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The Latino Community Foundation will post publications and documents here for further reading. Visión 2020: Investing Now in the Growing Latino Population and the Future of the Bay Area (PDF) Visión 2020: Investing Now in the Growing Latino Population and the Future of the Bay Area is first in a series. This issue brief begins with a demographic overview of Bay Area Latinos and then presents major findings in each of the five areas: educational achievement, healthy communities, empowering Latinas, economic development and civic engagement. The Latino Community Foundation embarked on an extensive planning process that began with a review of how Latinos fare on more than 100 social, economic and health indicators. What emerged from this analysis are five priority issue areas, which will be the focus of the Foundation's efforts in the years ahead.
The Isabela Project - Closing the Latino Capital Parity and Procurement Gap (PDF) The San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Latino Community Foundation, a supporting organization of The San Francisco Foundation, worked with the Milken Institute of Santa Monica to study the difficulty Hispanics and other business owners have in so-called under-served communities accessing capital. The research effort, described in a jointly authored white paper entitled, “Closing the Latino Access to Capital and Procurement Gap”which was released on June 29, 2004, will assess whether loans to Hispanic businesses can be bundled and sold to outside investors in a process called "securitization." The financing technique is common in other areas of lending such as home mortgages, auto loans and credit cards. The proposed initiative would seek to emulate the success of the 15-year-old Community Reinvestment Fund of Minneapolis, which securitizes small business loans focused on community development efforts around the nation. The Bay Area groups' ambitious effort will also include boosting Hispanic business owners' participation in the supplier diversity programs of major companies. Most of the nation's major banks have expressed interest in the study's findings and several have already pledged funding to support the feasibility study. Such loans would help banks satisfy regulatory requirements to serve the entire community under the Community Reinvestment Act.
The State of Latino Education in the San Francisco Bay Area (PDF) |
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