September 17, 2007
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For more information and to RSVP, please contact Sophya at: Sophya@kgalb.org

September 14, 2007
Khmer Girls in Action cordially invites you to attend our 10th Anniversary Celebration!
Celebrating 10 years of fighting for social justice!

SAVE THE DATE!

Friday, October 19, 2007 7:00 - 9:00 pm
La Lune Restaurant
1438 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90813

Program includes silent auctions, honorees, youth performances, dance, and dinner!

Honorees:

Community Partners Awards: Liberty Hill Foundation
Community Youth Solidarity Award: Southern Californians for Youth
Youth Leadership Development Award: EM3 Educated Men with Meaningful Messages
Movement Shakers Award: Cynthia Choi
Movement Shakers Award: Karintha Marshall

Please RSVP by September 18, 2007
Contact us at (562) 986-9415 or email at KGADinner@kgalb.org to RSVP or for more information

Sponsorship Opportunities
the following ad sizes will be available for purchase

* $500 Full Page
* $250 Half Page
* $150 Quarter Page
* $75 Name Listing

$40 Youth Ticket
$50 Adult Ticket

If you are not able to attend, please sponsor someone to attend by purchasing a ticket for them

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note:We have extended our RSVP date to October 12st and Ads endorsements have been extended also to October 1st!

If you have already RSVP and sent your check in, your ticket will be held at the door for you. Thank you

August 31, 2007

Khmer Girls in Action hiring and we are seeking a Program Coordinator


Job Description
Title: Program Coordinator
Program: Cultural Historical Arts Program
FLSA: Non-exempt

Salary range: $27,000-$30,000 DOE with excellent benefits

Background

KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION’S (KGA) mission is to contribute to the movement for social, economic, and political justice by building a strong, progressive, and sustainable community institution led by Southeast Asian women and girls. Our core strategies are leadership development, community organizing, and cultural-historical arts programming. KGA works primarily with high school-aged and young adult Khmer and other Southeast Asian women (ages 14-21) living, working and/or attending school in Long Beach, California. As a youth- and adult-led organization, KGA staff works as a team, striving towards equal participation and decision making with youth and adults. Valuing process and consensus building efforts, KGA staff are highly committed to social justice and community building both within and outside the organization.

KGA believes that culture is dynamic and that the creation and dissemination of art plays a unique role in shaping culture and building community identity, belonging, and power. Community empowerment lays, in part, in a community’s ability to control and disseminate their own images and stories that reflect their realities, experiences, history, priorities, and concerns. Since 1998, KGA has aimed to use the transformative nature of the creative process to facilitate Khmer young women’s examination of the root causes of conditions in their communities and reframe those issues from a grassroots, community perspective. The cultural historical arts are comprised of two primary medium, the “Tongues Afire” Creative Writing and Performance Program as well as the “3rd Eye Vision” Digital Storytelling Program.

Brief summary

The Program Coordinator (PC) works with our Community Organizers and Leadership Development Program Coordinator to train young Southeast Asian/Khmer women to develop their individual potential and to become agents of positive social change. The PC is specifically responsible for creating structured and informal learning opportunities for KGA members by incorporating cultural historical arts in youth development and youth organizing. The PC is responsible for serving as a lead facilitator, resource person and mentor for KGA members. The PC is responsible for identifying and securing program resource needs. Additionally, the PC serves as a representative of KGA and is responsible for fostering relationships with allied organizations. Program Coordinators lead long term program visioning and planning for the organization with the Executive Director.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

•Lead and coordinate Cultural Historical Arts Program
•Design, implement, and facilitate creative writing and digital media workshops
•Organize with community members, leaders, and organization on issues using media justice
•Formulate long term Youth Leadership Development and Programmatic goals/objectives, strategies, and long-term sustainability plan with the assistance of Executive Director
•Review and overhaul the KGA Youth Leadership Development core curriculum to ensure it is grounded in theory and practice
•Conduct outreach and orientation for potential and new members
•Supervise youth members and volunteers
•Establish relationships with youth organizing, media justice, and social justice groups
•Manage all logistics for programs, campaigns, etc.
•Develop and implement systems for documenting progress of work
•Serve as KGA representative at conferences, summits, etc.
•Provide program support in other areas when needed
•Provide other support and assume other duties as necessary

Qualifications


•At least 3 years of experience directing programs in the youth field and/or in an immigrant/refugee community setting
•Experience working with young people, preferably young women
•Commitment to social justice values and movement building
•Experience with teaching creative writing, performance, or digital media
•Experience with social justice curriculum development or training design
•Comfortable speaking in front of small and large groups
•Understanding of Southeast Asian, specifically Cambodian community, preferably Khmer speaking
•Highly organized and punctual
•Understanding of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, xenophobia •Ability to work independently and as part of a team
•May have to work some evenings or weekends on a irregular basis

Interested individuals, please mail, fax or email resume and cover letter by Friday, September 21th to:

Suely Ngouy
Executive Director
Khmer Girls in Action
1366 Redondo Avenue, Suite 9 Long Beach, CA 90804
(562) 986-9416 fax
Email: suely@kgalb.org
www.kgalb.org
This position is an employee of KGA’s fiscal sponsor Community Partners. Community Partners is an equal opportunity employer.

June 20, 2007
Khmer Girls in Action brings to you, our community exchange fundraising event!

When: June 23, 2007
Time: 10-1 pm
Where: KGA's Office
  1355 Redondo Avenue, suite 8
  Long Beach, CA 90804

Bring something old and walk away with something new.

May 20, 2007
If you would like to serve as a public ally for Khmer Girls in Action(provided that you've been a KGA member)or other great non-profits in Los Angeles County please consider filling out an application for the Public Allies Leadership Program. The application is due June 11th, 2007 to Public Allies.

Public Allies’ core program is a 10 month apprenticeship program funded by AmeriCorps. The three main components of the Public Allies’ apprenticeship program are the nonprofit apprenticeship, leadership training and the team service project.
(click for more info)

April 6, 2007
Check out our updated newsletter!

March 5, 2007


March 2, 2007
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January 23, 2007
Volunteer Opportunity Orientation Day!

Tuesday January 30th, 2007
6:30-8:00 PM at KGA office

Looking for a place to volunteer? Want to gain community service hours? Khmer Girls in Action is looking for volunteers interested in tutoring, supporting KGA’s programs, working with core members and more! If you’re interested in creating change, developing and mentoring young women into leaders, KGA would love to have you be a part of the family.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Sophya at: Sophya@kgalb.org

December 16, 2006
Thank you all for coming to the community barbeque! Unfortunately, we had to relocate back into the office due to the rain earlier in the day. If you were unable to see our relocation signs, we apologize for the inconvenience.
I have updated pictures of the event; a video from one of our guest speakers will be uploaded soon.

December 15, 2006
-JOB OPENING & COMMUNITY BBQ SATURDAY DEC 16th-
We are currently looking for southeast asian, preferably khmer, women to be apart of our staff. For more information, click here.

Join our community barbeque celebrating National Migrant Day! KGA encourages your friends, family, loved ones, etc. to come to our event this saturday, December 16 from 11:30am to 2:00pm. It is a great way to receive resources about deportation, since it affects all of us in our community. We want you to come along!

November 23, 2006
We would like to thank everyone that had came to our feast of resistance. Hope you all had a great thanksgiving break!

November 9, 2006
KGA would like to thank our volunteers and allies for the success of our campaign to defeat Proposition 85! Our phone banking, precinct walking, community forums, and rallies had paid off. We are glad to work with such hardworking and dedicated people that came to help us out. And again, thank you guys!

November 2, 2006

Campaign to Defeat Proposition 85

On November 7th, California voters will go to the polls in this general election. Governor Schwarzenegger and the right wing are counting on low voter turnout so they can push through their extremist measures.

Among other issues, reproductive choice, specifically for young people, is under attack. Proposition 85 would require health care providers to notify the parents of any minor seeking an abortion, and enforce a 48-hour waiting period.

Khmer Girls in Action urges California voters to vote NO on Proposition 85.

We want teens to talk their parents but if they can’t, they should still have access to safe and confidential health care. Forcing teens to tell their parents will lessen the likelihood of teens seeking healthcare services. Studies show that 47% of minors seeking reproductive healthcare services would completely stop seeking these services if parental notification was mandatory and only 1% said that they would stop having sex.

The experience of other states that have passed notification laws shows that they are ineffective and dangerous. They ignore the fact that a majority of minors already involve their parents in reproductive health decisions. Research shows that those who tell their parents have valid reasons, like a history of family violence or a real fear of being kicked out of the house.

Notification laws do not reduce abortions or unintended teen pregnancies. Instead they force young women to travel out of state, navigate an intimidating court procedure, or delay seeking care, thereby increasing their risk of harm.

The election will be here before we know it, and we have to do everything we can to educate and mobilize voters to defend reproductive freedom in California.

Here's what you can do:

  1. Mark Election Day, Tuesday, November 7th on your calendar. When you go to the polls, take 5 friends with you.

  2. Forward this e-mail to everyone you know who will stand up for reproductive freedom and vote on November 7th. If you don't live in California, contact friends and family who do.

  3. Volunteer at Khmer Girls in Action to defeat Proposition 85. ( E-mail us at: justice@kgalb.org)

For more information on Prop 85, go to www.choiceusa.org

Every Vote Counts: Register & Vote NO on 85

How to Register to Vote

  • Register On-line
  • Download and Mail a voter Registration Form

    • Deadline to Register—Monday October 21st! In California , the deadline to register to vote for an election is 15 days before each local and statewide election day, so please register early! Click here for more information on California’s 15-day close of registration.

    Additional Assistance
    For additional assistance with voter registration, please contact the Secretary of State’s office at any of the following toll-free numbers:

    English: 1-800-345-VOTE
    Spanish: 1-800-232-VOTA
    Chinese: 1-800-339-2857
    Vietnamese: 1-800-339-8163
    Japanese: 1-800-339-2865
    Tagalog: 1-800-339-2957
    Korean: 1-866-575-1558


    October 18, 2006
    Khmer Girls in Action urges California voters to vote NO on Proposition 85, on Tuesday November 7th, 2006.

    September 30, 2006
    Town Hall Meeting 2am-5pm
    (Communities coming together to fight racism and to defend human rights!)

    Shatto Recreation Center
    3191 West 4th Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90020
    (between Virgil and Vermont Ave.)

    September 24, 2006
    Check out our new gmail calendar here. Also, the scroll under calendar to the right is updated. Remember, general membership kicks off October 5th!

    August 15, 2006
    New layout! Hope you all like it.