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.
Año por añoYear by year, 2015–2026
2026
- AwardCarnegie Community Engagement Classification
The University of Pennsylvania cited its partnership with CCATE in the application that earned Penn the 2026 classification.
- AwardWilliam T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant
One of seven national finalists.
- PublicationAmerican Educational Research Association
Methodological work from the CCATE–Penn research partnership accepted for the AERA annual conference.
- MilestoneFifteen years in Norristown
Noche de Arte 2026, our fifteenth-anniversary celebration, reopened the renovated CCATE Gallery on October 10.
2025
- AwardPenn Provost / Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award
December 2025.
- PublicationDiscover 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.
- ExhibitionAudubon Center Community Day
Las Artivistas fill the 2025 exhibition.
2024
- AwardGSK IMPACT Award
- AwardCultural Ambassador Award
La Casa Latina, to CCATE’s executive director.
- MilestoneLow-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.
- MilestoneCCATE 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.
- MilestoneCCATE Gallery opens
July 2023, with more than thirty community-made works — Norristown’s first dedicated art gallery.
2022
- AwardCertificate of Special Congressional Recognition
Rep. Madeleine Dean.
- MilestoneREVARTE launches
December 2022 — the community’s own bilingual magazine.
- MilestonePodcast production program
Forty high school students trained in podcast production, 2022–23.
2021
- AwardChambers 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.
- MilestoneLas Artivistas founded
The women’s art collective begins meeting.
2020
- AwardKeynote 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.
- MilestoneCCATE buys its own building
April 2020 — 1246 W. Main Street.
2019
- AwardPennsylvania State Senate proclamation
January 28, 2019, recognizing CCATE’s work in art, education and environmental care.
- AwardBarnes Foundation sculpture competition
Third prize, spring 2019.
- AwardPhiladelphia 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
- AwardOhtli Award
The highest recognition given by the Mexican government outside of Mexico; CCATE became the tenth organization in the world to receive it.
- AwardPhiladelphia Museum of Art piñata competition
Third prize, December 2018.
- AwardPenn Model OAS
CCATE and Philadelphia students representing Chile win a top award at the 37th Model OAS General Assembly in Washington, D.C.
2017
- AwardCertificate 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
- AwardPhiladelphia Museum of Art piñata competition
First prize for “Piñata La Lotería,” December 2016.
- AwardBucks Fever FilmFest
Winner in animation and Audience Choice Award for “Not Your Average Recycling Film”; finalist in documentary for “Nuestro Pueblo,” October 2016.
- AwardKeynote 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.
- ExhibitionMural: “Social Movements of Mexico, 20th and 21st Centuries”
With Villanova University.
2015
- AwardOrlando Costas Award
Social Change and Social Services, Eastern University, October 2015.
- AwardEducation Advocate of the Year
Hispanic Choice Awards, October 2015.
- MilestoneParticipatory 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!
