“Apprendo con sincera e profonda costernazione la scomparsa di Mimmo Azzia. Viene a mancare non solo un protagonista infaticabile dell’associazionismo siciliano nel mondo, ma un amico stimolante e aperto, sempre disponibile a suggerire nuovi impegni e iniziative e ad accogliere suggerimenti capaci di far vivere l’italianità e la sicilianità ovunque possibile. Ne sono testimonianza le 140 associazioni create e coordinate […]
Washington, 5 novembre, 2015 – Washington dedica tre giorni ad Alfredo Casella, compositore e musicista italiano tra i protagonisti assoluti del panorama musicale internazionale della prima metà del ventesimo secolo. In suo onore il Kennedy Center, l’Ambasciata d’Italia e l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Washington proporranno due concerti il 12 e il 14 novembre e una panel discussion il 13 […]
Dear Friends, Thanksgiving is upon us and as I think about all that I have to be thankful for I must tell you I include each and every one of you on my list. It is a great joy for me to get to spend my days at the helm of the National Italian American Foundation and I want you […]
The Lido Civic Club of Washington, DC will honor their Woman and Man of the Year for 2015. They are Gracia Martore, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gannett Co., Inc. and Joseph A. Martore, President & Chief Executive Officer of CALIBRE Systems Inc. The Lido Civic Club will also honor Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, with […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A longtime California resident from Italy, who is wanted in his native country for drug trafficking and colluding with the Mafia, was turned over to Italian authorities Wednesday at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport by Sacramento-based officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Vincenzo Coluccio, 65, was transported from Sacramento to Italy on […]
*NIAF President Calls for Civility and Respect within Community* (Washington, D.C. – July 29, 2014) The National Italian Foundation’s leaders, including President John M. Viola, and other Italian American groups, react with shock and disappointment to Republican Gubernatorial candidate and Westchester County executive Rob Astorino remarks yesterday. During a campaign stop in Syracuse, N.Y., Astorino compared incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo’s […]
Washington DC (16 aprile 2014) – Davanti a un pubblico di circa 200 persone, l’Ambasciatore d’Italia negli Usa Claudio Bisogniero ieri ha annunciato ufficialmente Maria Bartiromo quale vincitrice per il 2014 dell’Urbino Press Award, il prestigioso premio giornalistico che dal 2006 viene assegnato a reporter o editorialisti americani distintisi nel raccontare il mondo a milioni di lettori e telespettatori. “L’Urbino […]
MONOLOGUES WRITTEN BY SERENA DANDINI GIVE VOICE TO THE VICTIMS OF FEMICIDE Washington DC, November 13th, 2013— The Organization of American States (OAS) is celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and the 20th anniversary of the Belém do Pará Convention (Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women) with a performance […]
Award-Winning actor and director Paul Sorvino and former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lead the list of honorees at NIAF’s 38th Anniversary Awards Gala on Saturday evening, October 26, 2013. They will receive NIAF Special Achievement Awards in Entertainment and Government, respectively. To emcee the NIAF gala, Maria Bartiromo, Emmy Award-winning journalist and CNBC Anchor, will […]
Michael Barone, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and resident fellow at American Enterprise Institute, will be the keynote speaker at the NIAF Frank J. Guarini Public Policy Luncheon Series. Barone is also the principal co-author of “The Almanac of American Politics,” (22nd edition released in August), and author of “Shaping Our Nation, How Surges of Migration Transformed America […]
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