News from the David J. Ruiz corner...
1. Drivers License Emergency Contact Submission
2. Gators Supporting Our Troops Veterans Day Care Packages Fundraiser
3. Pew Hispanic Release
4. White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
5. Keep A Child Alive Organization
6. The Well-Project Launches Spanish-Speaking Website
7. Sing Out for AIDS
8. NCLR News Release
9. Pfizer Foundation Announces Funds for Prevention-Care- Treatment Linkages
10. United Negro College Fund grants for HBCU programs
11. Opportunities
Drivers License Emergency Contact Submission
You can now go online and enter two (2) emergency contacts on your Florida Drivers License (electronically) which can only be retrieved by a police officer. This came about as a result of one woman's teenage daughter being killed in a car accident and taking over 5 hours to locate the mother to inform her. This way, if you are in an accident, the police can run the drivers license and have the emergency info ASAP!!!
Emergency Contact Information:
This service will allow you to provide emergency contact information to law enforcement in the event of an emergency. This information may save crucial time if ever it becomes necessary to contact family members, or other loved ones. This service is only available to individuals holding a current Florida Driver License or Florida Identification Card.
Your personal information in Florida motor vehicle and driver records is blocked in accordance with the Driver Privacy Protection Act.
To submit your contact information, first provide your current Florida Driver License or ID card number and your date of birth.
Gators Supporting Our Troops Veterans Day Care Packages Fundraiser
The Gators Supporting Our Troops UF campus group will be sponsoring an event on Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11, 2006.From 7:30 to 9:30 the group (along with the local Military Family Support Group) will be hosting/serving at Applebee’s (NW 13th Street) to fundraise for care packages.
I know it's early on a Saturday, but it's not really a sacrifice compared to what our men and women in uniform do everyday. Just try to come out for breakfast during that block to show some support.For more information, contact Renee Williams at gatorsrw@ufl.edu.
Pew Hispanic Center
The Pew Hispanic Center today released Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade, a statistical portrait of the foreign-born population in the United States. The new feature is based on the Center's tabulations of the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey public use microdata, which was released August 29, 2006. Fully implemented nationwide for the first time in 2005, the ACS became the largest household survey in the United States, with a sample of about 3 million addresses. It provides statistical resources not previously available except with data from a decennial census.
Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade covers virtually the same data as the long form on the decennial census. The statistical portrait includes 32 tables on the social, economic and housing characteristics of the foreign-born population. It also includes estimates of the foreign-born population at mid-decade by state and region of birth.
Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade joins previously released Hispanics at Mid-Decade which focuses on the Latino population. Both are available on the Center's website at www.pewhispanic.org.
The center has also expanded Hispanics and the 2006 Election, a fact sheet that projected the number of Latinos eligible to vote in November based on registration rates from 2004. The fact sheet now has projections based on voter registration from the 2002 mid-term elections.
The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts. It is also a project of the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan "fact tank" based in Washington D.C.
White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
The next event in the series of White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives will be held next month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Blake Hotel
555 South McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC 28204
On Thursday, November 16, 2006, the White House and the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Education, and Homeland Security, the Agency for International Development, and the Small Business Administration will host a conference in Charlotte to help social service organizations learn more about President Bush's Faith-Based and
Community Initiative. These conferences are geared towards faith-based and community organizations that have no history of applying for government grants, as well as those that have applied but have not yet been successful.
The conference is part of a series of regional events that are being held around the country. The conferences provide participants with a general overview of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative, information about the government grants process and available funding opportunities, and an overview of the legal responsibilities that come with the receipt of Federal funds. The events also offer grant writing tutorials for select Federal grant programs.
Registration:
The conference is free, but pre-registration is required. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit http://www.dtiassociates.com/fbci/ to register online. We strongly
encourage you to register online. If you are unable to register online, print the registration form attached to this email. Complete the form and fax it to 703-299-4589. If you are not able to view this file, please call 202-456-6708 to have a form faxed to you.
Please register by Friday, November 10. If you must cancel your registration, please send an email to fbci@dtihq.com or a fax to the number listed above so we may accommodate as many people as possible.
For more information, please call 202-456-6708, send an email to fbci@dtihq.com or visit www.fbci.gov.
We hope that you will be able to join us in Charlotte.
Best regards.
Therese M. Lyons, Director
Erin White, Deputy Director
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
*For more information on USDA's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives please visit: http://www.usda.gov/fbci/
*To join our mailing list, please sign up at: http://www.fbci.usda.gov/form/
Support ‘Keep A Child Alive’
This is an organization that I really love. I saw some information on it once and hunted them down. There are tons of AIDS organizations out there, but it is not so easy to find an organization that directly funds and delivers Anti-retroviral treatment. This organization does.You can choose to be a life donor ($30 a month) or a love donor (one time donation). If you can't do $30 a month, then try collecting cash from an organization you are in or where you work once a month. If not, just be a love donor or volunteer with them.They really make your donations count. http://www.keepachildalive.org/donate.php
The Well-Project Launches Spanish-Speaking Website
The Well Project, a source of medical information and support for women living with HIV, launched a Spanish-language version of its website this month. The site includes comprehensive information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS treatment, including detailed descriptions of antiretroviral medications and their side effects and resources for successfully managing HIV alongside parental and professional responsibilities. With an emphasis on blunt, easy-to-understand information, the site also offers profiles of women who directly confront the challenges of HIV infection and its persistent stigma.
Sing Out for AIDS
Tickets are $15.00 and can be found at the following locations…..
CHIQ Bar
4900 66th St N.
St Petersburg, FL 33709
All American Dyke
6842 Park Blvd.
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
M-F 11am-7pm
Sat & Sun 3pm-8pm
AIDS Partnership, Inc
Good Samaritan Church, Community Center
(Little white house behind Church)
6085 Park Blvd
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm
727-541-6638
Tickets are also available at Providence’s Shows as well as Melissa Crispo's Shows
Or online at www.mypalladium.org
PROMINENT LATINO ORGANIZATIONS TO MOBILIZE AND ASSIST LATINOS AT THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY
Washington, DC – The nation's leading Latino leadership organization, the NALEO Educational Fund (NALEO-EF), has joined with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., to help inform, engage, and mobilize Latino voters. This 2006 voter education and mobilization effort is an unprecedented partnership between the nation's premier Latino organizations, prominent community leaders, and Univision Communications, the country's largest Latino media company, to mobilize the Latino community for the midterm elections on November 7.
The effort's centerpiece is a toll-free hotline to assist Latino voters with the voting process. Lack of access to accurate and timely information is a key barrier to voter participation in the Latino community. To address that barrier, NCLR is partnering with NALEO-EF to staff a toll-free hotline 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (1-888-839-8682) with call centers in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. From 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. (EST) on Election Day, more than 40 trained live bilingual operators will help voters locate polling places and ensure that their rights are protected. Since 2004, the NALEO-EF hotline has helped more than 15,000 Latino voters nationwide, providing information on registration, absentee voting, and general sample ballot questions.
On the ground, NALEO-EF will monitor polling places in established and emerging Latino communities such as Anaheim, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Ana in California; Houston, Texas; and New York City. Nearly one hundred monitors will visit polling places throughout these communities to help ensure that polling places are accessible and that eligible voters are treated fairly. NCLR helped train local groups who will be monitoring polls in Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
About NALEO-EF's Voces del Pueblo Program
The NALEO Educational Fund's Voces del Pueblo voter engagement program seeks to engage, inform, and mobilize Latino voters in an effort to promote a culture of electoral participation among our communities. Since its inception, the program has reached more than one million young, newly registered, and infrequent Latino registered voters across the country. Since 2000, the program has established itself as a nationally recognized voter mobilization program. It has made significant contributions to the study and practice of increasing Latino political participation in the United States. Through field experiments in collaboration with the Yale University Civic Engagement Project and Ricardo Ramirez, Political Science Professor at the University of Southern California our efforts have been able to demonstrate that this important cross section of the Latino electorate can be mobilized and increase turnout on Election Day.
About NCLR's Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project (LEAP)
LEAP seeks to increase Latino and immigrant civic participation and political engagement by: (1) training a multistate network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to organize field campaigns and promote sustained civic education and participation; (2) testing and documenting campaign strategies to identify effective models that reduce participation barriers and increase interest in the process; (3) conducting research, policy analysis, and advocacy to promote policies, programs, and investments that support growth in immigrant and Latino civic participation; and (4) linking this emerging electorate with nonpartisan, issue-based advocacy campaigns promoting full integration of immigrants in mainstream society. LEAP seeks to produce measurable increases in Latino electoral participation and, over the long term, build local capacity to strengthen the nonpartisan foundation for participation and mobilization so that those increases are sustained. For more information, log on to www.naleo.org or www.nclr.org
Pfizer Foundation Announces Funds for Prevention-Care- Treatment Linkages
Building on the success of our Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative, Pfizer Inc and the Pfizer Foundation are rolling out a three-year HIV/AIDS initiative to complement existing HIV prevention efforts and to address the need for the HIV/AIDS community to engage in holistic approaches linking prevention, care and treatment programs.
The initiative is targeting AIDS Service Organizations providing innovative, comprehensive HIV/AIDS services in communities in the US that are most affected by HIV/AIDS. It will support approximately 20 community-based organizations with grants up to $100,000 for three years for programs that include coordination across HIV/AIDS prevention and primary care and/or those that forge collaborative networks between community-based prevention providers and other prevention and care and treatment services. Funding will not support primary care (treatment) or medications, but will support access to care. The Pfizer Foundation will fund such programs in the following 10 states: New York, Florida, California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina.
If you have organizations that you would like to send the RFP, please direct them to the following link on the Pfizer Inc Website: http://hivaidsphilanthropy.pfizer.com/.
United Negro College Fund grants for HBCU programs
The UNCF Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP), Division of Public & Community Health (DPCH) is pleased to announce the release of the RFP for the Campus Health Advocates Mobilizing Prevention Strategies (CHAMPS) Network Consortium funded by the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
UNCFSP will work with and provide capacity building assistance to selected CHAMPS institutions to equip these HBCUs to effectively develop, implement and evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Throughout the grant period consortium members will focus on coalition building, social marketing, peer/prevention education, and policy development.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is November6, 2006. The RFP and Appendices have been provided electronically as attachments to this notification and will be made available at http://www.uncfsp.org. Go to Program Opportunities and then select Institutional Programs.
For further information contact Ulrica Andujar at ulrica.andujar@uncfsp.org.
Opportunities*
Youth Leaders for Literacy
Deadline Nov 24, 2006
http://lideres. nclr.org/ opportunities/ detail/2410. html
NetAid Global Action Awards
Deadline Nov 30, 2006
http://lideres. nclr.org/ opportunities/ detail/2231. html
*From NCLR Lideres Newsletter
Regards,
David J. Ruiz
1. Drivers License Emergency Contact Submission
2. Gators Supporting Our Troops Veterans Day Care Packages Fundraiser
3. Pew Hispanic Release
4. White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
5. Keep A Child Alive Organization
6. The Well-Project Launches Spanish-Speaking Website
7. Sing Out for AIDS
8. NCLR News Release
9. Pfizer Foundation Announces Funds for Prevention-Care- Treatment Linkages
10. United Negro College Fund grants for HBCU programs
11. Opportunities
Drivers License Emergency Contact Submission
You can now go online and enter two (2) emergency contacts on your Florida Drivers License (electronically) which can only be retrieved by a police officer. This came about as a result of one woman's teenage daughter being killed in a car accident and taking over 5 hours to locate the mother to inform her. This way, if you are in an accident, the police can run the drivers license and have the emergency info ASAP!!!
Emergency Contact Information:
This service will allow you to provide emergency contact information to law enforcement in the event of an emergency. This information may save crucial time if ever it becomes necessary to contact family members, or other loved ones. This service is only available to individuals holding a current Florida Driver License or Florida Identification Card.
Your personal information in Florida motor vehicle and driver records is blocked in accordance with the Driver Privacy Protection Act.
To submit your contact information, first provide your current Florida Driver License or ID card number and your date of birth.
Gators Supporting Our Troops Veterans Day Care Packages Fundraiser
The Gators Supporting Our Troops UF campus group will be sponsoring an event on Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11, 2006.From 7:30 to 9:30 the group (along with the local Military Family Support Group) will be hosting/serving at Applebee’s (NW 13th Street) to fundraise for care packages.
I know it's early on a Saturday, but it's not really a sacrifice compared to what our men and women in uniform do everyday. Just try to come out for breakfast during that block to show some support.For more information, contact Renee Williams at gatorsrw@ufl.edu.
Pew Hispanic Center
The Pew Hispanic Center today released Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade, a statistical portrait of the foreign-born population in the United States. The new feature is based on the Center's tabulations of the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey public use microdata, which was released August 29, 2006. Fully implemented nationwide for the first time in 2005, the ACS became the largest household survey in the United States, with a sample of about 3 million addresses. It provides statistical resources not previously available except with data from a decennial census.
Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade covers virtually the same data as the long form on the decennial census. The statistical portrait includes 32 tables on the social, economic and housing characteristics of the foreign-born population. It also includes estimates of the foreign-born population at mid-decade by state and region of birth.
Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade joins previously released Hispanics at Mid-Decade which focuses on the Latino population. Both are available on the Center's website at www.pewhispanic.org.
The center has also expanded Hispanics and the 2006 Election, a fact sheet that projected the number of Latinos eligible to vote in November based on registration rates from 2004. The fact sheet now has projections based on voter registration from the 2002 mid-term elections.
The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts. It is also a project of the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan "fact tank" based in Washington D.C.
White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
The next event in the series of White House Regional Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives will be held next month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Blake Hotel
555 South McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC 28204
On Thursday, November 16, 2006, the White House and the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Agriculture, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Education, and Homeland Security, the Agency for International Development, and the Small Business Administration will host a conference in Charlotte to help social service organizations learn more about President Bush's Faith-Based and
Community Initiative. These conferences are geared towards faith-based and community organizations that have no history of applying for government grants, as well as those that have applied but have not yet been successful.
The conference is part of a series of regional events that are being held around the country. The conferences provide participants with a general overview of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative, information about the government grants process and available funding opportunities, and an overview of the legal responsibilities that come with the receipt of Federal funds. The events also offer grant writing tutorials for select Federal grant programs.
Registration:
The conference is free, but pre-registration is required. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit http://www.dtiassociates.com/fbci/ to register online. We strongly
encourage you to register online. If you are unable to register online, print the registration form attached to this email. Complete the form and fax it to 703-299-4589. If you are not able to view this file, please call 202-456-6708 to have a form faxed to you.
Please register by Friday, November 10. If you must cancel your registration, please send an email to fbci@dtihq.com or a fax to the number listed above so we may accommodate as many people as possible.
For more information, please call 202-456-6708, send an email to fbci@dtihq.com or visit www.fbci.gov.
We hope that you will be able to join us in Charlotte.
Best regards.
Therese M. Lyons, Director
Erin White, Deputy Director
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
*For more information on USDA's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives please visit: http://www.usda.gov/fbci/
*To join our mailing list, please sign up at: http://www.fbci.usda.gov/form/
Support ‘Keep A Child Alive’
This is an organization that I really love. I saw some information on it once and hunted them down. There are tons of AIDS organizations out there, but it is not so easy to find an organization that directly funds and delivers Anti-retroviral treatment. This organization does.You can choose to be a life donor ($30 a month) or a love donor (one time donation). If you can't do $30 a month, then try collecting cash from an organization you are in or where you work once a month. If not, just be a love donor or volunteer with them.They really make your donations count. http://www.keepachildalive.org/donate.php
The Well-Project Launches Spanish-Speaking Website
The Well Project, a source of medical information and support for women living with HIV, launched a Spanish-language version of its website this month. The site includes comprehensive information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS treatment, including detailed descriptions of antiretroviral medications and their side effects and resources for successfully managing HIV alongside parental and professional responsibilities. With an emphasis on blunt, easy-to-understand information, the site also offers profiles of women who directly confront the challenges of HIV infection and its persistent stigma.
Sing Out for AIDS
Tickets are $15.00 and can be found at the following locations…..
CHIQ Bar
4900 66th St N.
St Petersburg, FL 33709
All American Dyke
6842 Park Blvd.
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
M-F 11am-7pm
Sat & Sun 3pm-8pm
AIDS Partnership, Inc
Good Samaritan Church, Community Center
(Little white house behind Church)
6085 Park Blvd
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm
727-541-6638
Tickets are also available at Providence’s Shows as well as Melissa Crispo's Shows
Or online at www.mypalladium.org
PROMINENT LATINO ORGANIZATIONS TO MOBILIZE AND ASSIST LATINOS AT THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY
Washington, DC – The nation's leading Latino leadership organization, the NALEO Educational Fund (NALEO-EF), has joined with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., to help inform, engage, and mobilize Latino voters. This 2006 voter education and mobilization effort is an unprecedented partnership between the nation's premier Latino organizations, prominent community leaders, and Univision Communications, the country's largest Latino media company, to mobilize the Latino community for the midterm elections on November 7.
The effort's centerpiece is a toll-free hotline to assist Latino voters with the voting process. Lack of access to accurate and timely information is a key barrier to voter participation in the Latino community. To address that barrier, NCLR is partnering with NALEO-EF to staff a toll-free hotline 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (1-888-839-8682) with call centers in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. From 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. (EST) on Election Day, more than 40 trained live bilingual operators will help voters locate polling places and ensure that their rights are protected. Since 2004, the NALEO-EF hotline has helped more than 15,000 Latino voters nationwide, providing information on registration, absentee voting, and general sample ballot questions.
On the ground, NALEO-EF will monitor polling places in established and emerging Latino communities such as Anaheim, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Ana in California; Houston, Texas; and New York City. Nearly one hundred monitors will visit polling places throughout these communities to help ensure that polling places are accessible and that eligible voters are treated fairly. NCLR helped train local groups who will be monitoring polls in Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
About NALEO-EF's Voces del Pueblo Program
The NALEO Educational Fund's Voces del Pueblo voter engagement program seeks to engage, inform, and mobilize Latino voters in an effort to promote a culture of electoral participation among our communities. Since its inception, the program has reached more than one million young, newly registered, and infrequent Latino registered voters across the country. Since 2000, the program has established itself as a nationally recognized voter mobilization program. It has made significant contributions to the study and practice of increasing Latino political participation in the United States. Through field experiments in collaboration with the Yale University Civic Engagement Project and Ricardo Ramirez, Political Science Professor at the University of Southern California our efforts have been able to demonstrate that this important cross section of the Latino electorate can be mobilized and increase turnout on Election Day.
About NCLR's Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project (LEAP)
LEAP seeks to increase Latino and immigrant civic participation and political engagement by: (1) training a multistate network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to organize field campaigns and promote sustained civic education and participation; (2) testing and documenting campaign strategies to identify effective models that reduce participation barriers and increase interest in the process; (3) conducting research, policy analysis, and advocacy to promote policies, programs, and investments that support growth in immigrant and Latino civic participation; and (4) linking this emerging electorate with nonpartisan, issue-based advocacy campaigns promoting full integration of immigrants in mainstream society. LEAP seeks to produce measurable increases in Latino electoral participation and, over the long term, build local capacity to strengthen the nonpartisan foundation for participation and mobilization so that those increases are sustained. For more information, log on to www.naleo.org or www.nclr.org
Pfizer Foundation Announces Funds for Prevention-Care- Treatment Linkages
Building on the success of our Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative, Pfizer Inc and the Pfizer Foundation are rolling out a three-year HIV/AIDS initiative to complement existing HIV prevention efforts and to address the need for the HIV/AIDS community to engage in holistic approaches linking prevention, care and treatment programs.
The initiative is targeting AIDS Service Organizations providing innovative, comprehensive HIV/AIDS services in communities in the US that are most affected by HIV/AIDS. It will support approximately 20 community-based organizations with grants up to $100,000 for three years for programs that include coordination across HIV/AIDS prevention and primary care and/or those that forge collaborative networks between community-based prevention providers and other prevention and care and treatment services. Funding will not support primary care (treatment) or medications, but will support access to care. The Pfizer Foundation will fund such programs in the following 10 states: New York, Florida, California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina.
If you have organizations that you would like to send the RFP, please direct them to the following link on the Pfizer Inc Website: http://hivaidsphilanthropy.pfizer.com/.
United Negro College Fund grants for HBCU programs
The UNCF Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP), Division of Public & Community Health (DPCH) is pleased to announce the release of the RFP for the Campus Health Advocates Mobilizing Prevention Strategies (CHAMPS) Network Consortium funded by the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
UNCFSP will work with and provide capacity building assistance to selected CHAMPS institutions to equip these HBCUs to effectively develop, implement and evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Throughout the grant period consortium members will focus on coalition building, social marketing, peer/prevention education, and policy development.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is November6, 2006. The RFP and Appendices have been provided electronically as attachments to this notification and will be made available at http://www.uncfsp.org. Go to Program Opportunities and then select Institutional Programs.
For further information contact Ulrica Andujar at ulrica.andujar@uncfsp.org.
Opportunities*
Youth Leaders for Literacy
Deadline Nov 24, 2006
http://lideres. nclr.org/ opportunities/ detail/2410. html
NetAid Global Action Awards
Deadline Nov 30, 2006
http://lideres. nclr.org/ opportunities/ detail/2231. html
*From NCLR Lideres Newsletter
Regards,
David J. Ruiz
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