Causes – Page 15 – Latina Lista

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Crowdfunder: Telling the story of 14,000 forcibly displaced Colombians

Aug 20, 2014, 12:04 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Simpolfy – Bringing Politics into the 21st Century

Aug 19, 2014, 3:27 PM 0

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,…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Creating a global volunteer coastal cleanup network

Aug 18, 2014, 1:11 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Helping Palua become world’s first National Marine Sanctuary

Aug 15, 2014, 11:23 AM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: 1994 Cuban Exodus — Interactive Art Project

Aug 14, 2014, 1:35 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Sweet Bites: Cavity-fighting gum

Aug 13, 2014, 3:51 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Training & Employing Women Journalists in Guatemala

Aug 12, 2014, 4:00 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunder: Building prosperity Nicaraguan coffee farmers

Aug 11, 2014, 4:15 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: “In Other News” Radio by Alaska Teen Media Institute

Aug 7, 2014, 1:04 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunding Campaign: Video music project to educate global audience on importance of Amazon rainforest

Aug 6, 2014, 11:01 AM 0

LatinaLista: Campaign — Anthem for the Amazon The Amazon is one of the most important ecosystem for mitigating climate change. It moderates weather patterns locally and globally, carries 20% of the planets fresh water to the ocean, holds more…

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Save Our History: The Chicana!o Archive Project

Aug 5, 2014, 2:54 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Save Our History: The Chicana!o Archive Project The Latino history of San Diego is largely unwritten because people do not know about what others have done or their struggles in life. For five years, a committee…

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HIPGive Campaign: Scholarship for Returned Dreamers

Aug 4, 2014, 10:56 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Soñadores para la Educación Young adults who return to their communities of origin often face structural and financial constraints in continuing their education, making it very challenging for them to get jobs with decent wages. Rufino…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Power in Numbers

Aug 1, 2014, 2:31 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Power in Numbers Mike Keller and Mike Ward are using their considerable experience as board members of charitable organizations, combined with their expertise as marketing and advertising professionals, to bring together the worlds of online gaming,…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Dominican Republic’s Butterfly Biodiversity Center

Jul 30, 2014, 12:03 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Dominican Republic’s Butterfly Biodiversity Center Butterfly Biodiversity Center Kelly Freeman is a Peace Corps volunteer and has teamed with Dr. Jose G. Maldonado-Rivera the founder/executive director of the Dominican Republic’s first public Science, Technology, Engineering and…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Optimizing your sun experience

Jul 29, 2014, 12:52 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Optimizing your sun experience Growing evidence has shown that vitamin D is vital for good overall health. Many studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to numerous diseases, including cancers. Your body can make its own vitamin…

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HIPGive Emergency Crowdfunding Campaign: Migrant Children Campaign

Jul 28, 2014, 1:06 PM 0

LatinaLista — HIPGive Emergency Crowdfunding Campaign: Migrant Children Campaign As an organization that has long sought to advocate for humane responses to the transnational crisis of children caught on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, HIP is extremely troubled…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Unitá – the safe driving app

Jul 25, 2014, 5:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Unitá – the safe driving app An android driving app designed to reduce distractions caused by smart phones. “At any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Seeds for a Future Cookbook

Jul 24, 2014, 4:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Seeds for a Future Cookbook If you’ve been following the news, over 57,000 children, many of them from Guatemala, have crossed the border into the U.S. this year alone. The root cause of this issue is…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Kids Can! Mexico Online

Jul 23, 2014, 1:08 PM 0

LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Kids Can! Mexico Online Fifteen years ago, two remarkable women in rural Mexico started a school on a shoe string. Now they have a savvy plan to take all their 160 students online. The future…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Hannah’s Homeless Drop-In Center

Jul 21, 2014, 1:29 PM 0

LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Hannah’s Homeless Drop-In Center Lisa Trunzo is the founder of Hannah’s Homeless, Inc. Hannah’s Homeless was first officially registered as a non-profit two years ago. Hannah is the name of Trunzo’s daughter who she had…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: NextGenElect – Crowdsourcing a Revolution in American Politics

Jul 18, 2014, 8:11 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: NextGenElect – Crowdsourcing a Revolution in American Politics Everyone knows that special interests have far too much influence over lawmakers. Since those elected in a corrupted system are unlikely to reform themselves, the question becomes what…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: Investigative Journalism for Indigenous Peoples

Jul 17, 2014, 2:41 PM 0

LatinaLista — Crowdfunding Campaign: Investigative Journalism for Indigenous Peoples There are thousands of stories from the Indigenous Peoples Movement that never seem to make the headlines. Whether it’s the Nasa Peoples bold removal of paramilitary forces from their lands…

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New site shares stories of detained immigrants held at detention facilities as part of little-known congressional mandate

Jul 17, 2014, 1:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — There’s a little known congressional mandate known as the “detention bed mandate.” Passed in 2009, Congress requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “incarcerate 34,000 immigrants in jails and detention centers in the U.S. at any given…

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National initiative launches to help drive donations to organizations helping unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody

Jul 15, 2014, 2:44 PM 0

LatinaLista — There’s not a newscast these days that doesn’t lead with the humanitarian crisis happening on our southern border. The reasons for the unprecedented influx of Central American children are heartbreaking enough, but news of local organizations overwhelmed…

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Today’s Crowdfunding Campaign: New Mexican artist seeks help creating project examining intertwining histories of Native Americans and colonial Spaniards

Jul 14, 2014, 4:10 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: New Mexican artist seeks help creating project examining intertwining histories of Native Americans and colonial Spaniards Francisco Benitez is a born and bred Santa Fe artist of Spanish, Native American and Puerto Rican background. He is…

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