Centro Tyrone Guzman

40k Hearts Beating for Centro Tyrone Guzmán ♥️ Give to the Max 2025

This year, we’re lighting up 40,000 hearts for Centro Tyrone Guzmán. For over 50 years, Centro has been the heart of Minnesota’s Latine community: a home where infants, youth, families, and elders learn, heal, and thrive together.

All Give to the Max donations will sustain our continuum of intergenerational programs, reaching nearly 3,000 community members every year, from our tiniest learners to our wisest elders.

♥️ Every dollar keeps generations connected

$500 can fund a mental health group session with childcare for 10 new moms.

$350 can fund a culturally appropriate meal for an intergenerational session with our youth and elders.  

$200 can provide safe, private transportation for 5 new moms to attend a “Birth to Five” Montessori class with their infant.

$120 can provide transportation for 2 youth to attend our entire, two-month summer program (4 days per week).

$50 can provide diapers for one month for a baby in our Maternal Health Program.

♥️ What Makes Centro Unique

Centro is Minnesota’s oldest and most trusted Latine organization, leading with culture and Corazón through pioneering, community based innovation:

• Siembra Montessori – Education from the HeartMinnesota’s first Spanish English Montessori program for Latine children, led by Yineth, Alejandra, and Yovana, the only AMI certified Spanish language Montessori lead guides in the state. Siembra is directed by María Luisa Del Riego, the first and only AMI Trainer in the United States currently offering Montessori teacher training in Spanish. Together, this extraordinary team is transforming early education and shaping the future of bilingual Montessori learning nationwide.

• Infant and Maternal Health – Montessori Home Visiting Pilot: Developing a first-of-its-kind home visiting curriculum rooted in Montessori principles and Latine cultural traditions, helping mothers and infants thrive from birth through the first five years of life.

• Raíces Youth Development and Be@School – Empowering Latine youth through mentorship, identity, and advocacy. Centro is the leading agency in Hennepin County’s Be@School initiative, a distinction earned through years of trust and results. Our impact stems from deep cultural understanding and the lived experiences of our staff, who walk beside our youth as they navigate the same systemic barriers they once faced themselves.

• Colores 🌈 The only dedicated space in Minnesota for Latine LGBTQIA2S+ youth and community, creating brave, joyful environments where identity is celebrated and belonging is nonnegotiable.

• Sabies Mayores and Respite – Caring for Memory and DignityCentro leads the only culturally specific respite program in Minnesota for Latine elders and their care partners living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Developed in partnership with the CHAI Department at the University of Minnesota, our curriculum integrates Montessori inspired approaches that restore purpose, connection, and joy. Our elders literally have no other comparable option in the entire state. Centro’s Wise Elders program welcomes them three days per week, morning through afternoon, offering culturally appropriate, nutritious meals, wellness and health activities, and above all the sense of community they yearn for most. The only alternative available elsewhere offers just three hours every two weeks. Here, they find belonging, dignity, and purpose every single day. Our team, including the extraordinary Olguita, whose own family has been touched by dementia, leads this work with skill, empathy, and boundless heart.

♥️ Changing the Story Together

Even with all that Latine communities give to this country — our labor, our language, our culture, and trillions of dollars contributed to the U.S. economy each year — we receive less than 1.3 percent of all philanthropic funding nationwide.

That truth breaks any heart.

Because it means that families, elders, and children like those you have just read about, the ones learning and healing and thriving at Centro, are carrying more than their share of the weight, with less than their share of the support.

At Centro Tyrone Guzmán ♥️ we are changing that reality with every act of generosity, every story of resilience, and every connection built with Corazón.

When you give, you are helping to transform philanthropy itself, making it reflect the strength, dignity, and brilliance of the people who keep this nation’s heart beating.

When you Give with Heart, you are not just funding programs. You are sustaining the heartbeat of an entire community. 

Together we can light 40,000 hearts for Centro and show that generosity connects us all, across generations, through culture, and with Corazón.

Dona con corazón. Give with heart.  ♥️