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ALPFA is a national nonprofit membership organization for Latino business professionals and students. ALPFA is dedicated to enhancing opportunities for Latinos in business, accounting, finance and related professions and creating more diversity in corporate America. ALPFA is a non-profit entity registered with the Internal Revenue Service.
Organization ALPFA's headquarters are in Los Angeles, California and as of 2010 it has 39 professional chapters and 75 student chapters chapters in the United States and Puerto Rico.[1] History ALPFA was founded in 1972, a group of Hispanic CPA s came together to tackle the lack of opportunities and visibility for Latinos in their industry by establishing the first national Hispanic professional organization, AAHCPA (American Association of Hispanic Certified Public Accountants). In 2001, as the success of the organization grew, they decided to expand the reach of their mission to be more inclusive of the professionals that were joining and changed the name to ALPFA (Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting). In doing so, ALPFA experience tremendous growth, doubled the number of professional chapters and reached over 10,000 members by August 2009. In November 2009, ALPFA took another bold move by merging with the National Hispanic Business Association (NHBA) and creating an organization of over 14,000. ALPFA also dropped its tag line and revised its vision to reflect the growing number of Latino business professionals and students.[2] References External links The full list of Professional Chapters:
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