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As the Inland Latino community grows, “so should investments in the organizations and initiatives aiming to close disparity gaps,” CIELO Fund Founding Chair Jesse Melgar said via email. Compiled by UCR’s Center for Social Innovation, the study found that Latinos, with 2.37 million people, now make up 51.5% of the Inland population. “Latino growth rates...
Melgar envisioned a fund created by Latinos for Latinos and began reaching out to Latino leaders in the community, building a committee that includes Helen Torres; Tomás D. Morales; Diana Z. Rodriguez; Elizabeth Romero; Silvia Paz; Luz Gallegos; Angel Rodriguez; Sergio Bohon; Marisa Valdez Yeager and Marco Robles. The committee worked on raising funds while...
Campaigns, while having ramped up efforts in recent years, have not sufficiently reached out to the racial group, either. A survey from nonprofit research organization AAPI Data shows that 52% of Asian Americans nationwide had had no contact from the Democratic Party, and 60% had had no contact from Republicans. Cheng said that Asian American...
The Inland Empire Community Steps Up to Support the CIELO Fund Seed funding for the CIELO Fund was made possible by generous support from foundations, local businesses, and dozens of individuals who believe that strengthening philanthropic infrastructure for the Latino community is vital for the region’s success. This includes major support from the Weingart Foundation...
The Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside and the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA are partnering to provide a space for Inland Empire youth to learn more about the issues that are impacting their region and how they can better organize to catalyze the kind of social innovation they would like to see...
“As the Latino community in the Inland Empire grows, so should investments in the frontline organizations providing critical resources and support to our families daily," Melgar said. "Through this fund we hope to catalyze a new network of community philanthropists who will step up to invest in the communities we grew up in, live in...
“The Latino community is critical to the Inland Empire’s success today and will continue to be in the future,” said Cervantes. “We are the backbone of our economy. We are workers, doctors, teachers, and students driving our region forward everyday.” The CIELO fund also plans to study issues impacting Latino communities to identify where funding...
After leaving the California Governor's office, Melgar founded Cultivating Inland Empire Latino Opportunity (CIELO) Fund, which launched this weekend under the Inland Empire Community Foundation. "The fund will support and invest in Latino-led and Latino-serving organizations," said Melgar. It begins by offering a demographic snapshot of the Latino or Latine community that now makes up...
IN RECENT YEARS, the Inland Empire has become predominantly Latino for the first time. In 2010, 47.3 percent of the Inland Empire was Latino, and that number has now shifted to 51.6 percent. The fund comes at a critical time as Latino-based organizations that are working to improve social and economic conditions in the Latino...
People avoid getting healthcare services because they can’t communicate with their providers, added Mairelise Robinson, program manager for Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California’s Health Access Project. “The lack of access to language support has really limited healthcare options,” she said. Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at UC Riverside, said groups such as...
Each September we celebrate the influence and contributions of Latinos in the United States. We are educators and entrepreneurs, farmworkers and first responders, attorneys and artists– and so much more. These celebrations are particularly salient in the Inland Empire, where Latinos are now the majority of the population, 51.5%, according to the 2020 Census –...
Each September we celebrate the influence and contributions of Latinos in the United States. We are educators and entrepreneurs, farmworkers and first responders, attorneys and artists– and so much more. These celebrations are particularly salient in the Inland Empire, where Latinos are now the majority of the population, 51.5%, according to the 2020 Census –...
In celebration of Latino Heritage Month, The Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at UC Riverside is proud to partner with the new Cultivating Inland Empire Latino Opportunity Fund, also known as the CIELO Fund, at the Inland Empire Community Foundation to release Aqui Estamos: A Data Profile on Latinos in the Inland Empire. The data...
In the 2020 presidential election, the number of Asian Americans who voted in five battleground states was larger than the presidential margin of victory, according to the nonpartisan group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, or APIAVote. The Asian American electorate has been higher on the radar of political campaigns since 2018, Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder...
In the 2020 presidential election, the number of Asian Americans who voted in five battleground states was larger than the presidential margin of victory, according to the nonpartisan group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, or APIAVote. The Asian American electorate has been higher on the radar of political campaigns since 2018, Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, the founder of AAPI Data, which helps conduct the annual Asian American Voter Survey, said the economy and crime were top issues for respondents, which could give an advantage to Republicans. But health care has also been a major issue, he said, which could boost Democrats, who recently pushed through Congress sweeping climate...
CSI Research Manager, Gary Rettberg, was featured on The Startempire Wire Founder’s Podcast this week. They discussed Gary’s experience as a Research Manager, and also dove into the different data and narrative work surrounding the innovation ecosystem in the Inland Empire. Finally, they get into details about the newly published data supplement released in conjunction...
The innovation ecosystem in the Inland Empire—whether measured by startup formation, acquisitions, investments, jobs, or research and development activities—has grown significantly in the past decade. This tremendous growth offers great promise for our region’s resilient and innovative communities, and continues to push back on the decades long narrative that the I.E. is a region of...
The Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside (CSI) and Blended Impact released its second joint effort, the 2021 IE Innovation Ecosystem Highlights, this week on https://iesquared.org. Last year, in April 2021, CSI partnered with Blended Impact on the region’s first comprehensive report on the Inland Empire innovation ecosystem. The report analyzed the history of...
