NIAF Supports #AmericaLovesVenice in Response to Venice Flooding
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announces its support of #AmericaLovesVenice, a fundraising initiative to aid Venice’s recovery from recent flooding, organized by the Embassy of Italy and Save Venice, an American nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice. From November 12-17, Venice experienced...
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Bronx's Little Italy to Welcome ACF Fiorentina With a "Pep Rally"
From Florence, Italy to the Bronx’s Little Italy. Italian Professional Football Club ACF Fiorentina to be Welcomed on Arthur Avenue With a Celebratory “Pep Rally” Sunday Afternoon, July 21. In Advance of Their Final USA International Champions Cup (ICC) Game, ACF Fiorentina Will Be Greeted By Fans, Local Officials & Business Owners, including Mario...
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WTI Events: October 27 2016 Presentation of We the Italians, the book in Tuckahoe, NY
October 27 2016 Tuckahoe, NY
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NIAF Gives $450,000 to Norcia Italia for Earthquake Relief
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) announced today that its Earthquake Relief Fund will give $450,000 to the Norcia community, a town with 5,000 residents located in Umbria, in the wake of the devastating earthquakes that struck Central Italy in 2016. NIAF is partnering with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) to build a new...
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Judge blasts court officer union boss for ‘offensive’ T-shirts
Court officer union boss Dennis Quirk has offended New York’s Italian-American Chief Judge Janet DiFiore with a T-shirt suggesting that she’s a mob boss, The Post has learned. Quirk ordered the T-shirts, which have Office of Court Administration written over a graphic of the scales of justice unbalanced, above the words “Organized Crime Association...
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NIAF Opens Museum Dedicated to Italian American Culture
Friday, October 12 at 2pm at the NIAF headquarters located at The Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Building, 1860 19th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. A ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the NIAF Museum, which features historical art, artifacts, documents, publications, and digital presentations providing visitors insight into the Italian American...
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Dine with Lidia Bastianich, Peruse a Variety of Italian Goods, and Much More During The National Italian American Foundation Anniversary Gala Weekend
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) 43rd Anniversary Gala Weekend will be held October 12-14, 2018, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The weekend kicks off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the NIAF Museum at NIAF’s headquarters, which features historical art and artifacts and digital presentations providin...
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De Blasio’s monument commission opts to keep Columbus statue — but will add markers honoring indigenous people
Christopher Columbus stays — with an asterisk. The findings of Mayor de Blasio’s monuments commission were set in stone Thursday — with the group deciding after months of deliberations not to completely tear down any statues around the city in a monumentally anticlimactic ruling. Columbus will remain atop his perch high above the circle named for h...
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Lawrence DiStasi (Author of "Branded: How Italian Immigrants Became 'Enemies' During WWII")
Imagine 600,000 Italians in America, good honest hardworking people. Imagine them all of a sudden branded as enemy aliens, discriminated, questioned, moved to internment camps. Imagine that they are prohibited to work, to live in their own homes, to travel more than 5 miles. Imagine them forced to prove their innocence, for a charge they don't even...
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