Hispanic Access Foundation in interviewed on San Bernardino's Radio Nueva Vida about the tax education program in partnership with H&R Block.

Hispanic Access Foundation aired a 30 minute, live radio "workshop on taxes on  Univision KLAT in Houston.

Hispanic Access Foundation has partnered with First Book to provide Hispanic children in need with new books that will help build organizational and home libraries, develop literacy skills and celebrate these youth’s Hispanic heritage. Over the last month, Hispanic Access Foundation enrolled over 50 of our partner organizations, made up of Catholic and Evangelical churches, schools and parent organizations with First Book, so that they could receive 2,500 books worth over $10,000.

Maite Arce’s 950-mile tour of national parks in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—which included hiking, biking, rafting, and video blogging—was equal parts family vacation and social media campaign. Its goal was to raise Latinos’ awareness about conservation. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed revisions to the agricultural Worker Protection Standard for an additional 60 days, until August 18, 2014, in response to requests from growers, industry, farmworker advocates and states for additional time to provide input.

Southern New Mexico's Organ Mountains Desert Peaks region will be protected by President Obama as a national monument on Wednesday, and rightfully so. Spanning thousands of years of human history and use, the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument chronicles New Mexico's history and culture and is a place from which the stories of so many Americans originate. Now, with monument protection, these stories will be kept accessible and can be handed down for generations to come.

In keeping with the subject of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, May 17, 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the issuance of the decision on Brown v. Board of Education.  Brown is a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that, contrary to the legal doctrine of separate but equal, “separate education facilities are inherently unequal” and ended segregation in the United States.  

Congressman Raul Ruiz participated in a hike with 100 young Latinos from the Coachella Valley in California.  The trip was organized by the Por La Creacion: Faith Based Alliance, Hispanic Access Foundation and the Congressman's office. Congressman Ruiz became engaged to his fiancee at the park recently and wanted to share this park with others.  

The Hispanic Access Foundation will launch a "Four Stops, One Destination" tour today in which seven Latino college students visit national parks in the West for nine days to promote conservation and urge against oil and gas development.

The Wilderness Society helped kick off the "Four Stops One Destination" national park tour in Mile High fashion. Several of America’s famed national parks will be the destinations for a group of college students who will be touring the west over next week, learning about the many threats posed by oil and gas development.