Most Influential voting ends May 27 at 6:00 pm

Just a reminder to vote for Alex as the top nominee in the Civic Leadership category, Most Influential Latin@s of Silicon Valley! Voting ends on Thursday, May 27 at 6:00 pm. Please tell everyone you know to vote for Alex!

Vote at: http://vivamacsa.ipower.com/

The top one honoree in each category will be announced at MACSA's Que Viva fundraiser on Saturday, June 27th at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. You can also find out more information about Alex and his accomplishments on his website: http://aontiveros.com

by Selena Ontiveros

Vote for Alex as the top honoree - Most Influential Latinos!

Our very own Alex has been honored as one of the Most Influential Latinos of Silicon Valley! Of course, we already knew that he's pretty influential, but it's official now. In MACSA's 3rd annual event, Alex is one of the top 10 honorees in the Civic Leadership category. This is an especially great honor for Alex as this event was his brainchild and he brought it to fruition over 3 years ago.

It's up to us now to make sure that he's the top honoree in Civic Leadership. Please vote for him online at http://vivamacsa.ipower.com/

A few tips:
- If you're at work, turn down your volume as mariachi music plays once the site launches.
- Click on "Honorees" at the top and then the "Click here to vote" in red.
- It'll take you to a new survey monkey page where you can vote. (If you want to vote for the other categories, you'll have to click on each page separately.)
- Only 1 vote per computer is allowed, so make sure you vote from all your computers!

The top one honoree in each category will be announced at MACSA's Que Viva fundraiser on Saturday, June 27th at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. MACSA celebrates its 45th anniversary, and honors the Most Influential Latinos of Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley Latino Hall of Fame inductee, Luis Valdez. We'll be getting a table, so let me know if you're going to attend!

Thanks for your vote! And please tell everyone you know to go vote for Alex!

By Selena Ontiveros

Building Community in 2009 - CHispPA Q1 Meeting

On March 4, 2009 CHispPA held another well attended and successful general membership meeting, this time it was hosted by Intel and sponsored by Latino start-up, Discount Tax. This meeting featured an empowering keynote speech by Dr. Roberto Vargas as well as a dynamic and incredibly insightful presentation by Mitch Posada of Grupo Entrada on the rapidly growing Latino population and the impressive purchasing power trends. The evening’s program was concluded with an engaging panel discussion moderated by Gustavo de la Torre, Human Relations Officer at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. It featured experts in the fields of Employment (Leah Solorio-Fimbrez of County of Santa Clara’s Employment Connection), Social Media (Margarita Quihuis of Ricoh Innovations), Business Development (Michael Griego of MXL Partners), and Small Business Development (Alexandro Serrudo of the Minority Business Enterprise Center. All and all it was another successful CHispPA event exceeding our members’ expectations. We look forward to holding the next one in Q2!