AMEXCAN’s work spans health, education, advocacy, leadership, culture, and binational programs—meeting families where they are and walking with them over time. Behind every number is a student, worker, or parent gaining tools to navigate systems, claim their rights, and build a better future.
The Association of Mexicans in North Carolina (AMEXCAN) is a grassroots, statewide organization committed to the well-being and dignity of Latino communities across North Carolina and in Mexico. Founded by and for immigrants, we connect families with the information, services, and support they need to thrive—whether they are navigating schools, health systems, immigration processes, or civic life.
Through health outreach, educational programs, advocacy, leadership development, cultural events, and binational initiatives, AMEXCAN builds bridges between community members, service providers, and public institutions. Our staff, promotoras, volunteers, and partners work side by side in rural and urban communities to ensure Latino families are seen, heard, and equipped to shape their own futures.
AMEXCAN’s mission is to foster the appreciation, understanding, and prosperity of the Mexican and broader Latino community by advancing equity in health, education, civic participation, and economic opportunity. We inform and advise families about available programs and services, empower them to advocate for their rights, and promote leadership, culture, and binational collaboration so our communities can live with security, pride, and hope.
We start with our comunidad and build outward. AMEXCAN organizes its work around six core pillars—Health, Education, Advocacy & Civic Engagement, Leadership, Art & Culture, and AMEXCAN Mexico.
Each pillar includes programs that respond to concrete needs: connecting families to clinics and health resources, supporting students and parents in schools, strengthening voter participation and legal knowledge, cultivating new leaders, celebrating cultural traditions, and maintaining deep ties with communities in Mexico.
Our promotoras, interns, and volunteers are trusted messengers in their counties, offering bilingual, culturally grounded support and creating pathways for neighbors to become leaders. We work in coalition with local, state, and binational partners, believing that sustainable change comes from collaboration, shared responsibility, and centering the voices of those most affected by policy and systemic barriers.
