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Local nonprofit CAFE pitches multicultural community center, asks Wenatchee leaders for $100,000 gift

5881547 · September 12, 2025
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Community for the Advancement of Family Education (CAFE) representatives described plans for a multicultural multi-service community center, said they have identified an initial facility (the Community Action building) for phase one, and asked the council to consider a $100,000 cornerstone gift toward an $800,000 capital campaign goal.

Representatives of CAFE (Community for the Advancement of Family Education) asked the Wenatchee City Council on Sept. 11 to consider a $100,000 gift toward a capital campaign to create a multicultural multi-service community center.

Donancitla Ortona Chacon, CAFE executive director, told the council CAFE began in 2005 and has grown to a staff of 25. She said the organization provides language-access services, housing and employment referrals, youth programming and a recovery navigator…

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