The Cielo Fund received more than 100 applications for their inaugural $280,000 grant and selected 25 organizations.
The Cielo Fund received more than 100 applications for their inaugural $280,000 grant, and selected 25 organizations.
"What we found there was that when it comes to health equity, when it comes to educational attainment, when it comes to economic mobility, these were the issues that among others, that were clear needs for our region," said Cielo Fund founder Jess Melgar. The Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice started in 2008 and is one of the organizations receiving between $5,000 to $20,000.
The advocacy work ICIJ does is personal for Hernandez, who came to the U.S. when he was just 6 months old and grew up in Pomona."We didn't have organizations like other regions of the state that we could quickly tap into and call. So it was a big moment for me to realize that it's an injustice to be in a region that doesn't have this infrastructure to support all of our communities," he said.
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