LatinaLista — Campaign: Viva Vegeria Vegeria is a grass roots vegan restaurant. The first of its kind in San Antonio. Taking the Lone Star state by storm with fresh plant-based Tex-Mex and Latino cuisine. Vegeria aims to feed the…
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Crowdfunder: Bike company creates innovative bicycles and delivers 100% of profits to making cycling better
Jun 30, 2015, 10:13 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Advocate Cycles Advocate Cycles is a bike company that exists solely to create innovative bicycles and deliver 100% of profits from the company back to making cycling better for everyone. Advocate Cycles is using a new,…
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Crowdfunder: Teaching Film To Kids In Africa, Asia & Latin America
Jun 29, 2015, 11:54 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Teach Film To Kids In Africa, Asia & Latin America Think of it as PeaceCorps for filmmakers. The nonprofit Filmmakers Without Borders (FWB) sends filmmakers and media educators overseas to teach filmmaking and media literacy to…
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Crowdfunder: Creating a sci-fi film where robots rule cartels
Jun 26, 2015, 11:48 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Juarez 2045 Juarez 2045 is a sci-fi film that takes place in Juarez, Mexico where a group of marines must combat a robotic drug cartel lead by Danny Trejo. Juarez 2045 is an action science fiction…
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Crowdfunder: Supporting young Cuban musicians
Jun 25, 2015, 12:05 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Jeff Coffin and Crescent Super Band: Cuba Benefit Album Jeff Coffin is releasing a new album with Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band called “Inside of the Outside”. Special guests for the album include GRAMMY-winners Victor Wooten,…
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Crowdfunder: Changing the Latino Image — One Story at a Time
Jun 23, 2015, 11:42 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Change the Latino Image — One Story at a Time Latinos are too often highlighted in the mainstream media as ‘illegal’ OR are typecast as cliche’ stereotypes like gardeners, maids, and gangsters. So, several screenwriters…
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Crowdfunder: HIPGive projects tackle creating healthier outcomes for the most vulnerable of Latinos
Jun 22, 2015, 10:01 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: HIPGive2HEALTH Latino children and adults face great health challenges and disparities. 77% of U.S. Latinos and a quarter of Latin American and Caribbean population is overweight and obese. Hispanics have the highest rate of uninsurance in…
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Crowdfunder: Raising aid for border refuge that helps the deported
Jun 19, 2015, 10:27 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Casa del Migrante Shelter Fundraiser With almost 1,000 people being deported daily, migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border are crucial in the battle against abuses towards migrants. Oftentimes migrants are deported into Mexico with no money…
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Crowdfunder: A scientific hunt for the best burrito in San Francisco
Jun 19, 2015, 10:23 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Qualitative survey of burritos in San Francisco Many people have tried to conclusively answer the question of where is the best burrito in the world, and many studies point towards San Francisco. Researcher Denny Luan is…
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Crowdfunder: Blood of Kings – Matadors face death for love of the tradition
Jun 17, 2015, 9:40 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Foto Libro: Sangre de Reyes – Jose Tomas Carlos Cazalis is a professional award-winning photographer dedicated to long- term documentary projects. He does this out of the belief that it’s the best way to gain a…
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Crowdfunder: One Latino’s mission to tap technology to rebuild a NYC taxi service
Jun 16, 2015, 11:30 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Rebuild Boro Taxis Nyc. Keep New York Moving. Fabio Rivera is on a mission. Fabio is a neighborhood livery driver in New York City who wants to use technology to make an iconic activity in…
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Crowdfunder: Bringing Aboriginal Entrepreneurs into the Start-up Scene
Jun 15, 2015, 11:16 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Pow Wow Pitch: Inspiring Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Pow Wow Pitch was started 2 months ago in Ottawa, Canada to help Aboriginal entrepreneurs succeed. At Pow Wow Pitch, 30 entrepreneurs get 1 minute to “pitch” their business idea…
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Crowdfunder: Spain. A New Kind of Photography Book.
Jun 11, 2015, 12:04 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Spain. A New Kind of Photography Book. Mike Randolph has spent the last eight years photographing every corner of Spain. He’s a professional travel photographer and his images have appeared in many of the leading publications…
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Crowdfunder: Save The Mentors Campaign
Jun 9, 2015, 11:48 AM 0
LatinaLista – Campaign: The YDO Save The Mentors Campaign Youth Development Organization of Lawrence, MA changes young peoples’ perspectives and strives to help students discover who they are and who they can become. The YDO staff start by getting…
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Crowdfunder: Creating a living memorial to slavery in homes everywhere
Jun 8, 2015, 11:19 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: HAVE YOU SEEN ME? A MEMORIAL TO SLAVERY The United States and countries around the world still have not come to grips with the slave trade and its long-lasting effects. Have You Seen Me? is a…
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Crowdfunder: Educating Peruvians to their own rich culture
Jun 5, 2015, 9:19 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: PUCKLLAS – An alive exposure of Scissors Dance Ana Huerta is photographer and student of anthropology, Ollantay Sanchez is a music student and sound engineer. They are both the founders of the Nuna Collective, and they…
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Crowdfunder: Colorado organization rallies to provide legal representation for immigrant children being deported
Jun 4, 2015, 10:42 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Justice for Refugee Children Last year, some 70,000 refugee children from Central America crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in order to escape atrocious acts of gang violence, domestic violence, and abject poverty. Thousands more have already crossed…
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Crowdfunder: Global database informs women of their land rights
Jun 3, 2015, 11:49 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Landwise: A Women and Land Rights Database When women have stronger rights to land and resources, families and communities prosper. The evidence is there – when women have secure rights to land and resources, agricultural…
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Crowdfunder: An American Portrait: The Great Migration
Jun 2, 2015, 10:42 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: An American Portrait: The Great Migration Dennis Manarchy is founder and photographer for An American Portrait, a project dedicated to the preservation of America’s vanishing cultures. The first chapter will capture and document The Great Migration….
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Crowdfunder: Helping Haitian families crowdfund new homes via special online platform
Jun 1, 2015, 9:48 AM 0
LatinaLista — Five years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, people are still trying to rebuild their lives – and their homes. It has become apparent that if the poorest Haitians are to ever see a roof over their…
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Crowdfunder: Teaching girls in Colombia how to code
May 28, 2015, 1:23 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Rails Girls Bogotá for the First time Rails Girls arrives in Bogotá for the first time. The free class will teach how to design, prototype and code using Ruby on Rails. The two-day session happening in…
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Crowdfunder: A new kind of female superhero action figure
May 27, 2015, 1:18 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: HeroMe Girl Action Figure Toy HeroMe Girl is a line of customizable female superhero action figures – with a twist. HeroMe Girl redefines the role of the female superhero. We know it’s important for girls to…
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EMERGENCY Crowdfunder: Mother faces deportation after filling out wrong forms
May 26, 2015, 11:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mom filled out the wrong form: Facing deportation Connie Fitzpatrick’s family came to the US in 2001 legally. Her mom is a U.S. Permanent Resident. Her sisters and her are U.S. Citizens. They are active members…
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Crowdfunder: Helping Heydi keep her pupusa business in El Salvador
May 22, 2015, 9:31 AM 0
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…
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Crowdfunder: Discovering why bees are losing the fight
May 21, 2015, 11:41 AM 0
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,…
