The CIF is a popular education-based community organizing, education, and training center addressing the interconnected challenges facing low-income immigrant women of color. MBF funds will continue to support the Escuela Popular de Mujeres (Women’s Popular Education Program) which has helped women break the silence and begin to combat workplace abuses, domestic violence, and other human rights violations. Its English Literacy Project, is a free, 9-week program, with free childcare, that attempts to respond to women’s expressed needs for English language skills while also empowering them through a popular education approach, and building leadership skills among participants. Women emerge from these sessions more united and with enhanced self-confidence in their self-expression and ability to take action in the face of challenges. The 2008 grant will help CIF strengthen its internal structure and enhance its capacity to sustain its programs while meeting its organizational goals and objectives.