Mission: The Center for Immigrant Education of Louisiana, LLC (CIELO) is a social enterprise that uses profits from its onsite, workplace language courses to fund low-cost ESL and adult education classes at non-profits in the Greater New Orleans Area. CIELO seeks to address the educational and job readiness needs of the Latino immigrant population in the GNO area by providing language classes and integrated workforce development workshops to assist them in their efforts to participate and engage in a constructive way with the greater community. A 2012 study by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center shows that the income disparities among the African American, Hispanic and white populations in New Orleans exist due to the differences in educational attainment. The report explains that “to be competitive in the Next Economy, New Orleans will need to place particular emphasis on building the skills of its future workforce in a more inclusive way.” We believe that English language training and industry specific skills development are the first steps in improving the quality of life for the Latino population and will result in an increase in residents’ ability to work together.