Quince15 Campaign Story

Celebrating Our Quince. Claiming Our Futuro. Protecting Our Past.

For nearly fifteen years, Latinos in Heritage Conservation has worked alongside communities, scholars, advocates, culture bearers, and preservation leaders to protect the places and stories that carry Latinx history forward.

We know that preservation is not only about buildings. It is about people. It is about the grandmother’s kitchen table where stories are passed down. The mural that marks a neighborhood’s memory. The cemetery that holds generations of families. The business, school, church, plaza, dance hall, union hall, landscape, and borderlands route that remind us: we have always been here.

Today, LHC is entering a defining moment.

As we approach our fifteenth anniversary, we are launching the Quince15 Growth Plan, a five-year fundraising campaign to expand Latinx heritage preservation across the United States. This campaign will help LHC grow from a nationally recognized nonprofit into a durable, field-shaping institution with the capacity to meet the needs of communities across the country.

Our goal is bold: raise $7.25 million by 2030 to invest in Latinx-led preservation, national programming, storytelling, advocacy, staffing, and long-term organizational sustainability.

This investment will allow LHC to expand the work communities are already calling for: flexible grants through Nuestra Herencia, bilingual tools and trainings through the Latinx Preservation Toolkit, national advocacy through Endangered Latinx Landmarks, intergenerational storytelling through the Abuelas Project, and movement-building through Congreso. Nuestra Herencia Grants support Latinx heritage and historic preservation projects across the United States, while the Latinx Preservation Toolkit provides accessible, community-centered guidance for protecting places that matter.

The need is urgent. Latinx communities continue to face underinvestment, displacement, erasure, and exclusion from the systems that decide what is protected and remembered. Yet across the country, communities are already preserving their own histories with creativity, care, and power. They are documenting family archives, defending sacred places, sharing oral histories, restoring landmarks, and teaching future generations that our stories matter.

Quince15 is our commitment to meet that momentum with the infrastructure it deserves.

With your support, LHC will deepen its work in priority states, expand community re-granting, grow its staff, strengthen national partnerships, and build the long-term capacity needed to lead for the next decade. Together, we can ensure that Latinx heritage is not treated as peripheral to American history, but recognized as essential to it.

A quince is a celebration of becoming. It honors where we come from while marking the beginning of a new chapter.

For LHC, Quince15 is that moment.

We are celebrating our past, claiming our future, and building a national movement rooted in justice, visibility, and belonging.

Join us. Invest in Latinx heritage. Protect the stories, places, and people that shape our shared future.

Founded in 2014, Latinos in Heritage Conservation is the leading non-profit organization for the preservation of Latinx places, stories, and cultural heritage in the United States. We are a diverse network of intergenerational advocates conserving Latinx sites and living cultures in the fabric of American society, affirming the value of our history in the hemispheric struggle for social justice.

Quince15

Celebrating Our Quince, Claiming Our Futuro, Protecting our Past