Arizona Center for Empowerment

What Arizona Center for Empowerment does

Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is a 501(c)(3) member-led social justice organization founded in 2010 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It develops and mobilizes undocumented working youth and adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals to advance economic, social, and racial justice through leadership development, civic engagement, immigration support, and advocacy. Core program areas include Empowerment Services (DACA renewals, citizenship applications, Know Your Rights workshops, ESL and citizenship classes), the Arizona We Deserve statewide advocacy agenda, the People First Economy Coalition, the Taste La Tradición culinary docuseries and forthcoming cookbook, the Neighbor to Neighbor food security program, and a Community Defense / Community Safety Hub providing Know Your Rights and deportation defense resources.

ACE distributes services and content through direct community engagement, in-person workshops, online resources, video and podcast media, and coalition partnerships — notably with LUCHA on DACA renewal assistance and through the People First Economy Coalition. The underlying technology stack is standard nonprofit infrastructure (NGP VAN for email and donation forms, EveryAction for community engagement, Wix for website hosting), with no proprietary platform disclosed. The business model is donation- and grant-funded: a gift-based model with suggested donation tiers ranging from $100 (citizenship class support) to $1,000 (organizing expansion), 100% employer-paid health benefits for staff, and one disclosed full-time salary band of $50,000–$60,000 for the open Neighbor Defense Organizer role. Recent strategic activity includes documentary releases in 2024 and 2025, a Fall 2025 cookbook launch, and an expanding network of creative and media partners (Ojo y Alma Films, Neta Collab, Resource Media, Wonder, Abundant Futures Fund).

Name

Arizona Center for Empowerment

Legal name

Arizona Center for Empowerment

Website

https://empoweraz.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is a Phoenix-based 501(c)(3) member-led nonprofit that delivers immigration services, advocacy campaigns, and community organizing to undocumented youth and adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals across Arizona.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Justice Nonprofit / Immigration Advocacy Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (81341), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Civic Participation & Leadership Development (Voting, Advocacy, Community Leadership) (EDAAADAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support) (EDAAADAI), Immigration Law Literacy & Rights Education (EDAAADAB), Cultural Orientation & Community Integration (Local Norms, Services) (EDAAADAD), Cultural, Multilingual & Immigrant Family Engagement Programs (EDACALAL)

Keywords

• Immigration legal services
• Community organizing
• Social justice advocacy
• Civic engagement programs
• Nonprofit immigration support

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ACE relies on tax-deductible donations from individuals, foundations, and organizations to fund operations and programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Arizona Center for Empowerment is a member-led 501(c)(3) social justice nonprofit that delivers direct immigration support services (DACA renewals, citizenship applications, ESL and citizenship classes, Know Your Rights workshops) alongside statewide advocacy campaigns (Arizona We Deserve, People First Economy Coalition), community defense resources (Community Safety Hub), cultural storytelling (Taste La Tradición docuseries and cookbook, People First Podcast, short documentaries), and food security assistance (Neighbor to Neighbor) to undocumented youth and adults, students, LGBTQ individuals, and working-class communities across Arizona.

Product overview

Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is a member-led 501(c)(3) social justice organization that does not operate a single commercial product but rather delivers a portfolio of programs and services aimed at undocumented youth, adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals. Its offerings span immigration services (Empowerment Services including DACA renewals, citizenship applications, ESL and citizenship classes, and community workshops), advocacy campaigns (Arizona We Deserve and the People First Economy Coalition), community defense resources (Community Safety Hub with Know Your Rights, Family Preparedness, and Deportation Defense materials), media and storytelling (Taste La Tradición docuseries and cookbook, People First Podcast, and documentary films including DACA In Their Voices, A Genesis of Empowerment, and More Than a Dream), and food security programs (Neighbor to Neighbor). The programs are delivered through a combination of in-person workshops, online resources, video content, one-on-one case management, and community organizing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arizona We Deserve: Campaign focused on building power for working families and advocating for people-centered policies in Arizona
• People First Economy Coalition
• Empowerment Services
• Taste La Tradición
• Neighbor to Neighbor
• Community Defense

Products and services

• Empowerment Services Immigration support department offering DACA renewals, residency renewals, citizenship applications, Know Your Rights workshops, and one-on-one case management to help community members navigate the immigration system.
• Arizona We Deserve
• People First Economy Coalition
• Taste La Tradición Culinary docuseries and community program featuring Latin American cooking traditions and immigrant stories, including video episodes, community events, and a forthcoming bilingual cookbook.
• Community Defense / Community Safety Hub
• Citizenship Classes
• English Classes (ESL)
• Community Workshops
• Neighbor to Neighbor
• Neighbor Defense Organizer

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Ojo y Alma FilmscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative multimedia collective that co-produced the Taste La Tradición video series. Founders Noemi Gonzalez, Joel Farias-Godinez, and Steven Luna bring over 25 years of collective experience in storytelling.
• Neta CollabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative and marketing agency dedicated to advancing social justice through transformative storytelling. Brings lived immigrant experiences and cultural understanding to create authentic narratives.
• Resource MediacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit creative change agency that creates powerful narratives and strategies to transform public opinion, policy, and behavior around urgent social issues.
• WondercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for changemakers creating Heartwired strategies. Strategists have led audience research and developed messaging for issues including immigration, marriage equality, and medical aid in dying.
• LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization for joint DACA renewal assistance program. ACE & LUCHA are providing FREE assistance to help individuals complete DACA renewal packets.
• People First Economy CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition focused on creating an equitable Arizona where working-class and marginalized communities can access resources and opportunities. Works with elected officials on community-created public policy.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona): Arizona-based member-led social justice organization that directly partners with ACE on DACA renewals and shares overlapping constituencies of undocumented residents and working-class communities in the same geography.
• One Arizona: Arizona statewide civic engagement coalition focused on voter registration and turnout in communities of color; directly comparable to ACE's ~10,000 voter registration work and shared Arizona geography.
• Define American: National immigrant storytelling and narrative-change organization whose media-led approach (films, storytelling campaigns) directly parallels ACE's Taste La Tradición, DACA in Their Voices, and podcast strategy.
• United We Dream: The largest immigrant youth-led network in the U.S., directly comparable to ACE on undocumented youth leadership development, civic engagement, and DACA-related programming, though operating at national scale.
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC): National nonprofit providing immigration legal resources, training, and education to support immigrant communities; directly comparable to ACE's citizenship classes, DACA support, and Know Your Rights work.
• Poder in Action: Arizona-based grassroots organizing group empowering Latino and immigrant working-class communities; directly comparable on Arizona geography, base-building, and economic justice campaigns through Arizona We Deserve-style work.
• Equality Arizona: Arizona LGBTQ advocacy organization that overlaps with ACE's LGBTQ constituent programming and shares Phoenix-based operations, comparable on civic engagement and anti-discrimination advocacy.

Broad incumbents

• ACLU of Arizona: Statewide civil liberties organization whose immigrant rights and LGBTQ advocacy portfolios overlap meaningfully with ACE's civic participation and community defense programming in Arizona.
• National Immigration Law Center (NILC): A leading national immigrant rights advocacy and litigation organization whose immigration legal support work directly overlaps with ACE's Empowerment Services (DACA, citizenship, Know Your Rights), though at much broader scope.

Regional players

• Border Action Network: Southern Arizona-based human rights organization working on border and immigrant rights; comparable to ACE on Know Your Rights and deportation defense resources within shared Arizona border-region context.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/empoweraz
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@empoweraz
• Facebookfacebook.com/AZCenterForEmpowerment
• Instagraminstagram.com/empoweraz
• TikToktiktok.com/@empoweraz

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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