LatinaLista — Campaign: Kiva loan to Heydi from El Salvador Kiva provides micro loans to the indigenous in developing countries. Heydi is 27 years old and owns a house where she lives with her husband and three children. She…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Bee battles: are our native bees losing the fight for resources? Invasive species dramatically reshape their invaded landscapes and restructure interactions between native species. In North America, the European wool-carder bee, a recently introduced non-native species,…
LatinaLista — Campaign:The Free School 45K for 45 Years For 45 years The Free School, the oldest democratic school in the United States, has provided students with a unique, self-directed education, removed from the stress and pressure of standardized…
LatinaLista — Campaign: ROBOCOPP – social startup ending sexual assault. ROBOCOPP is a social start-up that wants to change the world. Their goal is to eradicate one of the most hideous and unfortunately wide-spread crimes: rape. It is a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Craving Cuba, A Documentary film Excitement over Cuba is at an all-time high! The forbidden paradise is on everyone’s mind. Yet, as beautiful and passionate and alluring as Cuba is, it is also very complicated, especially…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Granjeros – A Board Game for a New Economy Granjeros (Spanish for farmers) is a board game inspired by a new breed of companies that are changing the world by being not the best companies in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Trail of Tears Road Trip: And So We Walked DeLanna Studi is a Cherokee citizen, actress and writer. She has always wanted to travel in her ancestors’ footsteps along the Trail of Tears and find a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Librería Donceles There are millions of Spanish speakers in the US and yet a scarcity of books in Spanish. The situation has been made more critical by rapid transformations in publishing, with the rise of e-books…
By Niema Jordan LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This story was produced and was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.) Last year, reporters Trey Bundy and Daffodil Altan provided a window inside a space rarely seen by…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Low cost snake antivenom for Asia, Africa and South America Death by snake venom in India, Africa, and South America are substantial. Traditional antidotes are prohibitively expensive ($100/dose) and have side effects. A new peptide-based antidote…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Range: Food and Safe Places for Youth Last year Range, a free mobile app that shows where free meals are served to youth during the summer, was launched. It was built for trusted adults who work…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Jose Growing up as a young chicano in “the hood” has its hardships, and also its good times. Most people say just stay positive and stay in school, which is the best thing the young person…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Empower Nicaraguan kids through sport! The Nicaraguan government does not have the economic funds to support and enhance rural communities. As part of the second poorest country in the Americas, rural Nicaraguan communities, like Pacayita, need…
LatinaLista — Campaign: HeartMob According to a Pew Research Center survey from late last year, 40% of people have been harassed online, and 73% of people have witnessed someone else being harassed online. Among people between the ages of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nepal Relief Fundraisers Given the tragedy in Nepal – more than 450,000 people displaced and a death count at 5,000 and climbing, I’ve decided that instead of highlighting one campaign I would link to the 33…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Tu Mundo Periodicals & Organi Co. Baby Food One of the world’s largest slums known for its rampant levels of violence is Colombia’s Ciudad Bolivar. Families who come to live there have been displaced from their…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Public School Needs A Videographer Carver Military Academy is the first Chicago Public School to host a totally student-centered licensed TEDx event. This will be their 3rd consecutive year being a licensed TEDx event, but they…
LatinaLista — Campaign: BACKatYOU: Backpacks for the Homeless BACK@YOU was created to help open people’s eyes to those that so many walk blindly by each day. The homeless are not invisible, and should not be treated as if they…
LatinaLista — Spain is no stranger to its citizens protesting. With massive protests happening in the country on a more regular basis since the fall of its economy several years ago and the ongoing threat of Catalan seceding from…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Lalo Alcaraz’s Trip to Pine Ridge On May 1-2, 2015, nationally syndicated cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz will travel to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, along with, “Without Reservations” cartoonist Ricardo Caté, to conduct a cartooning workshop…
LatinaLista: Campaign: Endless Computers Almost 5 billion people do not have computers. A computer can mean access to information, health, livelihood, and jobs in our global economy. It is opportunity, if it can only be accessed. A few years…
LatinaLista — Campaign: UPLC Visits Illinois Prisons Uptown People’s Law Center (UPLC) is a grassroots nonprofit law office that has been fighting for prisoners’ rights for decades. They currently have nine class action lawsuits to improve Illinois’ terrible jail…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Human Powered Nebulizer Three of the ten most prevalent causes of mortality in the world are lung-related illnesses. Since 2004, the Human Powered Nebulizer has been a product created by Lars Olson, associate professor and…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Send struggling film student to Cannes Antonio Garcia is a film student at Georgia State University with a goal to one day become a well-known film director. His film was a Campus Moviefest finalist and has…
LatinaLista — Campaign: NAE PASARAN – an untold story of Chilean solidarity It’s 1974. Bob Fulton, a Scottish Rolls Royce worker, refuses to work on an aircraft engine. He has seen what it has been used for and wants…
