This week NDN was a sponsor of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) 2008 Public Policy Conference - The Power to Make the Difference. NDN sponsored yesterday's closing plenary - The Power of the Latino Vote: Electing the Next President with Rep. Charles Gonzalez. Sergio Bendixen, President of Bendixen & Associates and long-time collaborator and pollster represented NDN on the panel and presented data from four new polls conducted in battleground states regarding the issue of immigration.
Last month, in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, NDN was a sponsor of The Big Tent through Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. The Big Tent was the place during the DNC for new media journalists, bloggers, reporters and non-profit leaders to gather. NDN held three events on the Big Tent campus at the Alliance Building during the DNC.
In July, was in Austin, TX for Netroots Nation. NDN was a premiere sponsor of Netroots Nation and had two panels at the conference this year. Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Watch NDN President Simon Rosenberg speaking with Andrei Cherny, author of The Candy Bombers and co-founder of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and NDN Fellow and Director of our Green Project Michael Moynihan at NDN’s panel on a New Era of Possibility: Looking at America's Role in the World after the Bush Presidency. Simon also presented his "Dawn of a New Politics" PowerPoint to a standing only room.
We were also proud to once again sponsor our friends at the Roosevelt Institution again in July. NDN was sponsors of their 2008 National Expo. The Roosevelt Institution is a non-profit, non-partisan national network of campus-based student think tanks. Its members conduct policy research on the pressing political issues facing our world, from environmental protection to equality under the law to trade and taxes.
In June NDN was very excited to be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) 2008 Conference - Rebooting the System, which took place in New York City. Speaking at PDF were some of NDN's close friends including Morley Winograd, co-author of Millennial Makover. Morley and his co-author Mike Hais recently spoke at an NDN event in NY on the rise of the Millennial generation. NDN's good friend, Gina Cooper, executive director of Netroots Nation, another powerful annual conference where NDN was proud to be a sponsor, spoke at the closing plenary session.
NDN has also been active this year through our affiliated (c)(3) organization The New Policy Institute through which earlier this year we became a sponsor of the Democracy Journal.
Also earlier this spring the New Policy Institute sponsored the Roosevelt Institution's A New Deal for the 21st Century Conference where Simon Rosenberg spoke.
In August The New Policy Institute began sponsoring The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) is a non-profit organization formed in 1994 to bring people and organizations together to build a better Nevada. Their member groups include anti-poverty activists, people of color, children’s advocates, disabled persons, environmentalists, lesbians and gay men, and labor unions.
Also in August, The New Policy Institute sponsored Democracia USA, a national nonpartisan Hispanic civic engagement, voter empowerment, community organizing, and leadership development organization, was founded in Florida in 2004. That year, D-USA registered 72,000 new Hispanic voters in that state.
Please watch for more exciting collaborations coming from NDN and the New Policy Institute.
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