The Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI)
The Mexican-American Leadership Initiative seeks to promote ways in which Mexican Americans may facilitate more significant engagement between the United States and Mexico, in order to face more effectively the challenges shared by these two countries. As a vital program of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation, the MALI was founded in 2010 and is based on the belief that Americans of Mexican heritage are in a unique position to encourage proactive engagement with Mexico by U.S. society -- its leaders, its institutions, and its citizens.
The MALI is led by a Council comprised of Mexican American leaders from across the United States and shares the U.S.–Mexico Foundation’s fundamental objective of helping to strengthen Mexican civil society. Toward this end, the MALI mobilizes support for projects and organizations in Mexico targeted at helping at-risk youth and supporting distressed communities, in particular. In advancing its programs, the MALI is strengthened by the encouragement of numerous U.S. and Mexican officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who continues to champion the importance of diaspora philanthropic partnerships.
MALI CALL-TO-ACTION
MALI encourages Mexican Americans leaders as well as all citizens from both Mexico and the United States to engage in its purpose and programs. Specifically, the MALI invites those who would like to answer its call-to-action to:
- Join the USMF email list to be aware of the Foundation’s initiative
- Become one of the MALI’s 100 Founding Members with a contribution of $500 or morE
- Write or speak on MALI’s purpose in newspapers, journals, civic clubs, and conferences
- Organize a group of Mexican Americans leaders in your community for the purpose of engaging through the USMF with specific communities in Mexico
For additional information, please write to us to mali@usmexicofound.org
