3. Client: Sanofi Aventis
Web site for continuing education
programs for doctors, nurses,
pharmacists and other healthcare
professionals
4. Client: Joint Commission Resources
9” x 12” folder with promotional cd
for Joint Commission Resources
Quality & Safety Network
5. Client: Joint Commission Resources
11” x 14” poster and 4”x 5” table tent
for Joint Commission Resources
Quality & Safety Network
table tent side 1
table tent side 2
6. Distributed by
TiP-TV
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GE Training in Partnership Television
Satellite and Online Education
Client: Joint Commission Resources
7” x 5” direct mail postcard
for Joint Commission Resources
Quality & Safety Network
13. Client: GE Healthcare
Web site for The Patient Channel
A GE Healthcare product with it’s
own branding yet holding simplicity
and clean look of GE brand
14. Client: GE Healthcare
11” x 14” poster, 4”x 5” table tent and
quarterly schedule for The Patient
Channel Parenting Programming
table tent side 1
table tent side 2
15. Client: GE Healthcare
Client thank you and promotional
mailing. Paint can filled with utilization
tips, program descriptions, contributors,
post-its, pens and candy.
19. Client: Hispanic Professionals of
Greater Milwaukee
8.5” x 11”, 16 page Year In Review
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As we celebrate our �ve-year anniversary I want to extend my sincerest appreciation to
HPGM volunteers, members, employees and supporters. HPGM now reaches more than 750
individuals—all who are committed to the diversity of the Milwaukee community. Each one of you
has contributed to and will continue to contribute to this organization’s success. Congratulations!
Thank you for your time and thank you for your dedication to advancing our mission of creating
a dynamic environment for Hispanic professionals to thrive. We’re de�nitely moving in the right
direction--can you feel the momentum?
In early 2008 we made concentrated efforts to become the resource for Hispanic professionals.
We began by conducting extensive, primary research among leading Milwaukee businesses
to identify opportunities for HPGM to further engage with and support the business community.
Our efforts proved successful! We uncovered several key needs, all of which HPGM can be the
driving force behind. We found that:
• Corporations are unaware of all HPGM has to offer—we need to keep telling
our story.
• There is a need for an ambassador program that would help a company’s Human
Resources department make new recruits feel welcome within the respective
organization and in the community.
• HPGM is the only organization that can be the resource that provides corporations
with consultative services related to Hispanic culture, career development and
employee bene�ts for Hispanic Professionals.
• These organizations want to continue to work together to develop our future
leaders though professional development.
Looking ahead, we will build on this momentum by putting these �ndings into action. Doing so,
will strengthen our position as the premier Hispanic resource for the community.
During the coming year we will also continue to foster leadership, mentor, educate, provide
networking opportunities and develop new initiatives that support Hispanics and Hispanic
businesses. In addition, we will continue to recruit more corporate members and diverse board
members to grow our network, even more.
We have so much to be proud of and so much more to look forward to! Here’s to another
successful year with HPGM.
Gil
Gilbert Llanas, HPGM President
Northwestern Mutual
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Congratulations HPGM on �ve successful years. As we celebrate our anniversary, I would like to take this
moment to say thank you. Gracias for your support, time and resources for making HPGM what it is today.
A special thanks to the dedicated founding members, board members, and energetic volunteers who have
helped us to deliver our mission: To create a dynamic environment for Hispanic professionals to thrive
by fostering leadership, mentoring, education, networking, and new initiatives that support Hispanics and
Hispanic businesses.
To me, our mission means that HPGM is a connector, a HUB. We connect our members with career and
board opportunities, businesses and community partners, resources, and development workshops. We
connect emerging leaders to current leaders.
As we celebrate �ve years, I believe we have been successful in being the resource that we set out to be. I
believe this because I have seen it. More importantly, I believe it because I have felt it.
In �ve years, we have grown our membership to more than 400 Hispanic Professionals, more than 50
corporate nonpro�t/small business members, a board of 17, and an advisory board of four. Additionally, we
have given 21 or $52,500 in post-graduate scholarships to Hispanic professionals. We are one voice with
many cultures representing more than 30 countries.
Looking back on our success, I’m extremely proud and even more excited for the years to come. I’m
determined more than ever to continue to grow and develop HPGM, to continue to understand our
members’ needs and how we can be a resource for them.
Yvonne
Yvonne A. Brodsky
HPGM Executive Director
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To create a dynamic environment for
Hispanic professionals to thrive by fostering
leadership, mentoring, education, networking,
and new initiatives that support Hispanics.
Ruta Bastos
Senior Vice
President
and Regional
Retail Director
Associated Bank
As I ventured from my hometown of
Philadelphia to work for Associated Bank,
my husband, Jose L. Carrera Sr., needed a
position in the educational counseling field.
He reached out to Hispanic Professionals of
Greater Milwaukee, and Executive Director
Yvonne Brodsky was extremely responsive
and helpful. She found him the perfect
opportunity as a counselor at La Causa
Charter School. She also pointed us to other
organizations that could ease our transition.
HPGM makes a meaningful difference
for professionals, and Associated Bank
is proud to be one of the organization’s
newest Corporate Partners. Personally and
professionally, I am committed to HPGM.
Raul Vasquez
Editor
Aqui Milwaukee
Magazine
There’s a question that I’ve been asking
myself a lot since I moved here in 2006.
And it’s why Milwaukee County, with
about 100,000 Hispanics, is home to
such a dynamic, well-organized Latino
community — much more organized than
larger Hispanic populations living in cities
like Chicago and Houston. There are many
theories as to why. Close geographic
quarters is one. Having the perfect mix of
Hispanics from various nationalities and
backgrounds is another. But there’s no
doubt that Hispanic Professionals of Greater
Milwaukee is just another feather in the cap
of the local Latino community. It’s incredibly
useful as a networking organization for
professional Latinos. But it does so without
losing sight of the prize: helping younger
Latinos to succeed by providing university
scholarships and mentorship opportunities.
Often in other places, when Latinos reach
a certain level of success, they begin to
lose touch with their Hispanic culture and
roots. HPGM’s networking events help us
to reinforce not only our culture, but also a
general culture of success; a can-do attitude
that is a big part of what makes Milwaukee’s
Latino community so unique.
Paulina de Haan
Community
Coordinator of
Safe Streets
Initiative
Marquette
University
Law School
HPGM’s programs and networking
opportunities offer invaluable knowledge I
can apply at work. Having the opportunity
to network with other Latino professionals
I can share my passion for the Latino
community and take in the wisdom of
a diverse group of individuals; meeting
dynamic people and making new friends
along the way. With the Mente program, I
have an amazing mentor with whom I clarify
and analyze ideas helping me to hone in on
my leadership abilities. I am more effective
in my role as a Community Coordinator at
Marquette Law School because of HPGM.
Tammy Rivera
Community
Leader
HPGM is the organization that keeps
Latino professionals – and those
interested in intersecting with Latino
professionals – connected through events
and communications. It is the key Latino
professional organization to provide
networking for Latino professionals and
to connect us to professional resources,
including technical information, training,
scholarship, recognition, and leadership
opportunities. It ensures that the Latino
professional community will continue to
grow, strengthen and connect with the rest
of the community.
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20. Client: Baby Due
Baby shower invitation in a cd case with
a music theme and streamers. Both
parents are big music fans.
