LatinaLista — Campaign: Malesh Activewear Mesly Guzman has six years experience working in the apparel industry with such companies as Oakley, Jois Yoga and Oiselle Running. It wasn’t long before she realized that most brands only catered to misses…
LatinaLista — The myth of a color-blind society just got another nail hammered in its coffin thanks to the 2014 General Social Survey sponsored by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The complete report highlights the fact…
LatinaLista — Campaign: IMPCT – Real Early Education in Urban Slums Education isn’t a gimmick. It isn’t a technology. It isn’t a product. Education is children in a safe environment, being guided through the learning process by qualified teachers….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Indigenous Summit – Cumbre de las Americas On April 10-11, 2015, the presidents and prime ministers of all 36 Nation States in the Americas will gather in Panama for the 7th Summit of the Americas, the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: RAICES… A MURAL IN PUERTO RICO Three artists from New York, Chicago, and Puerto Rico, a trio with Puerto Rican ROOTS are on a mission to use the language of visual arts to bring community together…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Save an Ancient Maya Site & Rainforest Refuge Ka’Kabish is a 3,000-year-old ancient Maya ruin in Belize, and now forms a rainforest refuge for many animals who have taken up residence at the site for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Guest: A New Film About The Guestworker Program Each year approximately 66,000 visas under the H-2A program are given to people interested in coming to work in U.S. agriculture, and approximately 50,000 Visas under the H-2B…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Paint Up Buenaventura Buenaventura is a city on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, located 150 kilometers from Cali in the Cauca Valley. The territory of Buenaventura is full of natural riches: pristine beaches, dozens of intersecting…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Elisabeth Paddle with Purpose Soon a free-flowing river integral to the way of life for 14 percent of Peru’s population will be dammed. There are more than 8 mega dams planned for the Marañón River,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Improve Conditions at Historic Binational Park Friendship Park / El Parque de la Amistad is a historic meeting place on the US/Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In the U.S., Friendship Park is located atop Monument…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Venezuelan Students Plan Pais Conference Venezuela is enduring hard times politically and economically. An annual conference hopes to tap into the ideas and vision of millennial Venezuelans to create a better Venezuela in the future. Plan…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Animating Spinal Cord Damage: Building an Educational Website for Kids Every year more than 15,000 new people in the US suffer a traumatic spinal cord injury. Thousands more will acquire spinal cord damage from autoimmune, infectious,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Music for development A large portion of young people in Central America and the Caribbean are an economically disadvantaged demographic. They live in environments where violence is prevalent and they suffer from high social risk. In…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Support College Access Para Todos! Every year, 65,000 undocumented youth graduate from high school in the US. Only 5% of those youth go on to college. Hispanic student graduation rates are among the lowest in North…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Kiva Loan – Mario Orlando Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as…
LatinaLista — Campaign: HODERA: REHAB IN NICARAGUA Drug and alcohol rehab in the U.S. is a lucrative business. Frills and promises are employed to attract the desperate, while the results of treatment are murky. Television reality shows use addicts’…
LatinaLista — Campaign: College Bound College Tours College tours make a real difference in the lives of under privileged students. For some, a visit to the campus of their dreams can really motivate them to do their best in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: To ED with Love In New Orleans’ public schools, only 3 percent of all teachers are black men. The New Orleans-based Brothers Empowered to Teach wants to change that. Starting in the 8th grade, 50% of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Finding Freedom: Poetry and Portraits of Former Inmates Finding Freedom is a collection of poetry & portraits from recently incarcerated individuals living at Chicago’s St. Leonard’s Halfway House. Shortly after moving to Chicago, Brandon Crockett volunteered…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Children’s Home in Guatemala Ten years ago, Shorewood High School (SHS) and Hogares Santa Maria de Guadalupe, a children’s home in Guatemala, started a special relationship. HOGARES SANTA MARIA DE GUADALUPE is a children’s home in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Community School Parks Los Angeles is one of the most under-parked cities in the US, with only 33 percent of children living near a park (97% of kids in Boston live within ¼ mile of a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: BiblioWorks’ Fourth Annual Festival of Reading BiblioWorks promotes education and literacy in communities in need. Not only have they established 12 libraries in rural communities around Sucre, Bolivia, but BiblioWorks is committed to raising the profile…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Busted: Breast Cancer, Money, and the Media At the edge of the Pacific, women believe they’re part of an unexplained breast cancer cluster. It’s a fear created by media hype and medical researchers who should know…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Portrait of Cuban Resilience: Faces and Voices of a Blockade The soon to be published book, Portrait of Cuban Resilience, Faces and Voices of the Embargo provides a visual portrait of Cuban life and society. Quotes…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Portraits of the Dream Dr. Josef Castaneda-Liles and Dr. Maria del Socorro Castaneda-Liles from Santa Clara University are working on a book titled Portraits of the Dream. It features the stories of leaders from various industries…
