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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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Italian American WWII Heroes
By Chris Tremoglie Vice President Nelson Rockefeller once said, “I think of the 1.5 million Americans of Italian descent who made up ten percent of the armed might of the United States in World War II, and many of these … Continue reading
Untold WWII History: U.S. Internment of Italians Americans
Italian immigrants and Italian Americans were seen as “enemy aliens” in America during WWII. Thousands were forced into internment camps or relocated–unfortunately, American history books fail to remember this. Continue reading
Grieving for Italy and Hoping for Beyond
A Reflection By Joan Lombardi When you are the child of an immigrant, you grow up with stories of the other country. No matter how proud you are of your own homeland, there is always the other. It is in … Continue reading
Book Review: The Girl from Venice
In need of a good beach read this summer? Check out Martin Cruz Smith’s novel, reviewed by NIAF in our Ambassador magazine. In Martin Cruz Smith’s most recent novel, the author makes a departure from his usual mystery writing and … Continue reading
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June 1, 2017
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Demanding Justice for Italian Americans
By Lisa Femia, NIAF Public Policy Manager For years after World War II, there was an open secret among Italian Americans. No one spoke about it, but the scars of wartime mistreatment didn’t fade quickly. Property taken, homes boarded up, … Continue reading
Un Minuto con…
Do you know “Rose Bonavita?” By Rosario Mariani, http://www.europebychoice.com Women played a vital role during World War II in keeping America strong. As millions of young men were drafted to serve in the military, there was a … Continue reading
