{"id":22513,"date":"2016-10-17T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=22513"},"modified":"2016-10-21T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:29:18","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=22513","title":{"rendered":"2016 Hispanic Chamber Gala &#8211; Photos By John DelGrosso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.delgrosso.photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photos by: John DelGrosso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley held its formal awards dinner Saturday October 15<sup>th<\/sup>. Guest filled the ballroom at the Renaissance Allentown. The night was filled with live entertainment, a silent auction benefiting <strong>The F\u00e9 Foundation<\/strong>, and of course dinner and awards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"su_carousel_69f285cbbc8e9\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/58-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/58-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"58-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/75-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/44-1-of-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"44-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/34-1-of-1-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-13\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/34-1-of-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"34-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-1-of-1-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-14\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/30-1-of-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"30-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/25-1-of-1-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-15\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/25-1-of-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"25-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-1-of-1-16.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-16\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-1-of-1-16.jpg\" alt=\"14-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-1-of-1-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-17\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-1-of-1-14.jpg\" alt=\"9-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-1-of-1-16.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-18\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-1-of-1-16.jpg\" alt=\"5-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1-of-1-17.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-19\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1-of-1-17.jpg\" alt=\"1-1-of-1\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-nav\"><div class=\"su-carousel-direction\"><span class=\"su-carousel-prev\"><\/span><span class=\"su-carousel-next\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-pagination\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>About The F\u00e9 Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fe-foundation.org\/\"><u>The F\u00e9 Foundation<\/u><\/a> of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley is organized for the purpose of implementing the educational community outreach programs of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley, primarily the \u201cFuturos Empresarios\u201d or \u201cFuture Entrepreneurs\u201d, (FE) Program. The FE Program has as an objective to deliver \u201clife skills\u201d and entrepreneurial training to potential Latino entrepreneurs (high school students) aiming at increasing their rates of educational, economical and social success. \u00a0The FE Program was first started in 2009 by the Hispanic Chamber, and since 2011 is administered and run by the F\u00e9 Foundation. \u00a0The F\u00e9 Foundation is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization. \u00a0For information on the F\u00e9 Foundation and its programs, please contact at info@fe-foundation.org or 610-841-1128. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fe-foundation.org\/\"><u>http:\/\/www.fe-foundation.org\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/hispanic-chamber.html\"><u>The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley<\/u><\/a> is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial and professional interests of all our Members, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic, and the Greater Lehigh Valley Community as a whole. To accomplish our mission, we focus on three guiding principles:<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy &#8211; To assist in developing an economic development agenda for the Hispanic and Greater Lehigh Valley Business Community as a whole and to promote that agenda both in the public as well as the private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Business Development &#8211; To provide access to networking opportunities, capability enhancing training and business enhancing resources to our members while assisting our Corporate Sponsors in reaching the Hispanic business community.<\/p>\n<p>Community Development &#8211; To promote entrepreneurship and self-sustainability within the Hispanic community. To increase the levels of understanding between our Lehigh Valley Hispanic and non-Hispanic business communities through the arts and through cultural introductions and exchanges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/hispanic-chamber.html\"><u>http:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/hispanic-chamber.html<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,2294,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-john-delgrosso","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chamber-gala.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}