• รายงาน 2011 และแผนงาน 2012
• ทุนการศึกษา ส.ท.อ.

• TAA General Fund (สมาคมไทย ณ อเมริกา)
• Thai Flood Victims (สมทบทุนช่วยผู้ประสบอุกทกภัยที่เมื่องไทย)
• TAA Scholarship Fund (ทุนการศึกษาเยาวชนไทย)
• Join or renew TAA membership ($50 lifetime, $10 2-year) (ต่ออายุหรือสมัครเป็นสมาชิก $50 ตลอดชีพ $10 สองปี) 

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ส.ท.อ. ขอขอบคุณล่วงหน้ามา ณ ที่นี้ด้วย

TAA has worked hard to support the Thai community in the U.S., encourage young Thai Americans to get more involved, offer scholarships to Thai students, and try to improve the status of Thai people in this country.  Now TAA needs your help and support.  Check out our reports for:

• 2011 Activity Report and Plan for 2012
• TAA Scholarship Program for 2012

TAA now needs your donation to support one or more TAA programs of your choice so we can continue working hard for our community.   Please donate to our TAA General Fund, TAA Scholarship Fund, and/or join TAA by becoming a TAA member and/or a management team member. 

Most urgently, we have partnered with Smiles on Wings (another 501c3 Thai non-profit organization in Maryland), www.smilesonwings.org,  to provide help directly to the flood victims in Thailand.  We are raising funds for our Smiles on Wings volunteers in Thailand to buy survival kits and other necessities and deliver them directly to the flood victims in Thailand.  Please join TAA to help tens of thousands of Thai flood victims who are still waiting for food and other necessities to survive.   Every dollar you donate and designated for flood relief will go directly to the flood victims by our Smiles on Wings volunteers in Thailand.  Let’s work together to take care of those unfortunate flood victims in Thailand.

When donating online please leave a note for one or more of the purposes of your donation below:

TAA General Fund (สมาคมไทย ณ อเมริกา)
Thai Flood Victims (สมทบทุนช่วยผู้ประสบอุกทกภัยที่เมื่องไทย)
TAA Scholarship Fund (ทุนการศึกษาเยาวชนไทย)
Join or renew TAA membership ($50 lifetime, $10 2-year) (ต่ออายุหรือสมัครเป็นสมาชิก $50 ตลอดชีพ $10 สองปี) 

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Thanks for your support.

Education Grants of $2,000-$2,500 for Thai Students

The Institute of International Education (IIE)

has created an emergency small-grants program

to help students from Thailand on U.S. campuses

whose home country financial support has been

devastated by the recent extended record-level flooding

across Thailand.  For details on how to apply, eligibility, and

application instructions, etc.  Read more...

ทุนการศึกษา $2,500-$5,000

สำหรับนักเรียนไทยในอเมริกา

สถาบันเพื่อการศึกษานานาชาติ (Institute of International Education)

มีความประสงค์จะช่วยเหลือนักเรียนไทยที่ประสบปัญหาน้ำท่วม

จนไม่สามารถเรียนจบได้ โดยจะมอบทุนการศึกษาให้... Read more...

•     TAA Scholarship on APIASF web site   
  

•     Eligibility criteria and deadlines

•     Online application form

Miss Loy Krathong TAA at Wat Thai DC 2011

 Ms. Vina "Ploy" Chongwiboon

Thai Alliance in America (TAA) is pleased to release our first two TAA scholarship recipients this year, offering the opportunity for two Thai students to win awards of $2500 each towards their college education. This is the first Thai ethnic-specific scholarship of national scale.  TAA Scholarship this year is managed and administered for TAA by the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF).

APIASF reported that this year a total of four Thai students were awarded scholarships - two of whom are TAA scholars and two are recipients of other APIASF awards.  Additionally, these four scholars have released their profiles and contact information to TAA. 

APIASF also provided additional information regarding the applicant pool as it relates to Thai students.

·         196 Thai students started an application

·         65 Thai students completed an application (which is roughly four times as many Thai applicants as last year)

·         8 Thai students were selected as a finalist (of the 8 finalists, 3 students did not submit their paperwork for verification)

·         4 Thai students were awarded scholarships, two received TAA Scholarship and the other two received other APIASF Scholarship.

2011-2012 TAA Scholar Profiles 

Nicole Gilmore

Hometown: Columbus, KS

High School: Columbus Unified High School

College: University of Kansas

Major: Social Work

Ethnicity: Thai

Scholarship: Thai Alliance in America

As a Thai American, it is important to give back to the community. I am active in my Thai community by helping to set up Thai cultural events in my county. Though there aren't hundreds, there are a handful of families that come and make a dish to share with other Thai individuals. I also help with supporting local Thai restaurants when I can. In Joplin, Missouri, there is a Thai restaurant there

called J.B. Elephants that I help support. While this is a small gesture, I even convinced my whole prom group of ten to eat there... and they loved it! I love sharing my culture with other people and bringing the Thai people in my county together! Thank you again to TAA and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund to help me further my education through college. It's important to have diversity and I believe that this scholarship allows opportunities to individuals, like me that would probably not have been accessible to otherwise. I will be attending the University of Kansas, where I will major in Social Work and minor in Global and International Studies. I want to help give back to my community, as well as helping other youth that have come from disadvantaged backgrounds that I had once came from. I hope to gain more knowledge, as well as be an example for the others around me. I plan on just changing the world as much as I can; helping others and making an impact. When I found out I was selected for the APIASF Scholarship, I was completely ecstatic! I was so thrilled that I had been given this amazing opportunity. Knowing that all my hard work has paid off has made all those headaches worth it. My family was so supportive and was so thrilled that I had won! By winning this scholarship, it's been a dream come true. I would like to thank the donors of the APIASF scholarship fund for allowing me to further my education and for seeing the best in me. I will always remember this organization as allowing me to accomplish my dreams. Thank you for everything!

Andrew May

Hometown: Midwest City, OK

High School: Midwest City High School

College: University of Oklahoma

Major: Engineering

Ethnicity: Thai

Scholarship: Thai Alliance in America

Thank you again to TAA for this generous scholarship. Although my local Thai community is relatively small, I still have found simple ways to help out where I could. Every year my mother and I assist our local Buddhist temple while they celebrate Thai festivals and honor Thai cultural traditions. During The Songkran festival I assist the temple in setting up for the festivities as well

as bringing food to the monks. The temple also celebrates Loi Krathong, beauty pageants are set up at the temple, I help set up tables and tents and as families start arriving at the temple I welcome them and assist any elder that needs help. For the older Thai people who need assistance but do not have family members close, I help them with daily tasks, such as mowing their grass, taking out their garbage, or anything else they need done. During my senior year of high school many choices had to be made, but most importantly I had to decide what college I was going to attend and what my major would be throughout my college career. After much consideration I decided to choose Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering as my major, a very difficult yet rewarding degree to have. I hope to succeed in my college endeavors; to graduate from a university would make my family very proud. My future career plans are to hopefully get my officers commission in the United States Air Force so I can help protect the country that has given my family so much. The reactions I received from my family and community was of amazement, many tear filled congratulations, and joyous well wishes. Once I found out I was chosen I was in a state of disbelief, I was finally recognized for all my hard work and commitment I put into my education. I believe it is important for Asian and Pacific Islander American students to pursue higher education because most of us didn't have it easy growing up, our parents wanted us to grow up in America to have a better shot at succeeding then they ever did. Finally I want to thank all the donors who contribute to APIASF, without your support many students wouldn't have the means to go to college.

Thai students who could benefit from a TAA scholarship

Sean Gilmore

Hometown: Columbus, KS

High School: Columbus Unified High School

College: University of Kansas

Major: Pre-Medicine

Ethnicity: Thai

Scholarship: MetLife Foundation

Hometown: Mandeville, LA

High School: Mandeville High School

College: Memphis College of Art

Major: Art

Ethnicity: Thai

Scholarship: USA Funds

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