The Latina Youth Conference was started by the founding sisters of the Lambda Theta Nu Sorority in 1997 as a way to involve and empower young Latinas in the Greeley community. The conference originally started with 50 high school students and now serves over 250 eighth grade girls annually.

The Latina Youth Conference costs around $8,900 to put on annually, which includes catering, table and room rental, participant materials, speaker fees, marketing costs and various other expenses. While we do receive funding from the university and conference registration fees, it is crucial for us to raise to enough money to cover the costs of our conference for the next year. Our goal during Giving Bearnanza is to raise $1,500 to help ensure that we can host this conference for young Latinas in our community.

Your gift supports conference workshops on topics such as: leadership, self-esteem/positive self-image, and promotion of higher education. Additionally, your supports provides the 50+ student volunteers from various groups across campus the opportunity to act as mentors for the young Latinas attending the conference. This helps foster leadership skills, communication skills, and increased confidence for our UNC students who participate as mentors.

We hope you will consider supporting UNC and the Latinx community; every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference.