DAMA - Mission Statement

Mission Statement

The Dominican-American Midwest Association (DAMA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization seeking to address the need of all Dominicans and Dominican-Americans in the Midwest region of the U.S. Specifically, DAMA will create an avenue for analysis, planning, and action concerning political, educational, economic, and health-related issues that affect their lives. DAMA will strive to create an awareness in the Dominican-American community that rights and duties permeate all social, cultural, economic, and political activity.

Goals

To empower Dominican-Americans educationally, economically, technologically, and culturally

To advocate for increased presence and participation of Dominican-Americans in the United States political arena

To interact and network with other Dominican and Latino organizations

To facilitate research in the analysis of Dominicans and Dominican-Americans relative to their situation in every fact of US society

To monitor and act upon policy issues that affect Dominicans and Dominican-Americans and are of relevance to them and to the Dominican Republic society

To establish a dialogue with US elected officials to advocate for greater consideration of the Dominican point of view in local, national, and international politics and economics

To promote Dominican interests within public and private institutions of education