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June 12-14
Scottsdale, Arizona
Only a few more scholarships left!
Promoting Healthy LifeStyles: A
Partnership Between You and Your
Community
This year’s focus: Policy Solutions
for Reducing Cancer Risk.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Elmer
Huerta, founder and director of
the Cancer Preventorium at the
Washington Cancer Institute at the
Washington Hospital Center in
Washington, D.C., and the first
Latino National President of the
American Cancer Society.
Come and join your colleagues at
this renowned annual health
conference and learn from
policymakers, cancer experts and
public policy specialists.
For registration or more information
please call Tatiana Guerra (202)
434-8070.
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BBA MEMBERS:
Sponsorship
Opportunities For Nhcsl Sixth National
Summit Are Now Available!
“Noche de Celebración”
$50,000
Gold Sponsor
$25,000
Patron Sponsor
$15,000
Sponsorship of NHCSL National Summit offers
a series of great benefits for you and your
company. Sponsorships are available on a
first come first serve basis. Visit
www.nhcsl.org for more information. |
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Strengthen Your Voice!
Email:
tatiana.guerra@nhcsl.org |
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 According to a recent report
conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center,
the fast growth of the Hispanic
population in the United States will
assure their influence in the
upcoming presidential elections.
Hispanics have been participating
strongly in the primary elections
which will end next week. Most
forecasts predict that Hispanics
will represent a growing percentage
of the overall vote in the general
elections this fall. Susan Minushkin,
from the Pew Hispanic Center stated that
“this is about a young generation
and an aging one, there is a
demographic impact with more
Hispanics reaching a voting age” she
said.
The Hispanic community’s primary
interests are the economic crises,
health and education, in addition to
immigration. Hispanics had the
largest percentage of participation
among all minorities during the
primary election.
It is anticipated that the Latino
vote’s influence will be felt in
November, because Hispanics are a
key constituency group and will play
a big role during the upcoming
elections, said Minushkin. There are
high percentages of Hispanics living
in states such as New Mexico,
Colorado, Arizona and Florida,
states that could define the
presidential outcomes.
For the complete text of the report
please visit:
http://pewhispanic.org
In addition, the Pew Hispanic Center
posted a fact sheet with information
about the elections in Puerto Rico
which includes data on the size, and
social and economic characteristics
of the Puerto Rican eligible voter
population.
To view the fact sheet visit:
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/87.pdf
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 The
Progressive States Network (PSN) has
selected NHCSL Vice President for
Public Policy, Delegate Ana Sol
Gutiérrez (MD) as the recipient of
the 2008 Progressive State Leader
Award for her contributions and
outstanding ongoing work on
immigration in the state of Maryland.
The State Leader Award is given to
national leaders in progressive
politics and it will be presented to
Delegate Gutierrez during the 2008
PSN’s Annual Gala in New York City
on Wednesday June 18th. NHCSL
congratulates Delegate Ana Sol
Gutiérrez for this well deserved
honor and recognition.
For more information about PSN
visit
http://www.progressivestates.org |
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“Ya es
hora: ¡Ciudadania!”
“Ya es hora: ¡Ciudadania!” is a
historic and comprehensive civic
participation campaign that was
launched as a community response to
the pro-immigrant mobilizations of
2006. The campaign represents the
largest coordinated effort to
incorporate Latinos as full
participants in the American
political process. This campaign is
headed by The NALEO Educational Fund,
the National Council of La Raza (NCLR),
Service Employees International
Union (SEIU), We Are America
Alliance, and unions dedicated to
increasing civic participation by
immigrants. Univision Communications
Inc. is leading the television and
radio efforts to motivate legal
permanent residents to apply for U.S.
citizenship. Unlike past approaches,
which focused on naturalization,
voter registration, or get-out-the-vote
drives, this campaign seeks to
integrate all these components into
a comprehensive civic engagement
strategy and under a recognizable
action-oriented slogan: ya es hora,
which translates to “now is the
time”.
For more information visit
www.yareshora.info |
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The National
Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) is the
preeminent organization representing the interests of 300
Hispanic state legislators from all states, commonwealths,
and territories of the United States. Founded in 1989 as a
nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)3, NHCSL is a catalyst and
advocate for joint action on issues of common concern, such
as health, education, immigration, homeownership and
economic development to all segments of the Hispanic
community. NHCSL also works to design and implement policies
and procedures that will impact the quality of life for
Hispanic communities; serves as a forum for information
exchange and member networking; an institute for leadership
training; a liaison with sister U.S. Hispanic organizations;
a promoter of public/private partnerships with business and
labor; and a partner with Hispanic state and provincial
legislators and their associations representing Central and
South America. For more information visit
www.nhcsl.org |
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