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Trace Foundation
Mission: "[To] promote the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China . . . Improve the ability of local communities to meet their own needs . . . To integrate culture and development goals and bring about long-term social and environmental benefits"
In China since: 1995
Annual China budget: $5,000,000
Number of staff: 13 national and 8 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Paola Vanzo
TAR Representative
Qinghai Representative
+86 (0)891 634 9939
John Davenport
Tel: + 86 (0)28 851 82531
Janet Upton
Sichuan Representative
Tel: + 86 (0)28 851 82531
International Contact:
31 Perry Street
New York
NY 10014
United States
Tel: +1 212 367 7380
Fax: +1 212 367 7383
Activities in Other Countries:
USA, UK (support for Tibetan cultural libraries and collections)
American philanthropist Andrea Soros Colombel devoted part of her personal fortune to creating this foundation in 1993, after working as a volunteer English teacher in western Qinghai Province. The foundation works with government agencies, community organisations and individuals to foster sustainable development in western China, pre-eminently in ethnic Tibetan areas but also among other ethnic minority communities. The foundation operates mainly as a grant-making institution but also engages directly in the implementation of some community development projects. It addresses three main areas:
Education, seeking to broaden access to educational opportunity and improve the quality of education. Support for basic education in rural areas ranges from small grants to renovate schools to bilingual teacher training programmes and efforts to introduce appropriate vocational education classes. Attention is also given to institutional development of higher education institutions, for example by supporting new courses, staff training, and educational aids. In addition, the foundation has funded specially designed training courses for English teachers, and a series of business education training initiatives to encourage socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurship. A domestic scholarship programme provides Tibetan students with higher education study opportunities, and a second scholarship programme funds overseas study for ‘community minded professionals’ who are expected to put the knowledge and skills they acquire to work for the benefit of the wider community.
Rural Development In Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) National Nature Reserve and in Hualong County, Haidong Prefecture, Qinghai Province the foundation has implemented integrated rural development programmes that emphasis participatory techniques and project ‘ownership’ by local beneficiaries. Elsewhere, it supports vocational training and income generation projects that help to create new livelihoods that do not conflict with traditional culture: – for example, making yak cheese. Grants are also made to support rural health care, including the training of Tibetan medicine doctors.
Culture Activities in this field have notably included the publishing of literature, folk tales, histories and children’s books in minority languages – especially Tibetan, but also Kazakh, Mongolian and Uighur languages. Support is also given to projects that document existing culture, and to initiatives that facilitate the contemporary transmission of traditional culture – for example, by preserving traditional architectural styles and skills. The foundation maintains Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in New York City (www.latse.org).
Programme expenditure is met by an annual appropriation from the foundation’s principal benefactor. At present, project funding breaks down as follows: 57% education, 25% culture, 12% rural development, and 8% other initiative
Links
http://www.trace.org
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