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BARRIO NUEVO • DAVID BENNETT

SUMMARY

  • Barrio Nuevo is a community development non-profit that is embedded in an under-resourced neighborhood in South Phoenix.
  • Their passion is to see their community go from being marginalized to becoming healthier through mobilization of community partners to strengthen the family unity, honor the elderly, promote life-long learning, practice reconciliation that restores the community to where crime, violence, poverty, racial alienation, illiteracy, hunger and other forms of social marginalization no longer exist. 
  • Barrio Nuevo has college interns who get credit from ASU or GCU for their partnership with our program. 

VALUES

  • Passion for life, learning and leadership.
  • Volunteerism and partnership.
  • Holistic approach to building and promoting the family unity in Phoenix.
  • Strategic nurturing of indigenous leadership for both youth and seniors.
  • Pursuing social justice and mercy in our service areas.
  • Promoting self-responsibility, self-sustainability and healthy inter-dependence with family and peers. 

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