LatinaLista — Campaign: Darma — Sit smart for a healthy body and mind Recent studies have linked sedentary behavior (measured by time spent sitting) to higher rates of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature death. Physical inactivity…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Curbbed – a safe place for Students to buy & sell At the end of each semester, many students are found with items that no longer have any use to them. Normally, as anyone who has…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Into Shower Project High in the Andes live the poverty-stricken descendants of the Incas. They are an indigenous group with one foot steeped in their unique history and the other foot struggling to keep up…
LatinaLista — Campaign: California’s Forgotten Children – Documentary Child trafficking and exploitation is the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world today. In the United States, over 100,000 children are being enslaved and sold for sex…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Giving victims of family violence a SafeNight Family violence (FV) agencies and their supporters have a responsibility to protect and serve women and children, and sometimes men who are being abused. Family Violence is Pervasive…. One…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Whistl: A smartphone case that protects YOU Whistl is a smartphone case that aims to prevent sexual assault and violent crimes with an alarm system that: Disorients with LED/Noise alarm Connects with police and friends Records…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Indigenous Innovation — Revolutionizing Cacao in Belize Maya Mountain Cacao is planting an organic agro-forestry cocoa farm with the indigenous Maya. Maya Mountain Cacao connects 330 small-producer cacao farmers in southern Belize to the fine chocolate…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Lucha Loafers Sylvia “Hustle Hard” Meza is a tattoo artist. She now wants to turn her inking talents to zapatos (shoes). Meza is opening a store online where she will paint custom art on shoes. Meza…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Music and Dance In the Barrio The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts was originally a furniture factory that has been reclaimed and converted into a community arts space. Nestled in the City Terrace neighborhood of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: FosterShip: Transforming the Foster Care System The statistics are harrowing: Foster kids are 4 times more likely to have experienced sexual abuse than a child in the general population Teen pregnancy rates top 25% Barely half…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Urban Excursions-Outings for Homebound Seniors Polly Bangs is caregiver for her father, Cameron, who moved in with her three years ago and who has dementia. Like many caregivers, she struggled finding resources to help keep her…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Agua4All – Safe drinking water access in rural CA No matter who you are or where you live, you should be able to drink a glass of water in your home or neighborhood and not worry…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Navajo Onanon Foundation Lake Powell Expeditions Leonard Miller, president of the Navajo Onanon Foundation, is passionate about the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the reservation in an average neighborhood. No water. No power. Returning to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Disappearing Rio Grande Expedition Colin McDonald, an environmental journalist, is following the Rio Grande from source to sea, during one irrigation season, to report on how changes to the river impact the people and places that…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mañiuco School A group of Fellows from the Melton Foundation who have been working with the Mañiuco School since 2011. Mañiuco School in southern Chile is exclusively Mapuche (Indigenous peoples from the Araucanía Region) and students…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Made by Mayans – Inspiring Hope in Guatemala For six years, Jennifer Rice’s family lived in a tiny Mayan village. Shortly after her family’s return to Michigan, Ana, one of her former neighbors, called and pleaded…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Global Learning XPRIZE XPRIZE has launched the Global Learning XPRIZE to incentivize teams to create tablet-based Open Source software that will teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic, fully autonomously. The impact of this…
LatinaLista — HIPGive Campaign: Giving Sanctuary to the Children During the 1980s, half a million Central American refugees were denied political asylum. Churches and communities played a pivotal role in reverting this policy and achieved political asylum to the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Whale Protector Filmmakers Sharen Black, Bill Thomas and Jane Kraemer are showcasing sights and sounds of endangered Blue Whales in a short documentary, using dramatic, ‘close encounter’ images, to share the story of these majestic…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Latino/a Rising There is a growing movement of people who are interested in the U.S. Latino/a writers and artists who have turned to science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres. Latino/a Rising: An Anthology of U.S….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Endangered script coloring book for kids The Philippine script is endangered. A new coloring book will help teach this script to kids to keep it alive for future generations. Kulay: Baybayin is a coloring book Kristian…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Invisible Immigrants (Spaniards in the US 1868-1945) When people think about Spaniards in the Americas, they think mainly of the handfuls of conquerors, friars, explorers and settlers who crossed the Atlantic during the heyday of the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Creating a “smart” thermometer that turns the heat on for NYC tenants with no heat No one should have to spend the winter in a frigid apartment. Unfortunately, there are more than 200,000 complaints about lack…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Three Minute Post: 3-minute videos on world issues The founders of the Three Minute Post are graduates in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. They have spent years studying world politics,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Helping Garifuna children of Honduras discover their history and cultural pride via first-ever published children’s book for them Garifuna culture originated from the Island of St. Vincent (in the Caribbean) in the 1600’s. Garifunas are a…
