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Sacramento Young Professionals of Color Host November Happy Hour in Support of “Starting Off on the Right Foot” Shoe Drive

06 Monday Nov 2017

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Mark your calendars for Sacramento Young Professionals of Color‘s upcoming November Happy Hour mixer, which will be held in partnership with Chicas Latinas de Sacramento.

November 15, 5:30-7:30pm at Azul Mexican Food & Tequila Bar! 🍺🍸

 Click Here to RSVP and Invite via Facebook!

The event will officially launch Chicas Latinas’ 2018 “Starting Off on the Right Foot” Shoe Drive. We’re getting a head start this year and hope you can join us at SYPOC’s event and help kick-off our drive on the right foot! At SYPOC’s November Happy Hour, we will be collecting NEW shoes and monetary donations for Chicas Latinas signature shoe drive event.

“Starting Off on the Right Foot” provides NEW shoes to elementary students in need. The children who attend our sponsored Sacramento schools live in underserved communities and the schools and students often lack basic back-to-school supplies. Shoes are often overlooked when finances are limited, yet they are essential to a student’s self-esteem and child development. Shoes that fit properly, are free of holes, and have intact soles, are considered a luxury item for some Sacramento families and children. It is our goal to see to it that EVERY child, at our sponsored school is able to start the new year on the right foot!

“Starting​ ​Off​ ​on​ ​the​ ​Right​ ​Foot”​ ​History:
2014 – Hagginwood Elementary: Collected 100+ pairs
2015 – Woodbine Elementary: Collected 400+ pairs
2016 – Del Paso Heights Elementary: Collected 500+ pairs

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D. W. Babcock Elementary has be chosen as Chicas Latinas’ 2018 shoe drive beneficiary! Babcock Elementary School serves approximately 400 Pre-K through 6th grade students. Over 90% of the students are considered socioeconomically disadvantaged.

One hundred percent of all shoe and monetary donations will be used to provide a NEW pair of shoes for the children at D. W. Babcock Elementary, part of Twin Rivers Unified School District. All donations are tax-deductible (Tax ID: 46-1048619).

Look out for a future “Starting Off on the Right Foot” shoe drive event, benefiting the students of D.W. Babcock, near you!

Want more? Check out videos from some of our previous shoe drives:
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Students: Apply for Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s 2017 Scholarship

23 Thursday Mar 2017

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Screen Shot 2017-03-22 at 9.01.01 PMChicas Latinas de Sacramento has been in the forefront helping families from the Sacramento region through community support and volunteer service.

We are excited to reiterate our commitment for making an impact in the lives of local students by announcing Chicas Latinas’ Scholarship Program! We’re giving away one $500 scholarship to a latino or latina student from the Sacramento Region for the 2017-2018 college year.

This scholarship is intended to help our Hispanic community accomplish higher education goals. The application period is open until May 1, 2017 (11:59pm PST), applicants must be from Sacramento County and have a minimum GPA of 2.5.

For more information or to apply, visit: www.chicaslatinasdesacramento.org 

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Deadline to apply is May 1, 2017 (11:59pm PST)

Have questions? Want to donate to our (soon to be annual) Scholarship program and help us give MORE to MORE Sacramento Latin@ students?  Contact us here: committees@chicaslatinasdesacramento.org w/ subject line “Scholarship Donation.”

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Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s Scholarship Committee Members

Interested in giving your time and/or expertise to Chicas Latinas de Sacramento? Email our board of directors: board@chicaslatinasdesacramento.org

#ChicasWhoGive 2nd Annual “Starting off on the Right Foot” Shoe Drive Drop-Off Party

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Join Chicas Latinas de Sacramento and our generous friends and donors at our “Starting Off on the Right Foot” Community Party!

Drop off your final shoe donations | Stay to celebrate! 

Register: https://chicaslatinasshoedriveparty2015.eventbrite.com

Share & Invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/144960469173710

Chicas 2015 Shoe Drive 2 copy (1)Bring your final shoe donations to Sol Collective on Friday, August 28th from 5:30 -7:30 and enjoy refreshments and small bites as we celebrate the closing of our annual shoe drive. (Open to the public. Please RSVP.)

Eventbrite - Chicas Latinas' Back-to-School Shoe Drive "Starting off on the Right Foot" Community Party!

This year we’re sponsoring Woodbine Elementary School —  with a goal of 700 pairs of NEW shoes. Can you help?!?! 

In case you missed last year’s shoe-drive… here’s what you missed: 

When we asked school staff members what the students are most in need of when starting the new school year, we were simply told, “shoes.” Shoes that fit and shoes in working condition… free of holes and torn soles. Back-to-school shoes, a basic need to most, are a luxury item to these children. 

For that reason, Chicas Latinas members are host anual shoe-drives for local schools and are ask the community to join us for “Starting off on the Right Foot,” in an effort to provide shoes for these students as they enter into the new school year. Shoes must be new and should fit 5-12 year old students, boys and girls.

Please share this event and consider asking your colleagues, friends, and family to donate A pair of shoes… I have 100% confidence we can collect 700 pairs of shoes, with your help!

Drop-Off Locations July 13th – Aug. 27:  

Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff: 401 Watt Ave. Sacramento, CA 95864

Capsity: 2572 21st. St, Sacramento, CA 95818

Salon 701: 448 Howe Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825

Any cash donations specific to this event are greatly appreciated! Tax ID: 46-104861

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Zumba “Shake Yo Booty” Shoe Drive for Chicas Latinas’ “Starting off on the Right Foot!”

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

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You read right Sacramento, you’re invited to a Zumba “Shake Yo Booty” Shoe Drive!

The fee for the awesome Zumba class is a pair of new shoes for Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s “Starting off on the Right Foot” Shoe Drive.

Please join us in giving, breaking a sweat, and having some Zumba fun. Share, invite your friends and family members, and help us reach our goal of 700 pairs of new shoes for the children at Woodbine Elementary School.

The Details: 

  • Sunday, August 30th
  • 10:30am – Noon
  • Results Transformation, 109 15th Street, West Sacramento
  • Price: A new pair of shoes for a child (ages, 5-12)

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A special thank you to everyone listed below, for making this wonderful event happen. We were approached by Denyse Velazquez, who informed us that they were putting on this event FOR Chicas Latinas’ Shoe Drive! We’re extremely grateful for all who came together in support our shoe drive and our community’s youth. Thank you!

1. Results Transformation Center, the owner is Matt Weaver
2. Instructors:
Francine Valdez
Ingrid Hutchins
Maryann Whalen
Queenie Rabino
3. DV Face & Skin Solutions, Owner is Denyse Velazquez
4. Lisa Franco
5. Rosa Marshall
6. Josef Freeman
7. Jerry Spurgin

Exhibition Live! Our America

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Today at the Crocker Art Museum, Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art will perform a LIVE performance by dynamic California-based Mexican folk and contemporary dance company, Calidanza.

Crocker LIVE event

This dynamic program series brings exhibitions to life through wide-ranging performances and interactive opportunities in the galleries. Learn the art of salsa with live music and dance instruction from Yemaya Salsa Dance Studio. Enjoy guided spotlight talks.

Exhibition Live! Program

7:00 PM   Enjoy tours and spotlight talks of Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art and Arte Mexicano: Legacy of the Masters (3rd Floor, Teel Family Pavilion)

7:00 PM   Visit the pop-up art market featuring Florentina Favela, Xico Gonzalez, Olga Cid, and Spanglish (Friedman Court)

7:30PM    Be mesmerized by Calidanza! Dance Company’s sultry Latin dance experience (Friedman Court)

8:00 PM   Feel the beat and spice things up with dancing and live music by the Yemaya Salsa Dance Company (Friedman Court)

~Space is limited and reserving tickets in advance is recommended~

The exhibition will only be open to ticketholders from 5:30 – 8:30 PM

$6 Members
$10 Students/youth
$12 Nonmembers

Don’t miss a truly incredible evening!

Latino & Mexicano Art Exhibits Featured at the Crocker

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Sept. 21, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015
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The exhibition explores the idea that we are “a nation of immigrants” by considering the varied contributions of Latino artists to American art and culture from the mid-20th century to the present. Featuring nearly 100 works across all media by some of the leading contemporary artists working in the United States, the exhibition will examine how their works express an evolving American experience. Latino artists across the United States were galvanized by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They created new images of their communities and celebrated hybrid cultural traditions. Approaching their practice with humor, irony, and valor, Latino artists critically probed American history and popular culture, revealing the possibilities and tensions of expansionism, migration, and settlement.

Arte Mexicano: Legacy of the Masters
Oct. 12, 2014 – Feb. 1, 2015
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The exhibition showcases the ideals, individualism, and intertwining artistic lives of modern Mexican artists. Composed of 30 paintings and works on paper by nearly 20 artists, the exhibition highlights their varied responses to the post-revolutionary call for a distinctly Mexican visual art. Arte Mexicano will cover a wide range of artists active throughout the 20th century, and will trace the impact of the Mexican Revolution, as well as the influence of Mexican muralism, pre-Columbian traditions, and European artistic movements. The show hopes to bring a fresh perspective to popular conceptions of Mexican art by showcasing a variety of artists working throughout Mexico and the United States—including Diego Rivera, Gunther Gerzso, Carlos Merida, Remedios Varo, and Alejandro Santiago—and consider their interpretations of Mexican, modern, and personal identities.

For more information:
https://crockerartmuseum.org/exhibitions

July 2014: Get involved with Chicas Latinas de Sacramento

14 Monday Jul 2014

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Chicas Latinas de Sacramento members are keeping busy supporting, planning, and developing programs and events in the Sacramento Community.

Coming up ~~~ Join us! 

Chicas Latinas Running Group is meeting every Wednesday evening (6:30pm) at Curtis Park. And look for a new health blog series coming soon! See you out there on July 16th.

More…

Support a Chicas Latinas Member at Menagerie Pop up Art Show

Kiki Art Show 7.16.2014 Menagerie

Calidanza Dance Company Fundraiser – Volunteers Needed

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Fiesta en la Calle, ONLY A FEW SATURDAYS LEFT! 

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Sunday, August 3rd at 8:30am, Cesar Chavez Park: Give to the Homeless, Volunteers / Donations Needed

Clean out those closets, especially the closets of the men in your life. There are much more men on the streets in need than women. Shoes are extra special! Also needed, toiletries, socks, coffee, toothpaste, deodorant…

Please bring any donations the morning of (you will see us set up with folding tables and handing out coffee to a line of Sacramento’s homeless).

 

Have questions? Want to get involved? Email us using the form below:

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s Viewing Party: LATINAS THINK BIG™

07 Monday Oct 2013

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, let’s celebrate and learn from our Latina sisters!!! Attend….

ELLA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’S: LATINAS THINK BIG™ Event in Los Angeles – VIEWING PARTY IN SACRAMENTO!!! 

Celebrating Innovative Latina Thought Leaders

Join the Chicas Latinas de Sacramento at Thinkhouse Collective as we enjoy this great Latina Leadership event on Friday 10/11 at 6:00pm from the comfort of downtown Sacramento.

This will be a low-key Friday evening event. Come after work, wine will be provided, bring a snack to share, business cards, grab a seat and relax in the comfort of Thinkhouse Collective in Sacramento – while viewing and taking part in this fantastic Latina Leadership event!!! (Donation event, please give what you can.)

** Seating is limited at Thinkhouse, REGISTER: https://latinasthinkbigsac.eventbrite.com/

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What we’ll join in for:  

6:40 – 7:00PM    The “Latina Power Shift” Report:

One-on-One Interview with Monica Gil, Senior Vice President at Nielsen, by Dr. Angelica Perez-Litwin, Founder & CEO, ELLA Leadership Institute

7PM – 8:30PM    LATINAS THINK BIG™ Presentations: 

• Rocio Moreno, Celebrated Architectural Designer

• Nora Cadena is a first generation Mexican-American, three-time MIT graduate, engineering leader and community volunteer.

• Pamela Campos, Operations Intelligence Analyst, US Air Force

• Estefania Ortiz, Stanford University Electrical Engineer and Software Engineering College Student

• Veronica Villafañe, Emmy award-winning bilingual multimedia journalist and former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)

** Please arrive early to allow time for introductions/snacking, we’ll join in at 6:30. 

Chicas Latinas y Casa de Español’s NEW Spanish Conversation Group in Sacramento

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Introducing… Chicas Latinas y Casa de Español’s NEW Spanish Conversation Group in Sacramento! Community members welcomed, learn more:

¡Tacos, cerveza y español! What could be better on a Tuesday afternoon than winding down with others as in love with the Spanish language and Latino cultures as you are? Join Casa de Español and local nonprofit Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, as we merge our Spanish language practice groups in an effort to strengthen our conversational Spanish and the community!

We’ll be hosting activities every second Tuesday of the month at Jarritos Mexican Restaurant. ¡Eat, drink and be merry, while you practice your Spanish skills! All language levels are welcome!

Our next event will be on October 8th at 6:30pm, register via Eventbrite to join us! https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8096802755 – the community is welcomed to join us, just RSVP so we know you’re coming!

Scroll down to view pictures from our first Spanish Language Conversation group, held on 9/10. Complete with fresh vegetables, futbol, tacos, y amig@s! All levels were present, from beginners and advance learners, to fluent native speakers. It was an enjoyable evening as we helped one-another learn and practice the Spanish language.

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Feria Educativa / Education Fair in Sacramento: This Is The Moment

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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The Chicas Latinas de Sacramento is proud to be volunteering at the upcoming education fair at Sacramento State on Saturday, August 24th! The event will take place in the Student Union.

It is a full day of education fun, for K-12 families, with information provided in both English and Spanish! This family friendly event will have college education information, workshops (geared towards tackling issues many Latino families face), activities, entertainment, food-trucks, a reading room for los niños, and even a book giveaway!

This is a FREE event! (Even campus parking will be free that day).

Bring your family, learn about the path to college, and let’s make sure our next generation is an educated generation! Help spread the word:

Feria Educativa / Education Fair: This Is The Moment

★ Attend: https://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/webreg/Register_FERIA_13.cfm?CID=1413
★ Volunteer: https://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/webreg/Register_FERIA_13.cfm?CID=1412

The goals are to provide students and their parents with information about college, the steps to prepare for college, and the different ways to pay for college— in order to improve the students’ educational success.