By State House News Service
May 13, 2021
State House News Service
The state’s first philanthropic fund focused on the Latino community announced a new name last Friday and said it will seek to strengthen health equity and economic opportunity for a population that has faced a disproportionate toll from the pandemic.
The Latino Equity Fund, formerly the Latino Legacy Fund, is a partnership among local Latino leaders, The Boston Foundation, and Hispanics in Philanthropy. It will focus on two priority areas addressing well-being and health disparities exacerbated by the pandemic, and achieving economic prosperity via “policies, programs, and initiatives that promote sustainable economic growth for Latinos.”
New leaders of color in Boston say the shift is a sign of progress and optimism, but also an indication that much work still needs to be done to close the racial leadership gap.
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The twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial inequity have drawn millions of corporate dollars to underserved communities during the past year.
Without Latino population, New England could have lost seats in House
Updated May 7, 2021, 7:15 a.m.
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Re âPopulation up, state keeps House seats: Mass. leads New England in growth, census figures revealâ (Page A1, April 27): Itâs good news that, for now, New England will maintain its 21 seats in the House of Representatives. But the fact is that without Latinos, that wouldnât be the case.
From 2010 to 2017, the Latino population of Massachusetts increased by 28 percent. This represented about 60 percent of all population growth in the Commonwealth, according to the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Across the border in Rhode Island, data show that that stateâs population would have declined without Latino growth, which could have led to the loss of a congressional seat.