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Wondering if you qualify for Italian dual citizenship? Overwhelmed by the process? Look no further. Lauren Hopkins from Your Italian Passport will walk you through the process and answer your questions in tonight’s webinar that will be live-streamed on our Facebook page: “Your Italian Passport – A Conversation about Dual Citizenship” at 6pm EST. If you like NIAF’s Facebook page, you’ll get a notification to tune in when we go live. We hope you’ll join us! 🇮🇹🇺🇸Buona #FestadellaRepubblica! Today is Italian National Day, a holiday that commemorates the end of the monarchy. This year, watch Italy's Ambassador Armando Varricchio's address the #ItalianAmerican community live on the @italyinus’s Facebook page today at 11:30am EST.NIAF Membership #Giveaway with @mydadssauce! To kickstart our #JoinNIAFinJune membership campaign, NIAF is offering its members a chance to win a jar of My Dad’s Sauce, a NIAF Buon Appetito! apron, a NIAF Make Sunday Italian Again wooden spoon, and Celebrity Chef Mary Ann Esposito’s latest cookbook "Ciao Italia: My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy"! 🇮🇹🇺🇸🙏🏼 NIAF Members eligible to win this gift must follow these three easy steps: 1. Like NIAF, Mary Ann Esposito, and My Dad's Sauce's Facebook pages; 2. Follow both NIAF and @mydadssauce Instagram accounts; and 3. Email media@niaf.org confirming that they did steps 1 & 2 above. The contest will run until June 10 and the winner will be announced on June 12! Don’t wait, enter today!Support NIAF’s mission during this difficult time by becoming a NIAF Member this month for our #JoinNIAFinJune campaign. Throughout June, NIAF will showcase the #resources, scholarships, grants, programs, and other #benefits we offer on NIAF’s social media. Today, we want to share a little about #WhoWeAre: The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 in Washington, D.C. As the unifying voice of the Italian American #community, NIAF seeks funding for #charitable works and donations, #scholarships, educational #grants, and student travel to Italy, among other notable #programs. Becoming a #Member of NIAF is affordable and opens the door to so much – including learning more about where your ancestors came from – but more tangibly, goes to fund efforts to connect our community to resources and provide it with #opportunities to gather and celebrate, and to learn and grow. If we have #ItalianAmericans and Italophiles like YOU joining and supporting our cause, NIAF can more effectively carry out our #mission to preserve, protect and promote Italian American #heritage. Become a #NIAFMember today by visiting NIAF.org and going to our membership tab. Grazie 🇺🇸🇮🇹🙏🏼❤️LAST CHANCE! Buy a NIAF polo today! #FathersDay is right around the corner and polos make great Father's Day #gifts! But don't buy one just for dad—buy one for everyone in the whole family with #youthsizes available too! This limited time offer helps support NIAF's scholarship and education programs—work we cannot do without you! #Deadline to order is 11:59pm EST TONIGHT. Order now—visit #linkinbio."Beginners 1 with Aperitivo" is your chance to learn the language of your Italian ancestors! This virtual course offered by the @italian.cultural.society is even giving #NIAFMembers a special discount! Prior Italian language knowledge isn't required and the last 15 minutes are dedicated to preparing and sharing a virtual #aperitivo Italian style. The course starts this Thursday, June 4, so register now by visiting “Links” story highlight.Recent Tweets
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Finding Your Roots
Words cannot adequately describe the experience that our family had with Roots ’n Tours during our visit to Sicily. We had asked Rosario and his team to help us do some research on our family prior to our trip. Through … Continue reading
The Legacy of Falcone and Borsellino
Yesterday, NIAF’s 2017 Voyage of Discovery (VOD) program – a group of Italian American college students brought to Italy by NIAF on an all-expenses-paid, two-week trip to rediscover their heritage – visited the Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, as well … Continue reading
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June 20, 2017
Tagged American-Italian Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Mafia, college student, College Students, Cosa Nostra, Discrimination, Heritage, History, Italia, Italian, Italian American, Italian Heritage, Italian History, Italian Mafia, Mafia, Mob, Sicilia, Sicilian, Sicilian American, Sicily, student, Student Travel, Students, The Mob, Travel, VOD, VOD2017, Voyage of Discovery
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Sicilian Food: A Global Diet
What are we talking about, when we discuss “Italian food?” It’s the age-old question: Italian vs. Italian American. We get so caught up in the details of what the difference is between the food of Italy and the food developed … Continue reading
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May 11, 2017
Tagged Ancient History, Arab, Arrancini, Cannoli, Eggplant, Heritage, History, Italian, Italian American, Italian culture, Italian Food, Italian Heritage, Italian History, Mediterranean, Mediterranean diet, Muslim, Pasta, Pasta alla Norma, Seafood, Sicilian, Sicilian American, Sicilian Culture, Sicilian Food, Sicilian Heritage, Sicilian History, Siciliana, Sicily, Tomatoes
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The Bells of Agnone
In this week’s #NIAFblog, our guest blogger, Jenifer Landor – founder of Live and Learn Italian, offers a fascinating look into the heritage of a small Italian town in the Apennine hills – where for centuries, the Marinelli family has been making bells. The … Continue reading
A Day about Italians Should Be Called Just That
By John M. Viola, President, National Italian American Foundation For the past few years, as summer fades into autumn and October approaches, I’m inevitably inundated with calls from media to talk about the great elephant in the Italian American room: Columbus … Continue reading
Un Giorno con Gigi (A Day with Gigi)
Captured (written) by The Recipe Hunters in Calabria, Italy We’re sharing a blog post from our guest blogger team, The Recipe Hunters, of an adventure they had while traveling through Calabria as they searched for authentic, Italian recipes. You can read … Continue reading
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September 21, 2016
Tagged Blog, Calabria, Calabrian, Catholic Church, Catholic Tradition, Catholicism, Church, Fagioli, Feast, Feast Day, Food Blog, Food Bloggers, Fusilli, Guest Blog, Heritage, Holy Relic, Homemade, Homemade Pasta, Immigrant, Italian, Italian American, Italian culture, Italian Food, Italian Heritage, Italian History, Italian immigrants, Italian Tradition, Italy, National Italian American Foundation, NIAF, Olive, Olive grove, Olives, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Religious Feast, Saint Hilarion, Sant'Ilarione, The Recipe Hunters, Tradition, Zeppole
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Book Review – My Father’s Daughter: From Rome to Sicily
In need of a good beach read this summer? Check out Gilda Morina Syverson’s travel memoir, reviewed by NIAF in our Ambassador magazine. My Father’s Daughter: From Rome to Sicily By Gilda Morina Syverson “Dad,” I said, “I’m giving everyone … Continue reading
The Recipe Hunters
Introducing NIAF’s new guest bloggers: The Recipe Hunters My name is Anthony Morano. Each and every aspect of Italy in my life is intrinsic to who I am today. For me, Sundays were holidays growing up. My mother would ceremoniously cook … Continue reading
