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

$5000 Sustain Centro’s intergenerational model serving more than 2800 Latine community members each year.

$2500 Ensure Wise Elders receive dignified care and connection that reduces isolation by more than 60%.

$1000 Open safe space for Latine youth, where identity, belonging and leadership take root.

$500 Provide a full circle of support for a Latine family facing fear, stress and health barriers.

$100 Give a child support in culturally rooted learning that boosts early brain development.

♥️ What Makes Centro Unique

Centro Tyrone Guzmán is Minnesota’s oldest and most trusted Latine organization, leading with culture and Corazón through intergenerational, community-based innovation.

• Siembra Montessori – Education from the Heart: Minnesota’s first Spanish English Montessori program for Latine children, led by Yineth, Alejandra, and Yovana — the only AMI certified Spanish language Montessori guides in the state. Directed by María Luisa Del Riego, the first and only AMI Trainer in the U.S. offering training in Spanish. Together they are shaping the future of bilingual Montessori learning.
• Infant and Maternal Health – Montessori Home Visiting: Creating a home visiting model rooted in Montessori principles and Latine cultural traditions to help mothers and infants thrive from birth through age five.
• Raíces Youth Development and Be@School: Empowering Latine youth through mentorship, identity, and advocacy. As the lead agency for Hennepin County’s Be@School initiative, Centro walks beside youth with lived experience and cultural understanding. 
  Colores: 🌈The only dedicated space in Minnesota for Latine LGBTQIA2S+ youth and community, creating joyful, affirming environments where belonging is nonnegotiable.
• Sabies Mayores and Respite – Caring for Memory and Dignity: The only culturally specific respite program in Minnesota for Latine elders living with Alzheimer’s or dementia. In partnership with the University of Minnesota’s CHAI Department, our Montessori-inspired model restores purpose, connection, and joy through meals, wellness, and community.
• Manos Montessori – Entrepreneurship with Purpose: Manos Montessori creates culturally rooted, handmade Montessori materials through intergenerational teamwork. Youth gain confidence and elders find renewed purpose as they learn from one another — turning creativity and connection into economic opportunity and collective well-being.
  
  

♥️ 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 Corazón.  ♥️