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Nonprofit Spotlight: URBAN TxT turns at-risk boys into tomorrow’s community and technology leaders

Jun 28, 2013, 2:29 PM 0

LatinaLista — There’s one organization is South Los Angeles that encourages kids to txt — as in joining URBAN TxT – Teens eXploring Technology. Urban TxT is a leadership program that takes at-risk boys in 7th to 11th grades…

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Spotlight Nonprofit: Oklahoma legislators and businesses band together to create special fund to build storm shelters at state’s schools

May 31, 2013, 4:57 PM 0

LatinaLista — Among the many sad and haunting images of the May 20 EF5 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma is one of seven wooden crosses hammered into a patch of grass standing guard where Plaza Towers Elementary school once…

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Spotlight Nonprofit: Latina teens get a new ‘circle’ of friends who help make their college dreams a reality

May 17, 2013, 4:31 PM 0

LatinaLista — While more Latinas are going to college and getting their degrees, it’s also true that young Latinas are still the largest group who are getting pregnant in high school, not finishing their education and perpetuating a cycle…

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Spotlight Nonprofit: One Latina’s mission to make victims of domestic violence realize ‘milagros’ do happen in life

May 10, 2013, 12:19 PM 0

LatinaLista — It didn’t take long for the joyous discovery in a poor Cleveland neighborhood, that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were still alive after ten years, to turn into disgust and disbelief over all the abuse…

General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Allowing budding artists to earn as they learn

Apr 26, 2013, 3:19 PM 1

LatinaLista — Long before schools decided art wasn’t enough of a worthwhile class that students could learn something from and axed it from their curriculums, one off-campus art nonprofit has been showing that art is not only relevant to…

General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving homeless children more than a place to call home

Apr 5, 2013, 4:50 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the late 1980s, two teachers from Plano, Texas noticed that some of their students were carrying large trash bags with them to school every day. The students would stuff the bags in their lockers and collect…

Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Sack suppers keep low-income children from going hungry

Mar 29, 2013, 4:15 PM 0

LatinaLista — Sometimes it’s the most heart-wrenching sight that inspires great ideas to not only be born but put into action. That was what happened to Mary K. Hoodhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2003. She saw several children…

Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Water nonprofits work to quench a global thirst for safe water

Mar 22, 2013, 4:39 PM 0

LatinaLista — The days of taking drinking water for granted is quickly coming to an end. With extreme drought predicted to only worsen in the United States in 2013 and climate change playing havoc with water supplies, communities are…

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Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving at-risk newborns a warm start to life

Mar 15, 2013, 3:08 PM 0

LatinaLista — Giving birth and taking that new bundle of love home is supposed to be the most joyous event in any mother’s life, and it usually is, but when that mother doesn’t have enough money or family or…

Causes, General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: ARTS founder looks to Oscar win of Inocente doc to boost visibility and donations

Mar 1, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Trying to convince children who are homeless, victims of child abuse, domestic violence or facing a myriad of ‘adult’ challenges most kids their ages don’t have to worry about that they have a reason to survive can…

General, Nonprofit

Nonprofit Spotlight: Helping sexually exploited girls see the value in their lives and what ‘GEMS’ they really are

Feb 22, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — The term ‘human trafficking’ doesn’t begin to relay the true cost of emotional and physical damage done to the women, girls and children victimized by what is a barbaric international business. It is reported by mental health…

Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: San Diego teens battle hunger by getting businesses to donate surplus food

Feb 15, 2013, 4:14 PM 0

LatinaLista — Though the economy is showing signs of improving, it’s still slow-going with prices rising faster than peoples’ salaries. No other segment of the economy hits closer to home than food prices. Shrinking wages and extreme weather events…

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Nonprofit Spotlight: Propelling low-income kids to a successful future from ‘The Wooden Floor’

Feb 8, 2013, 2:50 PM 2

LatinaLista — It started out as an experiment in 1983. Provide a summer ballet pilot class to low-income children in Santa Ana, California as a way for the kids to grow in self-esteem, self-discipline and gain a sense of…

General, Nonprofit, Social Justice

New UN global initiative wants everyone to answer: What kind of World do you want?

Jan 25, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — In 2000, world leaders created the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was a promise that the developed countries of the world would work together to end extreme poverty by 2015. Two years from that goal date finds…

General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Accelerating research to find a cure for brain disorders

Jan 18, 2013, 4:09 PM 0

LatinaLista — The recent tragic mass murders by people who have been labeled as mentally ill sheds a spotlight on a broader issue not often discussed in this country — brain disorders and injuries. Even when it’s known that…

Causes, General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Bridging the world one translation at a time

Jan 11, 2013, 4:45 PM 0

LatinaLista — It is said that there are between 6,800-6900 distinct languages in the modern world. To make all these different people understand one another usually falls on the shoulders of a translator. The work of a translator cannot…

Causes, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Building bridges to bring all people together

Jan 4, 2013, 2:48 PM 0

LatinaLista — According to the BRIDGES for a Just Community 2012 Human Relations Progress Report Latinos and African Americans in the Greater Cincinnati area answered “yes” when asked if they had been treated unfairly because of their race or…

Causes, Nonprofit

Nonprofit Spotlight: Online organization makes it easy for public to grant foster children’s ‘One Simple Wish’

Dec 7, 2012, 5:01 PM 0

LatinaLista — It is said that the nation’s foster children are the ‘invisible children.’ With no real family of their own and shuttled from one home to another until they’re either adopted or age out of the foster care…

Causes, Nonprofit

Nonprofit Spotlight: Making sure older orphans and foster care children have a chance to find a loving family

Oct 26, 2012, 4:13 PM 1

LatinaLista — Orphaned and foster care children have it tough not having a loving, stable family. The statistics paint a bleak future for them: 1 in 10 commit suicide Less than half finish high school 50 percent end up…

Causes, Nonprofit

Spotlight Non-profit: New LGBT campaign creates positive dialogue in Latino families

Oct 19, 2012, 3:58 PM 0

LatinaLista — If conservatives were hoping to splinter Latino voters over the same-sex marriage issue, they’ve had a rude awakening. Poll after poll shows that Latino voters are more willing to support same-sex marriage than what was traditionally believed….

Causes, General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Latina philanthropy org creates fundraiser to pay for group’s nonprofit status

Oct 12, 2012, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Many non-profits don’t have time to wait for the paperwork before they get started on accomplishing their mission. That’s the case with Chicas Latinas de Sacramento. Begun three years ago by Angela Rosas to encourage volunteerism and…

Causes, Nonprofit

Nonprofit Spotlight: Fulfilling last wishes of terminally ill seniors

Oct 5, 2012, 3:06 PM 0

LatinaLista — After Pedro Valencia was found to have a rare brain tumor, he had only one wish of a local nonprofit whose mission is to make the final wishes of the terminally ill come true. Pedro wanted to…

Causes, Nonprofit

Non-profit Spotlight: Giving seniors an extra hand to help them stay in their homes

Sep 21, 2012, 2:37 PM 0

LatinaLista — Anyone who comes from a big family knows that when abuela or abuelo needs help with something around the house, or a ride to the doctor or store or even help taking a bath, la familia is…

Causes, General, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Preparing low-income girls for a future in technology and engineering

Sep 14, 2012, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — It’s pretty much understood that most jobs of the future will involve technology on some level. Yet, if current trends persist, women will be at a severe disadvantage, especially women of color. To make sure that doesn’t…

Causes, Nonprofit

Spotlight Nonprofit: Raising awareness among young men that prostate cancer isn’t just an “old man’s” disease

Sep 7, 2012, 4:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — Prostate cancer has long been considered an “old man’s disease.” Not anymore if Gabe Canales has his way. Only 35-years-old when he received news that he had the “‘blue’ men’s side of the ‘pink’ campaign for women’s…

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