HIP Celebrates 25 Years
All About HIP at 25
Background
Since HIP began funding Latino nonprofits through the Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities in 2001, HIP has supported dozens of organizations that work with Latino children and youth, many of whom are at-risk. For example, HIP funds the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona, which represents men, women and children detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), formerly known as the INS. Although the U.S. government assists indigent criminal defendants and civil litigants with representation through public defenders and legal aid attorneys, it does not provide attorneys for people facing deportation charges, so 90 percent of individuals detained – including children – go unrepresented due to poverty and lack of information. Additionally, in 2006, HIP hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario, who spoke about her book, Enrique’s Journey, at HIP’s annual membership meeting. Enrique’s Journey details the harrowing journey of a boy from Honduras who travels to the United States to find his mother who had left to work to support him.
Through its work in the United States and in Latin America, HIP has learned how the issues of Latino families and their children straddle borders, and that addressing the issues of Latino communities requires a transnational approach. HIP hopes to shed light on this issue through educational events and policy dissemination and by bringing increased philanthropic resources to the issue to ensure that the rights of all children – including migrant children – are protected.
HIP launches: Nuestros Hijos/Our Children: An Initiative for Children Across Borders
Every year, thousands of children cross the borders into the U.S. unaccompanied, hoping to be reunified with their families. If they escape the dangers of smugglers and human traffickers, they are likely to find themselves in a detention center alongside juvenile offenders. Migrant children in detention centers frequently receive no due process and are often subjected to food deprivation, arbitrary physical punishment, and solitary confinement.
The stories of these children are often lost in a larger immigration debate that focuses on wages and language instead of people and families. In recognition of its 25th anniversary, HIP is launching its Nuestros Hijos/Our Children campaign to raise awareness of the human rights of migrant children.
Project Calendar
HIP will host several events for the 25th anniversary, some with an educational focus and others with a more social and celebratory focus. HIP is collaborating with a variety of leaders, funders, and experts to implement this project. HIP has formed a 25th anniversary committee made up of more than 50 leaders both within and beyond the philanthropic sector. Events highlighting the Nuestros Hijos/Our Children campaign include:
San Francisco Gala:
Portraits of Giving, Stories of Connecting
November 18, 2008
Join HIP founders Luz Vega-Marquis, President & CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Herman Gallegos, Retired Corporate and Foundation Director, and Elisa Arévalo, Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank along with Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of Enrique's Journey at the Brava Theater in San Francisco on November 18th. This event is bringing together local Latino artists, musicians, chefs, nonprofit leaders, and funders to celebrate HIP’s 25th anniversary and raise funds that will be directed towards HIP’s efforts to increase awareness of the human rights of migrant children.
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Funders’ Briefing in New York:
June 30, 2008
This briefing will be an in-depth discussion led by experts on the issue of children caught across borders. It will be an opportunity for funders to become more informed about the issue and, to begin identifying key strategies for the philanthropic community to address the needs of this population. The event will take place on June 30 and will be hosted by The Ford Foundation.
Inaugural 25th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, DC:
May 3 and 4, 2008
HIP launched this campaign on Sunday, May 4th at HIP’s annual meeting during the Council on Foundations’ Conference. The event featured speakers Gara LaMarche, President of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Margarita Zavala, Wife of the President of Mexico. She and our Mexican partners, including FUNDEMEX, also hosted a celebratory event the evening beforehand at the Mexican Cultural Institute. This inaugural event identified and framed the issues that will be addressed throughout the campaign.
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HIP's 25th Anniversary Committee
Rebecca Adamson, First Peoples Worldwide
Lori Barra, Isabel Allende Foundation
Frank Alvarez, Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Elisa Arévalo, Wells Fargo Bank
Carmen Barroso, International Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Western Hemisphere Region
Andrea Bazán, Triangle Community Foundation
Aixa Beauchamp
Patricia Boero, Latino Public Broadcasting
Hugh Burroughs, Independent Philanthropy Advisors
Emmett Carson, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Luella Chavez D'Angelo, Western Union Foundation
Fernando F. Chávez, Law Offices of Chávez & de León, P.A.
Nelson Colón, Puerto Rico Community Foundation
Helen Cunningham, Samuel S. Fels Fund
John de León, Law Offices of Chávez & de León, P.A.
Helen Dorado Alessi, Toyota North America Inc.
Roger Doughty, Horizons Foundation
Robert Dunn, Synergos Institute
Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Levi Strauss Foundation
Barry Gaberman, Ford Foundation (Retired)
Herman Gallegos, The Rockefeller Foundation (Retired)
Ronald V. Gallo
Marilda Gándara, Aetna Foundation
Linda Griego, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Rudy Guglielmo, Bush Foundation
Steve Gunderson, Council on Foundations
Crystal Hayling, Blue Shield of California Foundation
Antonia Hernández, California Community Foundation
Elsa Holguín, Rose Community Foundation
Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Salvatore LaSpada, Institute for Philanthropy
Thomas C. Layton, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Antonio Maciel
Timothy McClimon, American Express Foundation
Ricardo Millet, ABFE
Wenda Weekes Moore, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Hugo Morales, The San Francisco Foundation
Douglas X. Patiño, C.S. Mott Foundation
Julene Perez-Gonzalez
Janice Petrovich, The Ford Foundation (Retired)
Aida Rodríguez, New School University’s Milano Graduate School
Arelis Rodríguez, Fundación Falcondo
Maria Teresa Rojas, Open Society Institute
Anthony Romero, American Civil Liberties Union
Robert K. Ross, M.D., The California Endowment
G. Albert Ruesga, The Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
Tara Sandercock, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
Miguel Satut, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Martha Smith de Rangel, Fundación del Empresariado en Mexico, A.C.
Bradford Smith, Foundation Center
Sterling K. Speirn, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Marta L. Tellado, The Ford Foundation
Michael Torres, Adelante Capital Investments
Luis A. Ubiñas, The Ford Foundation
Sandy Vargas, The Minneapolis Foundation
Luz Vega-Marquis, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Elsa Vega-Pérez, United Way of New York City
Darren Walker, The Rockefeller Foundation
Norman Weinstein, Weinstein, Schleifer, and Kupersmith
Woody Wickham, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Retired)
Colburn S. Wilbur, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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Hispanics in Philanthropy was founded in 1983 when a handful of Latinos working in philanthropy recognized the value of coming together to encourage greater investments in Hispanic communities. Twenty-five years later, HIP is a vibrant transnational network of more than 550 members in the U.S. and Latin America and has raised more than $36 million for Latino communities. HIP engages foundations, corporations and individual donors in wide-impact philanthropic initiatives across the Americas to create social change that goes beyond national boundaries. Learn more about HIP on our website at www.hiponline.org.
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