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¡Sorpresa! Presents a Mexican Magical Story for Children in June
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 21, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — ¡Sorpresa!, the Spanish-language children’s channel that offers fun and educational programming from Latin America and around the world, announced the network premiere of The Legend of La Nahuala, a story about a boy, who tries to rescue his older brother from a deserted house controlled by a demon known as the Nahuala, an account of events based on the Nahuala fairytale.
The Legend of La Nahuala is scheduled to air on June 21 at 5:30 P.M. ET. The one hour twenty-two minutes production is the first of five animated horror-comedy film franchise created by Ricardo Arnaiz. The 2D animation movie is set during 1807 in Puebla, where Juan, 9 years old boy, must face his fears in order to rescue his exasperating older brother Nando, who has been captured by Nahuala, an evil witch.
The film is a combination of mystery and action, and it is an entertaining tale for both children and adults. It has been considered as a magic journey through the colonial Mexico, the accounts of the past living, the dead, the natives, the Spaniards and the mestizos, which are linked in the story of a boy who is scared of a Mexican legend during the celebration of All Soul’s Day, a real Mexican tradition known worldwide.
The film highlights Mexico’s cultural diversity with a heroin indigenous girl, Xochitl, who voice is played by Martha Higadera; Teodora Villavicencio, is a rich aristocrat Spanish girl; Don Andres, is the Spanish knight, Quixote type ghost, played by Andres Bustamante; Alebrije, a Mexican wise dragon which has lived in a library. The sound design has been created by Gabriel del Villar, who also composed the music for the Puebla Orchestra.
¡Sorpresa! is owned and operated by Olympusat Inc., and it’s currently available on Charter Spectrum, Claro TV, Cox Communications, Frontier Communications, Liberty, and Suddenlink.
For more information on ¡Sorpresa!’s programming, including tune in dates and times, please visit at olympusat networks.
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PSEG and the PSEG Foundation Announce $1 Million Commitment to Fight Racial Injustice, Inequity
NEWARK, N.J., June 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — PSEG and the PSEG Foundation announced today the launch of the Powering Equity and Social Justice initiative and a $1 million commitment to support organizations that address the racial injustice, inequality and human rights in communities of color. The Powering Equity and Social Justice initiative will provide philanthropic support to organizations in New Jersey, New York and anywhere PSEG operates.
In order to foster access to fair and equitable opportunity throughout its communities, PSEG also reaffirms its pledge to increase its business with diverse suppliers – those owned by minorities, women, veterans, service-disabled veterans and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs – to at least 30% of the company’s applicable supplier spend by 2023.
“These initiatives and commitments provide an opportunity for PSEG to take action and stand in solidarity with our customers, communities and employees in pursuit of needed change,” PSEG Chairman, President and CEO Ralph Izzo said. “By supporting organizations that champion justice and social equity, and by increasing support for our growing network of diverse suppliers, we hope to foster change and make a difference in the many diverse communities we serve.”
The new Powering Equity and Social Justice initiative is designed to provide philanthropic support for organizations that work to confront and address systemic racism and advance social and economic equity for communities of color. PSEG also is seeking to develop and strengthen partnerships with organizations dedicated to social justice and building bridges between law enforcement and communities.
“PSEG has always had a unique and special relationship with the communities we serve, and today we take this a step further by more directly powering equity and social justice to address the prejudice, hate and injustice we too often observe,” said Rick Thigpen, PSEG’s senior vice president for Corporate Citizenship and president of the PSEG Foundation. “When one of us is impacted in the PSEG community, we are all impacted. Therefore, it’s vital that we all join together to act and build a framework of equity, compassion, and respect that will truly benefit us all. For that reason, our company stands ready to support organizations that address racial injustice, inequality and human rights in communities of color in order to build a brighter future for everyone.”
PSEG’s increased supplier diversity goals will help to foster access to fair and equitable opportunity throughout our communities. PSEG has developed relationships with a broad base of diverse suppliers, which includes those owned by minorities, women, veterans, service-disabled veterans and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.
“PSEG helps drive the economies of the states where we do business,” Izzo said. “It’s critical that our suppliers represent our incredibly diverse customers and communities.”
PSEG is looking inward at its culture, as well. During the past year, the company has conducted diversity and inclusion training for its leaders and employees, and a comprehensive review of its policies and practices is in progress in order to ensure equity. In recent weeks, the company has fostered critical and candid conversations across its workforce and today, for the first time, PSEG has provided every employee with paid time off in recognition of the Juneteenth holiday.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG) (NYSE: PEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company with approximately 13,000 employees. Headquartered in Newark, N.J., PSEG’s principal operating subsidiaries are: Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), PSEG Power and PSEG Long Island. PSEG is a Fortune 500 company included in the S&P 500 Index and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for North America for 12 consecutive years.
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Kiki Pozo’s new book Antónimos E Imprevistos, an insightful tome that delves into Daniel’s divine visions that can inspire people to decide their life and souls’ path
MIAMI, June 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The book Antónimos E Imprevistos was created by Kiki Pozo. Kiki is an author who hails from Havana, Cuba. He studied at a student center in a municipality in the same city of his birth for reasons of national regional policy.
Pozo said this about his book: “It is illogical to think logically when logic is hijacked by impunity for power. Daniel, who is chosen by the divine will to transcend and return with the liberation of it, tells what we do not know and should know. A dream is the free manifestation of the soul and the spirit. This is divided into sleep and awake dream. Now with him, the real dimensional dream, he is the one who lets us know that all that comes to our will is the journey assumed in passive conditions. You travel with or without guarantee of return, suffer for living, live, and then suffer. It is you who decide the future of your soul, evil, goodness, and indifference”
Published by Page Publishing, Kiki Pozo’s new book Antónimos E Imprevistos is a potent tool that instills wisdom to individuals that will guide them in deciding their paths to goodness and salvation.
Consumers who wish to be enlightened can purchase Antónimos E Imprevistos in any bookstore, or online at Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
For additional information or inquiries, you can contact Page Publishing, through the following number: 866-315-2708.
About Page Publishing:
Page Publishing is a traditional full-service publishing house that handles all of the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and the like. Its roster of authors can leave behind these tedious, complex, and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at www.pagepublishing.com.
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All-New 2021 TLX Advances Acura’s Commitment to Safety Performance
TORRANCE, California, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The all-new 2021 TLX sport sedan, arriving at dealerships this fall, continues Acura’s “Safety Through Innovation” approach to enhancing safety performance with the introduction of a world’s first passenger front airbag designed to address the issue of severe brain trauma commonly associated with angled frontal collisions. A new video, released by Acura today, highlights the new airbag and other new technologies in the 2021 TLX.
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/ZvzOQTVURkU
This next-generation airbag technology is Acura’s latest advancement in occupant safety and ties back to earlier Acura innovations, including the world’s first vertically deploying front passenger airbag (1991), a unique design that reduced the potential for injury from a deploying airbag and was broadly adopted by the automobile industry in subsequent years. Similarly, the new front passenger airbag design first applied to the 2021 TLX this fall, co-developed by Honda R&D Americas and safety systems supplier, Autoliv, is now being offered to other automakers to enhance safety performance for their future products.
“This new Acura TLX is the latest example of our safety engineering team in Ohio pursuing important innovations to advance toward our goal of a safer and, ultimately, collision-free society,” said Jim Keller, President of Honda R&D Americas, LLC. “I’m very proud of how our engineers analyzed new brain injury research and then took action to achieve one of the most substantial advances in airbag design in decades.”
The 2021 TLX targets a 5-star Overall Vehicle Score, the highest available rating in NHTSA’s NCAP testing, along with an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ rating, including a GOOD rating in all collision tests and a SUPERIOR rating for frontal crash prevention.
World’s First Airbag Technology
The all-new passenger front airbag technology in TLX is designed to better manage lateral collision forces that can cause an occupant’s head to rotate severely at high velocity, or to slide off a conventional airbag, increasing the chance of serious injury. It was developed in part based on a landmark study of brain injuries led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Transportation, which resulted in the creation of the BrIC (Brain Injury Criteria) methodology for measuring brain injuries in vehicle collisions.
Rather than the single inflatable chamber of conventional airbag systems, the new airbag operates something like a baseball catcher’s mitt, with an uninflated panel first catching and decelerating the occupant’s head with less force, while also directing it inward between two inflated chambers to cradle and protect the head. Specifically, the new passenger front airbag uses four major components: three inflated compartments consisting of a center chamber and two outward-projecting side chambers that create a wide base across the dash and the uninflated “sail panel” that stretches between the two side chambers.
In addition to the new passenger front airbag, the 2021 TLX now includes knee airbags for the driver and front passenger. The knee airbags are designed to better control the forward motion of the occupants in the event of a frontal collision, in conjunction with the front airbags and seatbelts. Each knee airbag is contained beneath a panel on the underside of the instrument panel, which is contoured away from the knees, providing improved legroom and easier ingress and egress from the vehicle.
The 2021 TLX is equipped with eight airbags in total, the most ever for the model, including front, side and knee airbags for the driver and front passenger and side-curtain airbags with a rollover sensor.
Advanced Safety and Driver-Assistive Technologies
All 2021 TLX models will come standard with the AcuraWatch™ suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies, including multiple new or enhanced capabilities designed to help the driver avoid or mitigate the severity of a collision or help them with typical driving tasks.
Enhanced Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™)
The 2021 TLX’s Collision Mitigation Braking System uses a wider-angle forward radar sensing unit that can better detect objects ahead in the roadway, including pedestrians. With CMBS, the TLX can then warn the driver of a potential collision and, if needed, act to apply the brakes.
Driver Awareness Monitor
The 2021 TLX also includes a new Driver Awareness Monitor, which continually monitors and assesses driver behavior behind the wheel. Using input from the steering angle sensor to measure both the frequency and severity of the driver’s steering inputs to gauge awareness, the system issues a warning to take a break if it determines the driver is becoming inattentive.
Traffic Jam Assist (TJA)
The 2021 TLX now includes Traffic Jam Assist (TJA), a first for TLX. Working in conjunction with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low Speed Follow and Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS), TJA reduces driver stress in highly congested traffic situations by helping keep the vehicle centered in the lane and at a set interval from a vehicle detected ahead.
Next-Generation ACE™ Body Structure
The new TLX also is designed with advanced levels of collision protection through the use of Acura’s proprietary Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, which has been further evolved in the new TLX body and other structural elements to provide additional occupant protection in a wider range of collision scenarios. The next-gen ACE body structure enhances occupant protection and crash compatibility in frontal collisions by using a network of interconnected structural elements to absorb and distribute crash energy away from the passenger compartment. In addition, the 2021 TLX central floor tunnel is made of high-strength steel and ties into the lower front bulkhead. This advanced structure channels crash loads into and through the tunnel instead of into the passenger cabin. Rear crash load paths are similarly dispersed.
In addition to helping protect the occupants of the new TLX, the enhanced frontal crash energy management of the ACE body structure can also help to more evenly disperse the forces transferred to other vehicles in a crash. Additionally, ACE helps minimize the potential for under-ride or over-ride situations that can happen during frontal impacts between vehicles of differing ride height.
Acura Safety History
The new technologies in the 2021 TLX build on Acura’s legacy of pioneering efforts in the area of vehicle safety, including both world-first technologies and leading commitments to the application of advanced safety features.
- Acura created the world’s first vertically deploying passenger front airbag in 1990, debuting in the Legend sedan. The innovative airbag was designed to mitigate the potential for injury occurring as a result of airbag deployment directly into the passenger.
- Acura was the first automotive brand to commit to the application of both driver and front passenger airbags for all models (1990), and fulfill this commitment with the 1994 Integra.
- Acura introduced the world’s first mass production automatic emergency braking (AEB) system with the Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) in the 2005 RL sedan, introduced in 2004.
- Acura also saw American Honda’s first application of its proprietary Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure in the 2005 RL.
- Acura was the first automaker to receive the highest available safety ratings on all of its models from both the U.S. federal government (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), in 2015.
- In 2018, Acura was the first luxury automaker to fully deploy a comprehensive suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies – AcuraWatch™ – as standard equipment on all of the brand’s sedans and SUVs.
Research & Development
Much of the safety development and testing of the 2021 TLX – including the development of the new airbag – was conducted at the advanced safety research center of Honda R&D Americas, LLC in Raymond, Ohio. This safety center is one the most sophisticated facilities for safety research, development and testing in the world and includes capabilities dedicated to advance crash simulations, pedestrian safety, collision testing and advanced restraint system development and tuning.
About Acura
Acura is a leading automotive nameplate that delivers Precision Crafted Performance – a commitment to expressive styling, high performance and innovative engineering, all built on a foundation of quality and reliability. The Acura lineup features five distinctive models –the TLX performance luxury sedan, the ILX sport sedan, the five-passenger RDX luxury crossover SUV, the seven-passenger Acura MDX, America’s all-time best-selling three-row luxury SUV, and the next-generation, electrified NSX supercar. All Acura models sold in North America for the 2021 model year are made in the U.S., using domestic and globally sourced parts.
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NIH-funded study links endometriosis to DNA changes
BETHESDA, Maryland, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — DNA from uterine cells of women with endometriosis has different chemical modifications, compared to the DNA of women who do not have the condition, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. The changes involve DNA methylation—the binding of compounds known as methyl groups to DNA—which can alter gene activity. Moreover, the methylated DNA regions varied according to the stage, or severity, of endometriosis and responded differently to hormones involved in the menstrual cycle. Uterine responses to hormones influence pregnancy and other functions of uterine tissue.
The study was conducted by Linda C. Giudice, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco. It appears in PLOS Genetics. The study was funded by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
“The findings raise the possibility that differences in methylation patterns could one day be used to diagnose endometriosis and develop customized treatment plans for patients,” said Stuart B. Moss, Ph.D., of NICHD’s Fertility and Infertility Branch.
Endometriosis is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows in other places in the body, such as on the ovaries, fallopian tubes or the bowels and bladder. It affects from 5 to 10% of women in the United States. Its main symptoms include pain, especially during menstrual periods, and infertility. Endometriosis is classified into four stages, ranging from minimal (stage I) to severe (stage IV). The only definitive way to diagnose endometriosis is with a surgical procedure called a laparoscopy
The researchers analyzed a type of cell known as an endometrial stromal fibroblast, which regulates cells in the lining of the uterus. They compared methylation across DNA regions and differences in gene functioning in cells from women who did not have endometriosis or any other gynecological disorders to those of women with stage I endometriosis and of women with stage IV endometriosis. They also observed methylation patterns and gene functioning after the cells were exposed to estradiol (a form of estrogen) alone, progesterone alone, and to a combination of the two hormones to mimic changes in the levels of these hormones that occur during the menstrual cycle.
DNA methylation patterns and gene functioning differed among all groups of cells before exposure to the hormones, with exposure to each individual hormone, and to the combination of the two. The differences in methylation and gene functioning between stage I and stage IV endometrial cells could mean that the two may be distinct subtypes of endometriosis, rather than different degrees of the condition, Dr. Giudice added.
“The data indicate that the proper interactions of hormones and DNA methylation are critical in normal uterine function,” said the study’s lead author, Sahar Houshdaran, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. “The changes in these interactions that we’ve seen could play a role in the infertility that often accompanies endometriosis.”
Reference
Houshdaran S, et al. Steroid hormones regulate genome-wide epigenetic programming and gene transcription in human endometrial cells with marked aberrancies in endometriosis. PLOS Genetics. 2020.
About the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): NICHD leads research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. For more information, visit https://www.nichd.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit https://www.nih.gov.
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OFN Awards First Round Of Grow With Google Small Business Fund Loans And Google.org Grants To Help Small Businesses Recover Nationwide
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Today, Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) announced the first round of Grow with Google Small Business Fund loans and grants from Google.org. Five community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have received a total of $15.5 million in loans. These funds will be deployed to small businesses hurt by the economic impact of COVID-19 and civil unrest. In addition, OFN will distribute $750,000 in Google.org-funded grants to help six CDFIs better serve women and minority-owned small businesses.
Today in a blog post, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company will provide OFN an additional $45 million in loans and $5 million in Google.org grants to assist small businesses, with a focus on Black-owned businesses. In total, Google has now committed $170 million in loans and $10 million in Google.org grants.
CDFIs are lenders with a mission to serve small businesses underserved by mainstream finance and a proven model for moving capital into the hardest to serve communities.
Launched in March, the Grow with Google Small Business Fund delivers financing to CDFIs that are supporting the short-term recovery and long-term financing needs of America’s small businesses hardest hit by COVID-19.
The $10 million in Google.org grants will enable OFN’s member CDFIs to improve access to capital for the most marginalized communities. The unrestricted grants can support operations, loan capital, loan loss reserve, capacity building, or any other purpose.
“CDFIs are America’s best community lenders with 40 years of experience providing capital where mainstream finance can’t or won’t — today, CDFIs are vital to ensuring a more even recovery for America’s small businesses,” said Lisa Mensah, president and CEO of OFN, a leading national network of CDFIs. “We applaud Google for stepping in to help bridge deep gaps in access to capital for minority and women-led small businesses. Google’s significant investment and grant helps CDFIs to combat economic inequity during a national health and economic crisis that has been recently compounded by civil unrest.”
“The Grow with Google Small Business Fund and Google.org grants are some of the key investments that Google is making in the future of America’s small businesses. Our economy requires that small businesses prosper,” said Ruth Porat, CFO of Google. “The COVID crisis has created unprecedented challenges for many small businesses, and we are committed to assisting them. We’re proud to have an outstanding partner in OFN to provide loans and grants to CDFIs who are on the front lines of the economic recovery effort.”
The CDFI awardees and grantees for the first round of awards are:
- Citizens Potawatomi Community Development Corporation (CPCDC) ($1 million loan, $125,000 grant). One of the largest Native-owned CDFIs in the nation, CPCDC finances, promotes, educates, and inspires the entrepreneurial growth, economic opportunity, and financial well-being of the Citizen Potawatomi National Tribal Community and other underserved Native populations through financial education, access to capital, business development services, innovative capacity building practices, and community development initiatives. CPCDC’s commercial and business borrowers are 96% Native owned businesses.
- Grameen America ($5 million loan, $125,000 grant). Grameen America provides microloans, training and support to small businesses owned by low-income women entrepreneurs in the U.S. It has 23 branches across 15 U.S. cities: Boston, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Fresno, Greater Omaha, San Jose, San Juan (PR), Union City and Newark (NJ), and Miami, and a client base that’s 100% women and primarily low-income, low-wealth, or otherwise underserved.
- MoFi ($3 million loan). Providing financing and consulting services that transform the lives of individuals and strengthen community prosperity, MoFi reaches across the Northern Rockies in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Its long-term goal is to ensure everyone’s adequate access to business capital regardless of income, assets, education, location, race, or gender. MoFi’s small and microbusiness borrowers are 54% women-owned businesses, 41% low-income owned or controlled businesses, and 57% are startup businesses. Geographically, 61% of its borrowers are in rural areas.
- Opportunity Fund ($5 million loan, $125,000 grant). Based in California, Opportunity Fund provides microloans to some of the smallest and most under-resourced businesses in the country. The CDFI serves small businesses in California and 44 additional states. Its clients are 82% people of color, 34% women, 7% African American, 19% Asian/Middle Eastern, and 53% Latinx.
- PeopleFund ($1.5 million loan, $125,000 grant). Across Texas, PeopleFund provides small business loans, as well as business assistance and education, to people with otherwise limited access to such resources. The CDFI has made significant investments and built significant institutional knowhow in support of veteran entrepreneurs. Today, one in four PeopleFund loans go to veteran entrepreneurs. Among these, the vast majority are women, minority, and low-income.
- Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) ($125,000 grant). A California-focused lender that also serves clients nationwide with their free BusinessAdvising.org platform, PCV’s mission is to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social good. The CDFI strengthens small businesses owned by women, people of color, immigrants, and others who have had a hard time accessing capital. They use an integrated “Good Jobs, Good Business” model that provides affordable capital, free advice, impact evaluation, and research. Its borrowers are 63% people of color, 52% women, 15% African American, 19% Asian, and 24% Latinx.
- Washington Area Community Investment Fund (Wacif) ($125,000 Google.org Grant). Wacif increases equity and economic opportunity in underserved communities by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs. The CDFI serves minority- and women-owned businesses in financial underserved communities in the National Capital region, with a focus on communities east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC and in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In the last seven years, Wacif has invested more than $10 million in underserved communities throughout the region. In 2019, 96% of Wacif’s lending went to entrepreneurs of color and 62% of its business advisory services clients were female.
There are more than 1,100 CDFIs working in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. OFN’s more than 300 members serve 58% people of color, 85% low-income, 26% rural, and 48% women (OFN Annual Member Survey, 2018). Nationwide, the CDFI industry manages more than $222 billion.
About OFN
OFN, a leading national network of CDFIs, strives to ensure low-income and other under-resourced communities have access to affordable, responsible financial products and services. Members of OFN are CDFIs that deliver responsible lending to help low-income communities join the economic mainstream.
Through 2018, OFN’s network originated $74.2 billion in financing in rural, urban, and Native communities. This financing has helped to create or maintain more than 1,560,000 jobs, start or expand more than 419,177 businesses and microenterprises, and support the development or rehabilitation of 2.1 million housing units and more than 11,500 community facility projects. For more information, visit www.ofn.org.
About Google
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
About Google.org
Google.org, Google’s philanthropy, supports nonprofits that address humanitarian issues and apply scalable, data-driven innovation to solving the world’s biggest challenges. We accelerate their progress by connecting them with a unique blend of support that includes funding, products, and technical expertise from Google volunteers. We engage with these believers-turned-doers who make a significant impact on the communities they represent, and whose work has the potential to produce meaningful change. We want a world that works for everyone—and we believe technology and innovation can move the needle.
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CORE And SOMOS Community Care Announce Opening Of Five COVID-19 Testing Sites In Faith-Based Churches In The Hardest Hit Communities In New York City
NEW YORK, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Dr. Ramon Tallaj, Founder and Chairman of SOMOS Community Care, a network of over 2,500 primary care doctors serving nearly 800,000 largely immigrant New Yorkers, in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan and CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), the emergency relief nonprofit organization, co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee, today announced the opening of five new COVID-19 testing sites in marginalized communities in New York City. The new testing sites will be located in faith-based churches and operated by SOMOS’s network of physicians and CORE staff located in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Safe and exposure-free shallow nasal swab testing will be provided to anyone who wants to be tested, including symptomatic and asymptomatic people of all ages, free of charge. There is no identification requirement for testing at the sites. To register for an appointment, please call 1-833-SOMOS-NY. Walk-ins are welcome for those who do not have an appointment.
The testing sites are part of a joint commitment by the Cuomo administration and SOMOS Community Care to reach members of the minority communities who have historically been isolated by language, income, and social status – the underlying barriers to better health and economic wellbeing that have been devastatingly exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. SOMOS has been running trilingual testing sites since March and has already tested over 80,000 New Yorkers.
According to Dr. Ramon Tallaj, New York City has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, especially in largely immigrant and minority communities in the Bronx. “As the poorest borough and one of hardest hit by COVID-19 due to the deep health disparities, Bronx residents have suffered the highest death rates from a plague that disproportionately targets the poor. I thank God each day for allowing us to serve these communities. It makes you live your life with purpose. Our partnership with Sean Penn and CORE is a welcome addition to the vital work of SOMOS. Contributing requires a lot of heart and selflessness which is rare these days,” says Dr. Ramon Tallaj.
“We all watched in both heartbreak and awe as New York and New Yorkers with their leadership took the front line for the nation. As CORE begins COVID-19 testing in the most marginalized communities, in partnership with Governor Cuomo, Dr. Tallaj and SOMOS Community Care, and the people of New York, we do it with gratitude,” said CORE Co-Founder Sean Penn.
“As a former New Yorker, I can attest to the toughness and resilience of this city. CORE’s COVID-19 response supports communities of color who are at the greatest risk, and we are eager to serve the people who make New York such a diverse and beautiful city. We stand with Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall who invested and now is doubling down on testing and tracing in low-income communities of color until this pandemic is no longer an active threat. We are grateful to our partner Curogram for providing software that enables patients to schedule appointments and receive test results,” said CORE Co-Founder and CEO Ann Lee.
CORE is operating free COVID-19 testing sites across the United States, with a focus on serving vulnerable and underserved communities such as low-income groups and communities of color, as well as first responders and essential workers. CORE’s COVID-19 response began in Los Angeles in late March with a partnership with Mayor Garcetti’s Office and LAFD, and the organization has since expanded testing to Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Georgia, North Carolina, the Navajo Nation and throughout California. To-date, CORE’s team of more than 750 staff and volunteers have administered nearly 450,000 tests.
The first day of testing kicked off on Monday, June 15, 2020, at the Iglesia Jovenes Cristiano Church located at 8700 18th Avenue in Brooklyn from 9:00am-1:00pm and continues until Wednesday, June 17th, 2020.
Further Expansion of COVID-19 testing sites will take in place in four faith-based churches throughout the Bronx starting on June 18th, through September 1st, 2020 from 9:00am-1:00pm.
- Heavenly Vision, 2868 Jerome Avenue, Bronx
- Morning Star Full Gospel Church, 464 E Tremont Ave, Bronx
- FLOW Ministries, 901 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx
- Burke Avenue Baptist Church, 1280 Burke Ave, Bronx
About SOMOS:
SOMOS is a non-profit, founded by physician-led network of over 2,500 health care providers serving over 800,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in New York City. Launched in 2015 by Founder and Chairman Dr. Ramon Tallaj, SOMOS is the largest and only physician-led performance provider system participating in the New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP). The SOMOS network includes providers delivering culturally competent care to patients in some of New York City’s most vulnerable populations, particularly Latino, Asian, African-American and immigrant communities throughout the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. For more information, please visit http://somoscommunitycare.org
ABOUT CORE
CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and strengthening communities affected by or vulnerable to crisis. Within hours of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, founder Sean Penn mobilized a powerful network to take immediate action. More than 10 years later, CORE continues to lead sustainable programs focused on four pillars: emergency relief, disaster preparedness, environmental resiliency and community building. The organization has expanded beyond Haiti to support communities in The Bahamas, Puerto Rico and the United States. CORE has taken a leadership position in the COVID-19 response to provide free testing for high-risk individuals and vulnerable communities. For more information, please visit http://www.coreresponse.org/covid19 and follow CORE on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
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