Latino Organizations in Baltimore: 9 Places Worth Knowing

Someone you know needs health care in Spanish. Someone else needs help with immigration papers, or a loan to open a shop. Baltimore has nine Latino organizations that can help, and here’s what each one does, where it is, and the number to call.

What Latino organizations are in Baltimore?

The Latino organizations in Baltimore that offer services directly are Centro SOL, the Esperanza Center, CASA, Nuestras Raices, the Latino Economic Development Center and Maryland Latinos Unidos. The Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, ALPFA Baltimore and the Latino Providers Network are membership groups.

The next three are groups for business owners and professionals.

Health care and immigration help

If you need a doctor, start with Centro SOL, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Opportunity for Latinos. It offers physical and mental health programs in Spanish, free and open to anyone. Call the office at 410-550-1129, send a WhatsApp to 410-598-9489, or email centrosol@jhmi.edu.

The Esperanza Center has served immigrants since 1963. At 430 S. Broadway there’s medical, dental and primary care, immigration legal services, literacy classes, housing help, employment training and victim services case management, and you call one number for all of it, 667-600-2900.

For immigration, housing or work problems, CASA has a Baltimore Welcome Center at 2706 Pulaski Highway, with two desks and a different number for each. The front desk is open Monday through Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at 410-732-7777. The employment desk opens earlier, Tuesday through Saturday from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, at 410-732-2694.

What else CASA offers

CASA offers immigration legal services, including know-your-rights sessions and legal consultations in Maryland for people at imminent risk of detention or deportation. There’s legal help for tenants facing eviction or bad housing conditions too, and for workers whose rights were violated on the job.

There’s also adult ESOL, citizenship education and interview prep, youth leadership programs, and vocational training through partner community colleges. CASA handles public benefits and health insurance enrollment as well, plus free tax preparation for people who qualify. The national line is 1-866-765-2272.

Business loans, credit and housing

The Latino Economic Development Center is the one to call about a business loan, your credit or a first home. It’s been a private nonprofit since 1991. The Baltimore office is at 3500 Boston Street, Suite 227, in 21224, and the number there is 202-540-7400.

LEDC is a certified Community Development Financial Institution, and it lends to start-ups and existing businesses that have a hard time getting credit from mainstream banks. Loans range from $500 to $250,000 for those who qualify, and the money can go toward vehicles and equipment, renovation, working capital, hiring, inventory, bridge financing on government grants and contracts, a new location or buying a business.

Housing help is a separate department. It offers counseling for first-time buyers and for people trying to keep a house out of foreclosure, and a tenant services team helps with tenant rights, rental programs and credit counseling, which is available in DC and Maryland only.

More from LEDC

There’s also a Credit Builder Loan, the ACE Loan Program, a Food Impact Fund, and an EmPOWER Loan Program for Frederick County only. For business advice, they cover business planning, financial projections, bookkeeping, company formation, licensing and permitting, pricing and marketing, through workshops and one-on-one coaching.

Their Financial Empowerment Center is at 11510 Georgia Ave in Silver Spring, 202-655-4957. The Boston Street office is the one in Baltimore.

Statewide programs

Maryland Latinos Unidos works statewide and has a Baltimore office at 1500 Union Avenue, Suite 2500, in 21211. Call 410-727-6367 from 9 to 5, or email info@mdlatinosunidos.org.

The work falls into five areas: education, environmental justice, health equity, economic empowerment and advocacy. Programs include Project AMOR for maternal health, PrePárate for HIV prevention, Futuros Verdes for environmental health, and a Latino Leadership Series they say has trained more than 350 Latine leaders.

Veronica Cool and a steering committee founded it in September 2020, working with Maryland Nonprofits. Its first big project was MALVEC, a vaccine equity coalition launched with Johns Hopkins University and CASA, which by their count reached more than 40,000 Latine households in its first year.

Business and career groups

Business owners can join the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which was incorporated in Maryland in 1986 and covers the whole state. It offers business opportunities, executive training, access to coaching and capital, a member directory, committees, scholarships and an events calendar. The signature events include the Energy Summit, the Infrastructure Summit, the annual golf outing and the July gala, and the chamber describes nearly four decades of working relationships with the Governor’s office and the state legislature.

ALPFA Baltimore is for people building a career. It’s the local chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America, a national organization founded in 1972. ALPFA chapters offer networking, mentorship and career-building, and the Baltimore chapter has professional and student memberships, a volunteer track, a newsletter and a board of nine. Its partners include T. Rowe Price, Under Armour, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the United Way of Central Maryland.

Neither one lists a Baltimore street address, so use the contact form on each website.

Where can I find support groups in Baltimore?

The closest thing to a support group among these nine Baltimore organizations is Centro SOL’s mental health programs, which are free, in Spanish and open to anyone. Call 410-550-1129, or send a WhatsApp to 410-598-9489.

The Latino Providers Network holds a monthly resource meeting on the fourth Monday of most months, 12:00 to 1:30 pm, at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Hall, 600 S. Conkling Street in Baltimore, skipping May, November and December. It’s a meeting for service providers more than a support group. On September 28, 2026 at noon, the network holds its Annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration and Community Service Awards in the same parish hall.

Services in Spanish

If you or the person you’re helping would rather talk in Spanish, four of the nine show Spanish on their websites.

• Centro SOL offers its programs in Spanish.
• The Esperanza Center has its full page in Spanish, as Centro Esperanza.
• CASA lists its phone number in Spanish and French next to the English one.
• LEDC has its contact instructions in Spanish, with the same number.

The other five don’t say either way, so ask when you call.

For local news in Spanish, read Somos Baltimore Latino.

Where are the most Hispanic areas in Baltimore?

ZIP code 21224 in Southeast Baltimore has more Hispanic or Latino residents than any other Baltimore ZIP code, 10,014 people, which is 21.3% of its 46,949 residents against 8.2% for the city as a whole. The numbers come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates, table B03003, and the 21224 count is give or take 1,591 people.

Nuestras Raices at 3403 Gough Street, CASA at 2706 Pulaski Highway, LEDC at 3500 Boston Street, Centro SOL’s headquarters and the Latino Providers Network meeting at 600 S. Conkling Street are all in 21224. The Esperanza Center at 430 S. Broadway is one ZIP over in 21231, and Maryland Latinos Unidos is in 21211 on Union Avenue. That’s six of the nine in 21224 or the ZIP code next to it.

What is the largest Hispanic group in Baltimore?

Mexicans are the largest single national-origin group among Baltimore city’s Hispanic or Latino residents, 9,005 people out of 45,420 citywide, in the Census Bureau’s 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates, table B03001.

Counted together, Central American origins come to 13,891, more than any single country on the list, and most of that is Salvadorans at 5,783 and Hondurans at 4,263. Puerto Ricans, at 6,022, and Salvadorans are close enough that the survey can’t tell which group is bigger.

About Colado Latino Network

Colado Latino Network is a business networking organization for the Latino community, and it hosts free gatherings for business owners, freelancers and creatives at minority-owned venues around Baltimore. If that’s you, come to the next Latino community event in Baltimore, look through the Latino business directory or meet the five of us behind it. And if someone you know needs speech therapy, Total Speech Therapy on Pine Heights Ave has providers who work in English and Spanish.

Questions people ask about Latino organizations in Baltimore

Which organizations in Baltimore offer services in Spanish? Centro SOL, the Esperanza Center, CASA and the Latino Economic Development Center are the four Baltimore organizations on this list that show Spanish on their websites. Centro SOL offers its health programs in Spanish, the Esperanza Center has its full program page in Spanish as Centro Esperanza, CASA lists its phone number in Spanish alongside English and French, and LEDC has its contact instructions in Spanish under the English. The other five don’t say either way, so ask when you call.

Is there free health care for Latinos in Baltimore? Centro SOL, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Opportunity for Latinos, offers free physical and mental health programs in Baltimore that are open to anyone. The Esperanza Center at 430 S. Broadway has medical, dental and primary care for immigrants, and the number there is 667-600-2900.

Where do I go for immigration legal help in Baltimore? The Esperanza Center and CASA both offer immigration legal services in Baltimore. The Esperanza Center is at 430 S. Broadway, 667-600-2900. CASA’s Baltimore Welcome Center is at 2706 Pulaski Highway, and the front desk is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at 410-732-7777.

Is there a Hispanic chamber of commerce in Baltimore? The Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce covers the whole state, Baltimore included, and was incorporated in Maryland in 1986. It offers business opportunities, executive training, access to coaching and capital, a member directory, committees and scholarships. It doesn’t list a Baltimore street address, so use the contact form on its website.

What does CASA do in Baltimore? CASA has a Baltimore Welcome Center at 2706 Pulaski Highway, and its programs include immigration legal services, know-your-rights sessions, tenant and worker rights cases, adult ESOL, citizenship prep and free tax preparation for people who qualify. The front desk is open Monday through Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at 410-732-7777.

When does the Latino Providers Network meet? The Latino Providers Network meets on the fourth Monday of the month from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Hall, 600 S. Conkling Street, Baltimore, MD 21224. It skips May, November and December, so check the month before you go.

What is the largest Latino organization in the United States? LULAC calls itself the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States, with more than 325,000 members and supporters and over 535 local councils. UnidosUS calls itself the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. Neither one lists a Baltimore office.

Is Colado Latino Network a nonprofit or a service provider? Colado Latino Network is a business networking organization that hosts free in-person gatherings for Latino entrepreneurs and creatives at minority-owned venues in Baltimore. It doesn’t provide health, legal, housing or food services, and it isn’t affiliated with any of the organizations listed on this page.

How do I get an organization added to this page? To get an organization added, send it through the contact page with a link to the organization’s website. If it serves Latino residents in Baltimore and it’s missing here, we want to hear about it.