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Eliezer Vélez serves as Capacity Building Project Manager & Grant Writer at Centro de Apoyo Familiar (CAF), a bilingual nonprofit whose mission is to transform communities through economic, social, and educational empowerment in collaboration with community and faith-based organizations. From CAF's Maryland headquarters in Riverdale, he supports work across Maryland, Virginia, D.C., Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico.

His portfolio spans grant research and writing, multi-state nonprofit compliance and governance, and technical assistance for emerging nonprofits - walking alongside small community and faith-based organizations as they incorporate, gain tax-exempt status, and build the systems that let them serve well. Much of this work flows through CAF's Connectors Network, a partnership of congregations and community organizations across the region.

In environmental education, Eliezer supports CAF's environmental health and justice initiatives, including the Youth ECO-Promoters program, which engages Hispanic and immigrant youth in outdoor watershed investigations, youth-led action projects, and peer teaching in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. He also supports CAF's role providing technical assistance to community forestry grantees in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Beyond his professional work, Eliezer co-facilitates BREATHE, a weekly wellness practice built on the rhythm of Pause, Breathe, Rest, Go, and he is pursuing a BA in Transformational Leadership and Change at College Unbound. His guiding conviction: "I am not the source, I am the vessel."