Dolores Huerta Foundation
“Inspiring and organizing communities to build volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice.”
The Dolores Huerta Foundation is a 501 (c)3 organization on a mission to inspire and organize communities to build volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice. DHF organizes at the grassroots level developing natural leaders with hands-on training through collective action working to establish Vecinos Unidos (Neighbors United) chapters in some of the most disenfranchised regions of California. In it’s 15 years DHF has formed chapters in Lost Hills and Cutler-Orosi, with currently active Vecinos Unidos groups in Arvin, Lamont, Weedpatch, Greenfield, and Bakersfield (Kern County) Tulare, Lindsay, and Woodlake (Tulare County) and Caruthers, Sanger and Parlier (Fresno County).
Our social justice grassroots organizing work is focused on Education, Health and Safety, LGBTQIA+, Equality and Civic Engagement. DHF is committed to dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline through student and parent training for meaningful engagement and advocacy. DHF works to create healthy, accepting supportive environments for LGBTQIA+ youth and family members by building support networks and safer school climates. Through our integrative voter and Census outreach and education, DHF has been instrumental in passing progressive local and statewide legislation to increase funding for public services. Please consider supporting this important work. We rely on the contributions of donors like you.
DHF Blog
People Powered Legislative Wins!
With the support of volunteers, Vecinos Unidos® members, and partnered organizations across the state, we are proud to celebrate these recent legislative wins. This is what People Power looks like!...
Celebrating the adoption of Proclamation Recognizing LGBTQ+ Students, Staff and Community!
The Dolores Huerta Foundation’s Education Department is celebrating LGBTQ History month this October by providing Vecinos Unidos® members and Youth online resources all month long. In early June...
Gerrymandering is Voter Suppression by DHF Civic Engagement Coordinator Eliana Honeycutt
Creating fair district lines is the most important way to reclaim the voting power that’s been taken from us. It’s very likely that if you live in the Central Valley, elected representatives are...
DHF Youth Members honor LGBTQ+ Pulse Nightclub victims for Dia de los Muertos.
The Dolores Huerta Foundation Youth members had the opportunity to organize an alter (ofrendo) to honor and celebrate the 49 lives that were lost at the Pulse Night Club tragedy on June 12, 2016 in...
NOW HIRING: Education Community Liaison
Dolores Huerta Foundation BackgroundEstablished in 2003, the DHF’s mission is to inspire and organize communities to establish volunteer organizations empowered to pursue social justice. DHF...
Conociendo: “El Canto Del ColibrÔ movie night 10/21
Join us as we host a Conociendo: "El Canto Del ColibrÃ" #movienight for National Week of Action Against School Pushout on 10/21 at 5:30 pm PDT. This virtual event is #FREE & open to everyone....









