情况汇报 - 昆明王建军老师来函 3/4/2009
亲爱的树 华各位 老师：您们好！
树华三期开学已经3周了，新学期的教学情况都很好。 3月15日，我们的同学将参加计算机中级操作证书的考试，现在正在紧张的准备当中。一切都请您们放心！
谢谢您们！
建军敬上
2009．3．4．
March 4, 2009
February 20, 2009
昆明王建军老师来函 2/20/2009
亲爱的树华各位老师：您们好！
树华三期一年级第二学期已于2月15日正式开学了，180名同学除1人到校后因病住院外，其他179名同学都满怀信心开始了新学期的学习。
春节期间，我们的班主任老师就上学期学生在学校的有关情况，走访了120多名学生家庭，家长对我们老师在管理和教学上的评价让人深受鼓舞。和我们合作的学校负责人为此将对我们的老师予以奖励，谢谢这几位老师对学校声誉所做的贡献。
谢谢您们一惯的支持和帮助，祝各位老师一切顺利。
建军敬上
2009.2.20
January 23, 2009
国宴 朱克钢
12月19日的晚上，中国驻旧金山的高总领事和其他四位领事一起在总领事官邸宴请了树华教育基金会的六位义工代表，表彰树华教育基金会十三年来对中国贫困地区儿童就学的帮助。高领事告诉我们，宴会是遵照钓鱼台国宾馆的国宴标准。菜单是为这次宴请特别印制的，菜单，名卡，盘子，碗，茶杯等一切用具上都有国徽。共八道菜。同去的义工中有一位不久前十一国庆时在北京人民大会堂吃过国宴，对比之下，她觉得还是这餐的水平高。
官邸客厅里的鲜花很新鲜，餐桌上的插花是一个服务生用官邸院子里的花枝插的，比起中国国内大大小小场合的花都有新意。
大家吃的、聊的很开心。其中宋洋领事说，两年前他刚来旧金山上任后的第一个侨务活动就是应邀参加树华的筹款餐会，当时就很为树华精神感动。他说“吃饭是我们表示感谢的方式。”义工们也都很高兴树华的工作得到领事馆的肯定，相信这对树华今后在国内展开工作会多一些便利。
告别前，大家一起留影纪念。
January 9, 2009
请您来参加长期发展计划会 翟孟斌
各位,
2009年 元月7 日 Angela Yang (宋曼玲) 在树华给大家做了一个完美的心得报告, 题目是 Accessing Capital for Non-Profit Organizations.
聆听之后, 咸认收获良多, 也感到树华急需做些措施, 以应付当前的艰难岁月.会长张笑枫女士当天即草拟”行动计划”供大家商讨.
树华发放奖学金13年, 有极可自豪的成绩. 在开拓财源方面, 现在更需要向大财团或其他基金会发展. 树华董事会必须订立出切实可行的两年和五年的计划, 以便他人了解, 也可使大家集中力量, 推行业务, 使树华更好的为中国边远地区的贫困青少年服务.
兹订於Jan. 16, Friday下午1:00在 Soar 新地址召开长期发展计划会—Long Range Planning Meeting 期能得出结论, 以便董事会参考.
您对树华的前景一向关心, 务请能来参加.
Soar 新地址:
The SOAR Foundation
32930 Alvarado-Niles Road, Suite 350
Union City, Ca 94587
Tel.510-675-0680 Fax. 510-675-0160
From 880—–Alvarado-Niles Exit turn East—–Hop Ranch Road left turn to
Dowe Business Park —-about 300 ft, at the corner of second right turn….
Suite 350 is located in your right side ( 墙上招牌是Penta-biotech)
January 7, 2009
昆明王建军老师来函 1/6/2009
亲爱的树华各位老师：您们好！
元旦前后，树华班所在的学校举办了广播操比赛和元旦文艺表演，我们有两个班在广播操比赛中获得第二名；有两个节目被选拔参演，一个是合唱《感恩的心》，一个是印度舞蹈。学校对树华的三个班好评多多。
附件 获奖照片中第二排中间的两个男生，分别是我们的两位班长。特向各位老师汇报。
June 17, 2008
SOAR 2008 Fundraising Banquet Reported on SingTao Daily News
樹華基金今年獎學金預算90餘萬
( 本報記者王碩舸古柏蒂奴報道 )
樹華教育基金會（Soar Foundation）昨日舉行了每年一度的大型籌款活動，260名長期支持基金會的捐款人和義工濟濟一堂，以實際行動為樹華今年的中國大陸優秀的貧困學生獎學金計劃籌款，每人捐出了100元。基金會還將在今後幫助更多四川災區學生度過難關。
資助初中生六成考上高中
樹華教育基金會是資助中國大陸貧困學生，保證其中優秀學生有受基礎教育機會的非牟利機構，成立13年來，已經頗有成績。基金會強調，樹華是一個純草根性的社團，長期以來都在低調地支援中國教育。
基金會前會長王肖梅表示，樹華資助的初中學生中，大約有六成考上高中，在樹華資助的高中生中，大學升學率達到四成。在昨日的籌款會上，捐款人和義工們都為長期以來的付出，獲得豐碩的回報感到高興。
樹華董事會主席翟孟斌表示，自從中國政府實行兩免一補政策之後，樹華就將工作重心轉移到了資助高中生上。樹華的資金也因此而遇到了缺口問題。基金會今年將向400名新生發放獎學金，同時也要繼續提供1700個舊生的資助。
靠個人支持大企業少捐款
樹華今年的獎學金預算需要90多萬，但是實際籌款能力大約只有65萬。翟孟斌表示，這個30萬的缺口是因為，一個高中生的4年獎學金是一個初中生獎學金的3倍，而且由於美元的貶值，繼續維持相同金額的人民幣獎學金，無形中樹華又要多負擔2成費用。
王肖梅還指出，基金會在四川地震災區有20多名學生，可以想見災後，基金會會加強對災區的資助，幫助更多災區的優秀學生保留受教育的機會。
樹華副會長高大偉表示，長期以來，基金會都是依靠民間個人的默默支持，從來沒有過大企業的捐贈，因此，基金會籌款要依靠全社會的支持。 樹華基金會的網址為http://www.soaronline.org/，有捐款意向或提供幫助的義工可以上網查詢詳情，或者致電510-675-0680。
June 4, 2008
Visit to Shangluo
Dear Ben, Davy, Siu-fung, Shirley, and friends of SOAR,
First of all, my apologies for not writing sooner. I think it has been an emotional time for all of us, as we watch on TV and the Internet the enormous devastation and pain suffered by the people of Sichuan. As depressing as some of the situations were, the spirit is at the same time lifted up by incredible acts of heroism, selflessness, and compassion. I hope and pray that with the help of the government and fellow countrymen, it won’t take too long for life to go back to normal for the victims, and China will rise up from all this even stronger and greater.
My trip with the Spring Bud group started on 5/11, and on 5/12, the day of the earthquake, we were in a high school in Ziyang, in the south-western corner of Shaanxi, relatively close to the Sichuan border. Fortunately, everyone at the school and the school itself survived the quake with no damage. We managed to get back to Ankang that afternoon and followed the schedule as planned. The only change made was the cancellation of the school visit in Langao on the 13th. Needless to say, we were all quite “shaken” but we kept our good spirits, and accomplished everything we set out to do.
We visited Mr. Yang Shou-guo’s school on the 16th. We were due to return to Xian later that day. I told Mr. Yang that I would arrive with my group in the early afternoon. It so happened that 3 Spring Bud girls are attending that school. At about 3:15 PM.,I was greeted by Mr. Yang, Party Secretary Qian, and 2 other teachers. While the Spring bud delegation held their meeting with school officials, I visited with with Mr. Yang and his colleagues. Frankly speaking, I was a little embarrassed by the “official” hospitality shown towards me. As you might know, I had intended it to be a brief and personal visit. But it was a nice meeting, and I was very impressed by what I saw. The 2 labs, the SOAR Foundation Audio-visual Systems Lab and the SOAR Foundation Heating/Cooling Systems Lab, are situated across the hallway from each other. In each lab, there are about dozen to 20 “stations”. Currently the H/C Lab is not in use. In the A/V Lab, each station can accommodate 2 students at one time. The instructor has his own monitoring or evaluation station. The students are able to detect up to 100 “problems” and learn how to repair/solve each problem right there at the station. The entire classroom set-up looks totally practical and functional, even to someone like me. By the way, the classroom is well-lit, clean, and orderly. Mr. Yang told me that currently there are about 600 students enrolled in the A/V Lab course. The course duration is 3 months, and upon graduation students also get certification from the local labor department. I don’t have the statistics, but it seems that graduates have been able to find jobs and therefore the labor dept. is giving its approval to the course.
At about 4, it was time for us to leave. I didn’t have time to tour the school which has a fairly big campus and is situated outside the town area. Later I was told by my friends in the Spring Bud group that it’s a very good vocational school.
That wraps up my report. I took some pictures of the classrooms which Ben may already have. If you’re interested, I’ll find a way to send them to you. And if you have questions, please let me know.
Best regards,
Lily
021-5879-2869
May 18, 2008
四川地震
大家都很关心树华在四川的学生是否安全，两天前和树华北京义工通过电话，树华在四川的学生们都安全，只有一位在汶川的学生目前还没有联络到，北京义工还在继续联络。
Kathy.
May 7, 2008
歷年樹華教育基金會獲獎學生進入大學之統計资料
根據所能查到的資料，將歷年獲獎學生進入大學的人數列表如下。樹華1996年開始發獎學金，获奖學生ID為“1”開頭，共5個數字，2002年以後獲獎學生大部分尚未高中畢業，故沒把入大學资料放在表中。1996至2001年獲獎學生平均約有 23% 進入大學。(楊湘韻)
受獎學生 開始受 *新受獎 入高中 入大學 入大學 %高中生
ID 獎年份 人數 百分率 人數 百分率 入大學
1xxxx 1996 253 64% 66 26% 40%
2xxxx 1997 345 46% 87 25% 55%
3xxxx 1998 244 61% 45 18% 30%
4xxxx 1999 328 56% 84 26% 45%
5xxxx 2000 385 40% 70 18% 45%
6xxxx 2001 294 59% 64 22% 37%
* 當年新获奖的学生人数 (不包括续领奖学金的旧生)
May 3, 2008
2008 SOAR Fundraising Banquet
Our Dearest SOAR Friends:
The annual fund raising party of the SOAR Foundation will take place this coming May 25th, a Sunday at a dinner at the Dynasty in Cupertino.
We urge your participation with more of your friends whom you believe will be good donors and supporters like yourself to SOAR.
In the past 13 years, your generous donations have enabled the SOAR Foundation to change the lives of close to 10,000 young students by allowing them the opportunities for their continued academic pursuits. We urge you to exert sustained and even enhanced financial support to the Foundation this year for these reasons:
1) Rapid growth of number of students puts about 2,500 students in our current year scholarship portfolio.
2) SOAR has extended its operation to emphasize the support of vocational school education to further our efforts in augmenting the Chinese of their “elimination of poverty” undertakings.
While we know we are making even better and greater use of your funds, the Foundation will also face a budgetary deficit of about $300,000 for 2008.
We plan to use this dinner opportunity to conduct on-site fund raising at a low key, non-pressure mode. So as to gather more charitable funds without hurting SOAR’s humble and moderate image as a soft talk persuader that we have always been.
Please feel free to contact Mr. Davy Kao at davykao@ca.asatound.net telephone (925)287-0094, for any questions or suggestions that you may have. We look forward to your strong support at the party and on going.
Sincerely Yours,
Siu Fong Chang
President 2008
