3rd Annual LCF Gala: Celebrating Philanthropy con Sabor Latino!

Join the Latino Community Foundation to celebrate philanthropy in the Latino community!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Westin St. Francis Hotel
335 Powell Street, San Francisco
Download the Gala invitation in PDF format (2.2 MB file)

Food: Featuring signature dishes by premiere Latino Bay Area chefs and restaurants including Colibri Mexican Bistro, Destino Nuevo Latino Bistro, Paladar Café Cubano, Sabores del Sur, Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine, Tamarindo Antojeria Mexicana, and Zazil Coastal Mexican Cuisine.

Tastings by: Alex Sotelo Cellars, Ceja Vineyards, Frias Family Vineyards, Mescal by Nolasco Benesin, Pisco Punch by Guillermo Toro-Lira, Reynoso Vineyards, Robledo Family Winery and Tequila by Randy Franco Distributor.

Entertainment: Showcasing lively Latino music and performers from the Bay Area.

Networking: Over 500 guests including corporate, non-profit, community and political leaders are expected to attend.

Become a sponsor!
Sponsorship levels begin at $2,500 for a table of 10 and include many premier sponsorship benefits. For sponsorship details, please contact the foundation at 415.733.8591 or email lcf@sff.org.

Sponsors as of February 27, 2008, include:

• Union Bank of California
• Citi
• Kaiser Permanente
• PG&E
• Wells Fargo Foundation
• AAA Northern California
• Bank of the West
• Catholic Healthcare West
• Merrill Lynch
• The Walt Disney Company
• United Way of the Bay Area
• Univision 14-KDTV and TeleFutura 66-KFSF
• San Francisco Business Times

Purchase Tickets
Individual tickets are $150 per person and $75 per person for Young Professional Giving Circle Members. For details on joining our Young Professional Giving Circle, please contact Raquel Donoso at 415.733.8591.

Tickets for the Gala can be purchased through any of the methods below:
1. Purchase tickets online at our online giving page. Select the Latino Community Foundation from the drop down menu and type in GALA under purpose.
2. Email LCF directly at lcf@sff.org specifying your full name, address, phone number and the number of tickets you wish to purchase.
3. Contact the foundation directly at 415.733.8591.

Program Book: This year we expect more than 500 people to attend LCF's gala. An advertisement in the program book is an excellent way to show your support for the Latino community while gaining visibility for your business. Full page, half-page and quarter-page spaces are available beginning at $250. Please contact Bettina Flores at bettina4335@sbcglobal.net or 510.303.6643 for more information about the program.

Latino Community Foundation Issues Request for Proposals (RFP) for Latino Children and Youth Initiative

The Latino Community Foundation will engage Latino-led organizations, corporations, foundations, other private organizations, and government institutions in a collaborative effort to address the critical issues facing our young families with children ages 0-5. To that end, we have launched the Latino Children and Youth Initiative. Our goal is to raise and award $1 million in grants over four years, beginning in 2008 to a collaboration of Latino-based, youth serving, nonprofit organizations in the greater Bay Area. The grants will recognize and support the work of Latino not-for-profit organizations as they collaborate to serve Latino children and youth. Read more about the RFP process on the Youth Initiative page.

Latino Community Foundation Announces Appointment of New Executive Director, Raquel F. Donoso

On August 1, 2007 the Board of Directors of the Latino Community Foundation announced the appointment of its new executive director, Raquel F. Donoso.

Ms. Donoso joins the Latino Community Foundation (LCF) at an exciting time in the growth and development of the foundation. Her experience, working on issues affecting women and families, make her especially suited to lead the newly launched LCF Latino Children and Youth Initiative. The Initiative will strengthen organizations serving this most vulnerable and promising population in the Bay Area.

In addition to implementing the Initiative, Ms. Donoso will lead LCF'S annual individual donor campaign, with an exciting focus on young Latino professionals.

Ms. Donoso was most recently the Associate Director of the Latino Issues Forum, a statewide policy and advocacy organization. At LIF, she initiated new corporate and donor development work and expanded the funding portfolio of the organization. She also oversaw all programmatic, communications, and policy decisions for the health, environment, civic engagement and education focus areas.

She is an accomplished public policy and community leader with over a decade of experience at the state and regional level. Her regional work includes being active with several committees in Oakland and serving on the board of directors of the East Bay Regional Parks Foundation. In addition, in 2003 she co-founded California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, a statewide women's advocacy organization.

She is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned both her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and her Masters in Public Health. She currently lives in Richmond with her husband and son.