NCVA REPORTER - November 2, 2004

In this NCVA Reporter:

Events

• 2004 APAMSA National Conference – Nov 12-14, 2004
• Seminar: “Make It Happen: Commercialize Your Ideas” – Nov 20, 2004
• Public Screening of Victor Vu’s Spirits (Oan Hon) – Nov 21, 2004
• 30 Years Beyond the War: Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian/American Studies – April 19-20, 2005

Funding Opportunities

• Focus on Business-Community Partnerships
• Scholarships for Teacher Professional Development Focused on Visual Learning
• Support for Social Change Activities
• Nutrition Programs
• Community Support from Pacificare
• Public Interest Law Foundation Community Grants
• George Gund Foundation Launches New Website
• New Connections Fund Accepting Applications

Jobs/Internships

• LEAP Resource Development Coordinator
• LEAP Training Manager
• MTV Documentary: Effects of Deportation on the Cambodian Community

Tips/Resources

• Domestic Violence Handbook Available Online for the First Time - and in Multiple Languages

News

• 35-year-old Asian American studies program given department status (Daily Bruin)
• APAICS Announces 2005-2006 Fellowship Programs (APAICS Press Release)
• Indians Build 'Emerging Presence' in Capital (Washington Post)
• Politicians and Advisers Are to Blame for Vietnam, Not Protesters Like Kerry (Mercury News)
• Vietnamese TV Show Put Back on Schedule (Los Angeles Times)

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EVENTS

2004 APAMSA NATIONAL CONFERENCE

The national Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA) presents the

APAMSA National Conference
"Leading by Example"

November 12-14, 2004
Houston, Texas
Baylor College of Medicine

REGISTER NOW!
http://www.apamsa.org/2004conference/

The 11th annual National Conference of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association is coming up soon, taking place in the world's largest medical center!  We hope you will join us for this annual gathering of hundreds of medical students from across the country.

This year's conference, themed "Leading by Example," will be November 12-14, 2004 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  As APAMSA looks toward a future of greater leadership and representation by Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) in the medical professions, we also look to those who have led and continue to show us the way.

This year's speakers, RADM Dr. Samuel Lin, former Assistant Surgeon General, and Dr. Arthur Chen, former medical director of Asian Health Services-Oakland and executive director of the Chinatown Health Clinic-New York, have contributed greatly to the APA health movement and are testaments to 'leading by example.' We hope APAMSA members will learn much from them, as well as from the workshops we have planned on APA health issues.

Topics include health disparities, HIV/AIDS, mental health, heart disease and diabetes in South Asians, HepB/SARS, cultural competency and international health, as well as sessions focused on medical student issues such as educational profiling, residency, and debt management. Don't miss the Pre-Conference Leadership Forum on Friday, with special guest facilitators ready to tackle issues of AAPI health leadership and activism with students, and the Pre-Med Workshop on Friday night.

You can find all this information, plus more details about online or paper registration, and the limited-time only special rate for the conference hotel, the Houston Marriott-Medical Center, at our conference website:

http://www.apamsa.org/2004conference/

APAMSA is the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association.  Founded in 1993, we are a national organization with 70+ chapters that aims to address those issues important to Asian Pacific American (APA) medical students.  One part of our mission is to bring
together APAs and others interested in the health issues that affect APAs so that we may have a strong, collective, public and political voice.

We are interested in both directly promoting the health and well-being of the APA community as well as in helping all health care workers who work with these communities understand how to care for the patient in a culturally sensitive manner. Finally, APAMSA provides an important forum for APA medical students to meet, exchange information and experiences and develop personally and professionally.

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SEMINAR: “MAKE IT HAPPEN: COMMERCIALIZE YOUR IDEAS”

November 20, 2004

It is with great pleasure that Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network ("VSVN") announces the introduction of The Entrepreneurs' Academy, a three-part series of one-day seminars for the aspiring as well as experienced entrepreneur. The first seminar, "Make It Happen: Commercialize Your Ideas," debuts on Saturday November 20, 2004. This seminar aims to provide engineers, scientists and professionals like you with the understanding, and knowledge to turn your ideas and dreams into reality.

At VSVN, we understand the tremendous talents that Vietnamese Americans have shown since we arrived to this country. Since 1976, a total of 153,717 patents have been granted to Vietnamese Americans. This translates to 5,489.89 patents per year. This number is almost twice the annual number of patents granted to IBM, the number one US patent holder for the last 11 consecutive years. IBM generates about 3100 to 3400 patents per year.

We have assembled a panel of experts that will cover the following areas:
* Planning and Preparation
* Legal issues in forming and structuring your company
* Positioning and presenting your ideas to potential investors and venture capitalists
* How to get and close beta customers
* Meet with a panel of VC and successful CEOs for Q&A

You won't find a more comprehensive program that offers training and mentoring opportunities for $59.95* anywhere in Silicon Valley. We expect a big turn out. Consequently, we have restricted this seminar to the first 50 people to sign up. Take advantage of this special pricing by November 12, 2004, for early sign up and learn what you need to start your high tech company. We look forward to see the next Bill Gates coming from our community.

AGENDA
7:15 am - 7:40 am  Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45 am - 7:55 am  Introduction to VSVN
8:00 am - 9:45 am Preparation and Planning
10:00 am - 11:45 am Legal Structure
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch (12:15 pm -1:15 pm (Optional Seminar)
Leadership and Conflict Resolution
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Positioning and Presentation
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm How To get Beta Customers
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm VC and CEOs Discussion Panel
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Cocktails and Networking

About VSVN: Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network
Based in the Silicon Valley, VSVN serves the global high-tech community, linking entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and inventors around the world interested in technology and innovation in the Vietnamese community.

Web: http://www.vsvn.org

Speakers:
Hanna Bui-Eve
Hanna Bui-Eve is an attorney with her own practice specializing in technology transactions. Prior to establishing her law practice, Hanna served as Senior Director and Legal Counsel of BeVocal, Inc. and was an associate at two major Silicon Valley law firms, Cooley Godward LLP, and Fenwick & West LLP. Hanna received her law degree (cum laude) from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, in 1997. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Thurston Society. She also is the author of To Hire Or Not To Hire, What Silicon Valley Employers Should Know About Hiring Competitors' Employees, 48 Hastings Law Journal 981 (1997).

Hanna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of California at Davis in 1988.

Hanna's current clients include Philips Electronics, Seagate, Peralta Community College District, Medsphere Systems, Vima MicroSystems, LinkedIn, Fiberxon, LeWiz Communications, and BeVocal. She also represented Adobe,Yahoo, and eBay.

Michael Griego
Michael Griego is president of MXL Partners, a provider of strategic sales and management effectiveness programs and services. Michael conducts executive, sales and sales management advisory/coaching,consulting and training services for companies around the world. He has authored Strategic Sales Execution - the Next Generation Process for Effective Sales and Sales Management.

Michael brings 22 years of practical high-technology sales and sales management experience to his clients. Previously, Michael was vice president of sales and business development for Active Decisions, a decision-support enterprise software company. Michael was also at Dataquest/Gartner Group's Top Regional Sales Manager for Technology Vendors, and received the National #1 Revenue Producer award and National #1 New Business Sales award for 2 years running.

Michael has a BA degree from Occidental College and an MBA from Stanford University. He's also a lecturer/instructor at San Jose State University's Professional Development Program and their Silicon Valley Executive Business MBA Program.

Yu Hao Lin
Mr. Lin is the founder of Lin Management Group, a management consultancy focusing on strategic business planning, marketing and execution for high-tech and biotech start-ups. He was also a co-founder of and a partner at 3rd Wave, an educational center for the advancement of high-tech entrepreneurs, focusing on the development of professional and entrepreneur skills as well as connecting them to venture capital.

Prior to founding these two organizations, he was a venture partner at Saturn Ventures focusing on early and expansion stages communications and semiconductor ventures. His prior experience encompassed president in semiconductor start-ups and general management in Fortune 500 companies,such as National Semiconductors and Rockwell/Conexant.

Mr. Lin received his BSEE with honors and MSEE from the University of Hawaii, wher e he participated in the early development of packet switching network under ARPA.

Phac Le Tuan
Phac Le Tuan has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry acquired in large international corporations (GFI, Schlumberger, Apple) as well as in start-ups (Benson, PaceWorks), in a variety of positions in engineering,business development, and marketing.

He is currently Chairman and CEO of PaceWorks, an multimedia software company started in 96 that survived the dotcom boom and bust cycles and is now solidly profitable as a web service provider. Phac has successfully managed small, tight-knit, highly efficient, commando-type teams as well as large, formalized, predictable, highly performing teams of engineers from various cultural backgrounds. Phac is currently starting a new venture, Kinemo.com, aimed at providing a new way for mobile users to express their emotions in their personal messaging activities.
Phac is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and holds a doctorate degree in Computer Graphics from Université d'Orsay. He is also an instructor in Four Quadrant Leadership with the Wilfred Jarvis Institute (Cupertino, CA) and with the Collège de Polytechnique (Paris, France).

Lois A. Wong
Lois A. Wong is an experienced executive coach and management consultant who teaches others to successfully close business deals, deliver effective presentations, manage strategic accounts and facilitate meetings to increase revenue. Lois also consults in the area of customer interactions and workplace dynamics. She works with CEOs, senior VPs, researchers, engineers, and technologists and is highly effective in coaching those who have risen quickly within their businesses and now must work with potential investors, partners, and major clients.

Working with thousands of talented executives from all over the world, Lois gained a rare view from the top during her tenure at Xerox PARC. Using her talents as a skilled coach Lois consulted with a client who manages a several hundred million dollar fund and coached him to close a low probability deal for due diligence potentially worth $20 million dollars. ranslating complex concepts into clear business language and consulting on how prevent fatal mistakes presenting to investors contributed to her success working with entrepreneurs at Asia-Silicon Valley Connection.

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PUBLIC SCREENING OF VICTOR VU’S SPIRITS (OAN HON)

November 21, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC - The Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA-DC) announces a special public screening of Victor Vu's Spirits (Oan Hon), with spotlight appearance by the director himself, at 1:30pm, November 21, 2004 at the JC Cinema, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Co-hosted by the Vietnamese Student Association of George Mason University, this special engagement is part of VCSA-DC's CineFest Vietnam - Spotlight on Vietnamese-American Cinema series, which aims to showcase new and emerging Vietnamese-American film artists.

Starring Kathleen Luong (Green Dragon), Tuan Cuong and Catherine Thuy Ai, Spirits (2004, 110 min.) is the latest film by emerging director Victor Vu, whose past works include First Morning. Set in modern day Vietnam, Spirits brings together three supernatural tales in which the Vietnamese traditional notions of fate, karma and reincarnation are artfully woven together to explore obsession, love and redemption. In taking on the horror genre with Spirits, Victor Vu wanted to make "a film that really encompasses the nature of a Vietnamese ghost story; a film that evokes the same excitement and intrigue as when ghost stories are told in the dark, from one generation to another".

For more information about this special engagement or ticket reservation, please contact Vien Van (301-604-7533) , Trang Khanh (757-218-8632), or Khanh-Loan (703-598-9676) or by email at vcsa_dc@yahoo.com. Information is also available on the web at http://cinefestvietnam.vcsa-dc.org.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
“30 YEARS BEYOND THE WAR: VIETNAMESE, SOUTHEAST ASIAN, AND ASIAN/AMERICAN STUDIES”

Currently Sponsored by the UC Research Program “Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, Performance” (SEATRiP-UCR), the Ethnic Studies Department-UCSD, and the Vietnamese American Caucus of the Association for Asian American Studies

To Be Held at the University of California, Riverside

April 19-20, 2005

Keynote Addresses:
Yen Le Espiritu (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego)
Peter Zinoman (History, UC Berkeley)

Confirmed Plenary Panel Participants:
Hien Duc Do (Social Sciences, San Jose State University)
Khatharya Um (Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley)

Submission Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2004.

This two-day conference takes the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon as a time to reflect on Vietnamese, Vietnamese/American, Southeast Asian, and Southeast Asian/American Studies ­ where these fields have been, where they are headed, and the place that the U.S. war in Southeast Asia has played in shaping both U.S. and Southeast Asian politics and culture.  The history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia is an important contemporary topic as memories of war are written and re-written for multiple purposes in multiple places such as in the language used to discuss U.S. foreign policy, in the discourse of the current presidential campaign, in the structuring of trade and the place of Southeast Asian goods in the U.S. and global markets, and in discussions of the movement of Southeast Asian nationals in international venues.  In the spirit of exploring the lasting connections between these two regions, we are soliciting proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, films, videos, readings, and performances dealing with a range of topics, including, but not limited to transnational and mixed-race identities, the politics of remembering the war, the intersections of Vietnamese and Vietnamese/American Studies, Southeast Asian immigration, community development, the Southeast Asian diaspora, Vietnamese/American culture, comparative ethnic projects, studies of the Hmong, Mien, etc., Southeast Asian Studies in a comparative context, cultural production, multiple histories of Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Southeast Asian and Asian/American autobiography, community politics, and the meanings of cultural contact.

In order to investigate these rich fields, this conference is open to scholars, artists, and community members who want to submit proposals for the conference.  The conference is an interdisciplinary event, and the conference committee welcomes individual paper and panel proposals from a wide variety of disciplines including, but not limited to literature, history, sociology, art history, visual cultures, political science, ethnic studies, women¹s and gender studies, performance studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Asian studies and area studies, the performing arts, film or video making, writing, and community activism and leadership. Participants will be informed of acceptance in January 2005.

The Conference is being held to coincide with the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) conference in Los Angeles, April 20-24, 2005.

Panel Proposal
A one-page description of your panel
One-page abstracts of each paper
One-page CV from each presenter, the panel chair, and/or the discussant
AV needs for the panel
Contact information for each participant
(2 copies of each)

Individual Paper Proposal
A one-page abstract of your paper
One-page CV
AV needs
Contact information
(2 copies of each)

Performance, Reading, Video or Film Proposal
A one-page description of your project
A one-page artist resume
If a film, video, or performance, send a sample video or DVD, if available (this will be returned to you)
AV needs
Contact information
(2 copies of each, except for videotape or DVD)

Please mail all materials to
Fiona Ngô

Ethnic Studies Program
201 McKenzie Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

Contact:
Mariam B. Lâm
mariam.beevi@ucr.edu
(951) 827-1220

Fiona I.B. Ngô
fiona@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-6160

(http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~fiona/conference.htm)

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

FOCUS ON BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

Hitachi Foundation

The Hitachi Foundation makes grants to enhance opportunity and quality of life for economically isolated people through business-community partnerships. The Foundation's Business and Communities Grants program focuses both on the role of businesses and communities in addressing economic isolation and on strengthening the field of corporate citizenship. Support will be provided for business-community partnerships that enable economically isolated people to retain and advance in their jobs, earn living wages, and accumulate savings and assets. Proposals may only be submitted at the Foundation's invitation. However, nonprofit organizations throughout the United States may share initial information through the Foundation's online inquiry system. Visit the above website for more information.

(http://www.hitachifoundation.org/)

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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED ON VISUAL LEARNING

Inspired Teachers Scholarships for Visual Learning

Inspired Teacher Scholarships for Visual Learning, a program of Inspiration Software, offers scholarships to support professional development activities for educators in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities who are committed to the integration of visual learning and technology into the curriculum. Twenty-five scholarships will be awarded to educators who demonstrate an understanding of visual learning and a commitment to the integration of visual learning techniques into the curriculum and five scholarships will be awarded to educators just starting out in the area of visual learning, but ready to learn more. These $750 awards must be used to defray costs of attending workshops, conferences or graduate courses that focus on visual learning and technology in education. Individuals throughout the United States with at least one year of continuous service as an educator are eligible to apply. The application deadline is January 27, 2005. Visit the above website for more information.

(http://www.inspiration.com/prodev/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholarship)

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SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE ACTIVITIES

Abelard Foundation

The Abelard Foundation, a member of the Common Counsel consortium of foundations and donors, is committed to social change activities that reflect the communities in which they are based; expand community control over economic, social and environmental decisions affecting the communities' well-being; and build a strong informed voice on public policy issues. The Common Counsel reviews proposals submitted to the Abelard Foundation West from nonprofit organizations located in the Northern Rockies, the Great Basin, the Northwest, the Southwest and California. The next application deadline for these areas is January 15, 2005. The Foundation's eastern office reviews applications for organizations east of the Mississippi. The eastern office accepts proposals throughout the year. Visit the above website for more information.

(http://www.commoncounsel.org/pages/foundation.html)

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DECEMBER 31 DEADLINE FOR NUTRITION PROGRAMS

The Allen Foundation

The Allen Foundation supports projects that benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research. Preference is given to projects that train children and young adults to improve their health and development or that educate mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children in order to foster good nutritional habits at an early age. The Foundation's other priorities are to fund the field of human nutrition and relevant nutritional research; support the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices; support the publication of periodicals and articles addressing sound nutritional practices; encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices; and, in limited situations, to help solve emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. Nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. and internationally are eligible to apply. The next application deadline is December 31, 2005. Visit the website listed above for more information.

(http://www.allenfoundation.org/)

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT FROM PACIFICARE

PacifiCare Foundation

The mission of the PacifiCare Foundation is to improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged or underserved in geographic areas where PacifiCare Health Systems does business. The Foundation's five areas of focus are children and youth, education, health, human/social services, and seniors. Nonprofit organizations that have been in existence for at least two years and that are located in the areas where PacifiCare Health Systems does business in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington are eligible to apply. The next application deadline is January 1, 2005. For more information on the Foundation, visit the company's website listed above and click on "About Pacificare" and then "Foundation."

(http://www.pacificare.com/)

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PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FOUNDATION COMMUNITY GRANTS

In 2004 the Public Interest Law Foundation will award three to four grants to nonprofit organizations that provide legal services to communities in need. Grant amounts range from $5,000 to $15,000, depending on the availability of funds and the nature of the proposed project. Priority is given to innovative projects that would not be undertaken without a grant and to subsidizing established projects that have been set back by inadequate funding. The application deadline for the Community Grants Program is December 23, 2004.

(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pilf/)

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GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

The George Gund Foundation has launched a new website to provide up-to-date information to the nonprofit community about the Foundation’s priorities and interests. The new site features a searchable database of all grants made since 1997 as well as current guidelines and procedures, links to helpful resources for nonprofit organizations, staff contact information, and Foundation-related news. The next proposal deadline is December 30, 2004.

(http://www.gundfoundation.org/)

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NEW CONNECTIONS FUND ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

The James Irvine Foundation welcomes grant applications to the New Connections Fund from eligible organizations with projects that fit within the Foundation’s program priorities. Grants funded through this process are for a maximum of $50,000, over one or two years, and requests are considered three times per year in an open, competitive application process. The next application deadline is December 1, 2004

(http://www.irvine.org/grants_program/howto/new_connections/application_process.shtml)

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JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc., (LEAP) a national, nonprofit, community-based organization seeks a full time Resource Development Coordinator to support LEAP’s work by coordinating its development and marketing activities.  Reporting to the Vice President of Resource & Business Development, the Resource Development Coordinator will help to enable LEAP to raise the needed funds to carry out its mission of “growing leaders”. LEAP is an ideal organization for individuals looking for a fast paced, professional environment working with a broad range of constituents within the Asian Pacific American community.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the successful and timely accomplishment of the following:
* Coordinate organizational efforts to identify, maintain and renew support from foundations, corporations and individuals.
* Prepare and coordinate submission of corporate and foundation proposals, reports and donor acknowledgements.
* Assist in developing relationships with donors, customers, program alumni and funders
* Assist with special events and other ad hoc fundraising activities in conjunction with staff and relevant volunteer committees.
* Manage and maintain grants filing system, donor information and marketing databases
* Assist with marketing activities and implementation of marketing strategies
* Update and create organizational marketing and development materials
* Assist with accounting data entry and administrative filings
* Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
* 2+ years demonstrated experience in development, marketing or related areas
* Willingness to work under pressure and with short notice deadlines in a fast paced, high-energy environment
* Ability to be flexible, manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
* Outstanding organizational skills and strong attention to details
* Excellent writing, organizational, interpersonal and verbal communication skills
* Must be a self starter with the ability to work independently as well as in a team with other staff, volunteers and board members.
* Experience with design and management of database tracking systems
* Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends
* Knowledge or familiarity of financial accounting desirable
* Computer literate, Mac preferred and familiarity with database programs
* Knowledge of, or experience working with the Asian Pacific American community and/or culturally diverse donors is desirable
* Familiarity working in a nonprofit or entrepreneurial environment

Compensation:
Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications. Excellent benefits.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to:

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Email, fax, or mail resumé with cover letter and salary requirements to:
Fax: (213) 485-0050
Email: gtoy@leap.org
Mail to:
Grace Toy
Vice President of Administration and Finance
LEAP
327 East 2nd Street, Suite #226
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Cover letter must address the following:
1) provide specific reasons for applying for the position; and 2) indicate how your experiences and qualifications align with the job requirements.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

For more information about LEAP and its programs, please see our website at www.leap.org

Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: TRAINING MANAGER

LEAP, a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational organization is seeking a Training Manager to manage and work on various programs related to Asian Pacific American community leadership development.

Reporting to the Vice President of Leadership, the Training Manager will: manage the budget, planning, scheduling, and evaluation of the workshops and programs; interface with corporate/community leaders and constituents and trainers across the country to deliver LEAP's workshops and programs; and supervise Program Coordinators.  LEAP is an ideal organization for individuals looking for a fast paced, professional environment working with a broad range of constituents within the Asian Pacific American community.

Responsibilities
Manager of Community and Corporate programs, workshops and related services:
* Program manage LEAP’s Community and Corporate programs and workshops
* Manage Program coordinators
* Manage virtual trainers located across the country
* Facilitate/train LEAP programs and workshops
* Establish/maintain LEAP standards for coordination of programs and workshops
* Develop standardized processes for delivery of the programs and workshops to reduce staffing/resource waste and duplication of effort
* Ensure LEAP standards of training delivery and materials of programs and workshops are consistent
* Provide organization and program updates, development opportunities and feedback to trainers and staff
* Evaluate training curriculum and trainer performance on existing programs
* Work with Instructional Designer to evaluate and tailor vendor/consultant materials
* Provide recommendations to Vice President of Leadership for new programs/workshops
* Work with Instructional Designer in the design and development of new programs and materials – instructor guide, presentation materials, participant workbook
* Hold bi-annual trainer faculty meetings
* Interface with community leaders and their staff to plan and deliver community-based programs, forums and workshops
* Prepare annual program master plans with Programs staff
* Work with Programs staff to schedule programs and workshops
* Plan, organize and lead meetings with community representatives, LEAP staff and trainers
* Team with other staff as necessary and/or required.  Assist with other duties as assigned

Position Qualifications
* Knowledge of and sensitivity to the Asian Pacific American community and its issues.
* Proven experience in line management, training design and development, stand-up training presentations, facilitation, project management/coordination is required.
* Able to design, train and facilitate sessions in such areas as:
diversity, Asian Pacific cultural identity, teambuilding, strategic planning, and career and leadership development. Able to present content and facilitate using a variety of interactive adult learning methodologies e.g., discussions, simulations, exercises, tests etc. to foster self discovery and validate transfer of learning back to work or community settings.
* Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple projects/tasks, deadlines and staff.
* Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills with ability to work with diverse individuals.
* Must be detailed oriented with excellent organizational skills.
* Must be self-motivated with ability to take initiative, able to work both independently and as part of a team.
* Excellent written/oral communication skills.
* Must be computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Filemaker Pro and internet communications.
* Familiarity with desktop publishing and e-learning a plus.


Education
This position requires a minimum of a Master’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience and the application of concepts, practices and methods from the training, design and development discipline. Performing work in this occupational field typically requires knowledge and application of supervision, project management, coordination, budgeting, instructional design and training delivery.

Experience
Five or more years of experience in the training and development field or related field are required. Asian Pacific American community knowledge and experience required. Instructional design experience desirable.

Travel
Willingness to travel and work evenings and weekends as needed. Valid California Driver's license, auto insurance and access to a car. Travel is primarily to the following areas:  New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Pomona, Washington D.C., and New York.

Compensation
Commensurate with qualifications and related experience. Excellent benefits package.

Deadline
Until position is filled.

Application Procedure
Email, fax or mail resume with cover letter, writing samples and salary history to:

Grace Toy
Vice President of Finance and Administration
LEAP
327 E. 2nd Street, Ste # 226
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Email: gtoy@leap.org
Fax: 213 485-0050

Cover letter must include the following:
* Specific reasons for applying for the Training Manager position.
* Demonstrated alignment of experience and qualifications with the position responsibilities and qualifications.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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MTV DOCUMENTARY: EFFECTS OF DEPORTATION ON THE CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY

MTV is looking to do a documentary, part of True Life series, on effects of deportation on the Cambodian community, esp. young people.  Beth Spitalny (contact below) is a researcher; she is looking to talk to as many people as possible and hear their stories.

* A Cambodian American whose family member has been deported.
* A Cambodian American whose friend has been deported.
* A Cambodian American who is facing possible deportation.
* A Cambodian American who beat the system (he or she was facing deportation and took action to fight it).
* Anyone who is an advocate or activist taking action in one form or another to change legislation on this issue.
* A Cambodian American who can speak about the hardships of being a son or daughter of a refugee.

The general ages that they look for in the True Life series are 16-26, but will not set limits at this point. If you know of anyone with other stories that are relevant to this issue, feel free to send them her way.

Beth Spitalny
Associate Producer
MTV's News & Doc's
212-654-6124

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TIPS/RESOURCES

Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA  22035-0065
TEL 703-324-3187, TTY 703-324-2935
FAX 703-324-2010
Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
mailto:publicaffairs@fairfaxcounty.gov
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov

Oct. 29, 2004
OPA 309/04
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/2004/04309.htm

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANDBOOK AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME – AND IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

Every nine seconds in the United States, a woman suffers domestic abuse, according to federal statistics. Because domestic violence strikes every race, age and class, Fairfax County is distributing the Domestic Violence Handbook through its Web site.

This is the first time this resource is being posted online, and in addition to English, it is also available in Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Authored by the Fairfax County Network Against Family Abuse, the Domestic Violence Handbook is a comprehensive guide on how to seek assistance from public and private human services agencies, the police and the courts. The county's Department of Systems Management for Human Services partnered with NAFA, a coalition of nonprofit organizations and county agencies, to post online this handbook.

Visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/service/dsm/dviolence/dviolencehbook.htm to download and print a copy of the Domestic Violence Handbook as a PDF file.

"October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Fairfax County, so we would like every resident to know that help is available," said Seema Zeya, the county's new domestic violence coordinator for the Domestic Violence Prevention, Policy and Coordinating Council. "Since Fairfax County is multicultural, we want to ensure that this resource is offered in multiple languages. All victims and survivors of domestic violence, no matter what language they speak, need to be provided with information concerning how to access services in the county."

For more information about the Domestic Violence Handbook or the Domestic Violence Prevention, Policy and Coordinating Council, contact Seema Zeya at 703-324-7472, TTY 703-324-5628. Additional information on domestic violence can be found on the U.S. Department of Justice's Web page at www.usdoj.gov/domesticviolence.htm.

For free, confidential, 24-hour crisis assistance in Fairfax County, residents may contact the Fairfax County Women's Shelter at 703-435-4940 (voice/TTY) or the Fairfax County Victims Assistance Network at 703-360-7273, TTY 703-799-8253. For domestic abuse treatment services, residents may contact ADAPT (Anger & Domestic Abuse Prevention & Treatment) at 703-968-4052 or 703-471-6096 (24-hour), TTY 703-968-4050.

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(www.fairfaxcounty.gov/service/dsm/dviolence/dviolencehbook.htm)

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NEWS

October 19, 2004

35-YEAR-OLD ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM GIVEN DEPARTMENT STATUS

By Lee Bialik
DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR
lbialik@media.ucla.edu

Correction appended

Thirty-five years after the founding of the Asian American Studies Center, faculty, staff and students will be celebrating this landmark anniversary and its recent approval as its own department during a ceremony Thursday.

From the first Asian American studies course offered in 1969 to a master's degree program and specialization established in 1976, the formerly interdepartmental program was approved in August, two years after the proposal was submitted.

UCLA is the first major research university to have a department of Asian American studies and is now eligible for the resources and funding available to a department, said Don Nakanishi, director of the Asian American Studies Center.

Nakanishi said many administrators, including the chancellor, expressed their support for departmentalization, agreeing that the department had outlived its interdepartmental status.

"Over time we have produced more scholars and writers for the field than any other university," Nakanishi said.

Before Asian American studies became a department, it was the largest interdepartmental program on campus, offering 60 classes a year, a summer program in Hawaii, an undergraduate major, a minor and a master's program.

Nakanishi estimated there are 3,000 students who take classes through Asian American studies classes, most of whom are undergraduates.

He said the new department will continue to be interdisciplinary and work with the community, in addition to being more influential on a national level.

"This will allow us to have even greater impact in terms of future national development of Asian American studies," he said.

Professor King-kok Cheung, a professor in both the English and Asian American studies departments, said the new department status could allow the program to establish a doctoral program and hire faculty that would be fully affiliated with the department.

Currently, all Asian American studies faculty are affiliated with other departments on campus, except Professor Robert Nakamura, who is expected to fully devote himself to Asian American studies.

Though the center will continue to exist and work closely with the department, Cheung added that the department will feel more like a community than the interdepartmental program.

"As opposed to always having to go to a different department to see their advisor, (students) will have more of a sense of home," she said.

Ajit Mal, a professor of Engineering and member of the Academic Senate, worked on the committee that approved the department and said the senate was supportive overall.

"Academically, they are doing extremely well. The programs are excellent," he said. "I think it's a good thing for the university to have such a program."

Nakanishi attributed the long two-year approval process to the attention devoted by faculty governing committees two years ago to the semester or quarter system debate.

"They just put everything on a back burner," he said, referring to faculty governing committees.

Nakanishi said he saw approval for the department as symbolic evidence that the field had established its roots in the American community and in higher education.

"(Higher education), for so long and throughout so much of our history had excluded us or had not really provided us with equal access or representation, has now begun to afford us that equal opportunity," he said.

Correction: Wednesday, October 20, 2004

In "35-year-old Asian American studies program given department status" (News, Oct 19), the program has existed for 26 years, while the Asian American Studies Center is 35 years old.

(http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=30420)

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For Immediate Release

October 27, 2004

For More Information
Contact: Stacey Suyat 202-296-9200

APAICS ANNOUNCES 2005-2006 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

The Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) has released applications for two of its 2005-2006 Fellowship Programs.  The Fellowship Programs are designed to provide opportunities to two individuals who are committed to the Asian Pacific Islander American communities, and who plan to pursue careers in public service.

Applications can be downloaded from the APAICS website, www.apaics.org. Candidates can also request an application by e-mail by sending a message to apaics@apaics.org. Applications must be postmarked by February 15, 2005.

APAICS operates two fellowship programs:

* The Aratani Foundation/Daniel K. Inouye Fellowship was established in honor of Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, a decorated combat veteran of World War II who has served our nation with distinction in the United States House of Representatives and Senate for 45 years.  This program is made possible by the generous support of the Aratani Foundation.  The Fellow will work in the office of the Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

* The Anheuser-Busch/Frank Horton Fellowship was established in honor of the late Congressman Frank Horton who played a leading role in the passage of H.R. 5572 in 1992, which permanently designated the month of May as "Asian Pacific American Heritage Month."  This program is made possible by the generous support of Anheuser-Busch, Inc.  The Fellow will work in the office of the Vice Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

Only one application is necessary to be considered for both fellowship programs.  The term of each fellowship is for nine months, from September 2005 to May 2006.  APAICS will provide a stipend of $20,000 to cover travel arrangements, housing and personal expenses.  A separate stipend will be provided for basic health insurance coverage.  In order to receive the full-stipend, the fellow will be required to participate in mandatory APAICS events, submit a report of activities, and complete an evaluation at the end of the program.

Applicants must meet the following requirements:
* Hold a graduate or bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale).
* U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residency by September 1, 2005.
* One year of relevant work experience.

Candidates will be evaluated by the following criteria:
* Demonstrated interest in the political process.
* Demonstrated commitment to public policy issues and Asian Pacific Islander American community affairs.
* Demonstrated leadership abilities.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Umair Khan was the 2003-2004 Anheuser-Busch/Frank Horton Fellow and worked in the office of Congressman Mike Honda. Mr. Khan said he enjoyed this opportunity to experience the inner workings of a fast-paced Congressional office. He said, "I have seen the passion and sincere efforts of people who want to improve the lives of not only their constituents, but for all Americans, especially the under-served. This experience has further motivated me to pursue a career in public service."

For further information, please contact the APAICS office by e-mail at apaics@apaics.org, or call our office at 202-296-9200.

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The Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) is dedicated to increasing participation of individuals of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage at all levels of the political process, from community service to elected office. For more information, visit www.apaics.org.

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October 28, 2004

INDIANS BUILD ‘EMERGING PRESENCE’ IN CAPITAL

By Judy Sarasohn

The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944 to monitor and protect tribal interests, wants to move out of rented digs and buy its own building in downtown Washington, reflecting Native Americans' growing involvement in politics and advocacy.

NCAI began a $12 million capital campaign at its annual convention earlier this month to buy a building and establish an American Indian Hall of Nations. A display of flags from every tribal nation in the United States is to "underscore the broad array of governments that exist in Indian Country," according to the group.

"It's a long time coming," NCAI President Tex G. Hall said in an interview. "We have an emerging presence. . . . It's clearly going to show our foothold in the capital."

NCAI members want the building in the capital to be near not just the Bureau of Indian Affairs but also the Energy, Commerce and Defense departments, as well as other agencies that have an impact on Indian affairs, Hall said. The building will house NCAI offices, space for meetings with lawmakers and members of the administration, and offices for tribal officials and members who come to town for business.

"Unfortunately, the first Americans have been the forgotten Americans," said Hall of the continuing widespread poverty and health and education problems in Indian Country. He is also chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota.

Hall hopes that a higher visibility in Washington and increased lobbying, combined with a strong voter registration effort will help Native Americans better hold lawmakers and administration officials accountable for their Indian trust responsibilities.

Once the NCAI gets its office building, it may consider acquiring an "embassy." Said Hall: "We're certainly not going to stop with an office building."

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3697-2004Oct27.html)

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November 1, 2004

The architects of quagmire
POLITICIANS AND ADVISERS ARE TO BLAME FOR VIETNAM, NOT PROTESTERS LIKE KERRY

By Stanley Karnow

Recently, as we looked back a generation to the war in Southeast Asia, a Vietnamese official stationed in Washington remarked: ``We suffered grievously but we have put the ordeal behind us and are strenuously laboring to reconstruct our devastated country. It puzzles me, however, that America is still fighting the conflict.''

His comment was prompted by the shrill effort by Sen. John Kerry's rabid opponents to besmirch him. They maintain among their myriad allegations that he inflated his service as a naval officer in Vietnam, cooperated with the communists by secretly meeting with their representative in Paris and maligned his fellow soldiers by accusing them of perpetrating horrendous atrocities.

In a cascade of books, articles and television ``documentaries,'' they contend that his agitation and condemnation of the war in vocal testimony before a congressional panel after his return home played into the hands of the enemy, lengthened the conflict, significantly increased the number of U.S. dead and wounded and postponed the release of the captured American bomber pilots incarcerated and tortured in the ``Hanoi Hilton,'' the grimy dungeon in the North Vietnamese capital.

Right-wing gambits

Contrived to derail Kerry's campaign for the presidency, these attacks are politically motivated gambits generously subsidized by ultraconservative Republican groups. As such, they are blatantly partisan. Particularly flimsy is their charge that the communists, cleverly using an array of clandestine channels in Europe, Hong Kong and elsewhere, surreptitiously financed critics of the war as an expedient device to disseminate their propaganda.

The anti-war movement has been acclaimed in retrospect by many of its participants as a salutary episode that awakened the nation to its manifold problems in the wake of the complacent 1950s. But Vietnam was only one of their issues. They focused on everything from voting rights to environmental problems, each faction promoting its own agenda. Their agitators convulsed and paralyzed cities and campuses, inciting panicky governors, mayors and deans to subdue them by mobilizing police and troops equipped with loaded rifles and canisters of tear gas.

The turmoil failed to influence middle-class voters. On the contrary, it alarmed and alienated them, enabling Richard Nixon to score a landslide triumph in 1972 by vowing to achieve ``peace with honor.''

`Stay there forever?'

Eager to extricate himself from the vexatious Vietnam predicament and pursue an ambitious foreign policy, Nixon instructed Henry Kissinger to agree to a cease-fire that caved in to the stiff communist demands. Kissinger's deputy, John Negroponte, cautioned that the lopsided accord would doom the feckless South Vietnamese regime, to which his boss furiously retorted, ``What do you want us to do? Stay there forever?

I began reporting on the war in the summer of 1959, and covered it until the communist tank, infantry and guerrilla units crashed into Saigon 16 years later. Like my colleagues, I was swayed by the ``domino theory,'' the thesis enunciated by U.S. strategists that the Soviet Union and China would dominate the world unless we held the line in the Far East. But I soon recognized that despite our military superiority, we were bogged down in a hopeless quagmire as we confronted stubborn, resilient adversaries prepared to accept ghastly losses to attain their goals.

My several visits to Vietnam in the aftermath of the conflict authenticated that estimate. Every North Vietnamese and Viet Cong veteran I questioned adamantly emphasized that he had been engaged in a sacred struggle for which he would have willingly sacrificed himself. Having seen the contorted, decapitated cadavers of their comrades bulldozed into mass graves, I believed them.

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander of the communist forces, was equally intransigent when I interviewed him in his modest villa in Hanoi in March 1991. I asked him whether he had entertained the notion of a compromise settlement as a means to reduce casualties.

Rejecting the suggestion as ludicrous, he stressed that his primary concern was victory and thundered in fluent French, ``We would have fought the Americans for another 10, 20, 50, 100 years, regardless of the cost.''

Hence, our foes had little faith in their sympathizers to turn the tide in their favor. Implacable, isolated and unfamiliar with the complicated practice of negotiations, our foes concentrated on the battlefield as their pivotal arena. It was in their flooded paddies, concealed villages, tangled mountain jungles and labyrinth of rivulets that they had repeatedly resisted Chinese invasions for millenniums and vanquished their French colonial rulers in the remote valley of Dienbienphu in 1954.

The Vietnam War was a momentous chapter in U.S. history, and deserves to be debated and discussed in detail, as it now is in high schools and colleges. But Kerry's flamboyant antagonists have added nothing of substance to the subject.

`Terribly wrong'

Opinion polls indicate that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe it to have been a dreadful mistake -- or as the efficient, vigorous Robert McNamara, a chief architect of the conflict under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, subsequently concluded, ``We were wrong, terribly wrong.''

Yet the hard-liners obstinately refuse to concede it was a futile enterprise and, in their strident endeavor to depict it as a glorious venture, insist on attributing the worst and only defeat in our collective memory to the crude, rambunctious protesters rather than to the actual culprits: the Democratic and Republican politicians and their entourage of supposedly sagacious civilian and military advisers who, suffused with deceptive optimism, propelled us into the debacle.

STANLEY KARNOW is the author of ``Vietnam: A History,'' and won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1991. He wrote this article for the Mercury News.

(http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10068409.htm)

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November 2, 2004

VIETNAMESE TV SHOW PUT BACK ON SCHEDULE
The MTV-style series was canceled in October after viewers protested images of Ho Chi Minh and the flag of Vietnam.

By Mai Tran, Times Staff Writer

A fledgling MTV-style series aimed at young Vietnamese Americans will return to screens two weeks after it was canceled because viewers complained about Ho Chi Minh's photo being used in a segment about the 1999 anti-communist protest in Little Saigon.

The 30-minute English-language cable-television series — seen in Vietnamese communities from Orange County to San Jose — was pulled after its Oct. 9 episode.

Ever since a Little Saigon shopkeeper sparked a 53-day protest in 1999 by displaying a picture of the late North Vietnamese leader in his store, there has been a backlash in the community to anything associated with communism.

A planned visit by Vietnamese dignitaries, for example, was canceled earlier this year in the face of protests, and the former prime minister of South Vietnam was sharply criticized in February when he decided to return to Vietnam as a tourist. Many merchants in the community continue to display the flag of the former South Vietnam.

Against that backdrop, the decision to bring back the weekly series marks a rare reversal in this anti-communist community.

"Vietnamese American Xposure," which features youth lifestyles, a talent showcase and cultural diversity, was scrubbed after its second episode was broadcast. Saigon TV officials said they received viewers' complaints about images of Ho and the Vietnamese flag. The footage, shot by CNN and KABC-TV Channel 7, was part of a "Saigon USA" documentary by Lindsey Jang and Robert C. Winn.

The series leased broadcast time from Saigon TV, a Westminster-based studio that in turn leases blocks of time from KXLA-TV Channel 44, a Rancho Palos Verdes-based station that broadcasts throughout the state.

Outraged viewers also protested outside Saigon TV's studios in Little Saigon, a Vietnamese commercial and cultural hub that stretches from Westminster to Garden Grove. It is the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam.

"It was a difficult decision," said Susan Tran, marketing director for Saigon TV. "We don't believe that these images were meant to elicit communism or support communism, but they did have a negative effect."

Many Vietnamese fled after the Communists took South Vietnam in 1975. Many refugees spent weeks at sea in rickety boats, waiting to be rescued. Others said they were beaten, starved and tortured while imprisoned in "reeducation camps." Families were separated, some for decades.

"VAX" was produced by a group of American-born Vietnamese who say it is aimed at the 18- to 35-year-old audience and offers a sense of Vietnamese history and culture to viewers who may have not been to Vietnam.

"VAX" had a contract with Saigon TV to run 12 episodes and now plans to take legal action against Saigon TV for breach of contract, officials said.

KXLA owner Ron Ulloa said he has agreed to lease time directly to "VAX," which will return to the schedule at 5:30 p.m. Saturdays, beginning Nov. 13.

"I'm always concerned about what the public has to say, but I'm for freedom of expression, freedom of speech," Ulloa said. "They're welcome to run any program they choose as long as it doesn't violate FCC rules and regulations."

He said the series is "kinda cool" because it has an MTV flair. "VAX" had withstood earlier criticism because it is broadcast in English, not Vietnamese.

Dean Hata, producer of "VAX," called the decision to cancel the series "ridiculous."

"You see the images, but if you understand English, all we're really doing is bringing up those issues to teach the younger generation the history of the country and honoring what our older generations have gone through," Hata said. "We felt it was something worth talking about. It was quite harmless."

James Fujikawa, co-founder of Asian Media Watchdog, which is based in New York, said Saigon TV made a mistake by pulling the series. He said that he began an immediate e-mail campaign to bring it back. "They should be in a position of nurturing Asian American voices," Fujikawa said. "The biggest part of this is the conflict about the older non-English-speaking generation controlling the voices of younger generations."

"VAX" representatives said they would hold a public forum in Westminster on Thursday to reach out to older Vietnamese who may have misunderstood the program's intent.

The real test may be whether the series can find advertisers to help underwrite it. Under the prior arrangement, Saigon TV sold advertising to support the program.

(http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-show2nov02,1,27544.story)

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About NCVA
Founded in 1986, the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community advocacy organization working to advance the cause of Vietnamese Americans in a plural but united America – e pluribus unum – by participating actively and fully as civic minded citizens engaged in the areas of education, culture and civil liberties.