Cameron House empowers generations of Chinese American individuals and their families to fully participate in and contribute positively toward a healthy society. We put our Christian faith in action to help people learn, heal, and thrive.
Habitat never gives homes away. When a family applies for one of our homes they must undergo an extensive application process. Our main requirement is that families earn between 40% and 60% of the median income in that county. Once approved the family begins to complete their 500 hours of sweat equity, our version of a downpayment. They complete this onsite, swinging hammers right next to the other volunteers. At the same time they enter our Homebuyer Readiness Program, a series of classes that teaches basic fincancial literacy. These classes are free and open to anyone, not just our partner families. After the home is done, the keys are handed over in a dedication ceremony. The family then owns the house with a zero-interest mortgage and a payment plan setup specifically for their needs.
Program Areas: -Employment & Labor Project -Housing Advocacy and Community Development Project -Immigrants’ Rights Project -National Security and Civil Rights Project -Voting Rights & Voter Empowerment Project -Korematsu Institute For more info visit: http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/alc/programs/
Founded in 1969 by a group of young activists, CAA has a proud history of achieving social change. For over forty years CAA has challenged the status quo to advance equality, create coalitions that bridge traditional boundaries, and meet the needs of our community’s most marginalized. Our civil rights leadership encompasses four decades of achievement. 1969 Community activists and students establish Chinese for Affirmative Action to advocate on behalf of Chinese Americans who are systematically denied equal opportunities in many sectors of society. 1970 CAA assists in preparing the landmark US Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols, which results in bilingual education provisions for growing numbers of Chinese- and Spanish-speaking public school students in San Francisco. 1972 CAA demands bilingual election ballots in San Francisco to comply with new state election code mandating bilingual assistance where a significant need is identified. 1973 CAA joins Officers for Justice and other minority and women groups to challenge discriminatory hiring and promotional practices of the San Francisco Police Department. The lawsuit leads to a dramatic increase in APA police officers. 1975 CAA files a complaint against the largest HMO in Northern California for failing to provide equal access and services to Chinese-speaking patients. The settlement reached through the federal government becomes a model for other bilingual health access programs. 1978 CAA mounts a national campaign to oppose clustering all Asian and Pacific Americans in one racial category in the 1980 Census questionnaire. The Census ultimately lists nine distinct APA groups. 1983 CAA joins a nationwide coalition to protest the brutal murder of Vincent Chin and initiates a campaign with the US Department of Justice urging prosecution of the two men involved in the killing. The case is appealed and retried. 1986 The first of a series of Broken Ladder reports, analyzing the lack of APA representation in management and promotional opportunities in San Francisco civil service, is published. CAA intervenes in the lawsuit against the San Francisco Fire Department to address the under-representation of APAs in the department. 1989 CAA joins nation-wide efforts to stop the regressive Kennedy-Simpson immigration bill, which would have substantially reduced visas and given preference to independent immigrants with English-speaking skills. 1993 CAA and Latino groups work to intervene in the desegregation lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified School District in order to improve services for educationally disadvantaged minority students, especially low-income and immigrant students. 1995 CAA convinces SFUSD to transform Galileo High School into a magnet Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, benefiting its primarily low-income, minority, immigrant, and limited-English proficient students. 1996 -1998 CAA plays a lead role in coordinating opposition to California Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative, and Proposition 227′s attack on bilingual education. Staff develop programs to help local businesses and workers overcome the barriers created by 209. To serve the Chinese American community in the rapidly changing Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CAA opens an office in The Village, home to numerous organizations serving the diverse communities of the Valley. 1999 CAA successfully advocates for millions of dollars in state and local funds to support Census 2000 ethnic media coverage and community outreach, aimed at improving the count of usually dramatically underenumerated APAs and other hard-to-count communities. 2000 CAA combats the racial profiling and incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee through national organizing, supporting legal actions, and media advocacy, including purchase of a full-page ad in the New York Times entitled “Charged with being ethnic Chinese.” 2001 CAA successfully advocates for the passage of the Equal Access to Services Ordinance in San Francisco, requiring key City agencies to provide services to limited-English proficient communities. 2002 A study published by CAA finds a 22% decrease in total dollars awarded to minority/women-owned businesses in seven government agencies after passage of Proposition 209, resulting in a loss of almost $100 million dollars annually to these businesses. 2003 CAA opens the first statewide policy office for Asian and Pacific Americans based in Sacramento. Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality works on issues such as language access, voting rights, equal opportunity, and educational equity. AACRE produces the first Asian and Pacific American Legislative Report Card, reporting on how California state legislators voted on priority issues for Asian and Pacific Americans. CAA teams up with grassroots APA organizations around the state to defeat Proposition 54, which would have banned state and local governments from gathering race and ethnicity data. 2004 CAA launches the Visitacion Valley Parents Association, a community organizing project for limited-English proficient Chinese Americans in Visitacion Valley, focused on parent leadership development to improve public education. CAA releases The Language of Business: Adopting Private Sector Practices to Increase Limited- English Proficient Individuals’ Access to Government Services. 2005 No Parents Left Behind, a CAA report recommending public school improvements in the translation of important written communications into languages parents can understand, leads to new allocations to the California Department of Education to increase resources for translation. CAA and AACRE co-sponsor and get passed the California Hate Crime Civil Remedies Act. 2006 To meet the needs of dislocated garment workers, CAA partners with community groups to expand vocational training and job placement services. CAA publishes Lost Without Translation, a survey report on language barriers faced by LEP parents with children in the San Francisco Unified School District. CAA participates in multiple efforts to combat racist stereotyping and hate speech in the media, as well as to ensure and mobilize a progressive APA voice on issues ranging from protecting Chinese Hospital to comprehensive immigration reform. 2007 CAA successfully advocates for an Office of Language Services in San Francisco, doubles the funding available to support LEP public school parents in San Francisco, and secures funding for a neighborhood workforce center in Chinatown. CAA leads over 100 community groups in the historic community mobilization to win approval for a permanent City College Campus in San Francisco Chinatown to provide generations of immigrant students with equal access to educational opportunities. 2008 To improve public safety and protect immigrants rights, CAA and allies successfully advocate for a San Francisco Police Department General Order on police interactions with LEP residents. To foster the next generation of APA leaders, CAA and API Equality train the first nine Helen Zia Fellows for Social Change to lead social justice campaigns on California college campuses. 2009 CAA publishes Access Deferred: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, which surveys the experiences of limited-English proficient Chinese- and Spanish-speaking residents when they interact with San Francisco City agencies. Findings from the report help convince San Francisco Supervisors and the Mayor to adopt stronger language access laws in the City. CAA convinces the U.S. Census Bureau to reverse a harmful policy that would have limited communication between Census and U.S. residents on the advance letter–an important notification–to English-only. Through CAA’s efforts, the Census agrees to mail the notification letters in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Russian. 2010 CAA leads the San Francisco Yes We Count Coalition, a historic multiracial and multicultural collaborative of grassroots organizations, to conduct canvassing in support of the 2010 Census. As a result of the Yes We Count’s work, traditionally undercounted San Francisco neighborhoods achieve major gains in Census participation compared to 2000. CAA releases The Failure of Good Faith, a report that studies and makes recommendations to reform hiring procedures on San Francisco-funded construction projects. Based on the report, CAA mobilizes to help pass one of the strongest mandatory local hiring ordinances in the country. CAA provides critical leadership to address neighborhood safety issues in diverse communities, and helps garner resources and attention to the unique public safety communication needs in and between minority groups.
To learn more about United Way's movement to cut Bay Area poverty, go to www.uwba.org. As part of our commitment to community excellence and measurable impact, our work is guided by United Way’s Standards of Excellence. Learn more at: http://uwba.org/Financials-and-Policies
Tipping Point screens nonprofits rigorously to find, fund and partner with the most-promising organizations helping Bay Area individuals and families break the cycle of poverty and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Tipping Point's board underwrites all operating and fundraising expenses so that 100% of every dollar donated goes directly toward fighting poverty. Beyond dollars, Tipping Point provides its grantees with the communications, technical and management assistance they need to grow and increase their impact in the fight against poverty. Tipping Point grants are unrestricted, allowing their grantees to invest in the strategy, operations and staffing required to serve their clients most effectively.
For over 20 years, Future 500 has helped companies, NGOs, and other organizations engage more effectively with their stakeholders - to avoid conflict, find common ground, and advance systemic solutions to urgent global problems. In our intermediary role, we favor results over ideology. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, we maintain expertise across key sustainability issues while specializing in elite stakeholder engagement. From climate change to human rights, water stewardship to supply chain transparency, we help our partners build relationships that reduce risk and lead to lasting change. Future 500 is a founding partner of the Transition500 Alliance (T500), a network of the world’s foremost independent sustainability consultancies covering 15 markets in North America, the EU and Asia. Learn more: http://www.future500.org/global-network/.
Information on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital events and volunteer opportunities throughout Northern California. For patient referral and hospital information, please visit: https://www.stjude.org/seek-treatment
We inspire and train leaders, establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate our histories. We envision a world where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Asians and Pacific Islanders can be present and affirmed in our families and communities as our full authentic selves.
The primary objectives and purposes of METI International are to: Conduct scientific research and educational programs in Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Promote international cooperation and collaboration in METI, SETI, and astrobiology. Understand and communicate the societal implications and relevance of searching for life beyond Earth, even before detection of extraterrestrial life. Foster multidisciplinary research on the design and transmission of interstellar messages, building a global community of scholars from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. Research and communicate to the public the many factors that influence the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, with a special emphasis on the last three terms of the Drake Equation: (1) the fraction of life-bearing worlds on which intelligence evolves, (2) the fraction of intelligence-bearing worlds with civilizations having the capacity and motivation for interstellar communication, and (3) the longevity of such civilizations. Offer programs to the public and to the scholarly community that foster increased awareness of the challenges facing our civilization’s longevity, while encouraging individual and community activities that support the sustainability of human culture on multigenerational timescales, which is essential for long-term METI and SETI research.
THE ARTS OF FASHION INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION This Premier International Student Fashion Competition takes place each Fall during the annual Arts of Fashion Symposium, hosted every year by a different university or school and their fashion department. 2016 Theme : UNEQUAL October 25 and at the Bently Reserve of San Francisco, it will be the 15th anniversary of the Arts of Fashion Foundation and the 10th consecutive year that this international competition will be organized and held in the United States. Every year a different theme is chosen, and from October of the previous year to April, fashion students register online to participate. They then have to send sketches and technical sheets of a ‘mini collection’ made up of 3 silhouettes designed around the theme. In 2015, 365 fashion students registered from 121 schools, universities and colleges of 34 countries. At the end of April, a jury panel, composed of national and international fashion professors, selects 50 project illustrations that best represent the set theme and reflect creative and innovative potential. The 50 selected candidates are required to make 2 out of the 3 silhouettes they submitted. These 50 projects (100 designs) are judged by a panel of professional fashion designers and are shown on the runway for the grand finale of the Symposium. Eight designers are awarded and receive scholarship and apprenticeship opportunities in creative programs and fashion houses. The goal of this competition is to promote and reward creativity and inventiveness; discover emerging talent and facilitate careers; establish enriching contacts and exchanges between different countries, schools and universities; and to foster new relationships between those from different industries and fields. The spirit of this competition is not to try to find the next Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen or even rank the designers from best to worst, but to recognize and award the 6 most creative projects in order for these students to continue their education and training in order to become better designers, by offering them the opportunity to work, study and learn from renowned mentor designers. The laureates receive Awards and a Certification for their creative and original work based on the theme. (Judging based on coherence with the theme, skill level, creativity and artful expressiveness) YKK - U.S.A. Inc. has been the Arts of Fashion Major Partner for 10 consecutive years as an Arts of Fashion Silver Partner for the International Fashion Student Competition --- Small Parts, Big Difference. MORE INFO: http://tinyurl.com/AOFCompetition2016 THE ARTS OF FASHION MASTERCLASS The MasterClass-Series began with the idea to teach the different arts of fashion and is one of the most successful and growing programs offered by the Arts of Fashion Foundation. The MasterClass-Series launched in 2005 with only one class, and the program has expanded to between 4 and 5 classes per year ensuring a positive dynamic work environment and a substantial network. Each year, the foundation partners with a program of a different university/school to host the Symposium MasterClass–Series. The classes are taught in english over a period of 5 full days by a team of 2 renowned designers per class of 15 students who come from around the world. Due to the success of the Symposium MasterClass, the Arts of Fashion Foundation began the Summer Fashion Program where students travel abroad to spend 4 weeks studying under these cutting-edge designers. The year 2008 saw the inception of unique and creative oriented 4-week summer programs in Europe, in collaboration with prestigious institutions: Ecole Superieure des Arts Appliques Duperre – in Paris, and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels La Cambre – in Brussels. In 2009, the portfolio of prestigious schools offering intensive classes and programs increases to include Parsons – the New School for Design – NY with a 2-week winter class in January. In July 2010, a new formula has been established with a 4-week summer MasterClass in Paris in partnership with Les Arts Decoratifs at Le Louvre and under the direction of creative fashion designers (such as Aurore Thibout, Anthony Vaccarello, Lucile Puton, Christine Phung and Zoe Vermeire to name a few) and in collaboration with Parisian Haute Couture Craftsmanship (Atelier Lognon and Maison Lesage). The main idea is to develop creativity by exposing students to new techniques, craft and different design approaches as well as giving participants the opportunity to learn from first-hand experience with cutting-edge designers. July 4-29: Fashion Student Abroad Program in Paris Application: http://tinyurl.com/AOFStudentAbroadProgram
Program Areas: -Employment & Labor Project -Housing Advocacy and Community Development Project -Immigrants’ Rights Project -National Security and Civil Rights Project -Voting Rights & Voter Empowerment Project -Korematsu Institute For more info visit: http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/alc/programs/
Habitat never gives homes away. When a family applies for one of our homes they must undergo an extensive application process. Our main requirement is that families earn between 40% and 60% of the median income in that county. Once approved the family begins to complete their 500 hours of sweat equity, our version of a downpayment. They complete this onsite, swinging hammers right next to the other volunteers. At the same time they enter our Homebuyer Readiness Program, a series of classes that teaches basic fincancial literacy. These classes are free and open to anyone, not just our partner families. After the home is done, the keys are handed over in a dedication ceremony. The family then owns the house with a zero-interest mortgage and a payment plan setup specifically for their needs.
Founded in 1969 by a group of young activists, CAA has a proud history of achieving social change. For over forty years CAA has challenged the status quo to advance equality, create coalitions that bridge traditional boundaries, and meet the needs of our community’s most marginalized. Our civil rights leadership encompasses four decades of achievement. 1969 Community activists and students establish Chinese for Affirmative Action to advocate on behalf of Chinese Americans who are systematically denied equal opportunities in many sectors of society. 1970 CAA assists in preparing the landmark US Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols, which results in bilingual education provisions for growing numbers of Chinese- and Spanish-speaking public school students in San Francisco. 1972 CAA demands bilingual election ballots in San Francisco to comply with new state election code mandating bilingual assistance where a significant need is identified. 1973 CAA joins Officers for Justice and other minority and women groups to challenge discriminatory hiring and promotional practices of the San Francisco Police Department. The lawsuit leads to a dramatic increase in APA police officers. 1975 CAA files a complaint against the largest HMO in Northern California for failing to provide equal access and services to Chinese-speaking patients. The settlement reached through the federal government becomes a model for other bilingual health access programs. 1978 CAA mounts a national campaign to oppose clustering all Asian and Pacific Americans in one racial category in the 1980 Census questionnaire. The Census ultimately lists nine distinct APA groups. 1983 CAA joins a nationwide coalition to protest the brutal murder of Vincent Chin and initiates a campaign with the US Department of Justice urging prosecution of the two men involved in the killing. The case is appealed and retried. 1986 The first of a series of Broken Ladder reports, analyzing the lack of APA representation in management and promotional opportunities in San Francisco civil service, is published. CAA intervenes in the lawsuit against the San Francisco Fire Department to address the under-representation of APAs in the department. 1989 CAA joins nation-wide efforts to stop the regressive Kennedy-Simpson immigration bill, which would have substantially reduced visas and given preference to independent immigrants with English-speaking skills. 1993 CAA and Latino groups work to intervene in the desegregation lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified School District in order to improve services for educationally disadvantaged minority students, especially low-income and immigrant students. 1995 CAA convinces SFUSD to transform Galileo High School into a magnet Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, benefiting its primarily low-income, minority, immigrant, and limited-English proficient students. 1996 -1998 CAA plays a lead role in coordinating opposition to California Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative, and Proposition 227′s attack on bilingual education. Staff develop programs to help local businesses and workers overcome the barriers created by 209. To serve the Chinese American community in the rapidly changing Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CAA opens an office in The Village, home to numerous organizations serving the diverse communities of the Valley. 1999 CAA successfully advocates for millions of dollars in state and local funds to support Census 2000 ethnic media coverage and community outreach, aimed at improving the count of usually dramatically underenumerated APAs and other hard-to-count communities. 2000 CAA combats the racial profiling and incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee through national organizing, supporting legal actions, and media advocacy, including purchase of a full-page ad in the New York Times entitled “Charged with being ethnic Chinese.” 2001 CAA successfully advocates for the passage of the Equal Access to Services Ordinance in San Francisco, requiring key City agencies to provide services to limited-English proficient communities. 2002 A study published by CAA finds a 22% decrease in total dollars awarded to minority/women-owned businesses in seven government agencies after passage of Proposition 209, resulting in a loss of almost $100 million dollars annually to these businesses. 2003 CAA opens the first statewide policy office for Asian and Pacific Americans based in Sacramento. Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality works on issues such as language access, voting rights, equal opportunity, and educational equity. AACRE produces the first Asian and Pacific American Legislative Report Card, reporting on how California state legislators voted on priority issues for Asian and Pacific Americans. CAA teams up with grassroots APA organizations around the state to defeat Proposition 54, which would have banned state and local governments from gathering race and ethnicity data. 2004 CAA launches the Visitacion Valley Parents Association, a community organizing project for limited-English proficient Chinese Americans in Visitacion Valley, focused on parent leadership development to improve public education. CAA releases The Language of Business: Adopting Private Sector Practices to Increase Limited- English Proficient Individuals’ Access to Government Services. 2005 No Parents Left Behind, a CAA report recommending public school improvements in the translation of important written communications into languages parents can understand, leads to new allocations to the California Department of Education to increase resources for translation. CAA and AACRE co-sponsor and get passed the California Hate Crime Civil Remedies Act. 2006 To meet the needs of dislocated garment workers, CAA partners with community groups to expand vocational training and job placement services. CAA publishes Lost Without Translation, a survey report on language barriers faced by LEP parents with children in the San Francisco Unified School District. CAA participates in multiple efforts to combat racist stereotyping and hate speech in the media, as well as to ensure and mobilize a progressive APA voice on issues ranging from protecting Chinese Hospital to comprehensive immigration reform. 2007 CAA successfully advocates for an Office of Language Services in San Francisco, doubles the funding available to support LEP public school parents in San Francisco, and secures funding for a neighborhood workforce center in Chinatown. CAA leads over 100 community groups in the historic community mobilization to win approval for a permanent City College Campus in San Francisco Chinatown to provide generations of immigrant students with equal access to educational opportunities. 2008 To improve public safety and protect immigrants rights, CAA and allies successfully advocate for a San Francisco Police Department General Order on police interactions with LEP residents. To foster the next generation of APA leaders, CAA and API Equality train the first nine Helen Zia Fellows for Social Change to lead social justice campaigns on California college campuses. 2009 CAA publishes Access Deferred: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, which surveys the experiences of limited-English proficient Chinese- and Spanish-speaking residents when they interact with San Francisco City agencies. Findings from the report help convince San Francisco Supervisors and the Mayor to adopt stronger language access laws in the City. CAA convinces the U.S. Census Bureau to reverse a harmful policy that would have limited communication between Census and U.S. residents on the advance letter–an important notification–to English-only. Through CAA’s efforts, the Census agrees to mail the notification letters in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Russian. 2010 CAA leads the San Francisco Yes We Count Coalition, a historic multiracial and multicultural collaborative of grassroots organizations, to conduct canvassing in support of the 2010 Census. As a result of the Yes We Count’s work, traditionally undercounted San Francisco neighborhoods achieve major gains in Census participation compared to 2000. CAA releases The Failure of Good Faith, a report that studies and makes recommendations to reform hiring procedures on San Francisco-funded construction projects. Based on the report, CAA mobilizes to help pass one of the strongest mandatory local hiring ordinances in the country. CAA provides critical leadership to address neighborhood safety issues in diverse communities, and helps garner resources and attention to the unique public safety communication needs in and between minority groups.
We inspire and train leaders, establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate our histories. We envision a world where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Asians and Pacific Islanders can be present and affirmed in our families and communities as our full authentic selves.
To learn more about United Way's movement to cut Bay Area poverty, go to www.uwba.org. As part of our commitment to community excellence and measurable impact, our work is guided by United Way’s Standards of Excellence. Learn more at: http://uwba.org/Financials-and-Policies
THE ARTS OF FASHION INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION This Premier International Student Fashion Competition takes place each Fall during the annual Arts of Fashion Symposium, hosted every year by a different university or school and their fashion department. 2016 Theme : UNEQUAL October 25 and at the Bently Reserve of San Francisco, it will be the 15th anniversary of the Arts of Fashion Foundation and the 10th consecutive year that this international competition will be organized and held in the United States. Every year a different theme is chosen, and from October of the previous year to April, fashion students register online to participate. They then have to send sketches and technical sheets of a ‘mini collection’ made up of 3 silhouettes designed around the theme. In 2015, 365 fashion students registered from 121 schools, universities and colleges of 34 countries. At the end of April, a jury panel, composed of national and international fashion professors, selects 50 project illustrations that best represent the set theme and reflect creative and innovative potential. The 50 selected candidates are required to make 2 out of the 3 silhouettes they submitted. These 50 projects (100 designs) are judged by a panel of professional fashion designers and are shown on the runway for the grand finale of the Symposium. Eight designers are awarded and receive scholarship and apprenticeship opportunities in creative programs and fashion houses. The goal of this competition is to promote and reward creativity and inventiveness; discover emerging talent and facilitate careers; establish enriching contacts and exchanges between different countries, schools and universities; and to foster new relationships between those from different industries and fields. The spirit of this competition is not to try to find the next Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen or even rank the designers from best to worst, but to recognize and award the 6 most creative projects in order for these students to continue their education and training in order to become better designers, by offering them the opportunity to work, study and learn from renowned mentor designers. The laureates receive Awards and a Certification for their creative and original work based on the theme. (Judging based on coherence with the theme, skill level, creativity and artful expressiveness) YKK - U.S.A. Inc. has been the Arts of Fashion Major Partner for 10 consecutive years as an Arts of Fashion Silver Partner for the International Fashion Student Competition --- Small Parts, Big Difference. MORE INFO: http://tinyurl.com/AOFCompetition2016 THE ARTS OF FASHION MASTERCLASS The MasterClass-Series began with the idea to teach the different arts of fashion and is one of the most successful and growing programs offered by the Arts of Fashion Foundation. The MasterClass-Series launched in 2005 with only one class, and the program has expanded to between 4 and 5 classes per year ensuring a positive dynamic work environment and a substantial network. Each year, the foundation partners with a program of a different university/school to host the Symposium MasterClass–Series. The classes are taught in english over a period of 5 full days by a team of 2 renowned designers per class of 15 students who come from around the world. Due to the success of the Symposium MasterClass, the Arts of Fashion Foundation began the Summer Fashion Program where students travel abroad to spend 4 weeks studying under these cutting-edge designers. The year 2008 saw the inception of unique and creative oriented 4-week summer programs in Europe, in collaboration with prestigious institutions: Ecole Superieure des Arts Appliques Duperre – in Paris, and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels La Cambre – in Brussels. In 2009, the portfolio of prestigious schools offering intensive classes and programs increases to include Parsons – the New School for Design – NY with a 2-week winter class in January. In July 2010, a new formula has been established with a 4-week summer MasterClass in Paris in partnership with Les Arts Decoratifs at Le Louvre and under the direction of creative fashion designers (such as Aurore Thibout, Anthony Vaccarello, Lucile Puton, Christine Phung and Zoe Vermeire to name a few) and in collaboration with Parisian Haute Couture Craftsmanship (Atelier Lognon and Maison Lesage). The main idea is to develop creativity by exposing students to new techniques, craft and different design approaches as well as giving participants the opportunity to learn from first-hand experience with cutting-edge designers. July 4-29: Fashion Student Abroad Program in Paris Application: http://tinyurl.com/AOFStudentAbroadProgram
Information on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital events and volunteer opportunities throughout Northern California. For patient referral and hospital information, please visit: https://www.stjude.org/seek-treatment
For over 20 years, Future 500 has helped companies, NGOs, and other organizations engage more effectively with their stakeholders - to avoid conflict, find common ground, and advance systemic solutions to urgent global problems. In our intermediary role, we favor results over ideology. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, we maintain expertise across key sustainability issues while specializing in elite stakeholder engagement. From climate change to human rights, water stewardship to supply chain transparency, we help our partners build relationships that reduce risk and lead to lasting change. Future 500 is a founding partner of the Transition500 Alliance (T500), a network of the world’s foremost independent sustainability consultancies covering 15 markets in North America, the EU and Asia. Learn more: http://www.future500.org/global-network/.
By 2021, we will end all new cases of veterans' unemployment by making sure all military families have a job before transitioning.