Congratulations Raul Font from the Latino Community Development Agency

Congratulations Raul Font from the Latino Community Development Agency

by | Feb 18, 2020 | Affiliate News

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Journal Record has released its list of the 2020 Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs & Financial Stewardship Award honorees.

The 24 Most Admired CEO honorees, as well as four financial stewardship award honorees, will be recognized April 27 at The Journal Record’s 11th annual Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs & Financial Stewardship Awards event at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City.

CEOs and CFOs will be recognized in three categories – public company, private company and nonprofit. An overall winner will be selected from each category and announced at this year’s event. Four of this year’s honorees will be inducted into the program’s Chain of Distinction, an honor reserved for three-time honorees. Those include Stacy Eads, Vahid Farzaneh, Sean Kouplen and Brad Poarch.

For the third year in a row, a Legacy Award will also be presented at the event to honor a president, CEO, chairperson or other prominent leader in business. The award recognizes lifetime achievement in leadership and honors individuals who are leaving a legacy through their work in Oklahoma.

All honorees will be profiled in a keepsake magazine that will serve as the program for the event and inserted into The Journal Record on April 28.

“It’s important we celebrate the achievements and outstanding leadership of the state’s leading CEOs,” said Russell Ray, editor of The Journal Record. “In addition to being captains of our most important industries, they are leaders in the state’s philanthropic efforts and architects of economic development.”

This year’s event partners are Cox Business and UMB Bank. Cigna is the video partner.

What follows is a list of the 2020 CEO honorees.

Brenda Jones Barwick, Jones PR 

  • Derek Blackshare, Blackshare Environmental Solutions
  • Kyle Brownlee, Wymer Brownlee Wealth Strategies
  • Richard Cook, Claims Management Resources
  • Amy Downs, Allegiance Credit Union
  • Stacy Eads Stacy, Eads LLC
  • Vahid Farzaneh, Freestyle Creative
  • Raul Font, Latino Community Development Agency
  • Leigh Goodson, Tulsa Community College
  • Dee Hays, Excellence Engineering LLC
  • Lindsay Jordan, Write On Fundraising
  • Sean Kouplen, Regent Bank
  • Kitt Letcher, Better Business Bureau of Central Oklahoma
  • Jennifer Lickteig, TBS Factoring
  • John Lindsay, Helmerich & Payne
  • Susan Lobsinger, Lobdock Impairment Detection
  • Donna Miller, Purse Power Inc.
  • David Nimmo, Chickasaw Nation Industries
  • Brad Poarch, Cory’s AV
  • Timila Rother, Crowe & Dunlevy
  • Richie Splitt, Norman Regional Health System
  • Pamela Timmons, Good Shepherd Clinic
  • Matt Williamson, Clevyr Inc.
  • Brian Wilson, Innovative Capital Management

The CFOs to be honored this year include:

  • John Hart, Continental Resources
  • Jeff Hendrix, 180 Medical
  • Ken Hopkins, Norman Regional Health System
  • Steve Lobsinger, Lobdock Impairment Detection
Welcome to the SER Family, Esperanza Inc.

Welcome to the SER Family, Esperanza Inc.

by | Feb 13, 2020 | Affiliate News

Esperanza, Inc. (meaning “hope”), began in the early 1980s as a community project to improve the educational opportunities for Hispanics by motivating and recognizing academic achievement through scholarships. As Ohio’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Hispanic educational achievement, its founders recognized the need to expand the services by adding programs to address more of the educational needs of the community. Esperanza awarded its first college scholarship in 1983. Since awarding just one college scholarship that first year, Esperanza has grown steadily to where it is now able to award over 100 college scholarships every year through the support of corporations, foundations, and individual donors.

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Tejano Center for Community Concerns

Tejano Center for Community Concerns

by | Feb 13, 2020 | Affiliate News

Mission

The mission of the Tejano Center for Community Concerns is to develop education, social, health, and community institutions that empower families to transform their lives.

Vision

The Tejano Center for Community Concerns will continuously strive to be the premier nonprofit organization in the state of Texas.

History

The Tejano Center for Community Concerns (Tejano Center) was established in 1992 on Houston’s East End, a predominantly Hispanic populated area. By serving as an agent for change that empowered neighborhood residents, the Tejano Center’s goal was to improve lives and create a sustained network of support and opportunity within the community.

The early Tejano Center pioneers realized that the way to respond to community needs was to provide a comprehensive array of social, educational, economic, and housing services. Since its beginnings, the Tejano Center’s programs and services have progressively expanded in large part through strategic partnerships with such entities as the City of Houston, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Texas Education Agency, Baylor College of Medicine, the Harris County Juvenile Probation Office, and the National Council of La Raza. In 2002, becoming aware of similar needs in the greater Brownsville, Texas area, the Tejano Center expanded its programs into that South Texas area by adding a fourth campus to its Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success.

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Paid Summer Research Applications Now Available

Paid Summer Research Applications Now Available

by | Jan 30, 2020 | News & Updates

I am pleased to announce that the Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP), a consortium of Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), Florida International University (Miami, FL), Rice University (Houston, TX), and the University of California – Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), is accepting applications for its paid summer research opportunities.

Please join us in this exciting research at this NSF-funded Engineering Research Center as we strive to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and systems at the point-of-care. 

Website for more information and to apply:

https://pathsup.org/reu/

Benefits:

– $4000 stipend

– Financial support for housing

– Travel support for out-of-area participants

Deadline: February 10, 2020 or until all positions are filled, but please apply early to be considered in the first rounds of funding decisions.

Students interested in conducting research in the following areas are encouraged to apply:

– Developing chemistry to detect biomarkers for heart disease or diabetes

– Developing paper fluidic or other microfluidics and hand-held devices that can read the chemistry on cartridges

– Developing wearable health devices, e.g., watch or ring, to monitor things like heart rates

– Working with underserved communities on the design and development of point-of-care medical devices

Eligibility:

– Undergraduates, US citizens or permanent residents, 18 years or older, who have completed their first year in engineering and the physical and mathematical sciences, but are not scheduled to graduate before December 2020.

Students from diverse groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering are encourage to apply.

Please let me know if you apply so I can follow up on your materials.

Jovita Carranza is New Administrator of Small Business Development

Jovita Carranza is New Administrator of Small Business Development

by | Jan 15, 2020 | News & Updates

Jovita Carranza was recently appointed the 36th head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Carranza’s own life reflects that of many Latino individuals who have achieved success despite seemingly insurmountable odds. She was the youngest of three children born to Mexican immigrant parents in a working-class family in Chicago. Her father held a factory job while her mother cared for the children and household. Carranza herself held two jobs even as she raised her child alone, while also attending college.

Carranza’s career includes having served as United States Treasurer and as the principal advisor to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, where she was responsible for overseeing the federal department’s Office of Consumer Policy. She also worked as Deputy Administrator of SBA under President George W. Bush from 2006-2009, overseeing more than 80 field offices and a portfolio of loans of $80 billion.

Carranza is a committed and passionate champion of women entrepreneurs, including Latinas who represent the fastest growing sector of small business owners in the United States.