LDC U.S. Latino GDP.

History

The Latino Donor Collaborative created the concept of “Latino GDP” in 2016 to document the economic impact of U.S. Latinos in our beloved country, the United States. It was envisioned by our Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Sol Trujillo, with the goal of having a fact-based measurement and empowering an accurate perception of the Latino cohort. Since its inception in 2015, we have focused on data and measurements that help ALL AMERICANS, and it has become a tool to optimize the decision-making of resource allocators across the country.

The process of creating reputable research to measure Latino GDP has been a labor of love. First, we came up with the concept at an LDC board meeting in 2015. Then, in early 2016, we designed the format we wanted to produce and engaged researchers to implement those ideas; the LDC funded them and tested them. Since the very first report we published in 2017, it has become an economic reference nationwide. We thank Wells Fargo for its support and collaboration from the initial research to the present.

The LDC has invested more than $2 million over the past seven years to develop, promote, expand, and scale up its impact, and we are proud to provide the data that now helps decision-makers across the country quantify the important economic contributions of U.S. Latinos in America.