The Bank for America Charitable Foundation has awarded California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, or CERF, a $250,000 research grant to identify the total economic contribution of Hispanics by U.S. state. CERF Executive Director Matthew Fienup and Director of Economics Dan Hamilton head the research institute’s team, which includes Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, distinguished professor of medicine at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine; and Dr. Paul Hsu, an epidemiologist at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health.