{"id":48220,"date":"2016-09-27T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-briefing-nclr-and-miami-dade-college-make-final-voter-registration-push-just-one-week-out-from-floridas-deadline\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T22:27:02","slug":"en-florida-nclr-y-miami-dade-college-hacen-ultimo-llamado-para-que-ciudadanos-elegibles-se-registren-para-votar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/en-florida-nclr-y-miami-dade-college-hacen-ultimo-llamado-para-que-ciudadanos-elegibles-se-registren-para-votar\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIEFING: NCLR and Miami Dade College Make Final Voter Registration Push Just One Week Out from Florida&#8217;s Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 27, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0On <span class=\"xn-chron\">Monday, Oct. 3<\/span>, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Dade<\/span> College&#8217;s (MDC) Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (iCED) will hold a briefing at the college&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Wolfson Campus<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Downtown Miami<\/span>. NCLR has conducted voter registration campaigns in <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami-Dade<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Broward<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Orange<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Osceola<\/span> counties, home to thousands of eligible Hispanic voters. These efforts have helped expand the Hispanic electorate in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>, a key state for national candidates. As the <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 11<\/span> state registration deadline approaches, NCLR and MDC will highlight their efforts to grow the electorate; discuss the importance of the Hispanic vote in local, state, and national elections; and urge the community to grow its influence through participation.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Census numbers demonstrate significant population growth of almost 1.5 million people in the state between 2010 and 2015\u2014Hispanics represented just over half of that growth, concentrated largely in <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami-Dade<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Broward<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Orange<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Osceola<\/span> counties. <\/p>\n<p>Reporters should RSVP to <span class=\"xn-person\">Julian Teixeira<\/span> at <a href=\"mailto:jteixeira@nclr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">jteixeira@nclr.org<\/a> or (202) 776-1812.<\/p>\n<p><b>What: <\/b>Hispanic Voter Registration and Impact on the 2016 Elections<\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b><span class=\"xn-chron\">Monday, Oct. 3, 2016<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-chron\">1 p.m. EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Who: <\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Renata Soto<\/span>, Chair, NCLR Board of Directors<br \/>Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Rick A. Soria<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Dade<\/span> College&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Wolfson Campus President<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Maria Garza<\/span>, President, Mexican-American Council, NCLR Affiliate<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Fernand Amandi<\/span>, Principal, Bendixen &amp; Amandi International<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Natalie Carlier<\/span>, Florida Regional Coordinator and Southeast Liaison, NCLR<\/p>\n<p><b>Where: <\/b>MDC&#8217;s Wolfson Campus, Building 3, Room 3208-09<br \/>226 N.E. Fifth Street, <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami, Florida<\/span> 33132<\/p>\n<p><b>NCLR<\/b>\u2014the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States\u2014works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.\u00a0For more information on NCLR, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nclr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nclr.org<\/a> or follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nationalcounciloflaraza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nclr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Dade<\/span> College <\/b>(MDC) is the higher education institution with the largest undergraduate enrollment in the America, with more than 165,000 students. It is also the nation&#8217;s top producer of Associate in Arts and Science degrees and awards more degrees to minorities than any other college or university in the country. The college&#8217;s eight campuses and outreach center offer more than 300 distinct degree pathways including several baccalaureate degrees in education, public safety, supervision and management, nursing, physician assistant studies, film, engineering, biological sciences, and others. MDC has admitted more than 2,000,000 students and counting since it opened its doors in 1960. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.mdc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact:<\/b><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Julian Teixeira<\/span><br \/><a href=\"mailto:jteixeira@nclr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">jteixeira@nclr.org<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>(202) 776-1812<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 27, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0On <span class=\"xn-chron\">Monday, Oct. 3<\/span>, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) and <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami Dade<\/span> College&#8217;s (MDC) Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (iCED) will hold a briefing at the college&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Wolfson Campus<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Downtown Miami<\/span>. NCLR has conducted voter registration campaigns in <span class=\"xn-location\">Miami-Dade<\/span>, &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}