Looking to help? Donate!
Kalmyk Youth Coalition relies on the generous donations of our community and allies. This year, in addition to the typical funds needed to provide venue, food, and attendee booklets + writing utensils, we are hoping to invest in our community by paying our speakers for their work and time in this event!
Thank you for your donation!
Thank you for your donation!
We thank you for your interest in donating to our Spring 2024 Workshop! Your donations will be used to ensure we can provide food, participatory items for attendees like pens and notebooks, and speaker fees!
For this event, Nitsan Choephel Ling Buddhist Temple located in Howell, NJ is our Fiscal Sponsor. As such, they are collecting donations on our behalf to ensure your donations are tax-deductible! Please, use the link below to enter your preferred donation amount:
Please note: as with previous Kalmyk Youth Events, both Kalmyk Youth Coalition’s Treasury team and Fiscal Sponsor are both tasked with noting every donation made to ensure accuracy. You will receive a Donor Letter from Nitsan for your tax purposes. If you have any questions, please email kalmykyouth@gmail.com
How will your donations help?
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Food for participants: we are hoping to provide morning refreshments + drinks, a mix of traditional food and local cuisine, and snacks + drinks through out the day for both children and adults
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Booklet, notebooks, pens, tote bags for attendees: we are hoping to best equip our attendees to learn from our speakers, expand on presentations by jotting ideas down, and have tangible reminders of community to take home into their personal lives.
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Speaker fees: We are excited for the opportunity to support our speakers and their contributions to their fields to sustain their work in our community long-term.
About Kalmyk Youth Coalition:
Kalmyk Youth Coalition (KYC) is a youth-led, currently volunteer-based community group born out of the Kalmyk Youth Conferences and subsequent Leadership Trainings. KYC was formed with the intention to empower our youth in the US diasporic community through cultural education, community building, and leadership trainings. Kalmyks are an Indigenous Oirat Mongolic peoples with traditional nomadic values from Dzungaria, Southern Siberia, to the Steppes. We are part of the approx. 250,000 Kalmyks remaining globally due to a long and layered history of colonial violence under Russian occupation and in diaspora. As the Oirat-Kalmyks in diaspora, our stories of immigration are rooted in refugee and asylum-seeking pathways. We focus on combating the continued erasure of our people and history through assimilation and instead hope to uplift our voices, our youth, and our community. Our most recent project, Kalmyk Pantry, was founded by members of our leadership team—Zoya Froloff, Almina Samtonova, Elena (Lanie) Emelchin Brunner, Dechen Kelden, and Sima Moschkin—to address the immediate needs of people seeking political asylum in NYC, NJ, and PA. Past events include Kalmyk Youth Conferences hosted in 2015 and in 2017 organized by Dechen Kelden, Kunsang Kelden, Sima Moschkin, and Anna Brunner, a film screening with The Gulls Director Ella Mazheeva, a special lecture on Stalin’s Deportation with Professor Elza Bair Guchinova, a Tsagan Sar + Losar Celebration in coordination with the Office of Tibet, a Zul Celebration for Children at Tibet House, and an Author Panel on Reclaiming Narratives through Modern Translations of Ancient Text with Kalmyk scholar Dr. Saglar Bougdaeva (first English translator of Jangar), Dr. Melissa Chakars (Chair and Professor of Department of History at Saint Joseph’s University), and Dr. Christopher Atwood (Chair and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania).
For inquiries, please email us at kalmykyouth@gmail.com