Category: Nonprofit
Spotlight Nonprofit: Teaching kids with cancer to kick away pain and fear through martial arts
LatinaLista — Cancer sucks! For anyone diagnosed with it, it’s a horrific, painful, scary thing to go through. Watching someone go through the treatments, especially loved ones, is hard but watching a child endure the pain and fear of the disease is heart-wrenching. Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, or Rabbi G as he’s called, knew firsthand how [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving teen moms the “hope” of a better future with help to get through college
LatinaLista — May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, a time focused on encouraging young girls to be smart about not getting pregnant. Yet, for those girls who have gotten pregnant and are raising their children, there is not nearly the necessary attention on these girls to do another smart thing — get a college [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Summer camp brings back the “magic” for children of cancer patients
LatinaLista — There are over one million cancer cases a year in the United States. The process of getting well takes its toll not only on the cancer patients but their families too — especially the children. A child with a parent who has cancer finds their lives suddenly turned upside down. There’s suddenly a [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Borrowers get a “Grace Period” to repay free loans
LatinaLista — Living paycheck to paycheck is scary enough for the millions of people who live at or below the poverty line. Yet, as anyone knows, living such a hand-to-mouth existence doesn’t leave any wiggle room for life’s unexpected surprises
Non-profit Spotlight: Giving immigrant and low-income bread bakers a chance at entrepreneurship
LatinaLista — Starting a new business is tough for anyone but if you’re low-income or aren’t completely fluent in English the odds of getting the kind of credit and help needed to launch that business automatically increases.
Nonprofit Spotlight: College students help orphans discover a passion for learning
LatinaLista — In 2011, Arizona State University (ASU) biomedical engineering junior Tina Hakimi read an article posted on the university’s web site about a fellow student’s work with orphans in Mexico. The article sparked an idea and gave her reason to “hope.”
Non-profit Spotlight: Connecting children and adults to a love of reading
LatinaLista — For those who know how to read, reading is the most natural skill to possess. For those who don’t know how to read, it is a huge obstacle in achieving a higher quality of life. The importance of reading can never be stressed enough, and as the nation sails towards a more high-tech, [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Low-income teens earn college scholarships being accountable in their communities and schools
LatinaLista — Among the many creative ways people have tried in the past to get kids to do well in school has been to pay them to make good grades. Critics have pointed out that while it may motivate kids, it doesn’t do much more. Yet one woman from San Antonio, Texas, Kym Rapier, awoke [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Using the art of crochet to lift lives out of poverty
LatinaLista — What’s the best thing to lift a person out of poverty? A job, of course. Yet, what if that person has never received an education or training in any skill, and on top of that, they live in a country where they are either dependent on the government for all their needs or [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: One teen helps homeless children get their “sole”
LatinaLista — Doing good deeds has nothing to do with age. We just have to look at the success one Providence, Rhode Island boy has had in fulfilling a mission he started at the age of five! Nicholas Lowinger, now a teenager, was five years old when he accompanied his mom to a homeless shelter [...]
