Day Worker Center of Mountain View

About Us

The Day Worker Center of Mountain View is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization serving the communities surrounding Mountain View, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. The Center was established in 1996 by leaders from local businesses, churches, and the community to provide job-matching services for hundreds of local homeowners and businesses annually.

The Center is led by a full-time Executive Director, María Marroquín, a recipient of numerous awards for her work at the Center. Organizational guidance comes from a Board of Directors composed of community and business leaders and representatives from the day laborer community. In addition, much of the day-to-day worker-related activities at the Center is managed by the Workers' Commission, composed of 8-10 current and past users of the Center.

In addition to supporting the day laborer population, the Center contributes to our community in the following ways:

• provides a location for service providers, such as Community Services Agency, to reach their clients
• reaches out to day laborers soliciting work on the streets to inform them about the center's services
• provides worker-led community service
• monthly trash pickup on local streets
• donates hand-made blankets for premature infants at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
• helps coordinate and participate in community events, sponsored by Rotary Club, Run for Zimbabwe, Mountain View Educational Foundation,etc.
• Hosts a blood drive four times a year
• helps senior citizens with community gardens
• provides English as a Second Language (ESL) classes to the workers, facilitating interactions with employers and participation in local culture
• serves as a critical conduit for the city agencies and services to communicate with the Latino community
• decreases the number of workers soliciting employment on the streets
• reduces complaints in the areas where workers congregate, in turn reducing the number of calls to Police Departments
• reduces strain on local emergency rooms by providing free weekly medical visits by the Gardner Health Services Mobile Medical van