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Winner of 2017 Dr. Prahlad & Bindu Pant Scholarship Award

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Congratulations! Alok Acharya for being the recipient of  $2000.00 of 2017 Prahlad & Bindu Pant Scholarship Award.

 

On behalf of Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA) together with NASeA Academic and Professional Committee, Chair Dr. Manoj K. Jha and the Executive members, it is my great pleasure to share with you all that Alok Acharya from Irving, Texas as the winner of $2000.00 “2017 Prahlad & Bindu Pant Scholarship Award”. 

 

As per official announcement received from the Chair of Academic and Professional Committee, NASeA, Dr. Manoj K. Jha, Mr. Acharyae  has  been declared the winner for this year’s Prahlad and Bindu Pant $2000.00 Scholarship award. He has received his high school graduation from MacArthur High School (Irving, TX) in 2017 and currently enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington for his undergraduate study.

 

Mr. Acharya, please  be advised to attend the 13th NASeA/ANMA Joint Convention 2017  to be held during Sept. 1-3, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina to receive this cash award. As announced, the winner must be present at the convention to receive the award. For joint convention details please visit www.jointconvention.org 

 

With this note, please join me in saluting respected  Dr. Prahlad Pant and Bindu Pant for establishing this prestigious award “Prahlad & Bindu Pant Scholarship Award” to help and financially support the needy youths of our Nepali American community in the US to complete their dream of higher studies. 

 

NASeA is proud to be the administrator of this prestigious award and I extend special thanks to Academic and Professional Committee, Chair Dr. Jha and his team members for the outstanding work in completing the task of  selection process of this award. 

 

Once again congratulations Alok and wish you all the best for your academic excellence!

 

Always for the Nepali American community and Friends of Nepal!

 

 
With Respect,
Bimal Nepal, 
President 
Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA)
naseaonline.org 
 
Please open the link and Register/Book the Hotel for Joint convention 2017: 
https://jointconvention.org/registration/  

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13th NASeA/ANMA Convention

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Help Support Victims of Flood in Nepal: 

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Please click the link and extend your support now:


 

Collected and pledge amount as of 8/19/2017 4PM EDT
Date Donor Amount Note
13-Aug-17 NASeA ( released by President Bimal Nepal) $499.00 Paypal Paid
13-Aug-17 Sunita Gautam $20.00 Paypal Paid
13-Aug-17 Bimal Jha $30.00 Paypal Paid
13-Aug-17 Arun Amatya $100.00 Paypal Paid
14-Aug-17 Prakash Malla $101.00 Pledged
14-Aug-17 Arun Shrestha $51.00 Paypal Paid
14-Aug-17 Ambika Lohani $51.00 Paypal Paid
14-Aug-17 Tek Thapa $100.00 Paypal Paid
14-Aug-17 Pralad Shah $50.00 Paypal Paid
15-Aug-17 Udhav Karki $51.00 Pledged
15-Aug-17 Khushi Ram Tiwari $51.00 Pledged
16-Aug-17 Manish Shakya $55.00 Paypal Paid
16-Aug-17 Bimal Nepal $101.00 Paypal Paid
16-Aug-17 Shaubhagya Shrestha $101.00 Paypal Paid
16-Aug-17 Dr Niroj Basnet $55.00 Paypal Paid
16-Aug-17 Shailendra Bajracharya $50.00 Pledged
18-Aug-17 Yogeshor Karki $25.00 Pledged

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Respected Nepalese Community members in NASeA region and beyond,
Greetings!
 
On behalf of Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA) we express our heartfelt condolence for loss of precious lives due to recent flood in several Terai districts of Nepal. Thousands of people and their livelihoods have been effected by this flood. Once again, our beloved motherland Nepal faces a crisis of Natural disaster and we all need to extend our support. 
 
To overcome this situation, NASeA pledges $499.00 (Four Hundred Ninety-nine dollars) and generously requests you all to be part of this fundraising effort.
To help and support Nepal Flood Victims please click the link above:
 
This is time sensitive and all collected fund within a week i.e. August 19, 2017 together with NASeA contribution of $499.00 will be released immediately to Help Nepal Flood Victims through Nepal Red Cross or other reliable agencies working at local level.   
With this note, I encourage all NASeA Officers, Advisers, Former Presidents, Advisers, Life Members together with International/National/Regional/State/Students/Community Organisations Presidents, Social leaders to spread this NASeA- Help Nepal Flood Victims announcement to your respective region and help us generate the fund for this great humanitarian task. 
 
Finally, on behalf of NASeA, I request to help and support our motherland Nepal.
Always for Nepali American Community and Friends of Nepal!
With Respect,
Bimal Nepal,
President
Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA)

 

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Welcome to 13th NASeA/ANMA Joint Convention 2017, Charlotte, NC

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Call for paper from Women’s Committee

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Dear Community members , 

I am delighted to share that NASeA/ ANMA Is organizing Women’s Forum in forthcoming Bigger Better Best Ever 13th  NASeA /ANMA joint Convention 2017 (https://jointconvention.org). This is a friendly reminder for August 20th 2017 deadline to submit papers for the women’s forum. This is the place to be this summer where we will have largest Nepali gathering outside of Nepal to meet, have fun and basically to discuss our common goals. Theme for this year is “Civic Engagement and Youth Empowerment of Nepalis in America “. As we all know we cannot engagement and preserve our culture and identity if there is no equality. Our today’s Youths are future leaders ! Their each and every engagement impact not only where we reside, all over the world! It is our common responsibility to make Nepali community in USA to be violence free. Violence in any form is not acceptable! Therefore,  Women Forum choose the topics of “Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Violence” 

NASeA/ANMA Women’s Forum 

Theme: Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Violence 

Women forum is looking papers on the basic of below listed criteria. We will select three panelists among the best paper presented. There will be one topic and three panelists to speak on different aspects of the same topic. Also, please send your brief bio for the organizer to understand your subject matter expertise in that area. 

Women forum will focus on issues and solutions on the following topics: 

1.The basics of domestic violence (definitions, statistics, effects on children, why people are abusive) and how Nepali community members in USA can respond to domestic violence. 

2.Presents data on its incident, compare the data to South Asian population and then data on Nepalis in the USA. 

3.Impact on victim, children, family and social fabric, economic cots, suicide, depression, guilt workdays lost emergency room visits with data. 

4.Resources available, government, laws, non-profit organizations, especially those dedicated to South Asians, any such models in benefiting Nepali community in USA. 

5.Nepali women’s dilemma: performing a multitasking role, daunting challenges for domestic violence. 

Panelist Qualification: 

1.Presentation or Research paper should be focused on one of the above-mentioned topics. 

2.Panelist must be highly knowledgeable and MUST possess work/study experience in this area. 

3.Panelist MUST focus on outcome -strategic/recommendation as to what can be done at individual, household, community and policy level. 

Only selected panelist will be invited to speak. Submission dead line: August 20th , 2017 Paper submitted after the deadline would not be accepted. 

Person to Contact: Urmila “Nirdoshi “ 

(Email:Joshi55@yahoo.com) 

Women’s forum Coordinator- NASeA /ANMA 13th Joint Convention 2017, Charlotte NC 

 

 

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM NASeA ELECTION COMMISSION: Final Candidate List for 2017 Election

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From: NASeA Election Commission (2017)
 
Notice Date: August 6, 2017
 
Official EC Contact email: EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com
 
Subj: Publication of Final list of Candidates for NASeA 2017-2019 Term 
 
 
   Election commission  is pleased to announce the Final list of candidates for the upcoming NASeA election to be held on Sunday, September 3rd, 2017. Please review the list and if you notice either mistakes in your name or the position you are seeking, then please immediately email EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com. We also kindly request the candidates  and their supporters not to tag or post messages in any of the commissioners personal social media pages so that we can continue to remain independent and serve this election.

PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Shailendra Bajracharya (GA)

  2. Madhav P Dhakal (NC)


EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Sushil Nepal (NC)

  2. Shiva Bista (NC)

  3. Tara P. Poon Magar (GA)


VICE PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Ambika Lohani Sharma (GA)

  2. Dr. Niroj Basnet (GA)


TREASURER (1)

  1. Baburam Sharma (GA)

  2. Dr. Nirmal Paudel (NC)


GENERAL SECRETARY (1)

  1. Krishna Shrestha (FL)

  2. Saunak Ranjitkar (GA)


JOINT SECRETARY (1)

  1. Mohan Bista (GA)

  2. Narendra Baral (GA)

 

BOARD (Executive) MEMBERS (15)

  1. Pratisha Shakya (GA)

  2. Suman Silwal, PhD (AL)

  3. Rajendra Neupane (SC)

  4. Manoj Jha (NC)

  5. Satish Gupta (SC)

  6. Chakra P Adhikari (NC)

  7. Shankar P Parajuli (NY)

  8. Thakur B Karkee (NC)

  9. Rama D Ghimire (GA)

  10. Binita KC, PhD (TN)

  11. Manoj Kumar Rai (NC)

  12. Sajan Shrestha (SC)

  13. Chet Bhattarai (NC)

  14. Keshav Neupane (NC)

  15. Namita Ghimire (GA)

  16. Bhim Prasad Timalsina (NC)

  17. Pammi Dhungana (Parajuli) (NC)

  18. Arun Shrestha (NC)

  19. Bishal Bharati (NC)

  20. Saujanya Aryal (NC)

  21. Manish Shakya NC)

  22. Prashim Poudyal (NC)

  23. Yogeshor Karki (GA)

  24. Binaya Aryal (NC)

  25. Krishna Raj Devkota (GA)

  26. Tilak B. Shrestha, PhD (KY)

  27. Manish Das (SC)

Respectfully,
NASeA Election Commission
Shaubhagya Shrestha, Chair
Raja Ghale, Member
Kiran “Ron” Sitoula, Member
EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com

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Candidate list ANNOUNCEMENT from NASeA ELECTION COMMISSION

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Notice Date: Friday, August 4, 2017

Election Commission Contact: EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com

Message: We are pleased to announce the preliminary candidates list for the upcoming NASeA election. Please review the list and if you notice either mistakes in your name or the position you are seeking, then please immediately email EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com. You can also withdraw from any of the posts you are contesting. Deadline for withdrawal is : Saturday, August 5, 2017 (EST midnight) by emailing .

PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Shailendra Bajracharya (GA)

  2. Madhav P Dhakal (NC)

 

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Sushil Nepal (NC)

  2. Shiva Bista (NC)

  3. Tara Pun Magar (GA)

 

VICE PRESIDENT (1)

  1. Ambika Lohani Sharma (GA)

  2. Dr. Niroj Basnet (GA)

 

TREASURER (1)

  1. Binaya Aryal (NC)

  2. Baburam Sharma (GA)

  3. Dr. Nirmal Paudel (NC)

 

GENERAL SECRETARY (1)

  1. Krishna Shrestha (FL)

  2. Saunak Ranjitkar (GA)

 

JOINT SECRETARY (1)

  1. Mohan Bista (GA)

  2. Narendra Baral (SC)

 

BOARD (Executive) MEMBERS (15)

  1. Pratisha Shakya (GA)

  2. Suman Silwal (AL)

  3. Rajendra Neupane (SC)

  4. Manoj Jha (NC)

  5. Ramesh Paudel (TN)

  6. Satish Gupta (SC)

  7. Chakra P Adhikari (NC)

  8. Shankar P Parajuli (NY)

  9. Thakur B Karkee (NC)

  10. Rama D Ghimire (GA)

  11. Binita KC, PhD (TN)

  12. Manoj Kumar Rai (NC)

  13. Sajan Shrestha (SC)

  14. Chet Bhattarai (NC)

  15. Keshav Neupane (NC)

  16. Namita Ghimire (GA)

  17. Bhim Prasad Timalsina (NC)

  18. Pammi Dhungana (Parajuli) (NC)

  19. Arun Shrestha (NC)

  20. Bishal Bharati (NC)

  21. Saujanya Aryal (NC)

  22. Manish Shakya NC)

  23. Prashim Poudyal (NC)

  24. Yogeshor Karki (GA)

  25. Binaya Aryal (NC)

  26. Krishna Raj Devkota (GA)

  27. Bidhya Gurung (GA)

  28. Tilak B. Shrestha, PhD (KY)

  29. Manish Das (SC)

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13th NASeA/ANMA  Joint Convention – Call for Volunteer !!

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Our 13th convention is around the corner, have you checked the
schedule online and figured out what you want to do ?  Being a
volunteer run organization, it is us and only us who can make this
convention a great experience. So, why wait!!!

Event calendar is available on convention website, please take a
moment to review, and sign up to help. Volunteer Sign up form can be
accessed through the main page(Forms) or directly at
https://jointconvention.org/volunteer/. Note that there are several
youth volunteer opportunities available for our students as well. All
the participating volunteers will receive a certificate of
appreciation at the end.

Should you have any questions/comments call or email

Binayak Bijukchhe
Joint Convention Volunteer  Committee Coordinator
704 968 3537
bijukchhe@gmail.com

 

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………………………….Call for Nominations…………………….

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for
Board of Directors and Officers
of
Nepalese Association in Southeast America (NASeA)

July 26, 2017

NASeA’s Election Committee invites nominations from its members to serve as Officers of the Board for a two-year term beginning September 4, 2017.

The nominations are available for the following positions:

· President (1)

· Executive Vice President (1)

· Vice President (1)

· General Secretary (1)

· Joint Secretary (1)

· Treasurer (1)

· Board (Executive) Members (15)

Interested members can either self-nominate or nominate other individuals who are dues paying members of NASeA as of July 4, 2017, including attendees at the 2016 ANMA/NASeA annual convention in St. Louis, Missouri with payment of the full registration fees, or who are life members of NASeA. Nominations must be received by the Election Committee by Thursday, August 3, 2017 for consideration.

Nominations must be submitted by following the guidelines and procedures as described below.

The nominee must:
1. Be a NASeA member in good standing.
2. Has attained the age of 18 years by the filing deadline.
3. Has been a NASeA member for at least sixty (60) days immediately preceding the election.
4. In the case of President, in addition to the above three requirements, has served as a Board officer for at least one term (2 years)

Nomination procedures:

While submitting a nomination, the following procedures must be followed:

1. One individual is eligible to compete for only one position.
2. A nominator can send nomination for one or more positions.
3. The following information about the nominator must be provided:
a. Name:
b. Current mailing address:
c. Valid e-mail address:
d. Verifiable phone number:
e. Member as of July 4, 2017: Yes or No
4. The position or positions being nominated must be clearly specified.
5. The following details for each nominee must be provided :
a. Position contesting or nominated:
b. Name:
c. Current mailing address:
d. Valid e-mail address :
e. Verifiable phone number:
f. Member as of July 4, 2017: Yes or No

6. A statement must be provided by the nominator that, to his/her best knowledge, the nominee is eligible for the position according to the nomination guidelines described above and in the bylaws.
7. Nomination must be submitted no later than August 3, 2017.
8. Nomination must be submitted to the correct e-mail address at: EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com

9. Only nominations sent to the e-mail address in #8 above will be considered by the Election Commission. Any e-mail with questions or comments about the nomination process and election will not be entertained or replied.

10. Preliminary candidate lists will be published on Friday August 4th, 2017

11. Withdrawal deadline for Candidates from various posts. Saturday August 05, 2017

12. Final list of contestant published: Monday, August 07, 2017

For time table and other information about membership, nomination process, and election, please visit NASeA website at https://naseaonline.org/

Respectfully,
NASeA Election Committee:
Shaubhagya Shrestha, Chair
Raja Ghale, Member
Kiran “Ron” Sitoula, Member

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Important Announcement from Election Commission

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Official EC Contact email: EC2017.NASeA@gmail.com
 
Date: July 22, 2017
Respected NASeA Members,
Greetings!
This is to inform you all that on July 21, 2017 Election Commissions led by Chair  Shaubhagya L Shrestha and NASeA Membership Verification Committee led by President Bimal Nepal had a joint meeting regarding NASeA Membership status of 2017. The outcome of this special meeting officially set up electoral guidelines 2017 for conducting NASeA Executive Committee Election 2017-2019.
Please find below the published NASeA Election 2017 Eligible Voters list.  Please be advised to follow the announced instruction to be the candidates and come to vote with your State issued ID.
No further changes to the list will be made. If you believe you have become valid member of NASeA before July 4th midnight EST, and do NOT see your name please be advised to email  EC2017.NASEA@gmail.com and remember to come to the election site with your proper claims and proofs so that the election commissioners can make decision on your case on the spot.
Together we look forward having everyone’s active participations and cooperation in NASeA Election 2017.
We will assure you all that we will conduct free and fair election abiding NASeA By-Laws.
Chair,  Shaubhagya L Shrestha
Member, Raja Ghale
Member, Kiran (Ron) Sitaula
NASeA Election Commission 2017

 

2017 NASeA Voters list