About Night of the Americas:

Every Spring, La Plaza hosts our unique Night of the Americas event to raise community awareness and support for La Plaza’s impactful programs.

During this Latin American-themed evening celebration, over 400 of our city’s business, public, and community leaders learn more about La Plaza’s work, savor a delicious ethnic dinner, and enjoy dancing under the stars. The students and families served by La Plaza have a chance to share their stories with the community.

Finally, La Plaza names the annual Hispanic American Service Award winners and awards annual college scholarships through the La Plaza Scholarship Fund.

THANK YOU, SPONSORS!

On behalf of La Plaza’s Board Members, our President/CEO and team, and the Latino Community in Central Indiana, we express our sincere GRATITUDE to the SPONSORS that helped us make possible a successful and impactful Night of the Americas 2022. THANKS to our sponsor’s support; La Plaza can continue working to impact and transform lives by strengthening more Latino youth and families in Central Indiana.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Title Sponsor

Title Sponsor: Strada Education Network

Our vision is to see all individuals empowered to pursue learning pathways that are valuable, purposeful, and provide support to overcome systemic barriers to success.

Quetzal Sponsors

The Lacy Foundation

IKORCC

The Indianapolis Foundation

The Indianapolis Foundation

The Indianapolis Foundation’s six publicly appointed board of directors work with staff to identify and seize opportunities to improve the quality of life in Marion County by taking on challenging issues, seeking and supporting innovative solutions and collaborating with community partners and donors on various projects and initiatives to transform our community for the better.

IKORCC

The Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters represents more than 35,000 professional tradespeople in 40 locals in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and parts of West Virginia and Tennessee. A proud affiliate of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, which has a century-plus tradition of representing the best of the building trades, the council works in partnership with more than 30,000 contractors, helping them find the best possible talent for their projects.

The Lacy Foundation

The Lacy Foundation is a private charitable foundation established in memoriam of Stanley K. Lacy by the Lacy family. The Foundation continues the Lacy family legacy of community engagement with a focus on education, leadership and quality of life issues.

Inca Sponsors

Marion County Public Health Department

Morales Group

Huntington Bank

Ivy Tech Community College

Lumina Foundation

The Mind Trust

KeyBank

Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township

FIESTA INDIANAPOLIS

About FIESTA Indianapolis:

Since 1980, La Plaza’s FIESTA Indianapolis has been the premier Hispanic Heritage Month celebration in Indiana, bringing together a vibrant and diverse community and enhancing the cultural fabric of Indianapolis. Thousands of Hoosiers join FIESTA Indianapolis every year, where they enjoy a day of music, dancing, food, children’s activities, a health and wellness fair, and community service booths.

This free, family event is held in September in downtown Indianapolis.

The main objectives of La Plaza’s FIESTA Indianapolis are:

• To celebrate and share the Hispanic culture with the entire community
• Enhance the cultural fabric of the city
• Expand Cultural Tourism in Indianapolis
• Disseminate information to the Hispanic Community

FIESTA Indianapolis celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month and the Latino community in Indiana.

An important update on FIESTA Indianapolis, 2021 festival: 

We’ve been navigating this pandemic as a front-line organization for over 17 months and have adapted to our changing situation to continue providing essential services to members of our community while ensuring the safety and security of our clients and staff. We’ve followed health guidelines, masked up, adapted new technology at the office, and created safety protocols, among other things.

It all looked to be paying off in the spring and summer when the number of virus cases at the local and state level were steadily dropping. However, as much as we want things to go back to normal, the numbers in Marion County have begun to rise in numbers we have not seen since the start of the pandemic. Breakthrough cases are at an all-time high, and we must face the difficult reality of the pandemic lives on.

We must put the health, safety, and well-being of our entire community first—our clients, staff, volunteers, sponsors, and partners, and all Hoosier residents. After careful consideration and with consultation from health experts we have decided to proceed to celebrate FIESTA Indianapolis virtually again this year.

In lieu of an in-person event this year, we will host our FIESTA Indianapolis virtually on Friday, October 15, 2021. We will send more details about this event in the next few weeks.

We will continue to forge ahead and serve some of the most vulnerable members of our communities with necessities like food, rental and utility assistance, technology assistance, weekly virtual tutoring support for students, and interactive live informational sessions for the community at large.

Thank you for your support during this unprecedented time.

SAVE THE DATE

VIRTUAL FIESTA INDIANAPOLIS 2021 – Friday, October 15, 2021

Please click the image below to go to our FIESTA Indianapolis event page.

Celebrating 40 Years of Latino Cultural Diversity in Central Indiana

Are you interested in sponsoring a virtual booth, having a virtual table, or anything else?

Please fill out this form and we will get back to you with more information!

LINK TO INTEREST FORM

Thank you to our sponsors!