Calling all artists, digital creators, graphic designers and creatives!

After a whirlwind Latino Conservation Week 2022, we’ve started looking forward to next year’s 10th Anniversary Celebration.

Like the last few years, we’d once again love your ideas for a 2023 LCW sticker that will be available online for folks to use at their events - but this time with a twist! Instead of just designing the sticker we use, we want you to help us design the 10th Anniversary Latino Conservation Week logo. This logo will be printed into 5,000 stickers to be distributed through to our networks and will be used in our social media guides and promotional materials. Additionally, the winner will receive a $300 cash prize!

WHEN:

Submissions will be accepted starting December 15, 2022 through February 28, 2023.

REQUIREMENTS:

• It is preferred that designs are created as an EPS, but submitted as a PDF.
• The shape is completely up to you, but the content should be legible if printed no smaller than 2x3 inches in size.
• No limit on the number of submissions.
• While not required, if you would like to incorporate the logo or elements of the logo you can download it at http://latinoconservationweek.com/images/lcwlogos.zip.
• Please submit your final design(s) through the form below.
  Optional: Add any background information or inspiration you’d like for us to know about your design.
  Optional: Include any social media handles, so we can tag you in social media!

Esta Semana estaremos enseñando sobre la importancia de cuidar la naturaleza y restaurar plantas a los Niños de nuestra comunidad CAF

Join the Young Latino Network in amplifying Latinx voices during #LatinoConservationWeek. Join YLN Secretary, Estefany Rodriguez, as she moderates a panel of some of Cleveland's finest Latinx community members. Have you heard of Latino Conservation Week? It's an annual initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation showcasing outdoor engagement and conservation advocacy by Latinx communities. During one week in late July of each year since 2014, Latino Conservation Week is amplified on social media using #LCW and through outdoor and digital events and activities. This year, the hashtag is #LCW2020 and Latino Outdoors will be featuring a full lineup of special virtual events, panels, speakers, and screenings.

Contact-less Community Distribution of Navigation, Nutrition, and Grow Kits Latino Outdoors is collaborating with ViVe Wellness, Denver Urban Gardens, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife to keep Latino Conservation Week going with a Contactless Community Distribution of Navigation, Nutrition, and Grow Kits and Education!The kits and education will be provided to community members in ViVe Wellness programs. ViVe primarily serves families that are from Latin American immigrant backgrounds and primarily Spanish-speaking, with younger community members being bilingual in English and Spanish. ViVe Wellness directly works with families in Denver neighborhoods to provide health, fitness, swimming, and most recently, outdoors education in fun, interactive, bilingual, community settings.There will be 3 Pick-Up Stations at Russell Square Park:Navigation Kit: Map and Compass. Map and compass are part of the 10 Essentials in the Outdoors and increasing navigation skills within our community is an integral part of being prepared and comfortable recreating and enjoying the outdoors.Colorado Parks and Wildlife, who also provided the maps, was able to provide the ViVe Wellness Youth Pathways program participants with a navigation lesson. Two Youth Pathways participants will be teaching the community how to use these materials in a virtual class later in the day.Nutrition Kit: Healthy Snacks and EducationViVe Wellness is passionate about providing the community with healthy alternatives to processed food that families that they work with usually have the most easy-access to. They will be providing healthy snacks and information to combat unhealthy food, because conservation also means conservation of our health, body, and spirit to be able to thrive. Conservation starts from within, and that starts with what you put in your body.Grow Kit: Starter Plants and Fall Crop SeedsGrowing a garden is an activity that can be done at home that connects people with nature. This collaboration with Denver Urban Gardens strives to bring more growing of gardens into the homes of the Latinx community and to give practical advice on the Colorado growing season. Creating a sustainable food system by making growing food accessible is one big way we wanted to contribute to Latino Conservation Week. The kit will also have two recipe cards and a small recipe book that was donated from the American Cancer SocietyWe will be following COVID-19 guidelines and all participating community members will have a scheduled pick-up time and will rotate between Stations, maintain social distancing, and wear masks at all times during the event. Distribución Comunitaria sin Contacto de Paquetes de Navegación, Nutrición y Cultivo¡Latino Outdoors está colaborando con ViVe Wellness, Denver Urban Gardens y Colorado Parks and Wildlife para mantener la Semana de Conservación Latina con una Distribución Comunitaria sin Contacto de Paquetes de Navegación, Nutrición, y Cultivo e Educación !Los paquetes y la educación se proporcionarán a los miembros de la comunidad en los programas de ViVe Wellness. ViVe atiende principalmente a familias inmigrantes de origen latinoamericano y principalmente hispanohablantes, y los miembros más jóvenes de la comunidad son bilingües en inglés y español. ViVe Wellness trabaja directamente con las familias en los vecindarios de Denver para brindar salud, actividad física, natación y, más recientemente, educación al aire libre en ambientes comunitarios divertidos, interactivos y bilingües.Habrá 3 estaciones de recogida en Russell Square Park:Paquete de navegación: mapa y brújula: El mapa y la brújula son parte de los 10 Elementos Esenciales del Senderismo y el aumento de las habilidades de navegación dentro de nuestra comunidad es una parte integral de estar preparado y cómodo para recrearse y disfrutar del aire libre. Colorado Parks and Wildlife, que también proporcionó los mapas, pudo proporcionar participantes del programa de ViVe Wellness de juventud con una lección de navegación. Dos participantes del programa de juventud enseñarán a la comunidad cómo usar estos materiales en una clase virtual más tarde en el día.Paquete de nutrición: bocadillos saludables y educación. ViVe Wellness tiene una pasión por proporcionar a la comunidad alternativas saludables a los alimentos procesados ​​que generalmente tienen acceso más fácilmente las familias con las que trabajan. Proporcionarán bocadillos saludables e información para combatir comidas no saludables, porque la conservación también significa la conservación de nuestra salud, cuerpo y espíritu para poder prosperar. La conservación comienza desde adentro, y eso comienza con lo que pones en tu cuerpo.Paquete de cultivo: plantas de inicio y semillas de cultivos de otoño. Cultivar un jardín es una actividad que se puede hacer en casa y que conecta a las personas con la naturaleza. Esta colaboración con Denver Urban Gardens se esfuerza por traer más sembrar más jardines en los hogares de la comunidad Latinx y brindar consejos prácticos sobre la temporada de cultivo en Colorado. Crear un sistema alimentario sostenible al hacer que el cultivo de alimentos sea accesible es una gran forma en que queríamos contribuir a la Semana de la Conservación Latina. El paquete también tendrá dos tarjetas de recetas y un pequeño libro de recetas que fue donado por la American Cancer Society.Seguiremos las guías para combatir el COVID-19 y todos los miembros de la comunidad participantes tendrán un horario de recogida programado y rotarán entre estaciones, mantendrán distancia social y usarán mascarilla en todo momento durante el evento.

Join us for a panel discussion with Latinx members of the Audubon Florida network in celebration of Latino Conservation Week. Birds as Connection is a broad conversation about how birds unite people of diverse backgrounds and interest

Trout Unlimited is proud to partner with Hispanic Access Foundation to support the Latino community getting into the outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural resources.TU is offering a complimentary one year introductory membership for anyone celebrating and supporting Latino Conservation Week and for the next year, you'll receive all the benefits of a paid membership. You'll also become part of a growing community with more than 420 local chapters and state councils led by volunteers across the country who enjoy angling and work together to keep America's rivers cold, clean and fishable.Together, we can make our fisheries healthier, our communities more connected and protect and improve angling opportunities for the next generation.

Please join us in this important work.

Click here to join Trout Unlimited for free: https://gifts.tu.org/joinHAF

Getting outside to enjoy the magnificent mountains that surround the area is a staple of the Southwest Colorado lifestyle, and Sheep Mountain Alliance (SMA) wants to ensure equal access to outdoor recreation and conservation opportunities for everyone in the community. To that end, the local conservation organization will be offering several opportunities to participate in Latino Conservation Week, a nationwide initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation.

As COVID-19 continues affecting our lives, I’ve been reflecting on how grateful I am for our public lands, places my family and I can safely go to exercise, get some fresh air or just sit and enjoy the beauty that surrounds us. All of us who live in western Colorado are fortunate to have an abundance of access to open space, great trails and shared lands.

Communities throughout the country will enjoy and connect with the great outdoors during the 7th annual Latino Conservation Week, which begins July 18 and runs through July 26. While this year will lean more toward virtual activities like online expeditions, roundtable discussions, Q&A sessions, scavenger hunts, film screenings and the like, nearly 100 events are being celebrated nationwide.