Sharistan Melkonian is a director at the Armenian Volunteer Corps (AVC), a non-profit that helps skilled Armenian Diasporans come to Armenia to work and live, while at the same time, helping them transition from one society into another by facilitating their placements into schools, non-profit organizations, churches, and the business sector.
Lars Knudsen is a New York based film producer who recently traveled to Armenia for four months, producing the film ‘HERE’, directed by Braden King. The film chronicles a relationship between an expatriate Armenian photographer and an American satellite-mapping engineer, who together, travel and explore the Armenian native homeland.
Sevan Kabakian is the Country Director of BirthRight Armenia, a volunteer based organizational network of various professional internships, volunteer organizations, and study abroad programs. BirthRight enables young Diasporan Armenians to come to Armenia and immerse themselves into a journey of self-discovery, their right of passage, and to take part in rebuilding & reshaping their ethnic homeland.
Allen Yekikan is an assistant editor & journalist at Asbarez Daily News, a bilingual daily newspaper which mainly serves the more than 500,000-strong Armenian-American community in the Western US.
The aim of Armeian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF) is to assist the Armenian intellectual community to continue its tradition of excellence in scientific and scholarly research.
For a nation to be successful it needs a strong research environment where its scientists and scholars can flourish and guide the nation to greater knowledge and economic prosperity. Such an environment promotes and inspires the young generation to achieve greater heights than their predecessors, thus elevating the countrys status in the community of nations.
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The aim of Armeian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF) is to assist the Armenian intellectual community to continue its tradition of excellence in scientific and scholarly research.
Max Howard, President of Warner Bros. Feature Animation and former Vice President of Administration and Planning for Walt Disney’s Feature Animation Division, travels to Armenia every year to take part in and host workshops during the ReAnimania Yerevan International Animation Film Festival.
The Armenian Youth Federation's Youth Corps program focuses on building connections between Armenian youth in the Diaspora, with their counterparts in the homeland. For two years now, Youth Corps has been operating a free summer day camp for underprivileged children in Gyumri, Armenia.
Camp Gyumri gives young Armenians from the U.S. a chance to make a direct impact on the lives of some of Gyumri's most impoverished families. This 4 week long program accepts 150 children every summer and provides them with a fun and safe environment to make new friends, and learn about respect, trust, tolerance, diversity, responsibility, and cooperation - all of which are critical in helping them grow to become members of a healthy civil society.
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The Armenian Youth Federation's Youth Corps program focuses on building connections between Armenian youth in the Diaspora, with their counterparts in the homeland. For two years now, Youth Corps has been operating a free summer day camp for underprivileged children in Gyumri, Armenia.
Archbishop Vicken Aykazian represents the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) in Washington and is currently serving as President of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC).
Founded in 2003 at Yerevan State University, the Women’s Resource Center of Armenia works toward defending the civil and sexual rights of women in Armenia by promoting a woman’s role in society and ensuring awareness of women’s rights.
Sara Anjargolian, Los Angeles-based attorney and photographer, is working on a project to document nine separated Armenian families living between Los Angeles and Yerevan.
Shakeh Havan, founder of ArtBridge Bookstore-Café, is an investor in Armenia who not only focuses her work on the business sector, but also facilitates the promotion of local artists, movies and publishers through exhibitions and sales directly out of ArtBridge Café.
James Tufenkian is a New York-based entrepreneur and philanthropist who has several business concerns in Armenia: carpetmaking, boutique hotels and construction. His purpose is to support Armenia's development by introducing new thinking and new practices.
Our previous question was: "Do you believe that free elections (one where even an incumbent can be defeated) can change a country?"
Opinions were mostly divided. Of those who answered the question, 53% thought that such elections could bring positive change to the country; 43% thought they could not. Around 4% did not have an answer.
Sharistan Melkonian is a director at the Armenian Volunteer Corps (AVC), a non-profit that helps skilled Armenian Diasporans come to Armenia to work and live, while at the same time, helping them transition from one society into another by facilitating their placements into schools, non-profit organizations, churches, and the business sector.
The project aims to enhance the visibility and increase the resource mobilization possibilities of civil society organizations (CSOs) operating in Armenia by designing, developing and maintaining a publicly accessible database of all active NGOs, foundations, associations, and international NGOs and organizations working in Armenia.
