Background
The Institute is a pioneer and innovator in the Latino community in conducting aggressive community-based policy.
The Institute is actively involved in a number of coalitions and collaborations in the Latino community nationally. The War. It is a member of the Latino Policy Coalition, a collaboration of the leading progressive Latino thinks tanks and scholars in the country. The Institute also works closely with the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the National Latino Media Council on a wide range of media policy issues affecting Latinos. It is a founding member of the Defend the Honor Campaign, which in early 2007 put pressure on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and filmmaker Ken Burns to include the Latino experience in their documentary on WWII, In 2006, the Institute's President and Founder, Angelo Falcón, was named one of the top 25 "New York Latino movers and shakers" by the New York Post (November 8, 2006).
The Institute created and operated The NiLP Network on Latino Issues, an online information service (originally the ipr-forum listserv) that is widely recognized as one of the most influential sources on Latino policy and political concerns. It provides its members with the most current and thought-provoking developments on Latino issues. The NiLP Network serves as a news aggregator, provides critical commentaries by Latino community opinion leaders, and hosts the NiLP iReports, NiLP Latino Datanotes, the Latino Census Network and the Latino Voting Rights Network.
NiLP has also been a leader in holding the Census Bureau accountable to the Latino community through its outreach for the decennial Censuses and in the years in between. In 2007 NiLP created the Latino Census Network, the major online clearinhouse of Census issues affecting Latinos in the United States. NiLP has fcuntioned as a Cesus Information Center(CIC)since 2000, an official federal repository of Census data. NiLP's President, Angelo Falcón, has served as Chair of the Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population, and is currently a member of the Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations.
The National Institute for Latino Policy is funded primarily by foundations, corporations and individual contributions. In 2006-12 it received grants from The Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund, the Hispanic Federation, the Latino Policy Coalition/Metro Foundation, the NYC Worker-Community Collaborative, and the United Way of New York City. In this period it also received the financial and in-kind support from the AriZona Beverage Company, the CBS Television Network, Citi, the City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, Fordham University School of Law, Lehman College (CUNY), Hostos Community College (CUNY), Con Edison, the Ford Motor Company, the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), the IBM Corporation, jetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, NBC4-Telemundo47, Telemundo, Univision, PBS, Nielsen Media Research,the RAM Capital Group LLC, the Scholastic Corporation, SEIU SEIU 32BJ, 1199SEIU, GlobalHue Latino, d'exposito & partners, Tonio Burgos and Associates LLC, the Toyota Motor Company, ABC-TV, FOX Television Stations, Salsa Catering & Special Events, LatinoSports, the California Community Foundation, the National Refrescos Import Company, and DC 37 AFL-CIO.
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