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- EIN 53-0215408
- (301) 340-1914
- 400 Hurley Ave Rockville MD 20850-3121 USA
- www.alausa.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness
Mission: To support the educational, cultural, assistance activities, and growth of the american latvian community.
Programs: Education program - seeks to ensure every latvian american has the opportunity for learning the latvian language, culture, and history. It coordinates the activities of america's latvian schools, cares for the continuing education needs of teachers, and provides current teaching programs and educational materials. Ala works closely with educational institutions in latvia.
cooperation with latvia - to coordinate charitable, exchange, and other types of assistance programs to latvia, the ala is coordinating with the latvian childrens' fund, a program to link western sponsors with hundreds of needy orphans and families in latvia, and is providing seed money for public health and other projects throughout latvia.
general program - ala is the main representative organization for the latvian american community through 163 member organizations, churches, clubs and some 6,000 individual members. We represent over 100,000 people of latvian descent living in the united states. We are a non-profit, tax exempt educational and cultural organization registered as a private and voluntary organization with the u. S. Agency for international development.