LatinaLista — Campaign: Send Freedom University Students on College Tour! In 2010, the Georgia Board of Regents banned undocumented students from admission to the state’s top public universities simply because they are undocumented. For all other state colleges, they…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Musicaustral — South American roots music camp Musicaustral is a musical camp designed for young musicians to develop and/or deepen their Latin-American musical identity during a 10-day immersion in the natural context of Frutillar Bajo,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Kabbalah Prison Project – The Good Environment The Good Environment is a not-for-profit organization of volunteers who want to help create a safer and healthy environment within prisons. They are effectively working with STATE and FEDERAL prisons in the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Hispanic Link Legacy Project Mainstream media's proverbial arms weren't always open to covering issues of importance to the Latino community. If the local or national news media gatekeepers deemed the story "unnewsworthy," the nation would…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Maya Angelou Documentary The Maya Angelou Documentary is the first documentary about Dr. Maya Angelou. As friends from Dr. Angelou's inner circle, the filmmakers have been granted remarkable and unmatched access to Dr. Angelou’s…
LatinaLista — Campaign: JoeVolunteer! There are people out there RIGHT NOW who are hurting. The homeless, sick, children, animals…and volunteers help to ease that hurt for everyone. The problem is that too few people volunteer. JoeVolunteer is out…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuyorican Básquet: Documentary Film When the Puerto Rican basketball team played at the 1979 Pan American Games, an oddity was evident: the majority of its players did not speak Spanish, but rather Spanglish. The team…
LatinaLista — One of the cushiest government contractor jobs is those who receive federal funds for operating immigrant detention centers. Working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, these facilities are virtually guaranteed an uninterrupted flow of federal monies for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mis Amigos Del Mar Tess Krasne is an environmental biology major at Washington University in St. Louis with minors in anthropology and applied microeconomics. She spent this past summer on the small island of Isla Mujeres,…
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media On the Westside of San Antonio, Texas, along El Paso Street where men on bicycles sell paletas and among the early 20th century “shotgun” houses, sits the quaint church, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The church’s…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Support for St. Louis Churches Seven St. Louis churches have been hit by arsonists in the past two weeks. Each fire has been set at the church entrances. The national community, especially people of faith, must…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Loco Gringo Community Fund for Coco’s Many dogs and cats experience homelessness, poor health, abuse and more. Coco’s Animal Welfare has been helping local cats and dogs in the Riviera Maya since 2009. Their current clinic…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Women Across Frontiers & MADRE – International Fundraising Initiative Displaced by extremist violence, women-headed households are now flooding central and southern Iraq. They need humanitarian aid, shelter and resources to rebuild their lives. The Organization of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MANANA FESTIVAL – Santiago de Cuba, May 2016. Make it happen With the end of the US embargo in sight, these are exciting and incredibly fragile times in Cuba. MANANA 2016 is an inclusive and collaborative…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Isidore: Creating Jobs 4 the Formerly Incarcerated It's all over the news: the criminal justice system is broken. As a result, American correctional facilities are acting as social-service programs – providing healthcare, meals, and shelter for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Bringing the necessities of life to desperate refugees Two weeks ago, the White House reached out to Kickstarter with an idea. What if Kickstarter could be used, they asked, to help the millions of refugees seeking…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Grind for Your Soul: Skating Por-Vida Project The Grind for Your Soul: Skating Por Vida event will use the fashion and popular culture around skate boarding as a way to engage and expose youth…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 450 missing, 125 houses buried, 131 deaths,36 hurt Marie Anne Hale is a 24-year-old student at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and is passionate about her country. On Thursday, October 1, almost 600 people went…
LatinaLista — Campaign: recruitHER: Working For Equal Opportunity in Tech Tech companies who value diversity often struggle to hire diverse talent—either their current efforts are failing to move the needle, or they don’t know where to begin. Having a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Tuition Mission Disabled2Counselor Beatriz Macia has a dream. This Cuban-born Latina, known as Bett to her amigas, is on a mission to raise tuition so she can go from being disabled with Late Stage Lyme Disease to becoming a counselor…
LatinaLista — Scholars’ Latino Initiative (SLI) seeks to inspire and empower Latina/o students by creating pathways to educational, professional, and civic engagement opportunities. By providing each student with a support system that includes individual, community, and institutional level support, SLI creates the access and…
LatinaLista – Campaign: Launch the Westwood Food Co-op to Feed Food Deserts Six years ago in a crowded room in an overlooked predominantly Latino Denver neighborhood called Westwood, people were talking heatedly about problems in the neighborhood: bad…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Legal Efforts Against Trafficking of Native Youth Six hundred miles east of the well-traveled majesty of Glacier National Park, the mountains give way to a generous spread of badlands and plains, and empty into a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Nature Project -Amazon & Animal Conservation Véronique Grand and Yvan Bouvier, of Swiss nationality, went to live in the Ecuadorian Amazonia in 2002. As many, they were worried for the environment and the treatment toward…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Spanglish the Webseries Spanglish is an interactive web series about Mariola, the anti-typical Hispanic woman, living in New York City. With Latinos becoming a larger and larger demographic in America, the creators of this web series think…
