“Education : A word cloud concept around the word Education with great terms such as degree, diploma, university, reading and more. Stock Photo”   Luso-Heritage, Cultural and Educational Organizations 

• Azoreans to California by PortugueseAncestry.com

• Cabrillo National Monument Library, 1800 Cabrillo Memorial Dr., San Diego, CA 92106, (619) 557-5450

• Hawaii Council Of Portuguese Heritage, 810 N Vineyard Blvd., # 7, Honolulu, HI 96817, (808) 845-1616

• Luso-American Education Foundation, 7080 Donlon Way Ste 202, Dublin, CA  94568, (925) 828-3883

• Portuguese-American information on Wikipedia

• Portuguese American Review

• Portuguese Brazil School, 500 Sutter Street, Suite 310, San Francisco, CA (415) 902-8873

• Portuguese Education Foundation of Central California (P.E.F.C.C.), 321 A Thor St., Dublin , CA

• Portuguese Genealogical Society of Hawaii, 810 N Vineyard Blvd., # 11, Honolulu, HI, (808) 841-5044

• Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, Inc., San Jose, CA, (408) 272-1222

• Portuguese Historical Center, 2831 Avenida De Portugal, San Diego, CA, (619) 223-8893

• Portuguese Historical Society Sacramento, CA

• Portuguese in California – An Oral History

• San Jose High School – Portuguese Club

• San Jose State University – Portuguese Club

• Silicon Valley Portuguese Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation, 1115 East Santa Clara Street, Suite 7, San Jose, CA, svpecf@gmail.com

• Sylvan STEAM Academy – Sylvan Elementary School, 908 Coffee Road, Modesto, CA, Monica Aranda, maranda@sylvan.k12.ca.us or MsMonicaAranda@gmail.om

• The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture,  285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747 (508) 999-8255

• UC Berkeley Portuguese Studies Program, Institute of European Studies

Other interesting Luso information The Portuguese language is one of the most  spoken Romance languages in the world.  There are approximately 180 million Portuguese speaking people through-out the world. Approximately 150 million people live in Brazil, about 10 million in Portugal;  close to 2.5 million is Galician that speak Galician-Portuguese as their native language. Portuguese  is spoken in the five continents, about 4.6 million Portuguese speakers in Africa. There are approximately 1,500,000 Portuguese speakers in the United States.  There are also other Portuguese speakers regions of Indochina and Oceania. Additionally, there are ~4.6 million Portuguese speakers in Africa.