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United Macedonian Diaspora Annual Report / 2016 UNITED MACEDONIAN DIASPORA ANNUAL REPORT / 2016 1 CONTACT umd Designed by Nick DeMichele of DeMichele Designs @UnitedMacedonianDiaspora @UMDiaspora www.umdiaspora.org United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) @UMDiaspora UMD Headquarters UMD Canada UMD Australia 1510 H Street, NW, Suite 900 Attn: Mr. Jim Daikos P.O. Box 3122 Washington, D.C. 20005 160 Konrad Crescent Unit 1 Hawthorne, VIC 3122 Phone: (202) 350-9798 Markham, Ontario L3R 9T9 Phone: 0438 385 466 [email protected] Phone: 1-800-UMD-9583 [email protected] [email protected] 2 04/ WHO WE ARE 05/ WHAT WE’VE DONE THIS YEAR 06/ ADVOCACY 09/ CHARITABLE EFFORTS CULTURAL PRESERVATION 11/ & PROMOTION 14/ LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 24/ UMD’S 40 UNDER 40 25/ POLICY & EDUCATION 28/ UMD VOICE 29/ UMD ENDOWMENT 31/ 2016 MACEDONIAN COMPANIONS 32/ LETTER FROM UMD’S TREASURER 33/ 2016 FINANCIAL REPORT 34/ 2016 UMD GLOBAL LEADERSHIP 3 Founded in 2004, the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) is a leading international non-partisan organization promoting the interests and needs of Macedonians and Macedonian communities worldwide. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., UMD’s presence is felt throughout the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Europe, with membership spanning six continents. OUR VISION We envision an infuential, respected, and united Macedonian diaspora committed to building and sustaining the global Macedonian community. OUR OBJECTIVES • Safeguarding Macedonia’s name and the human rights of all Macedonians around the world • Unifying the Macedonian diaspora • Promoting universal ideals of peace, freedom, self-determination, equality, and justice • Advancing ethnic Macedonian heritage and identity • Preserving Macedonian traditions via educational, social, and charitable programs 4 Advocacy at home and abroad. Critical development of the next generation of lead- ership. Ventures in business and industry, as well as pol- icy and diplomacy, have kept UMD members busy. 5 WHAT WE’VE DONE THIS YEAR AUSTRALIA ADVOCACY In the frst week of Australia’s 2016 federal election campaign, a delegation from UMD Australia, headed by UMD Australia Direc- tor Ordan Andreevski, completed briefngs at Parliament House in Canberra with the foreign policy advisors to Prime Minister Mal- colm Turnbull, the Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten, and the Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Richard Di Natale. Te purpose was to explore strategies, opportunities and challenges for building closer ties with Macedo- nia and its diaspora in Australia and to generate stronger multipar- ty support for a new policy to- wards Macedonia and its diaspora. In Canberra, UMD launched its Guide for Organising the Austra- lian Macedonian Community for the 2016 Federal Election. At the end of September, the University of Melbourne held a conference called Di- asporas in Action: Working Together for Peace, Devel- opment, and Humanitarian Response, bringing together key researchers, business leaders, policy makers, diplomats and international development agencies. UMD Australia Director Ordan Andreevski presented on Ad- vancing Australia Macedonia Economic Links. ■ 6 UNITED STATES From left, Congressman Alex Mooney (R-WV), Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX), and Congressman Ted Lieu (D- CA). Congressional Macedonian Caucus Grows to 27 Members ADVOCACY In 2016, the Congressional UMD encourages the Macedo- Caucus on Macedonia and nian-American community to Macedonian-Americans saw an continue working hard to ad- increase to 27 members with the vance the U.S-Macedonia rela- additions of Congressman Alex tionship. Trough collaboration, Mooney (R-WV), Congress- we will ensure that our voice man Randy Weber (R-TX), and is represented in all sectors of Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA). American society. ■ Tis is the largest the caucus has been since its inception in 2011. It encompasses 15 states, one territory, 15 Republicans, and 12 Democrats. 7 WHAT WE’VE DONE THIS YEAR Testimony to Congress on U.S. Foreign Assistance to Macedonia ADVOCACY On March 24th, UMD President Meto- dija A. Koloski and Senior International Policy & Diplomacy Fellow Gavin Kopel submitted written testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, UMD Engages With Foreign Operations, and Related Pro- grams. Te testimony, submitted for the U.S. Department of State Congressional record as part of an open call for comment on the foreign assistance ADVOCACY budget for fscal year 2017, highlight- ed the importance of ongoing bilateral In November, UMD President programs for Macedonia’s development. Metodija A. Koloski, joined by In addition, UMD focused on the need UMD member Zlata Unerko- for further assistance in three key areas: va, met with the State Depart- education, strengthening democratic pro- ment’s Director of the Ofce cesses, and continuing economic growth of South Central European Af- for rural areas. fairs, Matthew A. Palmer, and the Macedonia Desk Ofcer the context of the forthcoming In April, UMD held a meeting with Elaine M. Hensle, to discuss December 11th elections. Tomas O. Melia, Assistant Adminis- U.S.-Macedonia relations and trator of USAID for Europe & Eurasia. the ways in which the Mace- On November 28th, UMD During the meeting, Melia and Koloski, donian-American commu- President Koloski met with along with Senior Fellow Gavin Kopel nity can help strengthen the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Fellow Veronika Tomova, discussed partnership between the two for European and Eurasian USAID programs in Macedonia, high- countries. Afairs, Hoyt Yee, at the State lighting the success of such programs as Department. Koloski and Macedonia Connect and Primary Educa- Te group discussed the U.S. Yee discussed the upcoming tion Project. ■ government’s commitment to Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic elections – a critical test for integration and the ongoing the potential of Euro-Atlantic political crisis in Macedonia in integration. ■ 8 Ajvar 5K Proceeds Donated to Emanuil Plus to Help Children With Cerebral Palsy CHARITABLE EFFORTS Ajvar 5K is UMD’s annual signature charita- ble event. Tis year’s benefciary was Emanuil Plus, a Bitola, Macedonia-based organization providing help and services to 16 children with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Nearly 500 people, over 60 sponsors and donors, and dozens of volunteers made the 2016 Ajvar 5Ks, held in Columbus, Detroit, Garfeld, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C, a great suc- cess. In December, Ajvar 5K Project Director Ana Emanuil Plus. Tank you to the organizers and to all who Dukoska travelled to Bitola where she pre- participated in Ajvar 5K [in] some way. Your commitment sented Emanuil Plus President Beti Bulakovs- and attention to these children is already making a signifcant ka with a check for $11,500. Tese proceeds diference in their lives,” said Bulakovska. were collected from the various races held across the United States. Over the course of Te Detroit Ajvar 5K, in partnership with the United Mace- two days, Dukoska met with all the children donian-Americans of Detroit, the Macedonian American from the organization and delivered aid pack- Student Associations of Michigan, and UMD’s young leaders ages to each family. program, Generation M, raised $8,500, which will aid the Center for Infants in Bitola and the Bardovci Psychiatric Hos- “I cannot fnd adequate words to express pital in Skopje, Macedonia. ■ my appreciation and that of all members of 9 WHAT WE’VE DONE THIS YEAR UMD Provides Critical Flood Relief Funds to Macedonia CHARITABLE EFFORTS In August 2016, devastating fash foods hit Macedo- Stajkovci hospital, which has two doctors, two nurses, nia, tragically taking 24 lives and displacing over 1,000 and serves a population of approximately 2,500 people, people. UMD immediately responded by launching a and will be completed in 2017. #SupportMacedonia food relief grassroots campaign, including two events in which we raised over $33,000. A team of UMD Generation M volunteers, led by Filip Jotevski and Trajce Nikolov, took time out of their Within three days of the foods, UMD sent $17,000 summer holidays to assist in the cleanup eforts in to the Macedonian Red Cross for their humanitarian Cento and Stajkovci. Te villagers were greatly appre- eforts. Te rest of the funds were used to renovate the ciative and welcoming. 10 D.C. Macedonian Masquerade Celebrates Its Eleventh Year CULTURAL PRESERVATION & PROMOTION Over 200 guests attended UMD’s 11th Annual Macedonian Old-New Year’s Masquerade Celebra- tion – “Vasilica,” at the Embassy of Macedonia in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, January 18, 2016. Proceeds raised during the evening beneft UMD’s scholarship and internship programs. Te event was an opportunity for D.C. area residents to experience Macedonian culture, music, and food, including the traditional homemade Orthodox New Year’s poga- cha (bread). ■ 11 WHAT WE’VE DONE THIS YEAR front of 100 guests from the U.S. wine, restaurant, and Smithsonian hospitality industry. UMD Advisory Council Member Dana Klein and UMD Florida Regional Representative Macedonian Music CD Mishko Josifov spearheaded this event. ■ CULTURAL PRESERVATION & PROMOTION Macedonian Art & In July, UMD organized the Skopje, Macedonia pro- motion of the frst-ever Macedonian music CD of the Culture Weekend Held Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Museum for the Revolutionary Fight. Speeches were made by the in Florida Minister for Culture, Elizabeta Kancevska-Milevska, CULTURAL PRESERVATION the CD producer Martin Koenig, and UMD President & PROMOTION Koloski. ■ In March, UMD held its 3rd Annual “Making Connec- tions from Miami to Macedonia” networking reception International Women’s at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, FL, drawing over a hundred guests. Te event was hosted by UMD Day Celebrated Advisory Council Member Nicholas Taw, renowned Skopje and Miami-based artist Irena Gapkovska, the CULTURAL PRESERVATION Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Mace- & PROMOTION donia for Southern Florida, UMD Advisory Council Member Dana Klein, and UMD’s Florida Regional On March 8th, UMD hosted its frst International Representative Mishko Josifov. Women’s Day Happy Hour at Earls in Tysons Corner, Virginia to celebrate Macedonian women and their At the reception, UMD recognized Lena Gogovska role in our society.
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