The Los Angeles Business Journal’s first ever Latino Business Awards celebrates companies that have made an impact in the Latino community.
Los Angeles, CA, January 21, 2010 — The Latino Diabetes Association is proud to announce that its founder, Heberto M. Sanchez, is a finalist for the first ever Los Angeles Business Journal (“LABJ”) Latino Business Awards in the non-profit category along with fourteen honorees.
“I am very honored to have been nominated as a finalist for this prestigious award presented by the LABJ, with the support of the Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles” said Mr. Sanchez.
Mr. Sanchez founded the Latino Diabetes Association (“LDA”), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, in 2003, after his father’s death that resulted from complications caused by diabetes. His family’s experience dealing with his father’s diabetes left an impact in his life that resonates in the work of the LDA.
His mission was to establish an aggressive diabetes education program in the Latino community and the LDA has since brought together health professionals and local health activists in various intervention methods to provide aggressive diabetes education, outreach and advocacy at the federal, state and local levels that has had a substantial impact in Latino communities.
Since personally funding the organization himself for two years, Mr. Sanchez has been responsible for many accomplishments for the LDA as Founder and former CEO during the past five years, including developing a grass roots outreach program that has provided diabetes education in both Spanish and English to thousands of families in the Los Angeles area since 2004; establishing the LDAkids.org website for interactive on-line video games for kids related to healthy eating and to learn more about diabetes; establishing the LDAtv.org website: a diabetes educational/cooking on-line television channel; and working with California Rep. Baca’s office to introduce Congressional House Resolution 69 to identify July, 2009 as Latino Diabetes Awareness Month.
Mr. Sanchez is the recipient of U.S. Senator Boxer’s HealthCare Champions Award in 2008, recognizing the LDA for its work in California
About The Latino Diabetes Association (www.lda.org)
The LDA is the only diabetes organization that focuses on Latinos within the inner cities and housing projects and is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of families and communities by providing a wide spectrum of quality services in Spanish and English. To learn more about diabetes prevention and community events, please visit www.lda.org.
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