| Using Strategic Communications to Advance Social Change in Black and Latino Communities |
| | “ON MESSAGE,” a new ABFE-HIP report on using strategic communications to advance social change in Black and Latino communities. |
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| Invisible No More - Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States |
| | Edited by Xochitl Bada, Jonathan Fox, and Andrew Selee, the report follows up on and examines the wave of mobilizations in Mexican-American and Latino communities around immigration reform in the spring of 2006. |
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| Forsyth County Latino Community Assesment Report |
| | The growth of the Latino community – in Forsyth County and in North Carolina – has been significant over the last decade. Currently, the Latino population is estimated to represent 9.2% of the County’s total population– a number that is likely higher due to undercounting.
In response to this growth, Forsyth County funders that are members of Hispanics In Philanthropy’s Funders Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities, initiated an assessment of the current status of services for the Latino community. This report, entitled "Forsyth County Latino Community Assesment Report," can now serve as a starting point for developing an appropriate spectrum of services to help integrate Latinos effectively in the community. |
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| Economic Impact of the Hispanic Population on the State of North Carolina |
| | The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has published a study on Latinos' economic impact on North Carolina. This study shows how the recent rise in North Carolina's Latino population has, among other things, had an economic impact of $9.2 billion in North Carolina. It is an important study, which goes above the rhetoric of recent immigration debates to provide factual evidence of Latinos' importance to North Carolina. |
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| Effective Philanthropy |
| | Offering demographics, case studies, strategic funding initiatives, theoretical analyses, and original research, Effective Philanthropy convincingly documents how stale conventions and old habits—what the authors call “Norm”—undermine innovation. By “Naming Norm” and institutionalizing what the book calls “deep diversity,” organizations can cut through the dead wood of unnamed assumptions and learn to tap “differences that divide us”—race, class, gender, sexual orientation, geography, age, religion, physical ability, and others—to become more effective. In turn, organizations gain access to a wider range of available resources, both inside and outside their doors.
The book describes detailed case studies of effective foundations and model programs that have moved beyond “doing the right thing” to become vital, healthy, learning organizations. Among organizations and programs featur |
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| From Potential to Productivity: Remittances, Migrant Organizations, and Development in Mexico |
| | For the last ten years, an average of 350,000 Mexicans per year have made their way across the northern border. Persently,over 10 million make their living in the United States. Migrants' remittances to Mexico reached over $18 billion in 2005, topping foreign direct investment as a source of income. The study of migrant workers' individual remittances to Mexico has spurred a debate on thier developmental consequences. On one hand, the "pessimistic" view contends that remittances are spent primarily on sustaining basic household consumption and do not find their way to savings and productive investments. On the other hand, the "optimistic" perspective argues that these expenditures aid the household and have positive, if indirect, effects on development. Dwight Dyer's paper documents broad trends in Mexican migration and remittance patterns, sketches the debate around their developmental effects, and suggests avenues for philanthropy to help increase the positivive developmental e |
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| US-Mexico Binational Indigenous Migration |
| | Indigenous leader and HIP Funders' Collaborative grantee Rufino Dominguez Santos shares a very personal perspective on the social, economic, political, and cultural impacts of migration on Oaxacan indigenous communities. "The early 1980’s saw a huge migration of Oaxacan indigenous communities to the United States," he writes, "where entire families would cross the border to enter a foreign land that was far different from their own, but that at last offered a better economic situation. Once they arrived, they saw that you can survive for a week on a day’s work, while in Mexico you would have to work an entire week to be able to survive one day. However, all is not roses in the United States; we have similar problems to the ones we experienced in our own country." |
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| New Study on Foundation Giving to Minority-led Nonprofits |
| | The Greenlining Institute, a Berkeley-based think tank, has conducted a study of inequities in foundation giving to minority-led nonprofits. Part I of "Fairness in Philanthropy" finds that top independent and community foundations awarded only three percent of total grant dollars to minority-led nonprofits in 2002. Part II of the study examines the effect of foundations' diversity practices and policies on giving priorities.
To access the study, please visit the Greenlining Institute's website at: http://www.greenlining.org/program/research.php?topic=5 |
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| Dialoge on Advoacy and Activism in Latino Communities of Philadelphia |
| | HIP’s Philadelphia Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities funded a series of intergenerational dialogues meant to build the capacity for stronger collective action and organized community advocacy/activism in order to support the development and empowerment of Philadelphia’s Latino community. Its focus was to identify barriers, but more importantly, solutions, to helping the Latino community develop an intergenerational and collective voice that could impact social change. This interesting activity helps to set the stage to refelct on Succession/transition Planning, but at a community wide level, rather than simpy at an organizational level. |
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| Inventory of Latino Nonprofit Organizations in Greater Milwaukee |
| | November 2005: This report explores the Latino Nonprofit landscape in the Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. The Inventory was compiled over two years with the purpose of identifying small and medium-sized Latino-led, Latino-serving organizations and assessing management and organizational development needs. The report was commissioned by the Southeast Wisconsin site of HIP's Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities. |
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| HIP to the Gap |
| | As part of the Future of Philanthropy Project, the Global Business Network and Monitor Institute published an article on the work of Hispanics in Philanthropy in North Carolina. The article highlights how HIP took on a leadership position unusual for membership associations, and helped draw new resources to a growing area of need. Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities successfully raised money from national foundations, and served as an effective vehicle for local funders to assist community organizations overlooked by existing philanthropy. |
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| Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-first Century Philanthropists |
| | Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-first Century Philanthropists and the related futureofphilanthropy.org website share the findings of a four-year inquiry into philanthropy by the Monitor Institute and Global Business Network. They explore the pressures and trends that are quietly transforming U.S. philanthropy and provide practical ideas for philanthropists who want to be more strategic and more effective in their giving by aligning their efforts with the broader changes shaping our world. |
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| The Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities: Lessons Learned In Boulder County |
| | November 2004: To better understand how to most effectively support the emerging Latino nonprofit sector, Hispanics in Philanthropy sponsored a six-month organizational development training program for leaders from eight Latino-led organizations in Boulder County, Colorado between October 2003 and March 2004. This briefing paper shares the results and the findings of this initiative. |
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| Funders Collabortive Evalutiaon - Implementation Report |
| | September 2004: This document is a summary of the process findings from the early grantmaking in the first six U.S. sites. Key lessons about the Funders' Collaborative model, peer networking, grantee-funder relations, capacity building with Latino nonprofits, and sustainability are discussed. |
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| Funders Collaborative Evaluation - Early Outcomes Report |
| | September 2004: This evaluation report summarizes the progress of the initiative in meeting its objectives. It draws on early impact data from six sites: Northern California/Central Valley, Colorado, Upper Midwest, Philadelphia, Connecticut and New Mexico. |
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| Using Film to Advance Dialogue - Farmingville |
| | Recognizing that film and television can be powerful tools to advance dialogue, HIP has recently promoted discussion of human rights in U.S. immigrant communities by hosting screenings and panel discussions of the award-winning documentary Farmingville. |
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| A Call To Action-Human Rights - Civil Liberties and Philanthropy |
| | June 2004: Reflections from the Annual Member Meeting and the kick off of the Call To Action campaign designed to engage our network and the funding community in a dialogue about the current state of our democracy and potential threats to civil liberties which affect not only Latinos, but the community at large. |
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| Reflection-Action and Expansion- Analysis of the Challenge and Opportunities for Development of the Emerging Latino Community in Boulder County |
| | November 2003: This report explores the significant impact new Latino immigrants are having on community institutions in Boulder, Colorado. The report was commissioned by the Colorado site of HIP's Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities. |
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| The Relationship Between Blacks and Latinos in the United States - Challenges and Opportunities |
| | October 2003: A summary report on the professional development seminar sponsored by ABFE and HIP at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families. |
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| Documents from January Board Meeting |
| | In January 2005, HIP's board gathered in Miami, Fl for two days of meetings. During the first day of the meeting, we held a panel of local experts (Sergio Bendixen, President of Bendixen and Associates, Jorge Mursuli, Florida Director of People for the American Way, and Josie Bacallao, President of Hispanic Unity) who presented an “Analysis of the Latino vote in the last election, and trends for the future”.
The presentations spoke |
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