Super User
Health Program
Since our founding, Hispanic Access has worked to improve health outcomes for U.S. Latinos. By leveraging our ties with churches—trusted members of Latino communities—we are able to connect with some of the humblest and hardest-to-reach groups: the poor, the undocumented, the less educated, the uninsured, and the non-English-speaking.
Latino Advocacy Week
About
Launched in 2021, Latino Advocacy Week is meant to help build the capacity and familiarity among Latinos to advocate for themselves, their families, and their community. In 2023, we hosted events that includes discussions surrounding workforce development, access to nature, and immigration.
The Power Of Fellowship Through Crisis
The Latino Church is a vital catalyst for everything that occurs in its community. Clergy in the community are trusted, respected, and continually called upon to not only provide spiritual resources, but to also be a bridge to essential physical resources as well. For this reason, the Hispanic Leadership Network was launched by Hispanic Access Foundation, whose mission is to serve the Latino community as a bridge of access to relevant resources in order to ensure that clergy in our community are well equipped for all of the work they do inside and outside of their places of worship.
Welcome to our MANO Intranet!
As some of you may have heard, there are exciting plans underway to improve the technology we use at the MANO Project to ensure our interns and fellows maintain an engaged comunidad during their internship and fellowship experiences.
On November 17th, we roll out our MANO Intranet and will share the link to the log-in page with all current MANO interns. Your log-in credentials are the same that you would use to log in and submit a blog. To ensure the adoption of the intranet goes smoothly, Nina Marti and her team will be reaching out over the next year with updates, and to solicit your vital feedback. Your input will assist our overall goal of bringing ease and accessibility to your everyday networking needs within the MANO comunidad. Join us with your gracious feedback as we work out the kinks in this exciting new project!
A similar version of this message will be distributed via email to all current MANO interns for the launch of the intranet.
The intranet includes:
Thank Senator Padilla for Protecting Public Lands and Waters for All!
Thank Senator Padilla for Protecting Public Lands and Waters for All!
¡Gracias Senador Padilla por Proteger las Tierras y Aguas Públicas Para Todos!
Letter Text
Senator Alex Padilla
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Padilla,
Thank you for working to protect California’s public lands and rivers on behalf of our Latino communities. By championing the PUBLIC Lands Act in the Senate, you are taking a critical step in addressing inequitable access to the outdoors in California and ensuring more Californians can enjoy our public lands and rivers—not just tomorrow, but long into the future.
For years, local communities have been working to protect and increase access to more than one million acres and 500 miles of rivers in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, in the Los Padres National Forest and Carrizo Plain National Monument along California’s Central Coast, and in key forests in northwestern California. These lands and rivers are treasured by local communities, indigenous peoples, and Californians throughout the state—for improving public health; for addressing climate change, and achieving the California’s and the nation’s goals to conserve 30% of our lands and waters by 2030; for access to nature; for preserving our state’s diverse heritage; and for boosting local economies.
Many Latino communities do not have equitable access to these cherished places, and the pandemic has exacerbated our need to experience nature close to home. This legislation will protect our public lands and rivers for communities today, and for future generations. Please do everything possible to pass these important protections during the 117th Congress.
Sincerely,
Click to tweet: https://ctt.ac/ah8FH “Thank you @SenAlexPadilla for championing legislation to #ProtectCAPublicLands and rivers in the San Gabriel Mountains, the Central Coast and Northwest California - and for your leadership to improve equitable access to the outdoors for all!”
Firma la Carta de Agradecimiento
Senator Alex Padilla
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Estimado Senador Padilla,
Gracias por trabajar para proteger las tierras públicas y los ríos de California en nombre de nuestras comunidades latinas. Al defender la Ley de Tierras PÚBLICAS en el Senado, estás dando un paso fundamental para abordar el acceso desigual al aire libre en California y garantizar que más californianos puedan disfrutar de nuestras tierras y ríos públicos, no solo mañana, sino en el futuro.
Durante años, las comunidades locales han estado trabajando para proteger y aumentar el acceso a más de un millón de acres y 500 millas de ríos en las Montañas San Gabriel cerca de Los Ángeles, en el Bosque Nacional Los Padres y el Monumento Nacional Carrizo Plain a lo largo de la Costa Central de California, y en bosques clave en el noroeste de California. Estas tierras y ríos son atesorados por las comunidades locales, los pueblos indigenos y los Californianos en todo el estado, para mejorar la salud pública; por abordar el cambio climático y lograr las metas de California y la nación de conservar el 30% de nuestras tierras y aguas para el 2030; para el acceso a la naturaleza; para preservar la herencia diversa de nuestro estado; y para impulsar las economías locales.
Muchas comunidades Latinas no tienen acceso equitativo a estos lugares preciados, y la pandemia ha exacerbado nuestra necesidad de experimentar la naturaleza cerca de casa. Esta legislación protegerá nuestras tierras públicas y ríos para las comunidades de hoy y para las generaciones futuras. Haga todo lo posible para aprobar estas importantes protecciones durante el 117th Congreso.
Atentamente,
Haga clic para twittear: https://ctt.ac/ah8FH
"Gracias @SenAlexPadilla por defender la legislación para #ProtegerCATierrasPublicas y ríos en las montañas de San Gabriel, la costa central y el noroeste de California, ¡y por su liderazgo para mejorar el acceso equitativo al aire libre para todos!"
Giving Tuesday
HELP US TRANSFORM LATINO LIVES
DONATE TO OUR GIVING TUESDAY MATCHING CAMPAIGN
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Double the impact and donate today to help us continue our mission of paving a way for Latinos to gain access to the opportunities and resources that bring fullness of life: education, employment, a healthy environment, and more.
This Giving Tuesday, help us change Latino Lives. With your help, we want to continue empowering Latinos to lead in all sectors of American life. We want to shine a light on our programs and work that has already improved the lives of many communities and made progress in creating equity for Latinos in the United States. Our Giving Tuesday campaign will run until Tuesday, December 14, the day of Hispanic Access Foundation’s annual event. Register for the event to learn more about some of the lives we’ve impacted this past year.
Your contribution will be matched to double the impact thanks to the support of our amazing partners at REI.
Your Donation Helps…
- Give leaders in our comunidades the resources they need to succeed
- Close the Nature Gap that disproportionately impacts Latinos in low-income communities
- Provide access to the outdoors for many Latinos who don’t have access to our public lands
- Connect young Latino leaders with employment opportunities through our MANO Project
- Continue mentoring Latino faith leaders across the nation through leadership training
Our Impact
- Our MANO Project has impacted the lives of over 300 young leaders by providing them with employment opportunities with federal land management agencies.
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We helped create seven national monuments – Browns Canyon (CO), San Gabriel Mountains (CA), Sand to Snow (CA), Mojave Trails (CA), Castle Mountains (CA), Boulder White-Clouds (ID), Castner Range (TX) and Basin & Range (NV).
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We helped thousands of Latinos get outdoors through Latino Conservation Week – 2021 was celebrated with more than 200 events and 250+ sponsors
- We have built a strong, trust-based relationship with 50+ Latino faith leaders throughout the United States through our Hispanic Leadership Program
- We have produced three short films – “Hecho de Agua”, “I Am CHEO”, "Milk and Honey" and "Land, Water y Comunidad" – which have elevated the Latino voice on conservation issues affecting their community.
HELP US TRANSFORM LATINO LIVES – CONTRIBUTE TO OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN
Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Week
Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Week (OHOP) is an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation. OHOP was created to showcase the stories of Black, Indigenous, and other Artists of Color with roots in nature - learning, experiencing, and uplifting the nexus between Black, Indigenous, Latino, and other people of color communities and the lands, waterways, and ocean we call home.
In addition to the film screenings, throughout the festival, artists, communities, and decision-makers come together to host interactive discussions on environmental topics.
GOALS OF OUR HERITAGE, OUR PLANET FILM WEEK:
- Elevate stories of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color
- Shine a spotlight on diverse cultural heritages and the environment
- Educate the community on the connection between communities of color and the nation’s lands, waterways, and ocea
WHAT'S FEATURED
The film week showcased films in any genre with themes related to Lands and Nature, Climate Crisis, Equity, Justice, and Health, and Ocean and Waterways.
LANDS AND NATURE
Cultural, religious, and ancestral connections to nature and the land; adventure stories; ecosystems and biodiversity on land; parks and protected areas on land; nature-based solutions; land-based natural resources; urban nature; traditional land management knowledge and practices; restorative agriculture; etc.
CLIMATE CRISIS
Stories of climate hazards such as flooding, sea level rise, wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat, or drought; climate risks to people, ecosystems, and biodiversity; climate solutions; urban sustainability; threats from fossil fuels and greenhouse gases; threats from plastics; climate governance; etc.
EQUITY, JUSTICE, AND HEALTH
Connections between pollutants and health; nature and health; correcting historic injustices; ties between racial justice, civil rights, social rights, and environmental and climate justice; just food systems; just transition; just recovery from the pandemic; etc.
OCEAN AND WATERWAYS
Cultural, religious, and ancestral connections to waterways and the ocean; ocean and water governance; water protectors; water and marine ecosystems and biodiversity; freshwater conservation; ocean and freshwater natural resources; water adventures; etc.
For more information on participating, visit OurHeritageOurPlanet.org to learn more.
Urge President Biden: Protect Public Lands and Waters!
Sign the Letter
As the Biden administration seeks to conserve public lands and waters and advance environmental justice, the Antiquities Act is an invaluable tool the president can use to establish additional national monuments, thereby conserving public lands and cultural resources, improving outdoor access, honoring the diverse experiences of our nation, and stimulating local and regional economies.
We deeply appreciate President Biden taking action to reverse the rollbacks initiated by the previous administration and restore protections to irreplaceable cultural resources and natural treasures at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. Now, we look to President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and to work with communities across the nation to protect more irreplaceable cultural places and public lands and waters, and fulfill the President’s pledge to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands, waters, and ocean by 2030, outlined in the America the Beautiful initiative.
Please sign this letter and urge President Biden to act swiftly and use his authority to protect public lands and ocean health.
Letter Text
President Joseph Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
The Honorable Deb Haaland
Secretary of the Interior
US Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
RE: Use the Antiquities Act to Protect Lands with Significant Cultural and Historical Significance
The establishment of national monuments through the Antiquities Act has proven to be a key tool for protecting landscapes that benefit cultural resources, unique scientific objects, outdoor recreation, and regional economies.
Through The Antiquities Act, presidents have been able to protect hundreds of millions of acres of land that have significant cultural and historical significance. These presidential designated national monuments protect our public lands, air, water, wildlife, culturally and historically significant artifacts and sites. Furthermore, monuments help to support and grow local economies, tourism, and outdoor access.
Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, Joshua Tree, Acadia, and Grand Teton National Parks—to name a few of America’s most special places—were all originally protected as national monuments. Each of these significant cultural and recreation landscapes, along with the thriving economies of the nearby gateway communities, would look very different today but for the foresight of multiple presidents who employed the Antiquities Act.
The undersigned deeply appreciate President Biden taking action to reverse the rollbacks initiated by the previous administration and restore protections to irreplaceable cultural resources and natural treasures at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. Now, we look to President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and to work with communities across the nation to protect more irreplaceable cultural places and public lands and waters, and fulfill the President’s pledge to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands, waters, and ocean by 2030, outlined in the America the Beautiful initiative. In particular, we urge you to focus on protecting the following properties:
- The Castner Range outside of El Paso, Texas, which provides an essential watershed and has historically been a waypoint for communities seeking rest from the harsh desert environment.
- Friendship Park in Southern California that provides transborder cultural connectivity between San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico where the construction of border barriers threatens local ecology and reduces public use of these lands.
- Avi Kwa Ame is a dramatic landscape in Southern Nevada with some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the entire Mojave Desert. The region’s mountains, canyons, natural springs, and bajadas are considered sacred by ten Yuman speaking tribes as well as the Hopi and Chemehuevi Paiute.
The Antiquities Act is an invaluable tool to establish additional national monuments, thereby conserving public lands, waters and cultural resources, improving outdoor access, honoring the diverse experiences of our nation, and stimulating local and regional economies.
The undersigned individuals from across the country urge the Biden administration to protect more public lands and waters as well as important cultural properties.
The undersigned,
Hispanic Access Opens Call for Nominations to Its Board of Directors
For over 10 years, Hispanic Access Foundation has connected Latinos to partners and opportunities, improving lives and creating an equitable society. Now, we are looking for multiple individuals who want to help us build the next chapter of increased impact, growth, and sustainability for Hispanic Access Foundation.