Category Archives: Blog
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Summing up our first eight years of scholarships
Posted on May 18, 2013 by Steve in BlogThis morning I sat down to summarize the results of eight years of our scholarship program for a possible funder. I thought it would be a good time to share this summary with our loyal followers. Here is a simple chart of the numbers of scholarships we have given each year since we began in [...]
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How are our college students doing?
Posted on May 4, 2013 by Steve in BlogAs followers of this blog know, we have 24 Yangjuan Primary School graduates now attending 3- and 4-year colleges. In 2014, the first three-year students will graduate. How will they do and what will they do when college is over? Kaitlin Banfill is going to help us find out. Kaitlin graduated from UW with honors [...]
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Quarterly prize drawings and sustainable giving
Posted on April 10, 2013 by Katharine in BlogWe are proud to announce the official launch of our newest giving program, the CMEF Sustainer Program! This program allows you to continually support a cause you care about by allowing you to make monthly gifts to CMEF with minimal effort. Just pledge a monthly dollar amount online with a credit card and we take [...]
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Wrapping up our calendar season
Posted on February 9, 2013 by Steve in BlogThe results are in from our calendar season, and we have had the best season ever for calendars, with about 280 now hanging on office, den, and maybe garage walls all over the world, reminding people of CMEF and our important work in Liangshan. We raised a total of almost $10,000, and subtracting the cost [...]
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Giving Season Update
Posted on December 27, 2012 by Steve in BlogWe are delighted to report that old and new friends and supporters have come out in force to buy our best CMEF calendar yet and to donate generously to our year-end fund drive to support our growing scholarship program for Yangjuan Primary School graduates who are now in high school or college. We have already [...]
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2013 CMEF Calendar
Posted on November 24, 2012 by Steve in BlogI’m happy to report that our 2013 CMEF calendar has been designed and is now being proofed at the printer’s. Geoff, Tami, and I spent a lot of time choosing pictures appropriate to the months that they decorate, and Geoff did a great job livening up the colors for printing, while I wrote captions. We [...]
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Our sponsors and the students they sponsor
Posted on September 29, 2012 by Steve in BlogNow that so many Yangjuan Primary School graduates have started college programs, we have begun to connect some of our graduates with some of our most generous donors, who have agreed to pay for full scholarships for the three or four years of the graduates’ college programs. I’m delighted to be able to introduce some [...]
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One of the world’s engineering wonders
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Steve in BlogI think most foreigners view China’s massive freeway-building project, akin to the US Interstate Highway System begun under Eisenhower, with ambivalence if not outright hostility. They should have followed the Japanese railway-centered model rather than the US freeway-centered model, saving energy, reducing greenhouse gas output, limiting the increase of urban smog from the same cars [...]
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113,000 RMB in scholarships find grateful recipients
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Steve in BlogTwenty-three college students received substantial scholarships, and over 80 high school students got partial awards in a very successful scholarship ceremony in Yangjuan on August 25. This year’s trip to Yangjuan School I have just returned from a very successful and heartening trip to Yangjuan, where I spent five days from August 21 to 26 [...]
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Heading back to Yangjuan
Posted on August 19, 2012 by Steve in BlogAll of our friends’ generosity is about to pay off directly; it’s time to award scholarships to our 2012-13 recipients. We have enough funds to support all the first- and second-year college students at a level increased from last year, about 2500 or in some special cases 3000 yuan, equal to 400-500 dollars. We have [...]
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