LatinaLista — HIPGive Crowdfunder: Providing free or low-cost legal services to child migrants Providing legal representation for minors is complex – it requires expertise in state family law and federal immigration law, and for the attorney to be barred…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Reporting on the Legacy of Mass Incarceration The United States spends $80 billion per year on prisons and jails. About 2.2 million Americans are behind bars on any given day, while more than 4.5 million are…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mil Abrazos Community Land Trust Urban farm creates Land Trust to preserve land and affordable housing for future generations Since 2012, Gaia Gardens, a nonprofit certified organic farm, has been operating on a leased parcel of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Lost in America II – Finding America’s homeless youth Lost in America is a documentary about America’s homeless youth. For the past 9 months, Rotimi Rainwater and his entire Lost in America team have traveled the…
LatinaLista — HIPGive Campaign: An emergency crowdfunding campaign to Protect the Children Imagine for a moment that you are six years old again: You have a home, you go to school, and you are part of a community. After…
LatinaLista — Campaign — 2014 HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands The HONK! Festival is a one-of-a-kind street spectacle of revolutionary proportions. October 10th, 11th, and 12th, Somerville friends and neighbors will once again open their homes, their streets,…
LatinaLista Campaign: Kendallsuyo ~ Stories of the People from the Andes in Miami Miami goes way beyond the stereotype of a ‘South Beach’ town. Though known as one of the major cities with a sizable Latino population, it’s often…
LatinaLista — Campaign — Deetach – A 21st Century Dog Harness Karina and Carlos Mendez are parents of Chico and Deeohgee, a Wheaten Terrier and Mini Schnauzer. In 2012, they started a little company and named it after them:…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Field trip for children of Casa Hogar in Oaxaca Casa Hogar Hijos de la Luna is a non-profit organization that helps children in situations of high risk, providing them a safe haven, basic education, clothes, materials;…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Training the next generation of Latino & Latina journalists For over a third of a century, Hispanic Link has built its national reputation by finding unique voices and covering breaking news. The news service, syndicated nationally…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Creating a Wikipedia for plant growing advice OpenFarm is a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. Similar to Wikipedia, the data is free for everyone to access and anyone can contribute content. Because…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Gringoyo’s New Video Will Give Migrants The Last Laugh! Greg “Gringoyo” Berger is an American filmmaker living in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Berger used to make documentaries but he found his films had greater impact when he created…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Helping kids with disabilities reach the finish line Achilles International makes it possible for people of any age and any disability to participate in mainstream sports. Their mission is to enable people with all types of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 2014 Student Farmworker Alliance Encuentro The Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to build a new day of dignity and respect in the nation’s agricultural industry. Since 2000,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Cuban Salsa Inside & Out In the nearly twenty years that have lapsed since the towering success of Wim Wender’s documentary and album BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, foreigners enamored by the rhythms of the tiny island…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Reinventing Diabetes Education Through PLAY Jerry the Bear is a best friend for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D). He helps kids master their medical procedures, from counting carbs to monitoring their blood sugar…
LatinaLista — Crowdfunder: Telling the story of 14,000 forcibly displaced Colombians For 50 years, a conflict has raged over influence in Colombian territory. The fighting, between the Colombian government, paramilitary groups, armed drug traffickers and left-wing guerrilla groups, has…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Simpolfy – Bringing Politics into the 21st Century Frustrated with Washington? The power of the dollar has become greater than the power of the ballot, yet the two are intertwined. Why do politicians solicit funds? Typically,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Creating a global volunteer coastal cleanup network COORC stands for CLEAN OUR OCEANS REFUGE COALITION. They are a non-profit organization inspired by the feature length documentary film “Trashed“. The documentary is an eye-opener to the awful…
LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Stand with Palau Palau is a small country with a huge idea: closing its waters to industrial fishing. No country has ever done it before. Palau would become the world’s first National Marine Sanctuary with…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 1994 Cuban Exodus — Interactive Art Project The exhibition “Exodus: Alternate Documents”, is a reflection on the human displacements phenomenon and their impact on the cultural understanding of the concept of nation. The project takes as…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Sweet Bites: Cavity-fighting gum Five best friends from the University of Pennsylvania got together and came up with an idea to combat the rampant existence of tooth decay in impoverished communities. Their idea was a chewing…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Training & Employing Women Journalists in Guatemala Global Press Institute (GPI) is an award-winning, high-impact social venture that uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women in developing media markets to produce…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Project Alianza: Building prosperity Nicaraguan coffee farmers Project Alianza will create for coffee farmers access to the knowledge and the resources to maximize the productivity of their land, and the opportunity to partner with ethical buyers…
LatinaLista — Campaign: “In Other News” Radio by Alaska Teen Media Institute The Alaska Teen Media Institute (ATMI) is celebrating 10 years on the air with their public affairs program, “In Other News.” It’s one of the longest-running public…
