Tibet Engagement Fair | Friday, November 20th 
Opportunity to learn about and network with different projects and groups working for civic engagement for Tibet.
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5:00pm-6pm         Welcome Reception & Photo Exhibit Launch | 
                               ​PHOTO EXHIBIT by Plateau Photographers, Gordon Wiltse, Don Perrault
6:00pm-9pm         Engagement Fair, Book signing & Live Music
                              Performance by Tsewang Yangzom, Sangye Kyab (Teddy), Jempel, Yangdro Khang, Karanjit, Pema Kunsang, Sonam R,                                    Sonam lhamo,  Tsering Damdul, Palzom lama, Dechen Bhuming and more!

Tibet Engagement Fair Participants
​Below are some of the organizations confirmed to participate at this year's Tibet Engagement Forum:

DROKPO
www.drokpoteam.com
Drokpo Team was established in the year 2004. It is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of providing a helping hand and being an example for Tibetan youth. The word “Drokpo” is a Tibetan word which means “friend”, and we are friends of everyone, especially those in need of our help and we are ready to provide it in any way we can. This courage, motivation and optimism to help others grew in our hearts after two drokpos (Phuntsok and Norbu) visited the TRC (Tibetan Reception Center, Kathmandu). They were shocked to see so many newly arrived Tibetan people from Tibet sleeping in and around the TRC compound with thin mattresses-- many even sleeping out in the open basketball court. In order to fulfill the needs of those people, Drokpo Team was formed.

GLOBAL TIBETAN PROFESSIONAL NETWORK
www.gtpnus.org
The Global Tibetan Professionals Network works to promote specialization and professionalism among Tibetans to strengthen the community. Not only do they identify and promote successful Tibetan professionals as role models, but they also mentor young Tibetans through sharing ideas, information, and resources. They hope to promote the involvement of Tibetan professionals in sustaining Tibetan identity and strengthening the Tibetan voice. GTPN’s mission is to create a global network of Tibetan professionals and connect them with the community.

This Tibetan Life
This Tibetan Life is a web-based platform for second generation Tibetans to share their stories and experiences. Currently, the website focuses on listening by creating a community for young Tibetans to unite over their shared experiences. In 2016, This Tibetan Life will be launching its new project which will begin shifting the focus from listening to action; the project will challenge community members to take a step past sharing lived experiences by developing crucial skills and mobilizing to see the change they want in the world. This Tibetan Life’s upcoming project will kick off in January with a webinar series focused on leadership and life skills development within the Tibetan youth community in order to prepare Tibetan youth and instill them with the confidence to take action in their communities. We strive to empower Tibetan youth to share their lived experiences, identify the challenges our generation faces, and develop the skills to tackle these issues.

TIBETAN HIV/AIDS GROUP
HIV/AIDS Prevention Association is a Tibetan-found and led collaborative that does pioneering HIV/AIDS awareness education all across Tibet. Based firmly on a strong principle of compassion, their goal is to benefit all members of the community through public education and counseling. Using knowledge based on science, they have been innovating public health education in Tibet that is also aligned with local culture and attitudes. Since 2012, they have produced numerous resources - pamphlets, brochures, videos - in Tibetan, trained over 280 volunteers, and traveled over 30,000 km to do face-to-face talks with locals. They have also successfully utilized their social media platform to reach thousands more through daily voice messages and a Q&A interface. 

LÂMTÖN
www.lamtonmn.org
The Team Tibet Mentoring and Tutoring Program provides high school Tibetan students with an opportunity to connect with college students, free biweekly tutoring sessions, guidance, support, and encouragement to pursue a higher education. We focus on three major areas of student life: Academic Achievement, Health and Wellness and Student Development to better prepare students for college or whatever path they decide to take. Each junior and senior high school student has their own mentor to help them through the college application process and/or the financial aid process.

MACHIK
www.machik.org
The work of Machik began with a primary school in the heart of Kham, Eastern Tibet. Opened in 2002, the Chungba Primary School became a runaway success story in its first year of operation by placing first across 53 schools in the county. In the years since then, the Chungba Primary School has become a model for rural Tibetan education across Ganzi prefecture - a region of nearly a million Tibetans. The work of Machik has expanded year after year, growing organically and incrementally in new directions and is currently organized around six program areas: The Chungba Project, Summer Enrichment Programs, Women's Initiative, Youth Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship, and Governance.

MOTHER'S WISH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KtDYnca40
Machik has also developed and launched Mother’s Wish, a program to sponsor the education of young women. Now established as a registered NGO in its own right in Qinghai, Mother’s Wish has supported over two thousand young Tibetan women through middle, high school and college education. To date, 112 young women have received their undergraduate degree. Currently, there are over 500 young women receiving support from the scholarship program. Machik continues to be the angel sponsor of Mother’s Wish, providing for all operational costs to ensure that the program can continue. Through a rigorous selection process, young women are identified who show special aptitude for study, but who would not have the opportunity to continue their education without outside intervention. In addition to providing an education, Mother’s Wish seeks to promote a commitment to service among the young women by supporting community outreach efforts to help seniors and the poor.

THE NEW YORK TIBETAN SERVICES CENTER (NYTSC)
The New York Tibetan Services Center (NYTSC) is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to the social and economic mobility of Tibetan and Himalayan immigrants of New York City. The NYTSC is a grassroots, local community organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Tibetan culture and traditions in the greater New York City area

ONLINE TIBETAN EDUCATION
www.onlinetibetaneducation.com
Founded in 2011, Online Tibetan Education (OTE) is a non-profit, volunteer driven group dedicated to imparting basic Tibetan education to Tibetans, particularly young Tibetans, by means of the internet. Focusing on places with limited numbers of Tibetan teachers and religious centers, OTE seeks to preserve Tibetan culture by providing an online platform for learning Tibetan and Buddhism. OTE hopes to help develop 21st century Buddhists by offering Online Buddhism Classes (OBC) and spread Tibetan by offering online Tibetan Language Classes (TLC).

ONLINE BUDDHISM CLASS
www.facebook.com/OnlineBuddhismClass
Online Buddhism Class is an initiative taken to impart knowledge of basic Buddhism into the Tibetan population in general and Tibetan youth in particular. In order to provide quality Buddhist education to Tibetan people living all around the world, especially in those places where there are no Tibetan religious centers and preachers, we present 'Online Buddhism Class; Free, Convenient and Enlightening'. In order to preserve our language and rich culture, the classes will be taught in Tibetan. In the near future, we plan to start Online Tibetan Language and History Class.

PLATEAU PHOTOGRAPHERS
www.plateauphotographers.com
Plateau Photographers is a participatory multimedia project that trains minority students on the Tibetan Plateau in digital storytelling and culture documentation. Their mission is to train members in still photography and video capture, culture documentation, visual storytelling, and multimedia technology and then present these works to a larger audience to spread cultural awareness and appreciation. As of 2012, Plateau Photographers has trained nearly 100 young image-makers. Members come from rural communities in four provinces and although they are primarily Tibetan, other ethnic minorities are also included. Plateau Photographers helps members tell their personal stories and express their Tibetan identity. 

POCKET MONEY PROJECT
www.pocketmoneyproject.org
Pocket Money Project promotes economic independence for some of the underprivileged kids at Tibetan Children Village school in upper Dharamsala, India by providing a network of additional financial assistance to help them thrive in their school life.This project is also committed to finding ways to help the needed "pockets" in the exile community.

TIBET BOOK CLUB
www.tibetbookclub.wordpress.com
DC Tibet book club meets each month to discuss a Tibet-related book. Tibet Book Club was started in 2011 for conversations on books and exchange of ideas. Started as a gathering for Tibetans interested in books on Tibet, the DC Tibetan Book Club has become a popular and stimulating forum that meets every month. The club has read and discussed over 50 books and articles to date and has provided understanding and open discourse on a wide range of topics for its members. 

TIBETALK
Tibetalk provides a platform for users to find the most current, popular and discussed content on Tibet in a simple and smart way. With a curation team and user submitted content, Tibetalk connects users to the most important stories, videos and other media content in a daily snapshot of the web’s most popular content on Tibet.

THE TREASURY OF LIVES
www.treasuryoflives.org
The Treasury of Lives is an online biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan region. As of June 2015 the expanding site contains just over 1,000 biographies, written by a growing community of scholars from North America, Asia and Europe, many of them peer-reviewed. These biographies, complete with the most extensive bibliographies available, are intended as a resource to both the general public and researchers in the field. Each biography is illustrated with relevant art from the Rubin Museum of Art and other esteemed collections, with links to Himalayan Art Resources (www.himalayanart.org) and the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (www.tbrc.org).  The highly navigable interface, which includes an interactive map of Asia and timelines for each institution and religious tradition, allows visitors to search figures by historical period, geography, monastery, clan or religious affiliation. With an active online presence and a growing online community, these biographies are reaching approximately 5,000 users every month.

UWC TIBET
www.uwctibet.org
UWC Tibet is a network of Tibetan students who attended or are attending United World Colleges (UWC) around the globe. By bridging together various people who are invested in education, UWC Tibet strives to forge creative means of increasing educational opportunities for Tibetan children worldwide. Their mission is to connect the aspiration of Tibetan students to higher education and provide institutional and personal support to students through open access to information and one to one mentorship and guidance. They also encourage Tibetan students to pursue their ambitions by reaching out and participating in various local, national and global scholarship programs. To cultivate a culture of independence and creativity, we commit to creating project grants in the field of humanities, science, and arts.

WILD YAKS
www.wildyaks.com
This site is dedicated to the Tibetan parents and children who are scattered around the world and to all the children who are interested in Tibetan children’s education and culture. The website is a compilation of many popular traditional Tibetan tales. You will also find new children's stories written by modern Tibetan writers and popular children's stories translated from other languages. We've also included Tibetan cartoons and videos, tools for learning the Tibetan language, funny anecdotes, books and much more.