Border Buzz - November 2011
News from BPP Site Administrator | November 1, 2011
The Border Buzz
BORDER BUZZ is a roundup of the latest news and general interest items related to life and the work of philanthropy in the US-Mexico Border region. If you have a news item you would like to share with people from across the region in an upcoming BPP Border Buzz or, our newsletter, or any suggestions send these to michelle@borderpartnership.org |
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BPP NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- Join us on FACEBOOK! BPP just transitioned from a Group to a Fan Page | Click away and 'LIKE' us to connect and stay in touch via Facebook at facebook.com/USMBPP
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November 30, 12pm PST - Knowing our Reach, Understanding our Impact and Planning for Growth: A discussion on BPP's 2010 Tax Survey Results | Join us for a webinar to present and discuss the survey results from the 2010 tax season. Karen Arista, United Way of Southern Cameron County will lead us through a review of summary reports containing the results from Volunteer Income Tax Assistance sites (VITA) across the US-Mexico border region. Participants will:
- Enhance their understanding of current border trends in the financial behavior of families and residents
- Learn how and where to access data to support their current and future programming
- Understand the benefits of adopting BPP's 2011 Tax Survey in their data collection efforts
REGISTER HERE
- The BPP is pleased to offer BPP member organizations working in the area of Family Asset Building access to travel funds support | This year we have witnessed many organizations reducing travel budgets as a cost-savings strategy. This reduces the opportunity for staff to experience the benefit of attending conferences and other onsite educational workshops and events. The purpose of these TA funds is to help staff acquire the learning experience that can only be gained in attending a workshop, conference, or event held out of the office. The BPP is committed to helping family asset building organizations invest in their staff as a strategy to enhance and improve each organization's programming and operations. Please see attached document for more information to apply. Please note, funds will be made available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Organizations can submit starting on Monday, December 5th at 9am PST and the funding period will close on Friday, December 9th (or when funds are exhausted). Contact christiana@borderpartnership.org if you have any further questions.
- Fall Series of Family Asset Building Workshops | From October to December 2011 the BPP is convening a series of regional trainings for asset building practitioners at sites across the border region.
This Friday, join us for our last of the four workshops in Laredo, TX! "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Exploring what Depletes and Builds Wealth in our Communities" will offer participants an opportunity to engage in a focused dialogue to explore the factors that build and deplete wealth in their border community. more
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BPP MEMBER NEWS
- Two B
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Othli Award |
PP Members Receive the Ohtli Award | The Kino Border Initiative, a BPP member, was recently honored by the Mexican Consulate in Nogales with the Ohtli Recognition Award. more
In San Diego, another BPP Member, Andrea Skorepa and Casa Familiar were honored with the same award bestowed by the Mexican Consulate in San Diego. more
"Ohtli" is a Nahuatl word that means "pathway". The Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) and the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME) present this award to individuals and organizations who devote their lives to helping the Mexican community abroad.
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Building a Savings Culture in Texas
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- Raise Texas, a BPP member based out of Austin TX, recently held its annual Forum and Summit hosted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. At the Summit RAISE premiered its new video "Building a Savings Culture in Texas" that was produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The video is an excellent educational tool that and defines asset building highlights the importance of promoting a savings culture in communities. click the video to watch
If you are a BPP member and want to share your news with colleagues from across the region and the U.S. and Mexico, send a brief blurb, digital image and link to michelle@borderpartnership.org
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BPP OUT AND ABOUT
- The BPP Presents at the Border Legislators Conference | BPP Board Member Russ
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Jones and BPP Executive Director Andy Carey recently presented at the XXIV Border Legislative Conference in Saltillo, Coahuila de Zaragoza, November 17-19. Russ Jones and Andy Carey participated on a Repatriation panel to share perspectives on the actual procedures of repatriation, as well as its impact on border communities. BPP shared its members involvement and response to the repatriation of Mexican Nationals to Mexico across the binational region. The panel members included Angel Kuri Cervantes, Human Repatriation Director of the National Institute of Immigration, Secretariat of Government; Diputado Moises Casal Diaz (Nogales, Sonora), Sonora State Legislature; Representative Russ Jones from the Arizona State Legislature and BPP Board Member; and Andy Carey, BPP Executive Director. more
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 EMILY YOUNG, Senior Director, Environment Analysis and Strategy, The San Diego Foundation and long-time BPP colleague, member and friend is interviewed by the Environmental Grantmakers Association. more
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OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST
- November 30 - December 2, Washington D.C. | National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) national conference. more
- December 14, 4pm EST Webinar | Empowering Entrepreneurs at Tax Time, a webinar sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation, to learn about two creative ways to adapt the self-employment tax strategy (SETI) for your own tax assistance program, microenterprise development agency or other community-based organization. more
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FROM THE FRONTERAS NEWSDESKThe BPP is proud to share the latest from BPP partner, Fronteras: The Changing America Desk. Check out these latest stories and many more at www.fronterasdesk.org - Mexican Consumers Flock to the U.S. for Holiday Sales more
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Groups Ask Congress To Cut Border Enforcement Funds more -
Small Business Saturday Could Help Latino Entrepreneurs more
Fronteras is a journalism project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that covers the US-Mexico Border the American Southwest and the rising Latino demographic. With now hundreds of stories and growing, Fronteras: The Changing American Desk leverages the editorial strengths of the participating public radio stations that will help you make sense of the cultural shifts that are transforming the Southwest Region of the United States. Read and listen to these and many more stories at www.fronterasdesk.org
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CULTURE AND COMMUNITY
- El Paso nonprofits come together to offer an alternative to Black Friday with community benefits that cross the international border. more
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MORE OF THE BORDER IN THE NEWS
- "Tough Times may be Ahead for the Border Economy" reports the El Paso Times. more
- The New York Times reports on the 'plight of Tim Loop, 47, who lives on his family farm in Brownsville, at the southernmost point along the United States-Mexico border. Not so long ago, the Loop farm was a pastoral vision, with its bountiful mesquite and cotton fields and ... more
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HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- DEADLINE NOVEMBER 30 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting comments from interested parties and stakeholders on the draft "Border 2020: U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program" framework. The eight-year, bi-national, results-oriented, program for environmental improvement has been developed by EPA and SEMARNAT, 26 U.S. border Tribes, indigenous communities of Mexico and environmental agencies from each of the ten Border States. September 19, 2011 is the release date of the draft U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program: Border 2020. The comment period starts September 19, 2011 and closes on November 30, 2011. more
- Two-Year Binational Climate Change Study Launched. Led by University of Arizona, the multidisciplinary research effort will focus on building the adaptive capacity for water management in the transboundary region, understanding the role of climate information within governance networks, developing innovations in communicating climate science, and piloting development of a set of best metrics for assessing adaptive capacity in arid and border regions. more
- The Center for Health Policy Research and California Center for Public Health Advocacy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) releases study on youth obesity. "A Patchwork of Progress: Changes in Overweight and Obesity Among California 5th, 7th, and 9th Graders, 2005-2010" focuses on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-age children in California's youth. more
- Reuters reports an Arizona hunter spotted a rare U.S.-Mexico borderlands jaguar. more
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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
- The Nogales International describes the power of connecting U.S. suppliers with Mexican manufacturers. more
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PHILANTHROPY, NONPROFITS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- The Chronicle on Philanthropy and Council on Foundations recently invited the country's top leaders in community philanthropy to take part in an online discussion on the Future of Community Foundations. more
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U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS
- As the U.S. continues to grapple with high unemployment rates, it is timely for border-based organizations, industry and policy makers to consider the relationship of jobs creation in the U.S. to trade relations with Mexico. The Mexican Secretary of the Economy has developed a fascinating, interactive map that draws the linkages between national and state economies in the U.S. and trade with our most important trading partners. more
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