by Web Admin | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog
Great news! SER National is a registered charitable organization on
AmazonSmile. The AmazonSmile Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) foundation created by Amazon to administer the AmazonSmile program. All donation amounts generated by the AmazonSmile Program are remitted to the AmazonSmile Foundation. In turn, the AmazonSmile Foundation donates those amounts to the charitable organizations selected by their customers. The only way to support
SER through the AmazonSmile Foundation is to shop on AmazonSmile.
The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. The purchase price is the amount paid for the item minus any rebates and excluding shipping & handling, gift-wrapping fees, taxes, or service charges. From time to time, they offer special, limited time promotions that increase the donation amount on one or more products or services or provide for additional donations to charitable organizations. Special terms and restrictions may apply.
by Web Admin | Nov 9, 2017 | News & Updates, Press Release
SER-Jobs for Progress National, Inc. ®
“Cultivating America’s Greatest Resource: People”™
National Headquarters
Irving, Texas, November 8, 2017
The Coca Cola Foundation has awarded SER-Jobs for Progress National, Inc. (SER National) a $250,000 grant to support the SER MUJER women’s entrepreneurship program in Los Angeles, CA and Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX.
SER National, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a national non-profit that offers SER MUJER, a national women’s entrepreneurship program which encourages and supports aspiring women. The program provides financial literacy, entrepreneurship and business development to Hispanic women and other underserved women including veterans and military families.
The SER MUJER program training curriculum is made available online, via mobile app and through traditional workshop setting.
by Web Admin | Nov 6, 2017 | Event, News & Updates
SER Annual Conference
May 15-16, 2018
Crowne Plaza-Dallas
14315 Midway Road
Addison, TX 75001
Community Day
May 17, 2018
Mountain View College
4849 W. Illinois Ave.
Dallas, TX 75211
Middle & High School Robotics Competition
Middle & High School Drone Competition
SER Mujer (Entrepreneurship Training)
The 2018 SER National Annual Conference
registration form is now available! Click here to register.
To register for Community Day, click here.
Community Day will take place on May 17 from 9am – 5pm at Mountain View College.
Mountain View College: 4849 W. Illinois Ave, Dallas, TX 75211 (Please use the parking lot by the E Building)
High school students, college students and local community are invited to attend.
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Interested in being a sponsor for this year’s conference?
Click here to register as a 2018 sponsor.
Click here to access our 2018 sponsorship brochure.
Click here to access our SER America Magazine ad specifications.
Keynote Speaker
The keynote speaker of the annual conference will be José M. Hernández, an American engineer and former NASA astronaut.
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José M. Hernández is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. Hernández was assigned to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-128. He also served as Chief of the Materials and Processes Branch of the Johnson Space Center.
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alicia Abella, VP of Advanced Technology Realization at AT&T Services, Inc., will be the keynote speaker at luncheon on Tuesday.
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Dr. Alicia Abella is Vice President of Advanced Technology Realization at AT&T Services, Inc. where she drives the overall execution of the end-to-end planning, architecture, design, development and deployment of advanced network technologies across AT&T, including Domain 2.0 AT&T Integrated Cloud, ECOMP, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Define Networking (SDN), 5G, and Edge Computing. Prior to her current role, Dr. Abella spent over twenty years conducting research and leading multiple highly technical staff members.
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Keynote Speaker
Fernando Rosario will be speaking on Community Day.
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[/one_sixth][five_sixth_last padding=”0 10px 0 10px”]Mr. Fernando Rosario is the president and founder of Exeqpath, a leadership development company. Additionally, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Raisal, a commercial lending company, and a former executive within Accenture’s Human Resources Talent Acquisition organization, managing the overall diversity recruiting efforts in North America.[/five_sixth_last]
Community Day Speaker
Lieutenant Colonel James E. Zoizack, Dallas Army Recruiting Battalion Commander, will be the opening speaker at Community Day.
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LTC James Zoizack is a native of Buffalo, New York. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1990 and was commissioned as a Field Artillery Officer through the Army Officer Candidate School in 1999 at Fort Benning, Georgia. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, the Field Artillery Captains’ Career course and the Field Artillery Officer Basic course. He holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University.
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Click here to see pictures from the 2017 Conference.
by Web Admin | Nov 1, 2017 | News & Updates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 1, 2017
Contact: Jennifer Clark | 202-785-5100 | clark@iwpr.org
In advance of Latinas Equal Pay Day, a new estimate shows slow progress on closing the wage gap, especially for women of color
Washington, DC—If trends over the last 30 years continue, Hispanic women will not see equal pay with White men until 2233—216 years from now—according to a new projection released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) in advance of Latinas’ Equal Pay Day on November 2—the day symbolizing how far into the year that Latinas must work to earn what White men earned in the previous year.
In 2016, Hispanic women earned 54 cents for every dollar earned by a White man. An IWPR analysis based on new data released in September by the U.S. Census Bureau found that, at the median, Hispanic women who work full-time for an entire year still receive pay (at $31,522) low enough to qualify a family of four for food stamps.
“If left unchecked, pay inequality could harm several generations worth of families and cripple future growth of the United States economy,” said economist and IWPR President Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D.
Women’s Median Earnings as a Percent of Men’s, 1985-2016 (Full-time, Year-Round Workers) with Projections for Pay Equity, by Race/Ethnicity
IWPR has previously found that women overall will not see equal pay until 2059, but the pace of change varies significantly by race and ethnicity. The exceptionally slow pace of progress for Hispanic women, for instance, is nearly two centuries behind when White women should expect to see equal pay with White men (2056). Black women are not projected see equal pay until 2124, 107 years from now.
Census Bureau data show that, although women saw the first statistically significant narrowing of the wage gap since 2007, Hispanic women’s earnings remained virtually unchanged from the previous year. White and Asian women saw their earnings increase (by 5 and 3 percent, respectively), while Black women’s earnings declined by 1.3 percent.
IWPR’s researchers recommend a number of policy interventions to address the low wages of Hispanic women, including raising the minimum wage, fully enforcing non-discrimination laws, preventing wage theft, and improving Hispanic women’s access to good jobs, higher education, paid leave, and affordable child care.
“216 years ago, the United States was a new country inaugurating its third president. In the two centuries since, our country welcomed millions of immigrants and summoned its deep supply of innovation and imagination to tackle big, world-defining issues. Do not tell me we can’t figure out how to pay women the same as men,” Dr. Hartmann said.
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that conducts and communicates research to inspire public dialogue, shape policy, and improve the lives and opportunities of women of diverse backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences.
