This article first appeared on http://blog.latinnovating.com/?p=207 It came to me tonight on an airplane, the answer to the “What can each of us do?” question about improving today’s dismal higher education levels of American Latinos. The need for ALL college-educated Americans to understand the gravity of the situation and to step up and be personally involved as a long-term mentor...

Latinos are the largest racial and ethnic minority and the fastest growing demographic in the United States. Latinos have the lowest high school and college completion rates of any ethnic group. Latinos who go to college are less likely than any other major ethnic group to attend a four–year college or university according to the analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center. Latino youth are the fastest-growing...

The EMQ Families First non-profit is seeking donors for our families during the holidays.  As part of a nonprofit, EMQ Families First, our programs serve families all over the East Bay. Our primary programs are Foster care, Intensive Family Preservation, and Kinship programs.  Family preservation serves children returning to their biological families for permanent placement and Kinship serves...

Have you ever thought about running (or walking) a 5K race? Just to finish would be a nice personal accomplishment. After all, most of us might be swimmers, or dancers or something, but not runners! I know we can do it, especially if we make our personal reward some champagne and chocolate!! But what if we could we turn our personal accomplishment into something much much bigger? What if...

Latinos A Morir member, Andrea Lee, is in the process of helping create environmental awareness to Latino Middle School students. Please help her with this project! Support Urban Garden: The Effects of Pollution on Water- an enriching environmental awareness project for Latino Middle School Students I’m a 6th grade teacher at public charter middle school located in Downtown, Los Angeles,...

So what has been happing at EDGE-ucation?! We have been keeping busy meeting mentors and students! We are still in need of some more mentors! Specifically recruiting, interviewing, and pairing mentors with high school students. So far we have paired half of our mentors with amazing students and we are in the process to start clearance (background check and TB tests – by law we need it since...

Get ready LAM! There is a neat program arriving for the first time to the Bay Area on May 15…it’s Lemonade Day! Invite your kids, neighbors, mentees, nephews, and/or students, to register for this great event! Go to http://sanfrancisco.lemonadeday.org/sign-up.aspx and register online or simply Download the application and mail it or fax it! All the information is on the application. During...

And LAM did it again! Our involvement with the community is growing and we cannot be anymore excited! Today, we started the day early at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School with Edgar ‘ShoBoy’ Sotelo, and it was a great success. Vocational/Life-Long Learning Day is an event that brings alumni and other successful community members to share their success stories and tips...

For a few weeks, LAM has been thinking and re-thinking about how to give back to the community and today finally we made a very concrete step towards this goal. LAM was invited by Edgar ‘ShoBoy’ from Univision Radio La Kalle (100.7 & 105.7 FM) to brainstorm and watch Edgar in action with the community. Today after a very early rise, Giovanni and I met with Edgar and Janet Beleche...

The goal of ViVa Diversity is to teach kids about the diversity of people’s backgrounds and circumstances and why is it important for this to be appreciated and valued. The cultural diversity of the United States is truly magnificent, as many different ethnic and cultural groups have contributed to the social, economic and cultural values of the society. Unfortunately, kids are still experiencing...