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CEO and co-founder of human-I-T, a Long Beach-headquartered nonprofit dedicated to equipping low-income populations across Los Angeles with free technology, Gabe Middleton has been selected as one of 12 Coors Light L\u00edderes for his commitment to empower the Latino community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am honored to represent my community for this year\u2019s Coors Light L\u00edderes program,\u201d Middleton said in a statement. \u201cCoors Light has made a commitment to the Hispanic community to recognize and reward the dedication and tenacious spirit of emerging Latino leaders. I am grateful for the nomination and the opportunity to use the grant to set a positive example for the generation of Hispanic leaders across the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
The public can vote for Middleton via this link<\/a>\u00a0through August 18. The winner will receive a $25,000 grant to implement a program to improve and empower the local Latino community.<\/p>\n In 2012, Middleton co-founded human-I-T by opening an electronic repairs shop in the lobby of a cell phone repairs shop. Gradually he and a partner earned enough to expand to a warehouse. By assembling a diverse team of experts and volunteers, their vision to become a philanthropic solution for used technology became more of a reality.<\/p>\n Middleton had dedicated his career to equipping low-income families, veterans, persons with disabilities, LGBT community centers, homeless shelters and other certified nonprofits with free technology, internet, tech support and bilingual digital literacy training. The majority of recipients are adults living in South and East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Hispanic, according to human-I-T.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Coors Light L\u00edderes program allows Coors Light to highlight 12 outstanding Latino leaders who have taken on challenges to climb higher and are now inspiring others to make a difference in communities across the country,\u201d Alberto Senior, who leads MillerCoors\u2019 national Latino community efforts, said in a statement. \u201cFor more than a decade, the L\u00edderes program has highlighted the outstanding accomplishments of 160 Latino leaders. Coors Light looks forward to awarding the 2017 L\u00edder of the Year with a $25,000 grant that will help support the Latino community.\u201d<\/p>\n For more information on the Coors Light L\u00edderes program click here<\/a>.<\/a> Learn more about human-I-T here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Help Long Beach local and co-founder of human-I-T win the $25,000 Coors Light L\u00edderes grant to further empower the Latino community with free technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-philanthropy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}