Join The Tibet Fund in Seattle for a Special Evening of Music & Dance!

3rd Annual Fund Raising
A Benefit for the Tibet Fund:
PRESERVING TIBETAN CULTURE

Saturday, April 27, 2013
Doors open at 6:30 | Program begins at 7:30

An evening of music and dance featuring award winning artists from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), including Tsering Dorjee, Sonam Palmo, Tashi Dhondup, and Tsering Lodoe Plus a benefit auction including one-of-a-kind items. Refreshment will be served.

Suggested Donation $20 in advance
$25 at the door

LOCATION: OmCulture
2210 N Pacific St Seattle, WA
near Gas Works Park Advance

Advanced Reservations @ OmZappy
1409 NE 45th Street | Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 713-7325 


The Tibet Fund's mission continues to be the preservation of the distinct cultural and national identity of the Tibetan people. Since 1981, under the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Tibet Fund has been the primary funding organization for health care, education, refugee rehabilitation, religious and cultural preservation, and community and economic development programs serving more than 130,000 Tibetan refugees living in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Our aim is to promote self-reliance and help sustain the cohesiveness of the exile community.

In 2011, The Tibet Fund undertook a strategic review that gave us a roadmap for addressing the changing needs of the Tibetan people and the Central Tibetan Administration's new vision for a modern Tibet.  In 2012, The Tibet Fund was able to provide the funds for humanitarian assistance to Tibetan communities: reaching over 3,000 children through our healthcare and education programs in India and Nepal, providing business training in the remote Yushu region still devastated by the 2010 earthquake, supplying classrooms with solar lighting, improving medical reporting systems and giving medical training to doctors and nurses.

In 2013, the staff and Board of The Tibet Fund hope you will continue to work with us to build on these successes in the following ways.  You can help us to:

  • Provide much needed skills training to Tibetans entering the local workforce, including training for professional women
  • Fully fund our Professional Scholarship Program and Tibetan Scholarship Programs, sending over 40 Tibetan scholars to United States and Indian based universities for advanced degrees in law, health and education
  • Establish micro-enterprise partnerships, bringing well paying jobs to Tibetan settlements
  • Implement the Tibetan Education Project in association with USAID/India to bring state-of-the art materials and resources, teacher training, science learning centers, traveling exhibitions and an improved math and science curriculum to the settlements
  • Complete our Health Information System (HIS) with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and conduct professional training for better reporting on TB and malaria

Whether you give $25 or $25,000, your gifts are never wasted and always go directly to work for the people of Tibet.  The Tibet Fund received a top rating from GuideStar and 4 stars from Charity Navigator, demonstrating our commitment to donor transparency. Remember to ask about your company's matching gift plan.  You can double the impact your gift makes in the Tibetan community.

I hope you will consider the matching gift offer (click here or on the DONATE button at the top of the page for this and other ways to donate).  Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at dharlo@tibetfund.org if you have further questions about the match, or our programs.  I cannot thank you enough for your continued generosity.

Warm regards and friendship, Rinchen Dharlo, President

PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The Tibet Fund is seeking to raise $250,000 to fully fund the Professional Scholarship Program.  His Holiness the Dalai Lama considers the education of the upcoming generation of Tibetans to be the highest priority of the exile community. He has said that the future of the Tibetan people depends upon well-educated community leaders who safeguard the traditional values of Tibet while integrating the knowledge and skills to be gained in modern education. It is with this in mind that the Tibet Fund began the PSP in 2009.

The Professional Scholarship Program provides scholarships to Tibetan refugee students living in India, Nepal and Bhutan, who are working towards professional degrees in the fields of healthcare, engineering, science and community development. The goal of the program is to enhance the human resources present within the Tibetan exile community. By helping young Tibetans to pursue professional degrees and serve their community, the program hopes to significantly impact the Tibetan people’s welfare and long-term sustainability. The PSP will enable the Tibetan community in exile to become more self-sufficient and will contribute to the overall cohesiveness of the settlements, thereby contributing to the survival of Tibetan culture and identity.

The Tibet Fund currently has $200,000 earmarked for the Professional Scholarship Program, which would be exhausted in five years without additional support.

In order to raise additional funds for the program, The Tibet Fund hopes to invest its current funds into an Indian time deposit Rupee account in Dharamsala, where the current interest rate stands at roughly 9.25%. If this account held $400,000, the yearly interest from the combined funds would be enough to pay for the scholarship of 40 professional students per year. This would allow 400 students to complete their professional education in the next ten years without drawing money from the principle amount held in the account. Thus, with help from donors and the community, we are aiming to raise $250,000 in order to continue the work of the PSP for the next ten years. Click here to find out more…


Mario Cantone, comedian, screenwriter, star of Broadway, The View and Sex in the City, lends his time, friendship and star power to The Tibet Fund to help raise funds for our Professional Scholarship Program.

>view Mario's video<

Thank you Mario!

Tibetan music sampled from Tenzin Choegyal’s latest new song Om Ma Ni Phad May Hum.  Go to www.tenzinchoegyal.com to hear more.


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