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The Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States
Serving our Community for 28 Years!
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Make Portuguese Count™ Crowdfunding
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November 2019
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US Newsletter
The Online Newsletter of PALCUS
In this issue......
PALCUS News
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PALCUS Launches GoFundMe Campaign for Make Portuguese Count™
- PALCUS Chair Angela Simoes receives The PFSA Portuguese Community Service Award
- PALCUS and Make Portuguese Count™ present at the I Symposium on Lusophone Cultures of California
- PALCUS Announces Partnership with Portuguese Catholic University for Annual Fellowship
- Have you completed the PALCUS INDEX NATIONAL SURVEY yet?
- PALCUS Call for Committee - MARKETING COMMITTEE
- PALCUS National Conference report now available
- PALCUS Make Portuguese Count™ Campaign UPDATE
- PALITICUS New Episode: National Conference 2018 - Natalia Luis
- PALCUS Member Spotlight: Dina Grilo opens a new chapter in East Newark as first new mayor in 32 years
- PALCUS Member Spotlight: Patricio Enterprises recognized as a 2019 HIRE Vets Platinum Medallion Program Demonstration Awardee
- Thank You for contributing to the Friendship Forest Fundraiser
- PALCUS in the news:
- RTP Hora dos Portugueses shows PALCUS Gala
Embassy Row
- IV Meeting of Portuguese Diaspora's Investors
- North Cascades National Park and Peneda-Geres National Park Sign Sister Park Arrangement
Gateway Featured Business
Community News:
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New Website for Consulate General of San Francisco
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Jubilo Afonso Appointed Judge
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Portuguese in Massachusetts Civic Life Survey
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Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute lecture with poet Sam Pereira
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PALCUS Launches GoFundMe Campaign to Benefit
Make Portuguese Count™ in the 2020 Census Campaign
Last year PALCUS launched a national campaign to encourage the participation of Portuguese Americans in the 2020 U.S. Census so that all U.S. residents who claim Portuguese ancestry will be informed and counted as "Portuguese" in the 2020 Census.
We have made great progress but we still have a lot of work to do, and we need your help! The funds raised through this effort will be used for printed materials (posters, flyers and pamphlets), campaign buttons, instructional and educational videos, marketing (radio/print/tv) and hosting informational events to spread the word, all in an attempt to reach every person of Portuguese ancestry in the country through media outreach and social media.
Every $1 counts, so please do what you can to support this important initiative that directly benefits you, your family and your community.
All proceeds to benefit the Make Portuguese Count™ Campaign
Thank you for your support! PLEASE GIVE HERE!
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PALCUS Chair Angela Simoes receives The PFSA
Portuguese Community Service Award
Angela Costa Simoes was selected as one of the PFSA Portuguese Community Service Award recipient for 2019. This award recognizes the positive impact these individuals have done for the Portuguese Community including the Make Portuguese Count campaign.
Congratulations Angela!!
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PALCUS and Make Portuguese Count™ present at the I Symposium on Lusophone Cultures of California
On Saturday, November 2nd, PALCUS Chair Angela Simoes gave a presentation about Make Portuguese Count at the I Symposium on Lusophone Cultures of California, a two day event at UC Davis.
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PALCUS Announces Partnership with Portuguese Catholic University for Annual Fellowship
One PALCUS Member per Year to be Awarded Full Fellowship in Portugal
PALCUS pleased to announce a partnership with Católica University in Portugal, where one of their Fellowships will be reserved for a PALCUS Member. The Fellowship covers an entire degree, either undergraduate or graduate, not just one year or one semester. This is an incredible opportunity for our youth and we are proud to collaborate with such a prestigious university.
Applications due: January 31, 2020
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Have you completed the
PALCUS INDEX NATIONAL SURVEY?
We need to hear from you!
This survey will help us gain a better understanding of our Portuguese-American communities in order to serve you better. In this survey, people who reside in the United States and are Portuguese or of Portuguese descent are asked to complete a short questionnaire that asks about their demographic and socioeconomic characteris
tics as well as their community concerns.
- It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire.
- Your participation in this study is completely voluntary.
- Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate for statistics only..
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Dulce Maria Scott, Ph.D.
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Many thanks to
Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice,
Anderson University
and PALCUS Research Consultant
for her work
in the design, analysis and reporting of the
PALCUS Index National Survey (2017, 2019).
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PALCUS Call for Committees
Volunteers are one of the most important assets of any organization. Their work on the PALCUS Board of Directors and committees is directly related to the success of PALCUS. It takes the time and expertise of many individuals working through the numerous PALCUS committees to shape the national organization that exists today.
PALCUS is committed to excellence in its diverse programs. To help us achieve this goal, we reach out to leaders in business and industry, to community leaders, to parents, and to students in our community by asking them to work with us in an advisory capacity to improve our programs.
This "Call for Committee" provides another opportunity to serve.
CALL FOR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
MARKETING COMMITTEE
If you have experience in brand and identity design, social media, marketing and PR to help with our website, redesign of our brand and marketing efforts, we need you on our Marketing Committee!
This committee is chaired by PALCUS Director Paul do Forno.
Please email us at palcus@palcus.org if you're interested in helping on this committee. You'll gain leadership skills and build relationships with our great directors and members!
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PALCUS National Conference report now available
The PALCUS National Conference report is now available for download.
If you would like a hard copy please request one via the email palcus@palcus.org.
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PALCUS Make Portuguese Count™ Campaign UPDATE
Be like Mikel, Emilie and John -
Pledge to Write "Portuguese" in the 2020 Census!
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(L-R) Mikel Santos, Emilie Portal and John Santos
Courtesy of Benvinda Santos taken at Memorial Day Farmingville, NY Parade with the participation of the Portuguese-American Center of Suffolk County (Clube de Farmingville), an affiliate of NYPALC.
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PALCUS Make Portuguese Count™ by the Numbers (so far!).......
MPC Affiliated Organizations: 194
MPC Captains Nationwide: 63
Events Attended: 150
(May - November, 2019)
Campaign Buttons: 15,000
Printed Materials Distributed: 40,000
Would your club, organization, school, church or business like to help spread the word with information and printed materials?
Contact Marie Fraley directly to put you in contact with a Captain in your area! marie.fraley@palcus.org
Watch for our Special Make Portuguese Count™ Newsletter dedicated to all the news about our participation as a community in the 2020 Census.
Make Portuguese Count™ is made possible with the
generous support of:
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PALITICUS New Episode:
NationalConference2018 -
Natalia Luis
This is the second in a series of PALITICUS episodes in video forma recorded at the Inaugural Portuguese American National Conference in Washington, DC.! Today's episode features Natalia Luis, COO and Owner of M. Luis Construction Co.
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PALCUS MEMBER SPOTLIGHT :
Dina Grilo opens a new chapter in East Newark as first new mayor in 32 years
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Dina Grilo |
On the day she would officially be elected East Newark's first new mayor in 32 years, Dina Grilo was out in the streets of her hometown chatting with voters.
It wasn't in an effort to win: she had no opponent in Tuesday's uncontested mayoral race. But Grilo earned her spot on the ballot five months earlier by upsetting East Newark's longtime mayor, Joseph Smith, in a rare contested Democratic primary by winning nearly 55 percent of the vote.
She hadn't realized she would make history as Hudson County's second-ever female mayor until the press started publicizing it, Grilo said.
Now, she'll lead the tiny borough where she's lived her whole life.
"The people spoke," the mayor-elect said. "It's what they want. They want change."
Congratulations Dina!
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PALCUS MEMBER SPOTLIGHT :
Patricio Enterprises recognized as a 2019 HIRE Vets Platinum Medallion Program Demonstration Awardee
The U.S. Department of Labor has recognized
Patricio Enterprises
for the second year in a row as a 2019 HIRE Vets Platinum Medallion Program Demonstration Awardee! Recipients of the
#HireVets
award are recognized for the commitment to recruiting, hiring, and retaining veterans.
Congratulations Patricio Enterprises!
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Thank You for contributing to the Friendship Forest Fundraiser
PALCUS thanks everyone that contributed to the Friendship Forest Fundraiser. We were able to raise $1,000 and plant about 300 trees!!
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RTP Hora dos Portugueses PALCUS Gala 2019 weekend in Sacramento, California.
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IV Meeting of Portuguese Diaspora's Investors
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The IV Meeting of Portuguese Diaspora's Investors will take place at Viseu, Portugal, on 12-14 December 2019.
The event is organized jointly by the Secretaria de Estado das Comunidades Portuguesas, through the Gabinete de Apoio ao Investidor da Diáspora, and the Intermunicipality of Viseu, Dão e Lafões.
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Embassy of Portugal in the U.S.
Are you connected with the Embassy of Portugal in the US? Sign up for their newsletter on their website, or follow them on social media.
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North Cascades National Park and Peneda-Geres National Park Sign Sister Park Arrangement
On October 25, the United States of America's North Cascades National Park and Portugal's Peneda Geres Park signed a Sister Park Arrangement, the first pairing of American and Portuguese National Parks. North Cascades Superintendent Karen-Taylor Goodrich and ICNF President Nuno Banza signed the Sister Park Arrangement in a ceremony held at Casa Carlucci in the presence of Ambassador George E. Glass as well as representatives from ICNF, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (TBC), the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action (TBC).
Ambassador Glass hailed the agreement as a symbol of the shared commitment to conservation and the protection of public lands, highlighting the similarities of the two parks in terms of their rich flora and fauna, transnational boundaries, and mountainous geography. The Ambassador stated "Having visited both parks, it is exciting to see these true treasures of our respective countries partnering under this sister park arrangement to facilitate and foster future collaboration."
Sister Park Arrangements are an initiative of the U.S. National Park Service, designed to increase information sharing and direct park-to-park contacts in order to address the common issues facing national parks around the world.
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GATEWAY FEATURED BUSINESS
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Alzuleycha of San Jose, California
Alzuleycha is a design studio that reinvents details of the Portuguese architecture transforming them into decoration accessories for your home. Details like the hydraulic floor tile, the wall tiles, the balcony bricks and balustrades are Alzuleycha´s inspirations to create decorations accessories. Alzuleycha wanted to honor and praise the long and rich history of the Portuguese architecture, redesigning and modernizing details that go unnoticed in the architectural ensemble of the city by bringing them inside the house as a piece of art.
To look for more Portuguese businesses and organizations throughout the US (or add your own), please visit the Gateway
online.
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The Consulate General of Portugal in San Francisco has a new website
On behalf of the General Consulate of Portugal in San Francisco, please take note of its new website:
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Jubilo Afonso apointed judge
The ceremony took place at the Union County Supreme Court in Elizabeth, where the new judge was sworn in before the court's judge, Candido Rodriguez Jr . PALCUS was represented by Vice-Chair Katherine Soares.
Congratulations!!
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Welcome to the Portuguese in Massachusetts Civic Life survey!
"We have designed this survey to get a sense of how Portuguese and Portuguese Americans engage their communities in Massachusetts.
We are both Luso-American academics: Daniela Melo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and teaches in the Social Sciences at Boston University; Paul Manuel holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, and teaches in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington DC.
The results of this survey will help us with our research. We seek to better understand how the Portuguese have managed to build their own distinctive community in Massachusetts. Building on both the state political culture and social capital literature, our project asks how the immigrant Portuguese community has adapted to life in Massachusetts. More specifically, it wonders which strategies both Portuguese-American community leaders and elected officials have used in order to help their ethnic group assimilate into the larger fabric of Massachusetts society, all the while maintaining their cultural and religious distinctiveness; and, what this case may teach us about how new immigrant groups engage the larger American society.
The survey will require approximately fifteen minutes to complete. There is no compensation for responding nor is there any known risk. In order to ensure that all information will remain anonymous and confidential, please do not include your name. If you choose to participate in this project, please answer all questions as honestly as possible no later than November 30, 2019.
Participation is strictly voluntary, and you may refuse to participate.
Thank you for taking the time to assist us in this project. The data collected will provide useful information regarding how Portuguese and Portuguese Americans engage their communities in Massachusetts.
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Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute lecture with poet Sam Pereira
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TELL US YOUR NEWS!!
We would love to hear what you have been up to. Events, Promotions, Graduations, Awards, Lectures or News the community should know about.
Send us an email to be featured in our newsletter:
palcus@palcus.org
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Are you a PALCUS member yet?
We are stronger together!
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f you agree with the work undertaken by PALCUS to build the social, cultural and political capital of our community, then please join us and become a member today!
Strong membership participation means a stronger voice in the national Portuguese-American agenda. In order to advance Portuguese language education, increase presence in the congressional caucuses, and provide economic opportunities, the collective voice of thousands is needed!
In addition, PALCUS is a member-driven non-profit organization that depends on membership dues and fundraising events to fund its operations.
Members of the all-volunteer board of directors donate their time and personal funds for travel, lodging and tickets to attend networking events and planning sessions so our administrative costs are relatively low but nonetheless critical to doing business on a daily basis.
There are membership categories to suit every budget and level of interest. Please click on our membership webpage and join our voice today!
PALCUS announces that we are now using
memberplanet, a user-friendly platform that will help us to serve you better. It is an interactive service that will allow you to update your PALCUS member profile, track donations and dues and join PALCUS circles with members of similar interests all with the click of a mouse.
When you become a PALCUS member, you will be prompted to join us on
memberplanet. As always your information is confidential and will never be shared without your permission. Questions? Contact
Graci for more information!
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Did you enjoy this newsletter? Do you know about all the programs PALCUS offers our community? Please visit our website and become a member today!
We can't do what we do without your support!
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Jobs for Portuguese Speakers
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Contact Information
Phone: 202-466-4664
9255 Center St., Suite 404
Manassas, VA 20110
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PALCUS Mission
In order to create a singular voice to advocate for the Portuguese-American and Luso-American communities at large, the Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States Inc. (PALCUS) was founded in 1991 as a non-partisan, non-profit, organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The PALCUS mission is to address domestic and international concerns of the Portuguese-American Community.
The Council conducts an expanding program of educational and public affairs activities on issues of interest to the Portuguese-American community and of salience to the Luso-American Relationship.
PALCUS is committed to serving the community through increasingly active government relations efforts, the promotion of a greater awareness of ethnic accomplishments and encouraging stronger ties between Portugal and the United States. In this role PALCUS advances the community professionally, politically and culturally while working to ensure that issues directly affecting our community are addressed through our network of government and community leaders.
PALCUS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization under the IRS tax code and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. Donations are tax deductible to extent allowed by law and will be acknowledged.
PALCUS has earned the
2018 Gold GuideStarUSA Nonprofit Profile Seal of Transparency. Visit our profile
HERE
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