The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit which inspires, prepares, and connects the Latino community in four areas of focus: education, workforce, social impact/justice, and culture, through leadership.
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Entering its 25th year, the prestigious Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards have honored high-achieving Latino high school seniors and tracked them throughout college and into successful careers in various fields through the award-winning Latinos On Fast Track (LOFT) workforce development and sourcing program.
Led by HHF and Trinity University, the LLI is a critical continuum to HHF’s 25-year-old Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards program. The White House hosted the 2022 LOFT LLI Summit, followed by a day-long “Open Space” session for LOFT Fellows from across the country to “lead on their own terms.” Open Space is a process designed to put the power in the hands of the Fellows, not the organizers, to leverage their priorities, vision, experiences, and talents with no hierarchies.
CSL is a national initiative to introduce and teach Latino youth computer programming, provide tech career paths, build coding networks, and transform communities. The program has gone from a pilot program seven years ago to more than 75 markets including rural and urban regions, and is expanding into Latin America, reaching 100K+ young Latinos.
HHF partnered with the Kid Museum and Infosys Foundation to bring Latinx Educator Maker Lab trainings and equip educators with the skills they need to boost Latinx students’ interest and engagement in STEM and CS programs and careers. The program included a day-long (8 hour), in-person workshop that sets the stage to leverage the Pathfinders Online Institute.
This initiative to accelerate the professional development of high school educators across the nation through the Microsoft TEALS Program aims to bring CS courses to high school students to help empower their learning while implementing an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable CS curriculum.
Minecraft Education and HHF has partnered for the second year in a row to create LatinExplorers 2, a strengthened, interactive, cultural, educational experience that highlights three powerful Latina trailblazers as characters in the game and introduces them to young players and changemakers who will navigate through these leader’s lives, appreciating the challenges they faced, celebrating their victories, and learn the qualities that made them unparalleled leaders. LatinExplorers is the first-ever, Latino-themed Minecraft game and features a teacher’s and parent’s guide. The first version of the game was played by millions of youths in nearly 30 different languages.
HHF worked with FCC, Capitol Hill, and the White House to push for the Infrastructure Bill to prioritize broadband expansion as a priority, earmarking $100 billion to bring affordable internet and access to devices to all Americans.
On the policy side, through his TechEdquity effort, HHF has been a strong advocate of addressing the inequity in access to tech in education and the workforce.
HHF collaborated with IBM and leveraged IBM SkillsBuild – an education program that helps students and adult learners develop valuable new skills and access career opportunities in technology fields – by providing digital content, personalized mentoring, and the experiential learning they need to gain technical, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. The program is FREE to HHF’s Network, is completely digital, and includes IBM-branded digital credentials that are recognized by the market to create direct pathways to tech jobs.
AT&T and HHF Collaborate to Address the Digital Divide Within Latino and Hispanic Communities AT&T and HHF team up to narrow the digital divide by enhancing digital literacy and digital learning opportunities in Latino communities. The joint effort includes the integration of The Achievery, AT&T’s free digital learning platform designed to make distance learning more engaging, entertaining, and inspiring for K-12 students, as well as digital literacy workshops, to help parents and caregivers build skills and confidence using technology. This collaboration aims to engage over 10,000 students, parents and caregivers in underserved communities across 75 cities nationwide, with key states including Texas, Georgia, California and Florida.