La Paz Executive Director Stacy Johnson, right, says she wants to find local donors to help the organization as state and federal support is ending in 2014. At left, client services representative Vivian Lozano listens.HOW TO HELPFor more information about La Paz or to assist the organization call 423-624-8414 or go to www.LaPazChattanooga.org.
An organization that assists about 4,000 people a year with issues such as school registration, getting health care and overcoming domestic violence will lose 40 percent of its funding next year on its 10th anniversary.
La Paz is asking the Chattanooga community to help.
“If La Paz did not exist, Chattanooga’s relationship with the fastest-growing demographic in this area would be set back a decade,” said David Martin, La Paz’s development and communications director.
Many Latino people would go back to living in isolation, he said.