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LATINAS THINK BIG™
ELLA Leadership Institute brings LATINAS THINK BIG™ event to the West Coast on October 11, 2013. There is still time to get your Virtual Pass.
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Help End Domestic Violence with the Allstate Foundation’s #PurplePurse Campaign
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Allstate Foundation’s Purple Purse Campaign has pledged to donate up to $350,000 to the YWCA for programs designed at assisting survivors of domestic violence and other women in need. Simply log on to www.purplepurse.com or www.bolsomorado.com and enter the code 0003, a $5 donation will be donated from Allstate Foundation to the YWCA for programs that support victims of domestic violence and build financial empowerment.
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Latina Fashionistas Go Mobile
Fashionista Samantha Lugo is bringing shopping to you with her stylish, one-stop boutique on wheels.
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Community Spotlight: Tatum’s Garden
Salinas community comes together to build a fully accessible and all-inclusive park called Tatum’s Garden. A beautiful, happy toddler Tatum who was born with spina bifida inspired the idea. Find out more about how you can get involved.
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Social Justice Tools for a Not-So-Post-Racial Era: Californian Approaches on the Cutting-edge
Over the last three months, groundbreaking racial and environmental justice tools have been established in order to implement more informed and just public policy. In April, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) published a data map, the CalEnviroScreen 1.0, revealing that Latinas/os make up the majority of those living in the most disadvantaged zip codes. In July, The Greenlining Institute (GI) released a Racial Equity Toolkit as a guide for policy-influencers that necessitates collaborating with stakeholders. These cutting-edge tools underscore current systematic discrepancies in the allocation of both beneficial and harmful resources—conflicting with the popular narrative that the U.S. has reached an enlightened post-racial moment of social equality.