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ACAN proudly announced that the following individuals have been approved to receive the Duke Edinburgh’s International Award in 2023. Here is the list of the award recipients. Congratulations to all of them!
ACAN proudly announced that the following individuals and teams have been approved to receive the ACAN Star Leadership Award in 2023 for their contribution during the year of June 1st, 2022- May 31, 2023. Here is the list of the award recipients. Congratulations to all of them!
ACAN proudly announced that 35 applicants have been approved to receive the President’s Volunteering Service Award in 2023 for their contribution during the year of June 1st, 2022- May 31, 2023. Here is the list of the 35 award recipients. Congratulations to all of them!
ACAN proudly announced that 51 applicants have been approved to receive the President’s Volunteering Service Award for the 2021-2022 school year (September 1st, 2021- August 31, 2022). Just in three short years, the number of award winners went from 34 in 2020, to 41 in 2021 and 51 in 2022! The total number of service…
ACAN proudly announced that 41 applicants have been approved to receive the President’s Volunteering Service Award for the 2020-2021 school year (September 1st, 2020- August 31, 2021). It’s our delight to see so many of our youth are doing wonderful works to serve our community (not just the Asian community, but the community in general)….
Congratulations to the Rise Together team as their project entered the final round of Project of the Year Award, hosted by the Civic Leadership Academy. The Project of the Year Award is an opportunity to highlight and award young students and civicilly engaged organizations from across the U.S. This year, there are 50 projects submitted…
April 20, 2021 Hugh Li In the recent Round Rock ISD Board discussions about keeping students and staff safe against COVID-19, Board Trustee Dr. Xiao voiced his own position on mask wearing. While objections to his policy position are expected and normal, both within the Board, and among the concerned RRISD communities, we were horrified…
I remember it clearly one year ago exactly: first it was the cancellation of SXSW after a 33-year continuous run, then the NBA season was suspended, and the WHO declared COVID19 a global pandemic, and then my son came home from UT Austin – and never went back.
ACAN proudly announced that 34 applicants have been approved to receive the President’s Volunteering Service Award for the 2019-2020 school year (September 1st, 2019- August 31, 2020). It’s our delight to see so many of our youth are doing wonderful works to serve our community (not just the Asian community, but the community in general)….
ACAN is proud to announce that we have become the Certifying Organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award Program. Immediately after, we can start to certify eligible service hours for our community members and youth toward the Bronze, Silver, and Gold award. This capability is a giant step toward ACAN’s mission to serve our community and foster our heritage.
In July 2020 ACAN announced its first Summer Youth Writing Contest (SYWC). It has finally come to a close. We received overwhelming responses. The many entries show amazing talents. It was very difficult to choose the winners. After much considerations we finally decided on a list of winners. Details please see SYWC Winners. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hcOVsfaCreXGz4UsgfOyKQmhht9xtd8v4n9kH221TWQ/edit?usp=sharing)
The contest is open to all current middle and high school students. For details please click here: https://bit.ly/acan-sywc
By Gloria Wu 奥斯汀华裔联盟 The following is a summary from the ACAN Youth Talk given by Emlyn Lee on May 29. Follow Emlyn Lee on Twitter @brave_atxJoin ACAN Youth on Discord to CONNECT, LEARN & SERVE (https://discord.gg/9VTSe7q) 华盟公众号热烈欢迎家长和青少年投稿，中英文都可以。 If you couldn’t achieve something just because of your skin color, what would you do? Unfortunately, Emlyn Lee…
Austin Chinese-American Network is sponsoring an online youth show to demonstrate unity, strength, and kindness of the community to raise fund for Central Texas Food Bank, a local non-profit organization hundreds of ACAN volunteers regularly volunteer in the past few years.
ACAN Youth Director Ed Wu and Youth Leader Victor Yu were interviewed by CBS Austin about ACAN’s face shield project using 3D printers: Local students keeping Austin healthcare workers protected in fight against COVID-19
[April 22, 2020] ACAN is proud to announce being selected as one of the 1st round organizations receiving grants from AllTogetherATX fund, a Covid19 relief fund jointly sponsored by United Way for Greater Austin and Austin Community Foundation, and funded by generous donations from individuals, organizations and corporations, such as National Instruments.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2020 — ATXHospitalMeals, the Austin-based grassroots organization mobilizing to feed healthcare workers through donations that go directly to support local restaurants, announced today a partnership with the Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a core mission to “serve our community and foster our heritage.” This collaboration will allow both organizations to augment and expand their respective charitable programs and enable ATXHospitalMeals to accept tax-exempt donations and company matches. Austin construction manager company Flintco is the first corporate giving partner matching dollar-for-dollar donations given through May 1 up to $15,000.
You can donate to Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN), a 501(c)(3) organization, for greater Austin area COVID-19 relief effort, using any of the following methods to pay to ACAN.Chinese@gmail.com:
If your company matches donations to non-profits, please use the below information when submitting your request through your company’s systems: