NHP Foundation College Access Initiative.

The National Hispanic Press Foundation [NHP Foundation] and Fundación Azteca America, two non-profit organizations dedicated to providing essential information to young Hispanics pursuing higher education, announced their partnership to promote an engaging new blog. The blog http://www.scholarshipforhispanics.blogspot.com is designed to further encourage young Hispanic students to pursue higher education by connecting them to mentors, advisors and professionals with up-to-the minute dialogues relating to financial aid, high school preparation, college savings advice and professional insight.

The blog, which already features a post on how to register to optimize user-experience when navigating through our Scholarship Directory, will bolster content already available at http://www.scholarshipsforhispanics.com. Also featured on the blog, will be guest columns from national leaders on topics ranging from college entrance preparation to ways to finance higher education.

The foundation’s goal with the blog, scholarshipsforhispanics.blogspot.com, is to spread the word about scholarships available to Hispanics and share insight into securing a college education. With the addition of the blog, NHP Foundation hopes to provide a forum to share experiences between college degree holders and those students and families engaged in the pursuit of a higher education.

“Each week we will highlight new topics on the directory home page to attract the attention of tens of thousands of unique visitors, mentors, and counselors,” said Eddie Escobedo, NHP Foundation Chair. “We feel that this will be a very helpful resource to everyone in the college planning and advising family.”

“Keeping the youths of our community in school and considering college is one of the most pressing issues for the advancement of Latinos,” said Luis J. Echarte, Chairman of Azteca America and Fundación Azteca America. “We’re committed to this effort and excited to be teaming up with the NHP Foundation with this important initiative.”

Aside from information on scholarship opportunities, NHP Foundation also offers information to prospective college students on services, organizations, high school preparation, college entrance test preparation, government loans and local scholarships that will help them secure their education.

The NHP Foundation facilitates the distribution of this information in detail through its website at http://www.scholarshipsforhispanics.org>. According to Thomas Oliver, NHP Foundation President and CEO, the website attracts tens of thousands of hits and thousands of unique visitors each week.

The foundation’s online presence compliments its “Educate” print tabloid and its CD-Rom platforms. In partnership with Fundación Azteca America’s planned public service announcements set to air this spring, the NHP Foundation will add a broadcast platform to drive awareness.

Through its partnerships with Chicago’s La Raza Newspaper and Brownsville’s El Periodico USA, the NHP Foundation helped distribute more than 250,000 copies of Educate, the newspaper insert featuring scholarships and college access advice specific to those regions. It is estimated that the Educate inserts reached more than 750,000 Hispanic readers this year in these cities combined.