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Quavo hosts summit against gun violence featuring VP Kamala Harris on late rapper Takeoff's birthday
6 months ago

Quavo hosts summit against gun violence featuring VP Kamala Harris on late rapper Takeoff's birthday

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Migos rapper Quavo’s quest to transform his nephew Takeoff’s tragic shooting into a force for change convened with a summit against gun violence on what would have been the late rapper’s 30th birthday. I’m still mourning,” said Quavo, who along with his family launched the Rocket Foundation in honor of Takeoff and committed millions to invest into …

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Julián Castro to head the California-based Latino Community Foundation
1 year ago

Julián Castro to head the California-based Latino Community Foundation

LA Times  

Julián Castro will be spending more time in California once he takes the helm as the chief executive of the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, billed as the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the United States. The foundation announced Castro’s new role early Wednesday, about five months after Jacqueline Martinez Garcel announced she’d be stepping down from the CEO …

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Green thumbs and park fans rejoice as deal to buy O.C. community garden falls into place
1 year, 3 months ago

Green thumbs and park fans rejoice as deal to buy O.C. community garden falls into place

LA Times  

Fourteen years ago, a group of volunteers began the transformation of an empty lot in the Orange County neighborhood of South Laguna into what has become a beloved spot for gardening enthusiasts and residents alike. “This is the moment we’ve been waiting for for 14 years,” Ann Christoph, project director of the garden park, said at the Laguna Beach City …

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Miguel Santana to head California Community Foundation after Antonia Hernández’s retirement
1 year, 4 months ago

Miguel Santana to head California Community Foundation after Antonia Hernández’s retirement

LA Times  

Miguel Santana, president and chief executive of the Weingart Foundation, is leaving to take the same role at one of Southern California’s most influential charities, the California Community Foundation. Hernández, Saenz said, “has built CCF to a position of great strength and incomparable reputation; Miguel Santana is the right leader to build from that extraordinary foundation to greater heights for …

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Philanthropy pours more money into advancing Latino wealth
2 years, 1 month ago

Philanthropy pours more money into advancing Latino wealth

Associated Press  

Juan Hernandez III, CEO of a nonprofit lending fund, has made about 17 loans to Latino entrepreneurs and business owners across Sonoma County, California. Hernandez was able to provide the loans averaging $33,000 each after his organization received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Latino Community Foundation’s Latino Entrepreneurship Fund in July 2021. “It was important for us to make …

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Sahodari Foundation to host a talk on gender and climate change in Coimbatore
2 years, 3 months ago

Sahodari Foundation to host a talk on gender and climate change in Coimbatore

The Hindu  

Transwoman Karthiga ran a tea stall at Washermanpet in Chennai. The Sahodari Foundation, an organisation involved in transgender rights advocacy, hopes to kickstart a conversation on this issue, especially on how climate change affects transgender people. “Climate change and gender are interrelated,” says Kalki. “Excessive rains or floods triggered by climate change, for instance, tend to wash away slums near …

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Gender activist group makes minor boy wear mangalsutra and bindi
3 years, 4 months ago

Gender activist group makes minor boy wear mangalsutra and bindi

Op India  

Gender activist group Equal Community Foundation published a video of a minor on Twitter on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan in which he was seen wearing a bindi and mangalsutra. It looks like social media woke campaign.” Why do boys have to wear a bindi and is it mangalsutra to ensure that they treat women equally? Looks like social media …

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Colorado shooting victims demand answers on public donations
3 years, 6 months ago

Colorado shooting victims demand answers on public donations

Associated Press  

DENVER — Several families and survivors of those killed in the March mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket have demanded the appointment of a special master to help distribute public donations for victims to a centralized account. The groups giving out donated money to survivors of the 10 people killed March 22 at the King Soopers market — Community Foundation …

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