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Date:
February 3, 2003 @ 6 - 9pm
Location: Phuoc Nga Restaurant
458 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA
Event: VSVN New Year Kick-Off Event
Sponsored by Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network
"Winning Federal Government Contracts"
Have you been looking for opportunities for your company to get involved
with Homeland Security or to win a piece of the multibillion dollar
federal government contracts?
VSVN is proud to kick off the new year featuring Quan Hoang, President &
CEO of AnviCom, a successful entrepreneur who has cracked the secret of
providing professional IT services to the federal government.
AnviCom, Inc. has a ten year track record of providing responsive,
quality IT engineering and support services to the U.S. Government and
Department of Defense. Last spring, AnviCom was awarded a $85 million
contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency for Operations,
Administration and Expansion of the DISANet. With 200 employees,
AnviCom’s clients include: Defense Information Systems Agency, Center
for eBusiness Applications, Military Traffic Management Command, Marine
Corps Gray, Research Center, Office of Personnel Management, Federal
Aviation Administration, and Government Prime Contractors/Systems
Integrators.
ABOUT THE KEYNOTE
SPEAKER:
Mr. Hoang has been involved in the technical arena for 20 years,
primarily supporting the evolving information technology requirements of
Federal government organizations. Mr. Hoang has extensive experience in
designing, installing and maintaining complex, computer network systems,
their hardware components and software applications. He founded Quality
Consulting Services in 1991. Since that time, the company has grown to
$25 million in revenues, garnering numerous industry awards. The company
was renamed “AnviCom” in 1998 to reflect a new vision in communications,
focused on Internet business solutions. Prior to founding Quality
Consulting Services, Mr. Hoang was Information Resource Manager and
Program Manager at Network Solutions, Incorporated. Previous to this
position, he was the Quality Engineering Manager for Magnavox where he
ensured that all military specifications were met for the entire
corporation. Mr. Hoang has served as a Reliability Engineering Manager
at both the Electronic Warfare Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
and at the Red River Depot in Red River, Texas
- AnviCom is #421 on
the 2001 "Inc 500"
- AnviCom ranked #35
on the Deloitte and Touche Virginia Technology Fast 50 in 2001
- AnviCom ranked #42
on the Washington Techway Fast 50 in 2001
- AnviCom ranked #13
on the FastTrack2000 list, sponsored by the Washington Business
journal
Cost:
Pre-registered Members: $20
Walk-in Members: $25
Pre-registered Non-members: $30
Walk-in Non-members: $35
Contact info:
Email: events@vsvn.org
Web: www.vsvn.org
Date:
February 16, 2003 @ 2pm
Location: Amador Theater
1155 Santa Rita Road, Pleasanton, CA
Event: Fourth Annual Children's Benefit Concert
Sponsored by VNHELP
The Amador Theater will
proudly host an afternoon of classical, jazz and Vietnamese, music at
the Fourth Annual Children's Benefit Concert on Sunday, February 16,
2003. All proceeds will go toward street children in need in Vietnam. In
addition to jazz and classical music, the concert features performances
with various traditional Vietnamese instruments, including a
sixteen-stringed zithers (from the 12th and 13th century).
The musicians are faculty from the music department at Cal State
Hayward, including music department head Bill Wohlmacher and pianist
Ellen Wassermann, Vietnamese performers, and students from Stanford
University.
This concert is the fourth annual concert, which is the work of Chi
Nguyen, a sophomore at California High School in San Ramon, and her
sister Truc, a junior at Stanford University. Since 1998, the Nguyen
sisters have been raising money for impoverished children of Vietnam.
The fundraisers, which have been supported by a great number of Bay Area
residents since 1998, are organized by the two sisters themselves and
have yielded a total of $18,400 through three benefit concerts, two
recitals, and the sale of homemade almond toffee and Chi's personal
collection of Beanie Babies. The funds were donated to VNHELP to support
the Street Children Program.
After a visit to Vietnam three summers ago, Truc and Chi met street
children from a homeless shelter who touched them very deeply. Upon
their return to the United States, the young sisters decided to
personally raised funds for VNHELP street children program. The goal of
this concert is to help provide education to the children and improve
their quality of life. Truc and Chi will be performing on the piano.
Tickets are $8 and will be available at the following locations:
1) Lions Ticket Office & Visitor Center, Pleasanton (925) 461-5350
2) Camerata Music, Dublin (925) 828-1011
3) Goodenough Books, Livermore (925) 443-4354
4) House of Woodwinds, San Ramon (925) 831-8341
5) VNHELP office, San Jose (408) 885-1791
6) at the door on the day of the concert
Contact info:
Phone: (925) 275-9250
Email:
childrens_benefit@yahoo.com
Web:
http://www.geocities.com/childrens_benefit/index.html
Date:
June 26-28, 2003
Location: George Mason University - Arlington Campus, Washington, D.C.
Event: Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference (VAYLC)
Sponsored by National Congress of Vietnamese Americans (NCVA)
Recognizing the pivotal
role that young Vietnamese American leaders will have in their
communities and other areas, a group of youth, community and
professional organizations have organized a major conference for young
Vietnamese American leaders from pre-College students to young
professionals. The Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference
(VAYLC) will be held on June 26-28, 2003 in Washington, D.C. Past
participants have come from diverse areas throughout the United States
and England.
The conference will
focus on leadership development, service to the community and
participation in the public and policy sector. The seminars will be
dynamic, interactive, and will be led by experienced and well-known
professionals and scholars throughout the U.S.
VAYLC is an excellent
opportunity for young Vietnamese American and Asian Pacific American
leaders to meet and network with their peers from across the nation,
from many student associations to young professional associations to
established community organizations.
Objectives
- Develop leadership
skills for young Vietnamese American and Asian Pacific American (APA)
young professionals and students.
- Provide a forum for
young Asian Americans to discuss national and local issues and
establish a network for young leaders to meet and exchange ideas.
- Promote Vietnamese
American values, culture, and heritage.
- Prepare young
professionals and students to become public leaders in their
communities.
Workshops
- Asian Pacific
Americans (APA) in the Political Process: Get Involved!
- APA/Vietnamese-Americans
in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Front of the Camera
- Community Service:
Giving from the Heart
- Women's Role in
Society: Dispelling the Myth & Breaking the Glass Ceiling
- Cool Careers:
Beyond the 9-5 Jobs
- Violence Against
APAs: Protecting Yourself
For more information or
to register, visit www.vaylc.org.
Contact info:
Email: info@vaylc.org
Web: www.vaylc.org
Date:
September 6, 2003
Location: Franklin McKinley School District Building
645 Wool Creek
Drive
San Jose, California 95112
Event:
Community Health Forum - "REACHing Vietnamese Women: A Community
Model for Promoting Cervical Cancer Screening"
Sponsored by the Vietnamese REACH for Health Initiative (VRHI) Coalition
and National Congress of Vietnamese Americans (NCVA)
The Vietnamese REACH for Health Initiative (VRHI) Coalition is a
coalition of organizations in Santa Clara County. The coalition members
are: National Congress of Vietnamese Americans; Vietnamese Voluntary
Foundation Inc.; Immigrant Resettlement and Cultural Center; Asian
American for Community Involvement; Southeast Asian Community Center;
Catholic Charities; Vietnamese Physicians’ Association of Northern
California; Community Health Partnership of Santa Clara County; Blue
Cross of California; Santa Clara County Public Health Department;
American Cancer Society; Kaiser Permanente and Santa Clara County
Ambulatory Service.
Vietnamese-American
women have the highest cervical cancer incidence rate of any ethnic
group in the United States. The rate of cervical cancer in this
population is 5 times the rate among Caucasian women. With regular Pap
smear screening, the potential to dramatically reduce the incidence of
invasive cervical cancer in this population.
To address this
problem, the University of California, San Francisco’s Vietnamese
Community Health Promotion Project has begun a major initiative
entitled, “REACHing Vietnamese Women: A Community Model for Promoting
Cervical Cancer Screening.” This initiative is funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to promote Pap smear screening
among Vietnamese women in Santa Clara County. The award is part of the
CDC’s new initiative “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
(REACH 2010)” – a national project that targets six health priority
areas with the goal of eliminating, by the year 2010, health disparities
experienced by racial and ethnic minority populations. We are one of 25
organizations nation-wide to receive funding to implement the Community
Action Plans that were developed together with inputs from community
representatives to reduce health disparities among minority populations.
The VRHI Coalition was
formed to specifically provide directions to this project addressing an
ambitious objective of decreasing cervical cancer by increasing regular
Pap smear screening among Vietnamese American women. Once of its many
activities is the annual Community Forum where community members gather
to provide inputs to the Community Action Plan, to provide feedback on
the various interventions, to pose questions to a physicians panel, and
to learn about cervical cancer-related resources and services.
This year, the
Community Forum will hold 10 small focus groups to discuss our cervical
cancer campaign and solicit community feedback regarding of the 5th year
of Community Action Plan as well as to gather inputs for other community
health concerns which will provide future directions for VHRI and its
participating community-based organizations. The Community Forum is not
funded by CDC. The Community Forum has been planned as an one-day event
at the Franklin-McKinley School District Building in San Jose on
Saturday, September 6, 2003. Each of our four previous Forums was
attended by more than 250 Vietnamese women and men and childcare was
provided for 50 children.
Contact info:
Thien-Nhien Luong
Email:
Nhien.Luong@hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us
Phone: (408) 423-0733
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