2025 Día Mini-Grants Winners

• By: REFORMA
• On: 03/05/2025 18:10:01
• In: News & Announcements

Congratulations! REFORMA 2025 Día Mini-Grants Winners

We're excited to announce the 2025 REFORMA Día Mini-Grants awards recipients. The winners were selected based on the program's creativity, level of community involvement, and impact of the project as it best highlights Latino/x/é authors, performers, and culture. Each winner will receive $500 to support a Día program.

• Newburgh Free Library / Yoly Avella
  Newburgh, NY
  Día de lectura familiar: Celebrando el Dia del Niño /Family Reading Day: A Day of the Child Celebration
   
• Palm Desert Library / Zoraida Martinez
  Palm Desert, CA
  Día de la Niñez/Day of the Kid
   
• Terrebonne Parish Library / Megan Hutchinson
  Houma, LA
  El Día de los Libros
   
• Denver Public Library / Nadia Rendon
  Denver, CO
  Criaturas y Creaciones
   
• Peninsula Book Collaborative / Raquel Espana
  Daly City, CA
  Dia de los Ninos con libros
   
• Lincoln Heights Branch Library, Los Angeles Public Library / Alejandra Q Reyes
  Los Angeles, CA
  Bilingual Selena Themed Storytime with Josue Cuentacuentos Bidi bidi bom bom!
  Grant sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter

REFORMA thanks the 2025 Día Mini-Grants Selection Committee:

• Crystle Ardoin, Catalog & Collection Development Tech, Temple Public Library
• Oscar Baeza, REFORMA National President 2021-2022
• Cynthia Bautista, Manager of Branch Services, Long Beach Public Library
• Maria F. Estrella, Founder of Young Diverse Readers Consulting
• Alma Ramos-McDermott, 5th-grade Teacher, Avalon Elementary, Naples Florida

The program coordinator is Madeline Peña Feliz, Associate Director for Community Engagement and Outreach at the Los Angeles Public Library; REFORMA President 2018-19, Awards Committee Chair.

We thank everyone who applied for our Día Mini-Grant Program. We received 10 eligible submissions.

El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. REFORMA is proud to be a founding partner of Día.

REFORMA is committed to supporting programming for Latino and Spanish-speaking communities through our Grants Programs. If you'd like to support future Mini-Grants, consider making a donation to REFORMA at reforma.org/donate.

¡Felicidades a los ganadores!