Hungarian American Coalition News, 2008 (16. évfolyam, 1. szám)
2008 / 1. szám
region. CTP covers their cost of living through sponsors. For more information, please visit: http://wwwxtpinfo.hu Lauer Learning, LLC Remarks by Andrea Lauer Rice, CEO & Founder Lauer Learning creates multimedia educational tools to teach about language, culture and history. Products to reach out to Hungarian Americans: • www.FreedomFighter56.com oral history website • www.TheGulyasPot.com online community • R/W/G bracelets • Postcards with Hungarian American quiz (HCGA) • 1956 “Exhibit in a box” • 1956 Products The Pass it on... Project How do we ensure that Hungarian ethnicity is passed on to future generations? • Specific to the HA community: Each time the Census is tabulated, we lose people who claim they are ethnic Hungarian. • Of the 1.4 M Hungarian-Americans, less than 10% speak the language. • General trends: Without a strong tie and reinforcement, strength of ethnicity is diluted over time. The goal is to create a strategy that will reverse this trend - specifically targeting “at-risk” groups - 2nd, 3rd £ 4'h generation Hungarian Americans with limited language skills and no community infrastructure. Additional goals are: • Create new ways to reach out to the community - especially the youth • Determine the most effective ways to strengthen ethnicity • Focus on “at-risk” groups • Look at existing programs we can model • Create community projects that we can all become involved in • High-level awareness to reach “lost” Hungarian Americans Targeting “at-risk” communities - Expose, engage, educate, evolve! • 2nd generation Hungarian-Americans o Build on traditions o Educate them along with their kids o Create easy ways to help them pass it on to their children • Young 3rd generation Hungarian-Americans o Expose them from a young age o Use tools and new media they are interested in o Find ways to directly expose them • Non-Hungarian spouses o Find ways to engage them, involve them in the community The Gulyas Pot Online Community • Wiki site - resources, community news • Hungarian American history area - user-generated content that can be shared across the community • Social networking site for Hungarian Americans • Use resources that already exist, just provide a new and different channel for wider distribution In the future we plan to create multi-generational Educational Tools, such as: “Kis Majom” DVD; “ABCs and 123s of Hungary” book; and a multigenerational cookbook. You can help with this project by: joining TheGulyasPot.com network and contribute in whatever way you can. For more information, please visit: http://www.LauerLeaming.com Hungarian American Coalition Remarks by Zsolt Szekeres, Treasurer The Hungarian American Coalition has two main educational and cultural programs, which are the Congressional Internship Program and the Dr. Elemer and Eva Kiss Scholarship Fund. Congressional Internship Program This program was established to allow young Hungarian Americans and English-speaking, wellqualified Hungarians from Hungary and the neighboring countries to get acquainted with the workings of the U.S. Congress and to motivate them for public service in their respective places of origin, as well as to provide opportunity to build contacts in the US in their professional areas of expertise. Hungarian American Coalition - June 2008 - 5
