Toyota Celebrates Hispanic Community at 2016 National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference
July 26 2016 - 8:00AM
Toyota, the No. 1 auto company among U.S. Hispanics for 12
consecutive years, returned as co-title sponsor of the 2016 NCLR
Conference, which is taking place July 23-26, 2016 in Orlando, FL.
As part of the celebration, Toyota gave away a brand new 2016
Corolla at the annual Latinas Brunch on Sunday, July 24.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/9d99d3ab-8b08-4ea5-8190-aebd9ed81c49.
“Toyota is proud to support NCLR’s important work, which
continues to uplift the Hispanic community,” said Steve St. Angelo,
Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Latin America and Caribbean Region.
“As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Corolla—the most
popular vehicle among Hispanics— we are committed to deepening our
relationship with this vibrant and dynamic community that has
played such an important role in our success.”
NCLR is the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy
organization in the U.S., reaching millions of Hispanics each year
in 41 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia through its
network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations.
Since 1999, Toyota has provided NCLR with grants of nearly $3
million.
“We thank Toyota for their steadfast commitment to the Hispanic
community,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO. “Latinos
are an important part of the future of this country and together
with partners like Toyota, we will keep championing on their
behalf.”
During the conference, St. Angelo addressed the Latinas Brunch
and awarded a brand new 2016 Corolla to Diane Arms-Signore of
Houston, Texas. Arms-Signore serves as Director of Prevention and
Counseling at the Association for the Advancement of Mexican
Americans (AAMA), an organization dedicated to inspiring and
empowering at-risk Latinos to peruse their potential and achieve
success. She plans to use her new Corolla to support her
organization’s Minorities in Action Program to help individuals
with HIV maintain access to quality healthcare.
To date, Toyota has contributed $800 million to grassroots
organizations and nonprofits, much of it going to organizations
that support minority populations, including Hispanics. For 25
years Toyota has run one of the leading minority procurement
programs, Opportunity Exchange, that creates jobs and stimulates
economic opportunity in Latino communities across the nation.
For more information about the 2016 NCLR Conference, please
visit:http://conference.nclr.org/. Make sure to follow the social
conversation using #VayamosJuntos and #NCLR16.
About Toyota Toyota (NYSE:TM), the
world's top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel
cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way people
live through our Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands. Over the past 50
years, we’ve built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North
America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.)
and directly employ more than 44,000 people (more than 34,000 in
the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (1,500 in the U.S.)
sold more than 2.8 million cars and trucks (nearly 2.5 million in
the U.S.) in 2015 – and about 80 percent of all Toyota vehicles
sold over the past 20 years are still on the road today.
Toyota partners with philanthropic organizations across the
country, with a focus on education, safety and the environment. As
part of this commitment, we share the company’s extensive know-how
garnered from building great cars and trucks to help community
organizations and other nonprofits expand their ability to do good.
For more information about Toyota,
visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
CONTACT:
Maria Collazo
República, en nombre de Toyota
(786) 347-4785
Mcollazo@republica.net
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