ALA headquarters are located in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.[8] Some of the 160 ALA member organizations include the cultural organization Tilts,[9] the Washington D.C. Latvian Lutheran Church,[10] and the Latvian Welfare Association Daugavas Vanagi New York branch.

These programs help educate and inform the Latvian American Community about events and people in Latvia.

The ALA is supplying Latvian schools in the United States with books and teaching materials, while also helping newly arrived Latvian immigrants to adjust to life in the United States and providing humanitarian aid to people in Latvia.

On April 15, 1950, 79 representatives of some of the main centers of the Latvian diaspora in the US, such as New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Detroit etc., met to address the initiative.

Numerous meetings were held in the various communities (most importantly, May 24, 1950, in Philadelphia and August 5, 1950, in New York) to gain local support and finalise the founding statutes.