Reconocimientos

Every award on this page was given for work the community did itself. When CCATE received the Ohtli Award in 2018, our director said the medal belonged to the community — that is still how we read this list.

Ohtli AwardThe highest recognition the Mexican government gives outside of Mexico. CCATE was the tenth organization in the world to receive it.
GSK IMPACT AwardNational recognition for nonprofits improving community health, with an unrestricted grant and a year of leadership development.
Penn Provost / Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership AwardFor the sustained research-practice partnership between CCATE and the University of Pennsylvania.
William T. Grant FoundationOne of seven national finalists for the Institutional Challenge Grant.
Award Exhibition Publication Milestone

Año por añoYear by year, 2015–2026

2026

  • Award
    Carnegie Community Engagement Classification

    The University of Pennsylvania cited its partnership with CCATE in the application that earned Penn the 2026 classification.

  • Award
    William T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant

    One of seven national finalists.

  • Publication
    American Educational Research Association

    Methodological work from the CCATE–Penn research partnership accepted for the AERA annual conference.

  • Milestone
    Fifteen years in Norristown

    Noche de Arte 2026, our fifteenth-anniversary celebration, reopened the renovated CCATE Gallery on October 10.

2025

  • Award
    Penn Provost / Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award

    December 2025.

  • Publication
    Discover Social Science and Health

    Zavala-Garcia et al., vol. 6, art. 12 — peer-reviewed research co-authored with community researchers.

  • Exhibition
    “Migrating Lives” collaborative mural

    With Penn’s Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, the Asian American Studies Program and the Karen Community Association of Philadelphia; unfolding across three sites through 2026.

  • Exhibition
    Audubon Center Community Day

    Las Artivistas fill the 2025 exhibition.

2024

  • Award
    GSK IMPACT Award
  • Award
    Cultural Ambassador Award

    La Casa Latina, to CCATE’s executive director.

  • Milestone
    Low-power FM permit granted

    February 2024 — the licence that will make Radio REVARTE possible.

  • Award
    “MACONI”

    Finalist, Bucks County FilmFest 2024.

  • Exhibition
    “This is my Mexico”

    With the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia, May 2024 — 79 drawings and paintings by children around the world.

  • Milestone
    CCATE Gallery opening celebration

    May 2024.

2023

  • Award
    “(No sé) The Seed of Love is Peace”

    Finalist at the Bucks County FilmFest and chosen by the audience as film of the night, October 2023.

  • Milestone
    CCATE Gallery opens

    July 2023, with more than thirty community-made works — Norristown’s first dedicated art gallery.

2022

  • Award
    Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition

    Rep. Madeleine Dean.

  • Milestone
    REVARTE launches

    December 2022 — the community’s own bilingual magazine.

  • Milestone
    Podcast production program

    Forty high school students trained in podcast production, 2022–23.

2021

  • Award
    Chambers Award

    Bucks Fever FilmFest.

  • Publication
    “RevArte: Educación dialógica es educación para amar y transformar”

    Atenas, vol. 2(54), 18–38 — co-authored with community researchers.

  • Exhibition
    “Diálogos con la luz”

    Photography at the Mexican Cultural Center of the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia, May 2021.

  • Milestone
    Las Artivistas founded

    The women’s art collective begins meeting.

2020

  • Award
    Keynote speakers, Ethnography in Education Research Forum

    The Participatory Research Circle, February 2020, at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

  • Exhibition
    “The Difficult Art of Migration”

    Organization of American States, March–May 2020.

  • Milestone
    CCATE buys its own building

    April 2020 — 1246 W. Main Street.

2019

  • Award
    Pennsylvania State Senate proclamation

    January 28, 2019, recognizing CCATE’s work in art, education and environmental care.

  • Award
    Barnes Foundation sculpture competition

    Third prize, spring 2019.

  • Award
    Philadelphia Museum of Art piñata competition

    Third prize, December 2019.

  • Exhibition
    “The Difficult Art of Migration”

    Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, October 2019 – January 2020.

2018

  • Award
    Ohtli Award

    The highest recognition given by the Mexican government outside of Mexico; CCATE became the tenth organization in the world to receive it.

  • Award
    Philadelphia Museum of Art piñata competition

    Third prize, December 2018.

  • Award
    Penn Model OAS

    CCATE and Philadelphia students representing Chile win a top award at the 37th Model OAS General Assembly in Washington, D.C.

2017

  • Award
    Certificate of Recognition

    Pennsylvania Department of Education, Schools That Teach Tour, February 2017.

  • Exhibition
    “Estampas Jarochas”

    Family engraving workshop with artist Alec Dempster, Mexican Cultural Center, May 2017.

  • Publication
    “Revolución Arte: Social Transformation in the Villa Inmigrante”

    Panel at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Penn GSE, February 2017.

2016

  • Award
    Philadelphia Museum of Art piñata competition

    First prize for “Piñata La Lotería,” December 2016.

  • Award
    Bucks Fever FilmFest

    Winner in animation and Audience Choice Award for “Not Your Average Recycling Film”; finalist in documentary for “Nuestro Pueblo,” October 2016.

  • Award
    Keynote speakers, Rutgers University

    The CCATE Writing Collective at the Conference on Immigration and Schooling, October 2016.

  • Publication
    “Un trago dulce pero adentro con sabor amargo”

    Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education — CCATE’s first peer-reviewed article with community co-authors.

  • Exhibition
    Mural: “Social Movements of Mexico, 20th and 21st Centuries”

    With Villanova University.

2015

  • Award
    Orlando Costas Award

    Social Change and Social Services, Eastern University, October 2015.

  • Award
    Education Advocate of the Year

    Hispanic Choice Awards, October 2015.

  • Milestone
    Participatory Research Circle’s first public presentation

    Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Penn GSE.

Este reconocimiento es de la comunidadThis recognition belongs to the community

Read what the press has written about this work, or see the financial documents behind it.

¡Viva la comunidad!