Hispanics in Philanthropy was featured in a "Healthcare Disparities Report" publication. Below is an excerpt of the article on HIP. To access the entire report, please click here: Healthcare Disparities Report
Hispanic Funders Collaborative
Makes Capacity-Building Grants
The Funders Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities—a network of local, regional, and national funders providing capacity-building grants to Latino non-profits—has launched a campaign to raise $50 million over five years for its next phase of grantmaking and trainings. Local site committees in the 15 national and international Funders’ Collaborative sites will begin making new capac-ity-building grants early in 2006, reports Christa Roth, vice president of the Collaborative’s founder Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP).
About 100 of the 323 previous recipients of Funders’ Collaborative grants provide healthcare or health-related services to underserved Latino communities. The Funders’ Collaborative was founded in 1999 and comprises 13 domestic grantmaking sites as well as inter-national sites in Argentina and the Dominican Republic. It has grown from nine funders in 2000 to more than 100 in 2005. Funding sources include small and large-scale foun-dations, major corporations, and individuals.
HIP provides national grantmaking funds and technical assistance to the Collaborative’s local funding sites, while local funders must in turn match the money provided by HIP dollar-for-dollar, doubling investment potential. The local groups set their own funding criteria and make the fi-nal grant award decisions. HIP and its Collaborative partners’ support has totaled $25 million through October 2005.
Before applying for a grant, potential grantees should do an internal assessment of their organizational capacity so they can identify specific steps for which they need support to deliver on their mission and objectives, advises Roth.
HIP was founded in 1983 to promote partnerships be-tween Latino communities and corporate, public and pri-vate philanthropies. HIP is a transnational network of grantmakers that believe philanthropy should be more in-clusive and responsive to communities of color. HIP’s serves as a catalyst to increase resources for the Latino and Latin American civil sector, as well as to increase Latino participation and leadership throughout philanthropy. HIP pursues this mission through programs, conferences, publi-cations and research that seek to educate the field of phi-lanthropy about Latino issues and Latin America, to increase the representation of Latinos in the field, and to de-velop philanthropy from within Latino communities.