacant Properties Survey of North Philadelphia. Portions of the collection are restricted. Addendum: ree 10/25/05. An annual banquet program from The Delaware Valley Hispanic Chamber of Congress from December 12, 1981 had been separated from its collection to be placed in the Special Print Collections of the Balch. During the processing of the Balch Ephemera Collection, it was placed with its original collection.

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