What's the Narrative About Your Leadership?
By Brook Manville (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength. Over the next few months, we'll each be authoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) In my…
Latino Pastoral Action Center is hosting a Faith and Public Policy lecture at Union Theological Seminary
Please join us on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm, at Union Theological Seminary for a dialogue with Adolfo Carrion, Jr., HUD Regional Administrator for N.Y. and N.J. The dialogue will be on "Faith and Public Policy." Union Theological Seminary is located at 3041 Broadway at 121st Street, New York, N.Y. 10027.
Internship Opportunties at El Museo del Barrio
Each Spring, Summer and Fall El Museo encourages personal development by offering enriching internships to promising students and youth. El Museo del Barrio, New York's leading Latino cultural institution, welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures. Their richness is represented in El Museo's wide-ranging collections…
President Obama Signs Executive Order on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
In a ceremony in the East Room of the White House today, President Obama signed an Executive Order to renew and enhance the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics so that it better serves communities across the country by engaging them in the process of improving the education of Latino students. Among the…
The Carnegie Council presents: The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 (with live webcast)
In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—to rely on traditional power politics, despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. Dallek takes a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused…
IFC's Ten Best Latin Films of the Decade
The IFC Center, in collaboration with Cinema Tropical, presents "The Ten Best Latin American Films of the Decade," during a week-long a special program taking place October 18-25th featuring nightly screenings of popular Latin films like Y tu Mama Tambien and Amores Perros. There will be two special in-person screenings with renowned directors Latin American…
Pew Hispanic Center releases Demographic Profiles of Latino Eligible Voters in 27 States
The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, today released statistical profiles of the Latino eligible voter populations in 27 states. Derived from the 2008 American Community Survey, these profiles provide key demographic and socioeconomic information about Latino eligible voters and all eligible voters (U.S. citizens ages 18 and older). They also…
Film based on Spiritual Enterprise airs at Yale
A new film based on the book Spiritual Enterprise by Yale Divinity School Senior Research Scholar Theodore Malloch will make its New Haven debut at a showing on Oct. 20, 5:30 pm, in YDS's Niebuhr Hall. Following the screening will be a brief panel discussion and reception. The film premiers at the Heartland Film Festival…
Why I Hire Former Convicts and Gang Members
By John Shegerian, Electronic Recyclers International, Fresno, Calif. When I took over Electronic Recyclers International in late 2004, it was a failing company. I decided to restructure and rebrand it. And when it came time to hire new employees, I saw an opportunity to hire individuals from what have typically been marginalized segments of society:…