- 2010
- 03/05/2010 - Starlight Children's Foundation 25th Annual GalaNEW
- 03/02/2010 - American Ballet Theatre’s Junior Council and Quest MagazineNEW
- 03/02/2010 - Hanley Center Foundation's 15th Annual LuncheonNEW
- 03/01/2010 - The School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball NEW
- 03/01/2010 - Literacy Partners 26th Annual Evening of Readings Gala Kick-off NEW
- 02/27/2010 - New York Junior League 58th Annual Winter Ball
- 02/27/2010 - 2010 GOTOs Annual Black-tie GalaNEW
- 02/27/2010 - Society Ties' Black Tie & Black Jack Casino Night
- 02/25/2010 - Bailey House 22nd Annual Auction and PartyNEW
- 02/25/2010 - Hedge Funds Care 12th Annual New York Open Your Heart to the Children BenefitNEW
- 02/25/2010 - Toast to "Justice is Served" Dinner Benefit
- 02/25/2010 - 2010 Frick Museum Young Fellows Ball
- 02/25/2010 - Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl's Third Annual Purim BallNEW
- 02/24/2010 - Kick Off Party to Benefit The East Side House Settlement Gala Preview of the 2010 Auto Show
- 02/24/2010 - C-CAP 20th Anniversary CelebrationNEW
- 02/24/2010 - POSH Palm Beach 2010 Gala Dinner
- 02/23/2010 - ForEverglades Benefit
- 02/20/2010 - 5th Annual Childhelp Fashion Show and Luncheon
- 02/19/2010 - MacDella Cooper Foundation Fashion Week Finale Party
- 02/17/2010 - Friends of the South Florida Science Museum Toast
- 02/14/2010 - Action Against Hunger Help Heart Haiti Valentine's Day Benefit
- 02/13/2010 - 55th Annual Palm Beach Heart Ball
- 02/09/2010 - Museum of Design Patron Preview event
- 02/09/2010 - Animal Fair and Wendy Diamond’s Yappy Hour
- 02/06/2010 - Lighthouse Center for the Arts’ 46th Annual Beaux Arts Ball
- 02/06/2010 - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Gem of an Evening Gala
- 02/06/2010 - Norton Museum of Art Bal des Arts 2010
- 02/05/2010 - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's annual Light The Night Awards Party
- 02/05/2010 - The Princes Ball Mardi Gras Masquerade Gala
- 02/04/2010 - City Chicks 4 Charity & Young Wall Street benefit Chess in Schools
- 02/03/2010 - International Women's Health Coalition 2010 Gala
- 02/02/2010 - The Associates Council Lunch at The Oak Room
- 02/02/2010 - Parsons Dance Opening Night Gala
- 01/31/2010 - KIDs Strikes Back Bowling Party at Chelsea Piers
- 01/30/2010 - 53rd Annual International Red Cross Ball
- 01/30/2010 - Epilepsy Foundation’s Taste of Love Gala 2010
- 01/29/2010 - Partnership for the Homeless’ Auction at the Gagosian Gallery
- 01/28/2010 - Hearts 4 Haiti
- 01/26/2010 - Peggy Adams Unveils Much-anticipated Grace Pavilion
- 01/26/2010 - Art Battles
- 01/25/2010 - Fashionable opening night for Red Cross Show House
- 01/25/2010 - MICHAEL KORS and GRAFF Fashion Show Honors Heart Ball
- 01/24/2010 - National Dance Institute's Benefit Performance of Imagine: A Celebration of John Lennon
- 01/22/2010 - LADACIN Polar Bear Plunge
- 01/21/2010 - Help Haiti Now
- 01/21/2010 - Hospice Evening 2010 with Oscar de la Renta
- 01/21/2010 - UJA-Federation of New York's Generosity Event
- 01/20/2010 - Citymeals-on-Wheels Winter Cocktail Benefit
- 01/20/2010 - The American Antiques Show (TAAS) Benefit Preview Celebrating Texas
- 01/19/2010 - Cocktails for Vital Voices Global Partnership
- 01/14/2010 - Winter Antiques Show Preview Party
- 01/14/2010 - CCE Honors Over the Big Top Chairs at Saks Fifth Avenue
- 01/12/2010 - Zac Posen Fashion Show Featuring Cartier
- 01/12/2010 - Hope For Haiti With The Red Cross
- 01/11/2010 - Young Friends Red Cross Beach Bash
- 01/10/2010 - AICF-American-Israel Cultural Foundation 70th Anniversary Gala and Concer
- 01/07/2010 - Autism Speaks to Young Professionals
- 01/07/2010 - CHIC @ the Ames hotel
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
Hispanics in Philanthropy's 25th Anniversary
04/23/2009 - By Time Warner Center, New York City
On the evening of Thursday, April 23, Hispanics in Philanthropy, a network of funders committed to Latino communities, celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Time Warner Center in New York City.
The event honored five leaders for social change in the Latino community: Soledad O’Brien of CNN; Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lin-Manual Miranda, star, creator & composer of the Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights; Luis, president of the Ford Foundation; and Linda Griego, a trustee of the Packard Foundation.
The sold-out event attracted 150 foundation CEOs, philanthropic and corporate leaders, and nonprofit managers.
As the five honorees accepted their awards, several noted the degree to which Latino participation in philanthropy has increased during the past 25 years.
“When Diana started Hispanics in Philanthropy 25 years ago, Hispanics were an invisible minority, unseen and unheard in the philanthropic world,” said Ubiñas, the first Latino President of the Ford Foundation. “No major philanthropy was headed by a Hispanic. …. That situation is easy to forget now, in this glamorous room. Hispanics in Philanthropy deserves credit for opening doors and for raising the question, how can business and government [continue to diversify].”
Ubiñas noted that several large foundations are now led by Latinos.
Several honorees also reflected on the importance of Latino leaders giving back to their communities and working for social change.
O’Brien said her parents taught her “first to succeed in education and then to turn around and help others with the chances we’d been given.”
“It's because of organizations like Hispanics in Philanthropy that our Latino communities across America can feel empowered for real social change,” O’Brien said. “I am honored to be chosen as one of HIP's distinguished Latina honorees. As a journalist who so often reports on people in need, the least I can do is shed some light on these important stories that need to be told.”
O’Brien’s upcoming special series for CNN, “Latinos in America,” will explore the successes, struggles, and complex issues faced by Latino men, women, and families in the U.S. The series is scheduled to air in October 2009.
The honorees also said that their personal histories and family life had influenced their careers and their commitment to social change. Growing up in New York, Lin-Manuel Miranda said that he was either “the Puerto Rican kid” at the private elementary school he attended in Manhattan or “the kid with the gringo accent” in Washington Heights. He described his experience at Wesleyan University as “the first time that I was with other kids who were straddling American culture and Latino culture just as much as myself…and it gave me permission to write [In the Heights]. The irony of all of this, and feeling like I never fit into any community, is that I really created that community out on stage. Through the success of that show, I get to be in a room of people whose work I admire so greatly. I am honored to be recognized with these illustrious people who do so much for people with so little.”
Anthony Romero was an active member of HIP’s board before he took his post as executive director of the ACLU. He said that HIP and the evening’s honorees epitomized the values of leadership, giving, and connecting. Reuniting with colleagues and friends from HIP reminded him of a saying his grandmother had told him growing up: Dime con quien andas y te diré quien eres. (“Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are.”) Romero said, “And so the fact that I walk with HIP and all of you tonight is an incredible blessing and privilege if in fact it tells you who I am.”
Time Warner Inc. hosted and sponsored the event, which raised funds for HIP to continue its work of strengthening Latino communities. Other sponsors of the event include the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation®, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Walmart.
The event was part of an ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), a network of funders committed to increasing resources for Hispanic communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Over the past 25 years, HIP has raised nearly $38 million, brought together 163 funding partners, and supported nearly 500 Latino nonprofits in the U.S. and Latin America.
HIP was founded in 1983 when a handful of Latinos working in philanthropy recognized the value of coming together to encourage greater investments in Hispanic communities. More than twenty-five years later, HIP is an active network of more than 550 philanthropic leaders that has supported communities, leaders and organizations across the United States and Latin America.
Photos: Manny Patino
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