Month: May 2012

USDA Latino Outreach: La Mesa Completa

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United States Department of Agriculture

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Services works with State Agencies to provide food assistance and nutrition education to low-income families. We need your help to make sure that the Latino community has access to nutrition assistance.

The resources on this website include materials in both English and Spanish that should help enable organizations to offer food and nutrition education – as well as information about nutrition assistance programs – to those they serve.  We hope you will use these tools to help us meet the nutrition needs of our nation’s diverse Latino community. To access USDA’s Food and Nutrition Services resources, click here.

White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics

Please join Julie Rodriguez Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Jose Rico, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics for a conference call on President Obama’s efforts to call on Congress to put forward legislation to stop interest rates from doubling. 

We ask that you share this invitation with your networks and affiliates.

What: White House Student Loan Interest Rates Call
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Start Time: 6:00 p.m. (EDT)/3:00 p.m. (PDT), 30 Minutes
Dial In:  (800) 553-0273
Passcode Title:  White House Student Interest Loan Rates Call

This call is off the record and not for press purposes.

#LATISM is On Air with Google+ Hangout and at The White House!

FIRST UP – TOMORROW, TUESDAY MAY 1ST AT 7PM EDT


Our Google+ Hangout on Air, the first livestream hangout to be organized by a Latino organization, is the latest in the organization’s efforts, as a partner to the Ya Es Hora campaign, to bring to the forefront the importance of exercising the power of the vote in the upcoming elections and beyond. This will be the very first in a series of live-streamed conversations revolving around the most pressing Latino issues.

LATISM GOOGLE+ HANGOUT ON AIR DETAILS:
DATE: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
TIME: 7:00 pm EDT
TO TUNE IN: Watch the hangout live on the LATISM Google Plus page at http://bit.ly/LATISMGplus
TO PARTICIPATE: Submit questions prior and during the live event via the LATISM GooglePlus page and via Twitter using hashtag #LATISM. The hangout will also be recorded and will be available on the LATISM National YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/LATISMnational once it has ended.