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Roadmap to Peace: A Community-Birthed and Driven Initiative
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 question many of us are asking: How did we get
Honoring our Strength, History, and Essential Leadership: Latino Heritage Month 2020
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 have kept our country running on its feet. We invite
The People’s Philanthropy: Giving Circles Organize, With Help From a Big Funder
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 of philanthropy that has sprouted and grown over the tripled
The Best is Yet to Come
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 will bid farewell to another decade. A decade that began
Dear Presidential Candidates: Latinos are Paying Attention and We are Voting.
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 to the issues that matter most to the Latino community.