The Illinois Student Assistance Commission launched the 12th year of enrollment for the College Illinois!® 529 Prepaid Tuition Program on Sunday, November 1.
The new, year-round enrollment means the program never closes, and parents can time their prepaid purchase to coincide conveniently with their personal financial cycle. Now is the best time to purchase a contract because new pricing discounts make buying early less expensive, and the current pricing period ends November 30.
Unlike a colle
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National Hispanic Business Association (NHBA) to Merge with the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) creating an organization with over 14,000 members nation-wide.
The National Board of Directors of the National Hispanic Business Association (NHBA) approved the merger of NHBA with the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA). The historic merger will create one of the largest professional organizations for Latinos in the areas of fin
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Today the American Heart Association unveils its Go Red Por Tu Corazon heart health awareness initiative at the 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards to educate Hispanic women about their threat of heart disease and to empower them to make life-saving choices for themselves and their families.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Hispanic women and, according to the American Heart Association, Hispanic women are likely to develop heart disease ten years earlier than Caucasian women.
"Go Red Por Tu
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In a city long known for ethnic ghettos and virtual walls between segregated neighborhoods, Sue Choe is something of a trailblazer. The Korean-American is hustling to learn Spanish.
"Bienvenido a mi tienda," Choe proudly welcomes visitors into her Koreatown Laundromat, over the rumbling of dryers.
The businesswoman's cultural leap is not only an acknowledgment of how fast many neighborhoods are turning Latino. It's part of an urgent attempt by Korean-American leaders to quell escalating tensi
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Denny’s (NASDAQ: DENN) has announced that through its partnership with the Hispanic College Fund, Inc. (HCF), it has awarded the Denny’s Single Parent Scholarship to 30 Hispanic students across the country.
“The Denny’s Single Parent Scholarship initiative is providing much needed financial support to individuals who strive to better their future and that of their children through higher education,” said Idalia Fernandez, president of the
Hispanic College Fund. “We are very pleased to partner w
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Jesse Gutierrez is proud of his accomplishments in his 11 years as the executive director of Nevada Hispanic Services, especially the founding of the Mariposa Academy of Language and Learning charter school, which has been a lifeline for many children in poorer neighborhoods.
But he is also a bit tired of being Reno's lightning rod for everything Hispanic.
That fatigue is one of the reasons he retired recently, ending a successful but sometimes controversial run as the leader of the largest n
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Approximately 5,000 Hispanic students, professionals, corporate leaders, educators and community leaders are expected to attend the largest Hispanic technical conference in the nation, the 2009 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Conference in Washington, D.C., taking place from Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, 2009. The registration numbers surpassed 2008 numbers, which were the largest in the organization's history.
SHPE will kick off its conference with the grand opening of its new offices in
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Posted by Eduardo Diaz on November 6, 2009 at 11:02pm
New York City sends its condolences to soldier Francheska Velez's family. She was one of those killed in the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Velez, 21, of Chicago, who was pregnant and returning home from a deployment in Iraq. She wrote poetry and loved dancing. "She was a very happy girl and sweet," said her father, Juan Guillermo Velez.Our hearts and prayers go out to you...Que Dios les bendiga y les de fuerza. Eduardo Diaz
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For those of you that specified that you will be attending....in the event you were not aware, there is a $125.00 fundraising fee.Please contact Miersa Cuevas, Executive Director of the Chamber to confirm your attendance. She is finalizing the count this weekend.The Chamber's number is 773-486-1331.Thank you,Dolly Rosario
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Like me, you might have wondered what all the rest of America's wise Latinas have been up to now that Justice Sotomayor has assumed her position on the U.S. Supreme Court. Well it seems that the Facebook site, "Wise Latinas Linked" is organizing busybodies to subtract every last trace of whimsy from Halloween celebrations this year.
Apparently the discount retailer Target was offering a space alien costume for this Halloween season featuring a Star Wars creature look-alike in an orange jumpsui
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A Texas woman was given a ticket for being a non-english speaking driver, but after she got a lawyer, she found out there was no such law for ordinary drivers -- only commercial truck drivers have to speak English.
Dallas police Chief David Kunkle said he was surprised and stunned when he learned his men had written such a ticket. Records show officers have written 38 similar tickets over the last three years.
Brenda Mondragon said it shook up her mother, Ernestina Mondragon.
"So, I basicall
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This afternoon, Lou Dobbs attacked Fox News host Geraldo Rivera for stating that Dobbs himself is “almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country.” While Rivera accuses Dobbs of defaming an entire race of people, Dobbs insists that he loves immigrants and Latinos and claims that his accusations are nothing but a reflection of Rivera’s “stupidity” and the company of “ethnocentric left-wing activists”
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On Oct.16, a distinguished coalition of more than 100 filled Medford Library’s meeting room to tackle a daunting challenge. District 9 administrators and faculty joined other area educators, social agency personnel, business, government and civic leaders for the summit. Their goal: create a plan to improve graduation and success rates for Latino students.
According to data compiled by Oregon’s Department of Education, Hispanic youth learn at about the same rate as their classmates of Anglo desc
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Twelve-year-old Francisca Abreu was anxious. It was February 20, 2007, and she laid her head down on her desk in her seventh-grade science class. "I was crying; I was very depressed. I had written a note to myself," Francisca remembers. "I just said I can't do this anymore. I want to kill myself."
Francisca's school called home, and her mother, Isabel Valdez, learned for the first time that her daughter was in serious trouble. "I never told her," says Francisca. "I never bothered her; she prob
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More than 40 local business, social and cultural leaders are scheduled to gather at city hall Tuesday for a summit on issues that affect the Hispanic community.
Mayor Lois Frankel, who is convening the noon meeting, said it's intended for frank discussion on the state of the community and ideas for the future. "I want to focus on these economic times and what are some of the issues the Hispanic community faces that we need to be more sensitive to," Frankel said.
The Hispanic community continue
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Fired hotel workers, relatives and other town citizens are picketing in protest outside of a Taos, New Mexico hotel. The new owner has told the Hispanic employees at the hotel to change their names.
Larry Whitten purchased the struggling hotel over the summer. His plans were to revitalize it. Whitten has done this for 20 other hotels.
The beauty of Taos goes deeper than the southwestern landscape. Taos is rich in Spanish history. Most of the residents speak Spanish.
Whitten speaks no Spanish
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Bank Founded by Former U.S. Treasurer Continues Mission of Service to Latinos
Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) today announced that it will celebrate 45 years of service to the Latino community on October 24, 2009. Pan American Bank, California’s oldest Latino-owned bank, will honor founder and former U.S. Treasurer, Romana Acosta Banuelos, at a community celebration hosted at Pan American Bank’s headquarters.
“Pan American Bank and Mrs. Banuelos pioneered Latino-focused banking decades before
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In their straw hats, rolled up sleeves and work boots, a dozen or so Latinos gathered by a field of ripening strawberries still look like farmers. All but one of them, however, have lost their land.
Now they ring up purchases in stores, drive tractors — and hold the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for denying or delaying the loans that could have saved their farms.
"I used to be a farmer — now I'm a farmworker, working on someone else's fields," said Juan Atayde, who lost his 90 ac
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The NBA announced Monday it is beginning a new marketing campaign that will attempt to bring in additional Hispanic fans to the game.
According to recent statistics from Simmons Market Research, Hispanics account for 15 percent of the NBA's fan base - totaling 120 million people.
"With Hispanics comprising such a large percentage of our fan base, we have a responsibility to connect with them in meaningful ways," NBA Director of U.S. Hispanic Marketing Saskia Sorrosa said in a statement.
The
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The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the leading advocate for nearly 3 million Hispanic-owned businesses and over 200 local Hispanic chambers throughout the United States, described a mixed reaction to today's announced improvements to small business lending, noting a move in the right direction, but also an expansion of old measures that have not yielded desired results.
As part of February's stimulus package, Congress allocated $730 million to the Small Business Administrat
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