“They don’t forget who helped them and they come back, we all come back,” Gallegos said. A pendulum passing forward the critical resources they once needed, while pushing the growing footprint of Latino voters to exercise this power at the polls. According to a recent data profile by UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation, there...
Health care, jobs and the economy, crime, education, gun control and the environment are the top issues for Asian Americans for deciding their votes in the November 8 midterm elections, according to a recent survey. Voting rights and addressing racism were also important issues for them, according to the bi-annual survey by Asian and Pacific...
Anti-Asian violence, brutal physical assaults, and heinous murders of Asian Americans during the pandemic have captured the nation’s attention, but far more common are incidents like the one I experienced. Last year, 33% of Asian Americans have been called names or insulted, 30% have been the target of offensive physical gestures, 11% have been coughed...
Anti-Asian violence, brutal physical assaults, and heinous murders of Asian Americans during the pandemic have captured the nation’s attention, but far more common are incidents like the one I experienced. Last year, 33% of Asian Americans have been called names or insulted, 30% have been the target of offensive physical gestures, 11% have been coughed...
The Nov. 8 Election Day is a little more than a month away, and local organizations are trying to get more Latinos and Hispanics to register to vote and participate in the upcoming election. According to "A Data Profile of Latinos in the Inland Empire" done by UCR Center for Social Innovation, voter registration and...
Over 130 high school and college students met at UC Riverside for a youth summit Saturday, Oct. 1, to discuss civic engagement and other issues related to facilitating change in their communities. California Freedom Summer, a project led by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, in partnership with the Center for Social Innovation at UC...
WONG: And I'm Wailin Wong. Today on the show, how we ended up with this weirdly broad and - some would argue - nonsensical racial category. We'll talk about why it matters and whether there's a better way to understand the fastest-growing demographic in the country. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: What do people think of...
What is AAPI? It stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander, but this racial category that's often used by the U.S Census is broad and rather ambiguous. Underneath this arbitrary grouping, at least twenty different countries, places, and a plethora of diverse cultures are nested under the umbrella term. Today on the show, we explore...
WONG: And I'm Wailin Wong. Today on the show, how we ended up with this weirdly broad and - some would argue - nonsensical racial category. We'll talk about why it matters and whether there's a better way to understand the fastest-growing demographic in the country. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: What do people think of...
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 –...
