UMassGives 2023

This year, we are excited to participate in UMassGives 2023! We are hoping to partially fund a series of initiatives via donations made during our POWER HOUR on April 27 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET  The center or department with the highest number of contributions during this hour, an average of 100 donations in previous years, wins an extra $2000. The dollar amount does not matter, so let’s shoot for (110) donations this time!

Please consider making a gift to the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) during 1:00 -2:00 p.m. ET and ask (3) friends to boot!

CLACLS is consistently organizing and sponsoring events and opportunities for our community while promoting research, training, and public engagement on the histories, cultures, and politics of Latin American,  Caribbean, and Latinx peoples across the Americas and  throughout the world. CLACLS is committed to sustaining links with Latin American and Caribbean communities in the U.S. and across the Americas, as well as to bringing the alternative knowledge produced in those communities to bear on our teaching and research.

By making a gift, you will be helping us in our efforts to support the following activities: 

1. Murals – Let's mark our presence! 

We are looking forward to creating an open and welcoming space for our Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx community on campus. Sharing their talents and research interests are part of the vitality of our Center. As such, CLACLS has developed a murals project and identified a group of local Latinx artists including Michelle Falcon Fontanez, Frankie Borrero, Jason Montgomery, and Avilda Sophia Anaya-Alegría, who will together work on the murals’ theme. Our vision is to create floor-to-ceiling panels that will adorn the CLACLS office hallways with images of our students, places for interactive reflection, amid a multimedia collage. The process of mural-making will bring the community, faculty, and students together building momentum and invigorating the Center. 

2. Pre-dissertation grants – Supporting our students in the completion of their dissertations!

This initiative aims at enhancing graduate students’ Pre-Dissertation research opportunities in Latin America, the Caribbean, or among Latinx communities across the United States. The award may be used for travel to assist in the development of dissertation proposals by undertaking preliminary research, performing field work, exploring archives, conducting interviews, and overall data collection activities. 

3. Visioning grants – Lending a hand to help each other get our projects off the ground!

Visioning grants support new and continuing faculty-graduate research initiatives that promote interdisciplinary, new, or alternative “visions” of key topics/problems in the field of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. We expect these initiatives to stimulate existing collaborations among our faculty and help inspire new ones. 

Consider donating during CLACLS Power Hour on Thursday, April 27 from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. for a chance to earn extra funding for CLACLS!