Program areas at Hispanic Federation
Community assistance programs that support and uplift latino families and communities with direct social services in the areas of education, immigration, health care, economic development, and the environment. In 2022, the organization focused its efforts on emergency assistance, farm and food workers relief aid, and reducing the impact of covid-19 in latino communities nationwide.
Organizational development assistance that fortifies a network of more than 600 latino front-line grassroots organizations with emergency assistance, programmatic, and capacity-building grants that help its nonprofit grantees address emerging and growing community and operational needs.
Technical assistance programs designed to help its network of latino nonprofit member agencies support their core operational and infrastructural needs, including board governance, staff leadership development, fundraising, financial management, strategic planning, program development and other critical areas.
Advocacy services focused on advancing the interests and aspirations of latinos and their community-based organizations through, among other things, coalition building, policy research, public education, advocacy, and voter mobilization. In 2022, much of the organization's advocacy work focused on advancing equity in federal benefits for puerto rico, voter education and turnout, and expanding immigrant justice and rights.