We have a new partner organization -- Changing Young Lives Foundation, a Hong Kong registered charity striving to identify underprivileged children, youths and their families in Hong Kong and mainland China and change their lives for the better. We are supporting their project to supply heat for schools in Qinghai, China. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (via CYLF News Release) Hong Kong, 10th June 2014 – Changing Young Lives Foundation (CYLF) is delighted to announce its collaboration with Transparent Fish Fund. Striving to improve the quality of education for children in impoverished areas of mainland China, CYLF is most grateful to have Transparent Fish Fund’s sponsorship of a heating supply project for Daotanghe Central Boarding School in Qinghai, where the students are desperately in need of heating supply for the winter. This project will equip the school with the necessary heating facilities to provide the students with warm classrooms. The children would otherwise have to study in chilly weather with temperature as low as -30 degree Celsius. CYLF’s Executive Director Tammy Leung says, “We depend solely on public support and donations, by choice, we do not receive government subvention so as to remain flexible in developing our programmes to meet the imminent needs of children and youth, both in Hong Kong and the mainland. The support of Transparent Fish Fund is most significant to help us maintain and develop our services”. Changing Young Lives Foundation is one of the few first charities working in Qinghai and over the decade has supported the continuous development of 18 primary and secondary schools in terms of school reconstruction, building of dormitory, canteen and solar bathroom, clean water supply, healthcare and hygiene improvement, as well as teacher training and medical support. Together with our support to 3 other project schools in Guangxi and Gansu, we endeavour to help enhance the learning, boarding and teaching environment in the deprived rural regions of mainland China. CYLF is proud to become a trustworthy partner of Transparent Fish Fund which emphasizes the transparency and accountability of the organizations it supports, and supports the capacity building of selected NGOs. We look forward to a continuous partnership in building a better future for children in the mainland. June 8th 2014, LOS ALTOS, CA -- New Heart Benefit Concert was held last week at the Foothill Covenant Church to raise money for congenital heart surgeries in rural China. TFISH intern Lauren Kam and her family spent weeks preparing for this event. Lauren went out to local businesses for sponsorships. Her sisters Beth and Emily created handmade gifts for donors. Her mother and father spent the day decorating and setting up the auditorium. Young volunteers dedicated their time and energy to play for the concert. From the program pamphlets to the desserts at reception, every detail was created with care. The benefit was a heart-warming success. In such a short amount of time, Lauren was able to raise $4,445. However, she is still hoping to reach the $6,000 mark to fund 3 surgeries. All proceeds are going towards the non-profit Little Red Scarf, a medical program of Transparent Fish Fund. Donations will go directly to recipient surgery and health care fees. Lauren will be personally making a trip to Gansu this summer to visit the patients in the Little Red Scarf hospital. To help Lauren reach her goal: http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise?fcid=311006 Please join us for an evening of classical music to support the Little Red Scarf.
A nonprofit organization providing surgery for children with congenital heart disease in rural China Sunday, June 8th, 7:30pm Foothill Covenant Church 1555 Oak Avenue Los Altos, CA 94024 Strings, piano, french horn, and vocal performance by students of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Conservatory of Music RSVP: www.tfishfund.org/rsvp.html For more information, please make an online donation: http://www.tfishfund.org/lrs.html Partners East Villagers Nonprofit Community www.eastvillagers.org Transparent Fish Fund www.tfishfund.org Ping & Amy Chao Family Foundation www.chaofoundation.org Orphan Impact is pleased to be the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund. The funds have been granted to support the Orphan Impact computer and internet training program for 288 orphan children, age 8 to 17, in orphanages throughout Vietnam. This is the second consecutive year Orphan Impact has received a grant from the Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund. The generosity of this grant has been instrumental in helping Orphan Impact to strengthen core program areas and expand to reach more children in more orphanages.
About Transparent Fish Fund Transparent Fish Fund is a 501©(3) US non-profit organization founded in 2011 in Palo Alto, California, established exclusively for charitable purposes to connect credible Chinese and East Asian grassroots NGOs with individuals from the West. The greater mission behind this work is to foster a sustainable long-term NGO culture in East Asia, and in doing so, spread a global spirit of philanthropy. About Chao Foundation The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation was founded in California’s Silicon Valley in 2005 by Ping Chao and his wife Amy. The foundation was established to fund nonprofit and public welfare initiatives that (1) improve children’s health in developing countries; and (2) nurture a spirit of philanthropy among the younger generation in China and of the greater Chinese Diaspora. While the Chao Foundation is based in the Bay Area and has local projects, many of its programs focus on developing countries in East Asia, from China and Cambodia to Vietnam. For Immediate Release
Our deepest gratitude to the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation and to the Transparent Fish Fund for their support and friendship! In addition to the $10,000 awarded at the beginning of 2014 to build 7 homes and a bridge, Tfish has granted another $10,000 to Sahaya Vietnam to provide 10 additional homes. The grant award will be presented at the Sahaya Vietnam Charity Art Show this Sunday April 27th, 2014 from 2-5pm at the Evergreen Community Center in San Jose Ca. Please come and join us! In 2014, Sahaya International's Vietnam program has been awarded a total of $20,000 in grant by the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation (www.chaofoundation.org) and Transparent Fish Fund (www.tfishfund.org/sahaya.html). The grants will provide much needed financial resource to continue our humanitarian mission of providing shelter to the impoverished families and rebuilding of a damage bridge in Kien Giang, Vietnam. On behalf of the precious children and families in rural Vietnam, we would like to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation and The Transparent Fish Fund for their kindness and generosity. The Chao Foundation $17,000 grant will be used to provide homes for seventeen families and $3,000 to help rebuild a broken and dangerous bridge for a whole village. Seven homes and One bridge have already been completed. In the following months Sahaya and Tfish will continue to provide 10 more homes for 10 precious families. May Sahaya International, The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation, and The Transparent Fish Fund continue their humanitarian friendship to help those in need. May all be free from poverty. Please visit our websites for more info: www.sahayavietnam.org www.tfishfund.org/sahaya.html www.chaofoundation.org Transparent Fish Fund would like to wish you a happy and healthy year of the horse! Thank you for all of your help in 2013. To celebrate the new year, we are releasing our 2013 Annual Report at report.tfishfund.org ! Every year, TFISH maintains its commitment to transparency by releasing a book for our donors. The donor book is filled with stories, statistics and financial reports from our partners and members. We hope you'll take a look and learn how we've made an impact this year, none of which we could have done without your help!
Now in an online format at report.tfishfund.org. Click the picture below to go directly to the site. Every month, 10 outstanding and trustworthy grassroots organizations are selected to become TFISH Fund Associate Members and receive seed funding. Our goal is to promote 50 to 100 grassroots organizations over the span of two or three years to be completely financially transparent. We hope that this transparency model will eventually become a mainstream culture among nonprofit organizations. To measure transparency among the current groups we work with, we have adopted 3-star assessment standards, one assessment for each quarter during the cooperation period. The results of the 2nd quarter of 2013 and 2012 assessment are as follows: TFish Transparency Assessment for 2nd Quarter of 2013
In addition to the "Color a Fish" project, TFish showcased artwork done by past and current interns that portrayed human trafficking in East Asia as well as two pieces done by Dr. Chung Truong of Sahaya Vietnam.
TFish will continue its "Color a Fish" campaign at the Nihonmachi Street Fair in San Francisco on August 3 and 4 from 11am to 6pm. Be sure to join TFish there! Article by Allison Sun For the better cooperation, we did an assessment of the financial transparency of our Chinese partners via TFish platform, microblog and other communication means. We hope the assessment can help us to find a better communication and build a sustainable connection with our Chinese partners. We adopted 3-star standard to assess the transparency once in a quarter during the cooperation period. The following table is the results of assessment in the first quarter of 2013 and 2012: TFish Chinese NGO Transparency Assessment of 1st Quarter of 2013
The 2012-13 EV Internship is finally coming to a close. Many of our interns - most have interned with us for two years - are headed off to colleges all over the country, and it has never been more appropriate to celebrate their achievements and contributions to TFish Fund. Ally, Emily, Isabel, Janna, Kevin, Lauren, and Sophia: you will be sorely missed.
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