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![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif) North America Chinese Educational Foundation
: Hope Project progress
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China Project Hope
In January of 1998, North American Chinese
Educational foundation (NACEF) along with Chinese Youth Development
Foundation(CYDF) and Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford (ACSSS)
launched the Event: China Project Hope - Fund Raising in North America. CYDF’s
China Project Hope is the most influential public event in China in the l990s.
In the past ten years, Project Hope, a name known by almost every household in
China and by most overseas Chinese, has received donations totaling over US$200
million. The fund raised has supported over 2 million Chinese primary school
dropouts to return to school and has built over 7,000 hope schools in China. The
Project Hope - Fund Raising in North America ‘98 & ‘99 has been joined
by Chinese student associations in 33 universities like Harvard, MIT, Columbia,
UC Berkeley, CalTech, and Toronto, and by a couple of Chinese community
organizations like North American Chinese Network and Southwest China
Association as chief-coorganizers and cosponsors. The objective of China Project
Hope - Fund Raising in North America ‘98 & ‘99 is to motivate and unite
organizations and individuals who are concerned about the educational
development of China. This project seeks to sponsor the return to school of
millions of children who were forced to drop out because of sheer poverty.
Fund Raising in North America is the first
time China Project Hope has been publicly staged in North America. Envisioned
and planned by Chinese students studying abroad at the most prestigious
universities in United States, this event possesses great significance. It shows
that the overseas Chinese’s wish to support their country by showing a united
front. We want to help to actualize the plan to educate the Chinese youth and to
further the technological advancement of China.
The first donor to the event is Professor Steve Chu, winner
of the 1997 Nobel Prize for physics. Professor Chu made the donation after he
heard of the event in early Jan. He said he would be happy to do something for
the poor Chinese school dropouts. He urged more people to join our efforts. The
Fund Raising in North America ‘98 & ‘99 has caught a great attention
among public, so far the project have received funds which was used to support
320 dropouts back to schools.
    
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Community Educational Program
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- North America Chinese Educational Foundation sponsor and
publish American Health Today as one of our Chinese-American community
educational programs.
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- Youth Science Program
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- NACEF’s Biomedical Youth Science Program
Most scientists believe the impact of science on
society - of new scientific discoveries, new understandings, new
applications of science to health, medicine and technology - will be greater
in the 21st century than in the 20th.
Today’s students will face future challenge in a
world that increasingly demands its citizens be scientifically literate. In
the coming decades, science literacy may well be the defining factor for our
success as individuals and as a nation. Indeed, the United States' global
competitiveness rests firmly on its ability to educate a workforce capable
of generating and coping with rapid technological changes, but most of
scientist, school principals, teachers, human resource directors and student
parents believe that science education needs greater emphasis than it is
presently given, they strongly endorse a quality hands-on, inquiry-based
science education and value a critical-thinking, problem-solving and team
working skills it would engender in students. Today's students are the ones
who will be making, using and benefiting from the new scientific advances,
so it's up to us to ensure that they're getting the best, most meaningful
science education possible.
North America Chinese Educational Foundation (NACEF)
initiate a Biomedical Youth Science program based on one key philosophy-a
hands-on, inquiry-based science curriculum could be the most effective
factor in preparing students for their upcoming roles as adults. This
year-round program will enable 20-25 academically gifted high school
students from across Bay Area, California state to participate in
experimental "colloquies" that bridge the gap between the science
taught in high school and the training provided in university science
courses. In the colloquies, small teams of students will perform in-depth
experiments in biomedical fields and they will discuss their investigations
with other participants and experienced Ph.D/MD research scientists and
science educators of NACEF.
NACEF brings this exciting new opportunity for the
bright and underrepresented students interested in future professional
careers (e.g. biology, medicine, science, ecology, biotechnology,
pharmaceuticals etc.). The Biomedical Youth Science Program is a research
experience enrichment program for gifted, underrepresented high school
sophomores and juniors who have high academic and professional aspirations.
Students from underserved communities traditionally have not pursued
biomedical careers, though their neighborhoods are often hardest hit by
health and environmental problems. By exposing these students to biotech
experts on the biomedical science and assisting them into and through
college to top graduate and professional schools, NACEF Youth Biomedical
Science Program will foster future biomedical leaders.
NACEF is newly established non-profit organization. It
was started at Stanford University in the spring of 1998 by a few Ph.D and
MD students shared the belief that education is a critical requisite for
Chinese community’s social and economic development. The mission of North
America Chinese Educational Foundation is to pool its resources and
expertise to improve Chinese community educational excellence. The
activities of the North America Chinese Educational Foundation will build
and strengthen educational programs for gifted, underrepresented students,
instill in students an appreciation for their interrelated roles in
communities, and facilitate the connection between Chinese community and
mainstream societies.
We would like to emphasize that the program is
need-based, both by design and by designation of our foundation sponsors.
This is central to NACEF’s mission. We want to help underrepresented
students who otherwise might not be exposed to quality higher education, or
even the application process. Need will be one of most important criteria,
along with academic performance, intelligence, curiosity, maturity,
perceived potential, perceived benefit to the student, and the quality of
the application. We expect many applications this year, so middle and upper
income students will not be competitive in the pool. Most of our finalists
will be minority students, but low-income Caucasians are welcome and
encouraged to participate. Since intercultural education is also part of the
curriculum, we attempt to create a good mix where this can take place.
Looking For Support of the NACEF Biomedical Science Program
The NACEF Biomedical Youth Science Program in the Bay Area,
California is the sole project of North America Chinese Educational Foundation (NACEF).
NACEF are looking for its support from all sources:
Contributions made by individuals or other friends of the
Biomedical Youth Science Program.
Gifts or grants from corporations, foundations,
endowments, other public charities, and government agencies that support the
cause of science education and that value the Biomedical Youth Science
Program's sustained emphasis on classic "learning how to do
science".
Foundations, endowments, corporations, public charities, and
government agencies: Please contact the Chairman of NACEF's Board of Directors,
Dr. Mike Mao, at mikemao@nacef.org for information about making a grant to NACEF.
North America Chinese Educational Foundation (NACEF) is a
California nonprofit public benefit corporation and is exempt from federal
income tax under section 501(f) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization
described in section 501(c)(3). Contributions to NACEF, less the value of any
benefits you receive, are deductible in calculating federal income tax as
provided by law.
For more information about NACEF’s tax-exempt status, please
don’t hesitate to contact NACEF.
* Special! A Biomedical Youth
Science Program supporter has pledged a two-for-one matching grant for
gifts made now to NACEF. During this matching grant period, your gift counts
double! With a corporate match, your gift counts quadruple! This
grant is limited in duration and size at the Biomedical Youth Science Program..
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