Press Releases

Hispanic Federation (HF), the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization, celebrated its annual star-studded gala, chaired by Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City last night. The gala returned in full force for the second time since the pandemic began and raised more than $3 million in support of Latino causes.
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Hispanic Federation anunció que ha lanzado oficialmente un programa que proporcionará a los trabajadores agrícolas y empacadores de carne un pago único de $600 en Puerto Rico.
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Hispanic Federation announced that it has officially kick started a program that will provide farmworkers and meatpackers with a one-time $600 payment in Puerto Rico.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today concluded a five-day visit to Puerto Rico. Throughout the trip, the Secretary met with community members across Puerto Rico’s western and central regions to provide updates on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) ongoing work to rebuild and modernize the grid with clean, reliable, and resilient power sources.
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With one week remaining until Chicago’s mayoral runoff election on April 4, Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) and a coalition of Black and Latino nonprofits released the results of a second nonpartisan poll. The poll shows candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas in a neck-and-neck race to the finish line. Coalition members include Hispanic Federation, Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative, Latino Policy Forum and Latino Victory Project.
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HAMILTON regresa a Puerto Rico durante dos semanas en junio, con una función benéfica especial que se realizará el viernes 16 de junio de 2023 en apoyo a la Federación Hispana (HF por sus siglas en inglés) y el Fondo Flamboyán para las Artes.
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HAMILTON is returning to Puerto Rico for two weeks in June, with a special benefit performance being held on Friday, June 16, 2023 in support of the Hispanic Federation (HF) and the Flamboyan Arts Fund. The benefit performance of the award winning musical will help strengthen and advance both nonprofit’s efforts to uplift Puerto Rican communities throughout the archipelago. Original cast members, including Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Leslie Odom Jr., will attend the benefit performance and a special VIP donor reception.
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The Illinois Latino Agenda and it’s partners are determined to improve Latino voter turnout in this mayoral election

Today, Hispanic Federation, La Casa Norte, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and the Illinois Latino Agenda (ILA) held a press conference to kick off part of the largest Latino GOTV campaign in Chicago’s history. Volunteers gathered outside of La Casa Norte in Humboldt Park before starting a day of door knocking to get out the Latino vote.
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Hispanic Federation (HF) hosted its first Advance Change Together (ACT) convening in San Francisco, California during the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2023 Creating Change Conference. The ACT convening brought together community-based organizations from across the country to discuss the barriers and issues facing Latinx LGBTQ+ communities and how best to address them.
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With less than two weeks left until Election Day, the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) at Northwestern University and a coalition of Black and Latino nonprofits released a nonpartisan poll showing common ground among Black and Latino voters in the Chicago mayoral race.
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On Wednesday, February 8, Hispanic Federation (HF) hosted Fiesta Benéfica, its first gala in Puerto Rico that celebrated five years of recovery efforts and raised funds for HF's ongoing commitment to the archipelago. At the gala, Hispanic Federation welcomed 18 new Puerto Rico nonprofit organizations into its membership to strengthen their existing collaborations and help lead sustainable recovery initiatives.
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Two years ago, our country was in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic that had killed hundreds of thousands of people, led to an economic downturn, increased unemployment, and shed a bright light on the ugly disparities that exist in our country. Latino and Black communities were bearing the brunt along the way, experiencing higher infection, hospitalization, death, and unemployment rates despite being essential drivers of our economy and workforce.
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“The governor’s decision to reject AP African American studies is an attempt to devalue the rich history of an entire community and manipulate our educational system for political gain. The civil rights movement, racism, segregation, Afro-Latino representation, the American prison complex, queer theory, and everything associated with the African American experience is American History, and we cannot allow elected leaders to politicize its education in our schools.
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Apenas han pasado 24 días del 2023 y ya hemos sido testigos de 39 instancias de tiroteos masivos y 1,214 muertes por armas de fuego. En otras palabras, ha habido más tiroteos masivos que la cantidad de días en este año. Cada una de estas tragedias pudo haber sido evitada con políticas sensibles de control de armas.
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We are 24 days into 2023, and we have already seen 39 mass shootings and 1,214 gun deaths. In other words, there have been more mass shootings than the number of days in this new year, and each and every one of these tragedies could have been prevented by common-sense gun control measures.
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Illinois state lawmakers stayed grounded in common sense, as well as courage and empathy, in their move to ban assault weapons from our communities. For Latinos in particular, gun violence hits close to home: gun deaths in Latino communities have increased at almost twice the rate of gun deaths nationally.
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Newly arrived asylum seekers celebrated their first Three Kings Day in the United States at a dinner Thursday hosted by Hispanic Federation. Newly arrived asylum seekers joined Hispanic Federation leaders at the Julia de Burgos Performance & Arts Center in East Harlem where they were provided meals, gifts, and entertainment.
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