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Organizations’ ‘best practices’ from educating members to potluck meetings (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor How do you motivate members to attend meetings? Any best practices to share? LEDY ALMADIN: It has to start from the leader. It’s the leader’s job to motivate and get the team excited to achieve the mission. Once members are motivated, inspired and excited, they will come to the meeting. There […]
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5 leaders share thoughts on organizing in a diverse, at times discordant, FilAm community (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor The five personalities in this forum were chosen for the long history and rich experience they’ve had with community organizing. Together, community leaders Ledy Almadin, Lumen Castaneda, Yves Nibungco, Candice Sering and Vivian Talambiras-Cruz, have about 20 organizations among them that they may have started from the ground up or nurtured […]
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When the nurse is skilled, competent…and male
By Cristina DC Pastor Please don’t call them “murses.” They are dedicated health care professionals and they are part of this rapidly growing community called ‘men in nursing.’ Male nurses like Arman David of Christ Hospital in Jersey City, and Roderick Munoz of Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, have heard it all, […]
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OFF THE WALL: Warren Buffett admits to ‘blunders’ in letter to stockholders
By Daniel de la Rosa On the 50th anniversary of Warren Buffett’s takeover of Berkshire Hathaway, I received a copy of his letter to stockholders. The chairman’s letter is a milestone of sorts – pretty much like opening a gift from Santa on Christmas morning. The wisdom is homespun. Simple. Direct. While everyone hails him […]
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SO JANNELLE!: Business as usual for Pacquiao following red carpet hoopla
By Jannelle So The morning after the March 11 red carpet press conference announcing his upcoming fight against Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Manny Pacquiao was ‘business as usual.’ He jogged from his house to the Pan Pacific Park, doing two rounds; did his stretching and ab workout; and shot some hoops at a nearby court. He […]
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Passports are the ‘heart’ of consular service: ConGen Mario de Leon Jr.
By Cristina DC Pastor Did you know that if you are a person with disability you do not have to wait in line for your passport application? You can “jump the line,” according to Consul General Mario de Leon Jr., in a press briefing with members of the Filipino American Press Club of New York […]
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What’s behind those wild, cathartic ‘divorce parties’?
By Cristina DC Pastor Bring out the limos, the martinis and the magic mics. ‘For better or for worse’ has just become ‘For closure!’ Welcome to divorce parties, a booming industry that’s leading un-coupled women toward celebratory catharsis and keeping wedding planners very busy. According to a TIME Magazine article, a “divorce party-planner in Los […]
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The FilAm celebrates a Happy 4th: It was a very good year
By Cristina DC Pastor The past year began quietly enough in March of 2014. And then sometime in April, I got this email from The Newseum’s Visual Resources Assistant Colleen Bernhard asking for photos and a headshot. “The Newseum, in partnership with The Smithsonian Institution, is working on an exhibition on the origins and influence […]
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The FilAm tables at UniPro’s Opportunity Fair, finds students who love to write
By John Sapida This past Sunday, March 8, I had the opportunity to table for The FilAm magazine at UniPro’s Opportunity Fair at NYU Palladium, attended by hundreds of young Filipino Americans. The event, organized in partnership with the New York University’s International Filipino Association, was created to showcase several dozen community and government organizations, […]