Foundation Supported Projects

 In addition to being the primary international supporter of the Pre-Collegiate Program, the foundation supports innovative and high-impact programs in Myanmar or that relate to Myanmar.

All Hands Myanmar

All Hands Myanmar started in 2019 as a group of Myanmar enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area; since then we’ve gone both virtual and global. Once a dinner discussion with a speaker, we now use Zoom to tap both speakers in Myanmar and new audiences around the world, a rare upside to Covid-19.

Most participants are Americans with some experience in Myanmar plus a handful of Myanmar expatriates, often working in high-tech in Silicon Valley. We also are drawing a pre-breakfast crowd in Myanmar of people willing to arise early to join the discussion. Our meetings are usually at 5:30pm Pacific Time, which is 7 or 8am the next day in Myanmar.

To attend a session, email Tim Clark, tclark@factpoint.com, for Zoom invitation

To be informed of future All Hands Myanmar sessions, sign up for the All Hands Myanmar listserv/mailing list by emailing Kirk Acevedo, kirka.acevedo@gmail.com

Burmese in America

MFAE supports 10 Billion Strong’s environmental leadership accelerator for 20 university-aged students from Myanmar to learn about critical environmental issues in Myanmar and to build the skills to address them. Learn more here.

Burmese in America is a program of the Myanmar Foundation for Analytic Education that connects Burmese students studying at U.S. colleges with local communities of Burmese living in the U.S. as refugees or expatriates. Our first location was Fort Wayne, Indiana, where we in 2016-2018 six Burmese students on their spring or summer breaks as Burmese in America fellows. In Fort Wayne, they conducted research among Burmese residents on the pluses and minuses of living and working in that community. Our local partners are the Workers Project and Burmese Action Center. Taking advantage of the BiA fellows’ fluency in Burmese, our sponsors’ initial goal was to learn why the Burmese of Fort Wayne were so dispirited and disengaged from civic life. In addition, the BiA fellows conducted research on the largest employers of Burmese in the Fort Wayne area. Most of our participants hail from the Pre-Collegiate Program of Yangon, but BiA fellows don’t need a P- CP background.BiA fellows to date have included Burman, Chin and Shan ethnic backgrounds.

The MFAE collaborated with the Bonner Foundation to connect with PCP to match American and PCP students for summer internships and experiential learning in Yangon during summer 2019.

MFAE has previously supported the Parami Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which was founded by one of the Pre-Collegiate Program’s early graduates, Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun. Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun has since transitioned the institute into Parami University, a private not-for-profit liberal arts and sciences university to open in 2022, in partnership with Bard College, a liberal arts and sciences college in New York. Learn more here.