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Meeting the Moment Latine CBOs’ Response to COVID-19 An Assessment of Hispanic Federation’s Pandemic Grantmaking

Meeting the Moment Latine CBOs’ Response to COVID-19 An Assessment of Hispanic Federation’s Pandemic Grantmaking

This report documents Hispanic Federation’s total grantmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reflects our unwavering commitment to Latine community-based organizations (CBOs) and helps to tell the story of the heroic efforts that kept individuals and families fed, sheltered, and safe, protected and saved the lives of our most vulnerable individuals and, ultimately, helped communities survive a once-in-a-century pandemic.
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Advance Change Together: ACT Leadership Convening Brief

Advance Change Together: ACT Leadership Convening Brief

Over two days in February 2023, the Hispanic Federation brought together 25 LGBTQ+ Latinx community-based organizations from its Advance Change Together (ACT) Initiative to explore innovative ideas at the crossroads of racial and gender justice. This convening marked an important coming together of LGBTQ+ Latinx1 leaders from across the United States to explore the complex challenges they face every day, and collectively seek solutions that can empower and inspire others across the field.
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NYC Hispanic/Latinx Health Action Agenda, Our Health-Our Future

NYC Hispanic/Latinx Health Action Agenda, Our Health-Our Future

This health agenda is a concrete response to the ongoing health inequities among Hispanic communities in New York State, which have been further exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Setting our Agenda” is a community-wide and driven process aimed at developing a set of recommendations to address these inequities. This agenda acknowledges the historical health, socioeconomic, and political disparities in the U.S. and pursues justice and equity for all.
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Closing the Latino Digital Divide: Lessons Learned from Community-Based Approaches to Latino Digital Skilling

Closing the Latino Digital Divide: Lessons Learned from Community-Based Approaches to Latino Digital Skilling

With funding from Google.org, HF selected 24 partner sites in early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was forcing businesses, schools, and nonprofits to close or operate remotely. Despite numerous challenges the sites received their initial grants from HF and began providing training in July 2020, serving more than10,000 people in its first 18 months. HF provided many types of assistance including but not limited to technical assistance, physical and virtual site visits, and a national Latino Encuentro Digital Symposium highlighting the program’s work. This White Paper summarizes the development and first implementation year of the Latino Digital Accelerator, including accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned. It also explains the myriad reasons the Latino Digital Accelerator Program is so important. The early experience of the Latino Digital Accelerator Program, as presented below, highlights the extremely significant future role for Latino led and serving nonprofits in digital skills development.
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Building a Stronger and More Resilient Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria: A Five-Year Update

Building a Stronger and More Resilient Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria: A Five-Year Update

Our five-year impact report, Building a Stronger and More Resilient Puerto Rico, highlights how your support provided emergency assistance and rebuilt the island through projects in agriculture, housing, environmental sustainability, and economic development, and more. The report is a record of our vital work and an affirmation of the good that our collective of nonprofits, donors, and HF staff and board can achieve together.
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NYC Hispanic/Latinx Health Action Agenda 2021-2025, Our Health-Our Future

NYC Hispanic/Latinx Health Action Agenda 2021-2025, Our Health-Our Future

Hispanics are the largest minority group in the USA. They contribute to the economy, cultural diversity, and health of the nation. Assessing our health status and health needs is key to inform health policy formulation and program implementation. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act has resulted in improved access to health services for many Hispanics, but challenges remain due to limited cultural sensitivity, health literacy, lowest health insurance coverage, and a shortage of Hispanic health care providers. Acculturation barriers and underinsured or uninsured status remain as major obstacles to health care access. Recommendations focus on the adoption of the Health in All Policies framework, expanding access to health care, developing cultural sensitivity in the health care workforce, ensuring participation of Hispanic/Latinx communities, and generating and disseminating research findings on Hispanic health.
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Hope & Unity: Latino CBOs Respond to COVID-19

Hope & Unity: Latino CBOs Respond to COVID-19

Hispanic Federation’s new report, “Hope & Unity: Latino CBOs Respond to COVID-19”, reveals how our COVID-related grantmaking empowered hundreds of Latino community-based organizations to keep their doors open during the first 15 months of the pandemic, even as others were forced to close theirs. Between April 2020 and September 2021, HF’s COVID-related grants – totaling $20.6 million to more than 350 nonprofits in 38 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia – often arrived before other funding, including federal assistance. HF recently surveyed nearly 300 of its Latino nonprofit partners about the reach and impact of the Federation’s COVID-19 grants during the pandemic.
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 La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead For New York City’s Latino Community

La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead For New York City’s Latino Community

Hispanic Federation’s report, “La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead For New York City’s Latino Community”, is a policy blueprint with recommendations on how the next Mayor and City Council can improve the lives of nearly 2.5 million Latinos who call New York City home. Recommendations include, increasing New York City’s Nonprofit Stabilization Fund to $50 million over a five-year period to support people of color-led nonprofit organizations and ensure that nonprofits can engage in long-term planning to meet operational infrastructure needs and technical assistance, establishing free full-day pre-kindergarten for all three- and four year olds, electing a Latino/a as the next Speaker of the City Council, and more.
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Overcoming COVID-19 Economic Barriers for Latino Communities

Overcoming COVID-19 Economic Barriers for Latino Communities

A new report from Hispanic Federation and New America, Overcoming COVID-19: Economic Barriers for Latino Communities, describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Latinos in critical aspects of life. As Latinos and other groups collectively battled the coronavirus, the Hispanic Federation and New America’s New Practice Lab began a process to help fill information gaps and provide recommendations to help address this existential challenge. The paper is a result of community participatory research to increase the information on how current conditions impact the livelihood and well-being of Latinos.
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Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color, Latinx LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools

Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color, Latinx LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools

Experiences of racism, homophobia, and transphobia in U.S. schools are prevalent among LGBTQ youth of color. Prior research on LGBTQ youth of color in general has shown that schools nationwide are hostile environments for LGBTQ youth of color, where they experience victimization and discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or all of the above simultaneously.
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Somos Nueva York: The Road Ahead for Latino New Yorkers

Somos Nueva York: The Road Ahead for Latino New Yorkers

Four years ago, as New York City prepared to elect its first new Mayor in more than a decade, Hispanic Federation published “La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead for New York City’s Latino Community.” We explained the key challenges facing more than two million Latino New Yorkers and offered a blueprint for addressing those challenges. It was a bold document that combined thorough research and real-world experience to create an agenda to improve the lives of Latino families across our city.

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Latinos in Central Florida: The Growing Hispanic Presence in the Sunshine State

Latinos in Central Florida: The Growing Hispanic Presence in the Sunshine State

Dear Friends,

Florida’s connections to the Hispanic world are deep, dating back centuries before the founding of the United States. The peninsula has long been home to waves of immigrants and exiles from Spain and Latin America. Not surprisingly, today Florida is home to the third largest Latino population in the country. Nearly 5 million Latinos call the Sunshine State home, and their numbers are growing.

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NHLA 2016 Hispanic Public Policy Agenda

NHLA 2016 Hispanic Public Policy Agenda

Latinos face a wealth gap that leads to poorer socio-economic outcomes for Latino families. The NHLA proposes a range of policies to close the wealth gap.
The NHLA calls for a fair approach to the federal budget that permanently eliminates the arbitrary across-the-board cuts known as sequestration, increases investments in growing our economy, and reforms tax policy to generate greater revenues that can be invested in domestic programs and de cit reduction.
Greater investment is needed in workforce training programs – especially for youth and women – as well as English instruction, and the inclusion of community-based organizations in these programs’ implementation.
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Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis: Overview and Recommendations for Action

Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis: Overview and Recommendations for Action

Puerto Rico and its more than 3.5 million residents are in crisis. In June 2015, Puerto Rico’s Governor Alejandro García Padilla declared that the Commonwealth’s $72 billion debt was “not payable.” He further declared that Puerto Rico needed help from the U.S. government and creditors to restructure the debt and create a plan for sustainable economic growth.
Governor Padilla’s declaration comes after years of low employment and labor participation rates, high rates of outmigration leading to a decline in population, an economic structure shaped more by tax advantages than comparative advantages, inequities in federal health care reimbursement, and unwise, predatory lending practices by hedge funds, which own an estimated 20 percent to 50 percent of Puerto Rico’s debt.
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Growth with Equity: Meeting the Workforce Development Needs of Latinos in New York City

Growth with Equity: Meeting the Workforce Development Needs of Latinos in New York City

The growing concern over rising inequality was a central feature in the 2013 mayoral election in New York City. It was a theme that resonated with many New Yorkers, especially Latinos and Blacks, who have disproportionately felt the negative impact of the city’s deepening economic disparity. However, in the election’s aftermath many questioned the power of the city’s executive to reduce inequality in general and its racial and ethnic dimensions in particular.
While concern with unrealistic expectations may be warranted, we believe there is an unprecedented opportunity for the de Blasio administration to work with the New York City Council and other key stakeholders to shift the focus of city policy in the areas of economic development, workforce development and employment in ways that could mitigate, or even reduce, inequality in New York City. Last year Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered all agencies to begin aggressively tackling income inequality. In this spirit, the Hispanic Federation presents its 2015 policy paper Growth with Equity: Meeting the Workforce Development Needs of Latinos in New York City. It is a rethinking of the city’s workforce development services as well as a launching pad for ideas on how to economically uplift Latino and other struggling New Yorkers.
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Healthy Parks: Healthy Latinos

Healthy Parks: Healthy Latinos

More than 17 percent or 55 million Latinos call the United States home. From east to west coast, New York to California, Latinos live in rural, urban, and suburban areas where they seek to maintain strong ties to nature and the environment. Unfortunately, Latinos are increasingly finding it harder to access and stay in touch with nature. Whether through camping, hiking or playing in a local park, our neighborhoods have not seen the investments needed to give us access to green spaces that most other communities enjoy. The importance of parks to Latino neighborhoods and communities cannot be understated. These green spaces not only contribute to the beautification and air quality of our cities and towns, but also provide space for informal community convening and facilitate neighborly connections that may otherwise go unmade. Moreover, parks make a direct economic impact to our neighborhoods in the form of greater real estate values and commercial contributions from local residents and visitors. Most importantly, investing in parks is a commitment to building community cohesion, pride and the overall quality life for Latino families and all Americans.
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Latino Connecticut: A Call to Action

Latino Connecticut: A Call to Action

Latino Connecticut puts forth an agenda that calls us to action. For the more than 500,000 Hispanics who call Connecticut home, these are exciting and challenging times. The state is undergoing a dramatic demographic transformation that is making it one of the most diverse places in the Northeast. Connecticut’s Hispanic population grew by more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2012 and the state now ranks 17th in the nation in total Hispanic inhabitants. While most Connecticut Latinos live in Fairfield, Hartford and New Haven counties, other counties such as Middlesex, New London and Litchfield have experienced significant increases in their Hispanic population. In short, everywhere one looks in the Constitution State, the number of Latinos is growing.
The increase in Connecticut’s Hispanic population in the last decade has not only changed the demographic landscape of the state, but also has challenged state leaders to think seriously and creatively about how to address the very real challenges that Latinos in the state face. In many ways, state leaders have already responded with innovative ideas and programs to support Latino families including:
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A Stronger New York City: Increasing Latino College Access, Retention and Graduation

A Stronger New York City: Increasing Latino College Access, Retention and Graduation

As the youngest and fastest growing community in New York City, Latinos represent in many ways the hope and promise of La Gran Manzana (The Big Apple). However, the continuing failure of our educational system to prepare Latino youth for college success threatens the future prosperity of the Latino community and New York City as a whole. According to Lumina Foundation, just 23 percent of Latino New Yorkers between 25 and 64 years old had at least a two-year college degree, compared to 52 percent of whites. This educational gap is startling and requires immediate action.
In response to this crisis, Hispanic Federation (HF) and the City University of New York (CUNY) have partnered with community-based and education non-profits, educators, public policy stakeholders and business leaders to launch the Latino CREAR (College Readiness, Access and Retention) Coalition. The Coalition is focused on promoting and advancing policies and practices that improve Latino educational equity and access, and lead to college success. CREAR represents an investment in the future of Latinos and New York City.
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Nueva York and Beyond: The Latino Communities of the Tri-State Area

Nueva York and Beyond: The Latino Communities of the Tri-State Area

Latinos are changing the New York Region.1 Their influence is being felt in politics, culture and the economy. They are transforming neighborhoods, altering political campaigns, and changing the way businesses do business. Hispanic Federation has not only watched the Hispanic community’s growth and development in the New York Region, it has been a leader in explaining the “how” and “why” of this movement. For this reason we are delighted to present this report on some of the key factors driving the Latinization of the New York Region.
Thanks to our collaborators at Nielsen we have been able to create a unique snapshot of the area’s Latino communities. This report was developed using current data on demographics and consumer behaviors in order to shed light on the burgeoning strength of Latinos and their unique position in the consumer landscape. Because the data is so rich and the insights so penetrating, we believe we have created a document that captures the complexity and diversity of the New York Region’s Latinos in a way that few others have.
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La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead for New York City's Latino Community

La Gran Manzana: The Road Ahead for New York City's Latino Community

More than 2.3 million Latinos call New York City home. They live in every borough and every neighborhood in the city: from Jackson Heights to Washington Heights, from Parkchester to Port Richmond, from Sunset Park to Bedford Park. Over the course of several decades they have rebuilt communities, opened new businesses, changed the way we eat and speak, and become integral parts of the fabric of New York City. Now, more than ever before, you are as likely to hear New York City described not as the Big Apple but as La Gran Manna.
Because Latinos now occupy such an important role in the daily life of the city, it is important that our political leadership understand and respond to the manifold challenges facing our community. This is an election year in New York and one that promises significant changes to the political landscape. Not only will we welcome new members of the City Council but also a new Comptroller, a new Public Advocate, and perhaps most significantly, a new Mayor.
As we have watched the electoral process unfold we have been heartened by the amount of attention that the candidates have been paying to Latino voters. But we worry also that while candidates may recognize the value of the Latino electorate, they may not fully grasp the scope of the challenges that Latino families, businesses and seniors face in New York City.
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2013 Policy Brief on Immigration Reform

2013 Policy Brief on Immigration Reform

We proudly proclaim America to be a “nation of immigrants.” Throughout our history, the U.S. has drawn people from all over the world to forge new lives, start and support families, and pursue their dreams. Currently, about 40 million immigrants make up 13% of the U.S. population. Then as now, immigration serves as a key force sustaining and driving America’s success. Immigrants have become essential workers in such diverse fields as construction, restaurants and hospitality, IT and health care. Some of the states widely considered to be U.S. “economic engines” — California, New York, Texas, New Jersey and Florida — are among the top five states with the largest number of immigrants. The Small Business Administration (SBA) states that immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start businesses than non-immigrants. These businesses created home-grown jobs for an estimated 4.7 million American workers in 2007.
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