Why am I urging you to vote this year? There are less than 80 days until Election Day. We must remember that when the 19th Amendment was passed 100 years ago giving women the right to vote, that not all women were included. Black, Native American, Mexican and other women of color were excluded from
Written by Natasha Cougoule, SF Latina Giving Circle Member 42 years ago, Prop 13 positioned itself as a means to protect homeowners and businesses from excessive taxation. Today, it’s entrenching wealth inequality and strangling state and local budgets, where education is the first to suffer. As of 2019, California is ranked 29th in per
This week Governor Newsom signed the 2020-21 Budget after weeks of negotiations with state lawmakers over how to address $54 billion deficit caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The Budget maintains funding for California’s K-12 school districts and community colleges and allocates $5.3 billion to mitigate learning loss and support the immediate needs of students and
Shared by: Nicole Giles, Strategic Initiatives Associate, Northern California Grantmakers This moment has brought an enormous amount of anger. I am angry that last week, just an hour away, in Palmdale, Robert Fuller, a young Black man, was found hanging from a tree. I am angry that yesterday morning when my partner, a Black man,
Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom released his May revision to the state’s proposed 2020-21 budget. The Latino Community Foundation understands the extraordinary fiscal challenges our state is facing with a $54 billion deficit and an anticipated pandemic-induced economic recession in the year ahead. Yet this is not the time to cut critical programs and retract
On March 16th, Mayor London Breed announced a shelter-in-place mandate for the San Francisco Area. Her decisive leadership and action helped stave off major outbreaks in the fourth largest city of California—an action that has saved thousands of lives. Anticipating the state would move in the same direction, the Latino Community Foundation moved quickly to
The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of the State of California State Capitol Sacramento, California 95814 Dear Governor Newsom, We write to express our appreciation for your tremendous leadership in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and for your long track record of advancing justice, equity, and inclusion. We also wish to express our strong support of
We are living in uncertain times. The onset of COVID-19 has placed the world at a standstill and has reminded all of us that we are more interconnected than we thought. During this era of “shelter-in-place,” Latino small-businesses are continuing to do what they do best: provide the community with critical goods and services, create
Written by Maria O. Alvarez, member of the SF Latina Giving Circle The 2020 Census is here. You should be receiving an invitation letter in the mail by now. I’ve been learning through both personal and professional networks, more and more about what it means to be counted, and why we all have to fill
We have all heard this before. “Why vote? I’m in California. My vote doesn’t matter.” In my case, it was a close family member of mine who said this to me as I sat across the table from him when we were discussing the upcoming election. Rather than give up and agree with those statements,