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Coverage of CCATE’s work by news outlets, universities and foundations. Links open on the publisher’s own site.
CCATE also publishes its own journalism. Our podcast Diálogos de la Villa Inmigrante and the magazine REVARTE are how the community tells its own story, in its own words.
2026
- ‘No Sabo Kid’ conversation revolves around language and culture Lupita Barrientos on teaching Spanish to the young people of CCATE’s YPAR group, many of them U.S.-born Latinos who grew up speaking mainly English.
- La Villa Inmigrante: School Boards and the Duty to Govern Democratically Obed Arango’s column on the Norristown school board, public dissent, and what real school safety requires.
- Educación, autonomía y poder cívico: el modelo de CCATE que transforma Norristown A long interview on CCATE’s four pillars — programs, participatory research, community media and advocacy — and on the autonomous circles that run them.
- Grounded in Community Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences on the CCATE partnership: the Navegando Juntes college-readiness initiative and the “Migrating Lives” mural project.
- Cuando la violencia escala: el caso que conmociona a Norristown CCATE’s reading of youth violence in Norristown as a community question rather than a series of isolated incidents.
- Penn receives national distinction for University-wide community engagement Penn’s 2026 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, an application in which the CCATE partnership was cited.
2025
- CCATE celebra su tercera asamblea comunitaria The third in the assembly series, this one on emotional health, bringing together officials, specialists and hundreds of residents.
- Norristown no cooperará sin una orden judicial More than 400 people attended the January 30 assembly convened at CCATE with municipal, consular and legal representatives.
- Migrating Lives: mural painting session at CCATE A participatory mural across three sites — CCATE, the Karen Community Association of Philadelphia and Penn — through the 2025–26 academic year.
2024
- Two major arts funders are shaping the future of the arts in Philadelphia CCATE’s National Endowment for the Arts award, the plan to grow REVARTE into a print quarterly, and the low-power FM licence for Radio REVARTE.
- ArtsHERE: CCATE receives $117,000 To expand the REVARTE e-magazine, the community podcast and the art gallery.
2022
- Improving college access for Philadelphia’s Latinx community The $50,000 Penn grant behind the college-readiness partnership between CCATE, CLALS and the Graduate School of Education.
- Art and Migration (podcast transcript) A conversation on art as a humanizing force and on building counter-narratives: “all the knowledge of the world, from everyone to everyone.”
2021
- RealLIST Impact: 45 Philadelphia-area leaders whose work makes a difference
- Grantee spotlight: CCATE On the film and media program, the STEM push, and the vision for the Plaza Latinoamericana y del Caribe.
- Impact100 Philadelphia awards $420,000 in grants
- CCATE, ¡viva la comunidad! Un año sintiéndose en casa One year after CCATE bought its own building.
- Bonner Leaders address food insecurity in Norristown
For journalists: for interviews, images or background on CCATE’s programs and research, write to contact@ccate.org. Financial statements, Form 990 and our Candid profile are on the Financials page.