People’s CORE will be participating in a special community event this Saturday, Preserving Historic Filipinotown: A Community Celebration. We will have an information table for People’s CORE. Please stop by and learn more about our programs, how you can get involved and volunteer with People’s CORE!

People’s CORE is relaunching the Sagip-Tulong sa Pilipinas (STP) Emergency Relief Drive in response the recent tragedy brought by Typhoon Sendong in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, when it ravaged through poor communities, mainly in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The death toll has reached 927, hundreds are missing, and 47,000 are cramped in evacuation centers. Many [...]

On this seventh day of December, we remember and honor Faustino “Mang Peping” Baclig, the founding Chair of the December 7th Movement (D7M). The D7M organized over 30 Filipino American WWII veterans organizations in the early 1990s with the rallying point to overturn the Rescission Act of 1946, which nullified the services of over 200,000 Filipino [...]

  The Executive Director of People’s CORE, Joe Navidad, was recently honored as an awardee of the 2011 Sabbatical Program of The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF). Joe Navidad is a lifelong community organizer and social worker who began his work in the Philippines. Before coming to the United States, he worked as a rural community [...]