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Causes: International, International Academic Exchange
Mission: The organizaton's mission is to: educate the general public about turkey and turkish americans and voice their opinion on critical issues to interested parties. Engage and cultivate a new generation of young turkish american leaders. Promote and advance the interests of the turkish american community and turks. Foster friendship, understanding and cooperation between the united states and turkey. Protect the character and ensure a realistic portrayal of turkey and turkish americans in the media and the arts. Serve as a think tank of expertise and a clearinghouse of information on turkey and americans of turkish descent. Identify and recognize the achievements of turkish americans in academia, arts, business, education, government, public service and science.
Programs: University grants, outreach to other heritage communities, honoraria and grass roots education. University of utah grant. Grant to support five-year project in turkish studies at the university of utah: memory, migration and trauma. Grant includes fellowship support, a conference series, publication support, a research professorship and a project director. Council of turkish canadians: grant to support of the annual ctc youth congress conference, which makes it possible for canadian & american turkish students to meet and discuss their present and future activities. United macedonian diaspora: grant matching program to fund its operations in washington, dc. Chaldean federation of america: grant to provide food vouchers to alleviate the suffering of displaced chaldean and iraqi refugees in turkey. Cross international: grant to provide assistance to combat the cholera epidemic in haiti after the devastating earthquake. United way of miami-dade: grant to provide assistance to combat the cholera epidemic in haiti after the devastating earthquake bosniak ameircan advisory council for bh: grant matching program to fund its operations in washington, dc. Ftaa: grant to support grassroots director to engage in a nationwide grassroots education and advocacy campaign. Ataa: grant to support grassroots education and advocacy campaign. Congressional hispanic caucus institute: sponsorship for a table at the 33rd annual awards gala. Prof. Justin mccarthy, u. Of louisville: grants to research and produce a graphical representation of population movements in and around the ottoman lands roughly between the period of 1800-1922.
scholarships. Tca scholarships are focused in two areas. The first is to support turkish american students who have an interest in pursuing careers in public policy and civic affairs. The second is to support minority students who have an interest in studying abroad, particularly in turkey. The latter scholarships are administrated through diversity abroad for additional outreach to students who meet certain criteria.
education awareness through sponsorship of educational travel for congressional members and staff as well as native american leaders. These trips are focus on education, culture and business.