Chia-Li Chien, business owner and expert columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com, has released her latest book, Show Me the Money - Run Your Business Like a Prosperous Investor. Show Me The Money helps small business owners view their business as an investment and learn how to build a foundation to position that business for transfer. The book is available through ShowMeTheMoneyBook.com as well as Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and other retailers.

Show Me the Money illustrates why you should expect a return on your investment after the years of hard work and stress involved in being a business owner. Step by step, Chien demonstrates how to spend more time working on your business and not just in it.

This book:

  --  Empowers you to concentrate on your business.

  --  Shows you how to become an investor of your business.

  --  Prepares you to proactively select the right exit channels and
      recognize the right window of opportunity to cash out.

  --  Guides you in strategically safeguarding your return on investment.

  --  Teaches you business value drivers--driving the right future investors
      to you.

  --  Enables you to achieve financial independence and continue to be part
      of the virtual business cycle.

Chia-Li Chien is a business owner and leading authority on the topic of financial independence. Her columns can be found regularly at WomenEntrepreneur.com and FoxBusiness.com. Recent interviews have appeared in The New York Times' "You're The Boss" blog. She is also a Midas advisor of MidasNation, a community dedicated to helping private business owners increase the value of their firms.

Web Site: http://www.showmethemoneybook.com/

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is partnering with the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) and Hispanic PR Blog to sponsor the 2010 Hispanic PR & Social Marketing Conference. PRSA, as part of its "Advancing Diversity" initiative, supports the conference's goals of furthering multicultural communications and achieving greater diversity in the public relations industry.

Through the partnership, PRSA members are entitled to a discounted conference registration rate of $425, a $50 savings off the regular conference fee. Those PRSA members who are Accredited in Public Relations (APR) also may earn maintenance of accreditation points for attending conference sessions.

Co-presented by the Hispanic Public Relations Association and the Hispanic PR Blog, the conference will feature more than 22 professional development opportunities, keynote presentations and panels focused on best practices in Hispanic public relations and social marketing, including sessions on social networking, marketing to next-generation Latinos and achieving and maintaining corporate diversity.

Conference presenters, who represent multicultural public relations agencies, corporations, government institutions and non-profit organizations, are scheduled to include:

  --  Bill Whitman, vice president U.S. Communications for McDonald's
      (keynoter)
  --  Mike Fernandez, vice president of public affairs, State Farm
      (keynoter)
  --  Russell Bennett, vice president of Latino Health Solutions for
      UnitedHealthcare
  --  Lorenzo Lopez, director of corporate communications, Walmart
  --  Jose Pinero, director of communications, TV, Video and Music Division
      of Microsoft
  --  Paul Rand, chair, Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and
      president/CEO, the Zocalo Group
  --  Olga Romero, manager of Hispanic and multicultural public relations,
      Southwest Airlines
  --  Saskia Sorrosa, senior director of marketing, National Basketball
      Association (NBA)

The conference schedule can be viewed at http://www.hispanicprconference.com/conference-agenda/schedule.

During the conference, the results of the national Hispanic PR Census will be unveiled. The survey, which seeks to count every public relations and communications professional who spends 30 percent or more of his or her time on Hispanic public relations and/or social media work, can be accessed at www.tinyurl.com/HPRCensus. The Hispanic PR Census is sponsored by RL Public Relations.

For more information on the Hispanic PR & Social Marketing Conference, visit www.hispanicprconference.com or contact show director, Ray Bianchi, at rbianchi@hispanicprblog.com or 305-600-4878. You also may subscribe to conference-related "Tweets"; the Twitter hash-tag for the conference is #HPRConf.

Web Site: http://www.hispanicprconference.com/

Accenture, American Airlines, Comcast, DuPont, Exelon, General Mills, GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft, Prudential, and other companies today announced their commitment to collectively spend $30 million with minority and women owned (MWBE) law firms in 2010 and have created the Inclusion Initiative to challenge other companies to follow their lead.

The Inclusion Initiative companies will work closely with the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) to identify best practices for major corporations to maximize relationships with high quality minority and women owned law firms throughout the United States.

The Inclusion Initiative is administered by NAMWOLF, which is comprised of certified MWBE law firms and dedicated to increasing the utilization of MWBE law firms by corporate legal departments.

Web Site: http://www.namwolf.org/

The organization is forging a new professional association standard by introducing and expanding a variety of programs and initiatives led by a new leadership board.

One such example of this growth is the Association's partnership with The Hispanic PR Blog to hold the first Hispanic Public Relations & Social Media Marketing Conference in Dallas, TX, May 10 -12, 2010. The conference will provide attendees with case studies, professional development, and career and networking opportunities that are focused on Hispanic PR and social marketing. Detailed information and registration is available at the conference website, www.HispanicPRConference.com.

An additional component to the conference is the recent announcement of a national Hispanic PR Census. The census, sponsored by RL Public Relations, is an effort to measure the size and strength of the growing Hispanic public relations industry and is available at HPRA's website.

Other key initiatives include a more powerful and integrated website (www.hpra-usa.org) developed and maintained by Conexion (www.conex360.com) that's user-friendly and provides social media integration, as well as increased funding amounts for HPRA scholarship recipients. Applications are currently being accepted through Friday, May 7, 2010. The application and more information are available at HPRA website's scholarship's section.

The new programs and initiatives are being spearheaded by the incoming 2010-2011 executive board: President Lourdes Rodriguez, VPE Public Relations; Vice President Delia Lopez, PR Consultant; Secretary Sara Rubalcava-Beck, MSB Ideas; Treasurer Mario Flores, Sportivo; and Senior Advisor John Echeveste, VPE Public Relations.

  The 2010 HPRA Board Committee Chairs include:
  Programs - Ivette Zurita, Accent Marketing
  Marketing - Mariluz Gonzalez, Vesper Public Relations
  Social Media Marketing - Jose Xicohtencatl, Edelman Multicultural,
   and Martin Canchola, Social Media Consultant
  Membership -Edgar Mejia, Conexion, and Veronica Potes, LAGRANT
   COMMUNICATIONS
  National Chapters - Stephen Chavez, Ketchum
  Scholarship/College Outreach: Anai Ibarra, PR Consultant; Susan
   Bringas, Hill and Knowlton; and Denisse Montalvan, Ketchum

About Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA):

HPRA was founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization to establish a network of Hispanics employed in the public relations profession. HPRA has more than 250 members representing public relations, marketing and advertising professionals from agencies, government, non-profit and corporate companies. HPRA is dedicated to the advancement of Hispanic professionals and provides educational seminars and workshops throughout the year. The organization has awarded more than $220,000 in scholarships to Latino students pursuing a career in communications. HPRA strives to be a resource for communications professionals and for those seeking insights into the Hispanic market. For more information please visit www.hpra-usa.org.

Humana and State Farm Insurance® will be this year's corporate lead sponsors, and the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame will be the academic lead sponsor.

The National Society of Hispanic MBAs' Annual Conference and Career Expo is the largest gathering of Hispanic MBAs in the country. An estimated 8,000 people are expected to attend including 250+ corporate and academic sponsors. Participating corporations will have the opportunity to recruit well-educated, diverse students and professionals and conference attendees will have numerous opportunities to attend professional development and networking sessions with top Hispanic leaders from across the nation.

About NSHMBA

The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) was created in 1988 as a non-profit organization. Widely known as the "Premier Hispanic Organization," NSHMBA serves 32 chapters and over 8,000 members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It exists to foster Hispanic leadership through graduate management education and professional development in order to improve society. NSHMBA works to prepare Hispanics for leadership positions throughout the U.S., so that they can provide the cultural awareness and sensitivity vital in the management of the nation's diverse workforce.

Web Site: http://www.nshmba.org/

Mexican-born Andrea Arroyo was recently selected to receive the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Award and is among the Seven Who Invent a Better Future, for ongoing project  Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juarez. The award is given to"outstanding leaders dedicated to improving women's lives

"When I was a professional dancer, I was fascinated by the female form," says Arroyo. "Soon after I became a visual artist, I began doing research on women's images. Since then, I have been intrigued not only by the female form, but also by female stories."

Not long after arriving in New York City as a dancer in 1983, Arroyo started experimenting with sculpture and drawings. She held her first solo exhibit, "Andrea Arroyo/Sculptures and Reliefs," five years later at On the Wall Gallery, which garnered a positive response from casual observers and art collectors. Her public art commissions, including "Harmony" (two relief murals) and "My City, My Planet, My Sun" (a series of large-faceted glass art panels), can be found at schools and subway stations in the Bronx.

Arroyo's latest project, "Flor de Tierra" ("Flower of the Earth"), looks to commemorate the women of Juarez, the border city in Mexico where more than 400 women have gone missing or been killed in the past 15 years. The phrase is also a Spanish expression that means something is buried or planted in a shallow place.

"I was appalled by the number of women who have been killed or missing and by the fact that the authorities have not taken proper measures to investigate or stop these crimes," says Arroyo.

Many of these victims were abandoned in the desert or buried in shallow graves, and Arroyo's project focuses on the vastness of their deaths. She's creating a pastel-on-paper drawing for each victim; to date, she's completed 230 of them.

"I feel privileged that I'm able to create art, so when I receive an award or acknowledgment I'm grateful and humbled," says Arroyo, who was named official artist for the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards by the Latin Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. She also received the Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts Award from "Catalina" magazine and the National Association of Latina Leaders in 2008.

In addition to "Flor de Tierra," Arroyo is working on "Flor de Vida" ("Flower of Life"). This project consists of brightly colored acrylic paintings based on historical and mythological women, such as Lilith, Athena, Cleopatra, Xochiquetzal and Frida Kahlo.

"In my work, female forms connect all women--linking the past with the present, the vulnerable with the indestructible."

http://www.womensenews.org/21Leaders

http://andreaarroyo.com

Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI) announces the inaugural class of the CHLI Global Leaders Internship & Fellowship Program. This program provides an opportunity for exceptional university students from diverse backgrounds to live, work and study in our nation's capital.

Building on its successful summer Congressional internship program, the CHLI Global Leaders Internship and Fellowship Program offers a dual-faceted program for academic credit and Congressional work experience for the rising generation of young American leaders. In addition, CHLI Interns collaborate with public policy experts and corporations that play an important role in both the domestic and global economy.

The CHLI Global Leaders Internship and Fellowship Program enables outstanding young Americans witha strong interest in the U.S. Hispanic community to expand their professional horizons and enhance their understanding of government and business by conducting policy and business oriented research and related professional activities in Washington, D.C. for an academic semester. The three students selected for the spring 2010 program, will spend fifteen weeks working closely with Congress and corporations, and will take classes on applied politics and political management with the Semester in Washington Program at The George Washington University.

This semester's CHLI Global Leaders Program is supported by CHLI corporate partners, Altria, the Coca-Cola Company, Comcast Foundation, and MillerCoors, These corporate partners recognize the value of this important program as part of their respective commitment to help foster the growth of future Hispanic leaders in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

The Spring 2010 CHLI Global Leaders Comcast Interns are:

  --  Maria Luque
  Hometown: Weston, Florida
  University: Florida International University
  Internship: Office of Congressman Albio Sires (NJ-13)

  --  Janelle S. Perez
  Hometown: Miami, Florida
  University: Florida International University
  Internship: Office of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

  The Spring 2010 CHLI Global Leaders Altria Intern:

  --  Eduardo Arabu
  Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
  University: Northeastern Illinois University
  Internship: Office of Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL-21)

Through this new program, qualified undergraduate and graduate students will have the opportunity to spend 12-15 weeks in the fall and spring semesters working closely with Congress and corporations in Washington, D.C. Students will also take classes on applied politics at The George Washington University for which they can receive up to six academic credit hours. CHLI Interns will also perform project-focused assignments that provide hands-on experience and enhance their education and practical work experience.

The CHLI Global Leaders Internship and Fellowship Program is made possible with the generous financial support of Altria Client Services Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, MillerCoors, Pacific Gas &Electric Corporation, and Southwest Airlines.

Web Site: http://www.chli.org/

Mujeres de HACE program has partnered with National-Louis University (NLU) generating increased visibility to the Mujeres program, encourage lifelong learning, and benefit Mujeres graduates with access to University workshops and events.
 
The Mujeres de HACE program's vision is to create a network of inspired Latina leaders that can affect change in our region by participating in a series of workshops whereby experts lead thought provoking topics on balancing work-family responsibilities.
 

The Mujeres de HACE at NLU program is specifically designed to meet the needs of today's working Latina in order to help move her into leadership roles in the workplace and in the communities she serves.  In turn, we hope to see these women passing their successes from this program on to other women ultimately improving productivity levels and retention rates for Latinas in the U.S. companies/organizations over the next decade. 

Location:
National-Louis University
Chicago Campus
122 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
located across from the Art Institute

When:
The program meets from 4:00 - 8:00 pm on the following dates.

Agenda:
Orientation:    Latinas Rule - February 22, 2010
Session I:    Defining Your Strengths and Committing to your Goals - March 9, 2010
Session II:    The wellness Revolution - March 23, 2010
Session III:    Relationships and communication in the Home and at Work - April 6, 2010
Session IV:    Managing your economic assets - April 20, 2010
Session V:    Implementing Plans For Life - May 4, 2010
Graduation:    May 18, 2010
 
START TODAY by following these action steps:
 
1. Contact: Ana Maria Soto, Executive Director, Proyecto Comunidad:
Telephone: 800.443.5522 ext. 3003
Email: anamaria.soto@nl.edu
 
2. Go to the website and register:
Register: www.nl.edu/mujeresdehace