LCF Sr. VP of Programs, Masha V. Chernyak, sat down with Shiree Teng to discuss her latest Brown Paper, Healing Love: Into Balance. Shiree Teng has worked with LCF for almost a decade—helping us dream, re-imagine, and support our grassroots Latino nonprofit community. Shiree is
Written by Angela Gallegos-Castillos, Community Planner at Instituto Familiar de la Raza. As COVID-19 continues to ravage our Latinx communities, as institutional violence repeatedly plagues our youth with police brutality, social silencing, and mass hysterectomies creating the social dynamics and dilemmas we are living today—the
At the Latino Community Foundation, we honor and celebrate our strength, grit, determination, and ancestry every single day. Today, as the nation kicks off Latino Heritage Month, we once again salute and thank our Latino essential workers–teachers, nurses, farmworkers, grocery clerks, delivery workers, bankers, small-business owners–who
The People’s Philanthropy: Giving Circles Organize, With Help From a Big Funder Julia Travers Modern giving circles embody the age-old practice of pooling resources to benefit others. These groups, which donate and give collectively to causes of members’ shared interest, constitute an accessible form
The Best is Yet to Come Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO, Latino Community Foundation Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 In just a few days, we
By Mauricio Amaral-Vazquez, Community Organizer in Oakland, CA This Thursday, 10 Democratic Presidential Candidates will debate in Houston, TX for the ABC/Univision Debate. As an educator and a community organizer in Oakland, CA, I will be watching very closely to see how the candidates respond
Authored by: Claudia Villanueva, Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager in San Francisco, CA Growing up in a predominately Latino community, politics wasn’t always the biggest topic of conversation. My household, however, was quite different. “Latinos have to look out for ourselves, because if not, no one
Authored by Christian Arana, LCF Policy Director and Linda Escalante, SoCal Legislative Director, NRDC California has cemented its status as a world leader on climate change. On Aug. 28, legislators passed a bill that will require the state to set a goal for the state
"The Census is the cornerstone of our democracy. It is about Power and Money. A tool to ensure fair and equitable representation in power and funding." Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of Latino Community Foundation. In the face of unprecedented challenges facing the 2020 Census
By: Viviann Anguiano, Manager of Parent Organizing, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools The recent March for Our Lives youth movement has reminded the country of the critical role of our youth in our political process – and how important intersectionality is in the fight for