$35k in 1 day! Our heroes & heroines

    Thank you. Thank you.  Yesterday, those who know the essential value of 80-20, poured in with an incredible $35,000 in lump sum over 5 years.

    Our heroes and heroines?   Many!  

   Principal Hero:  Professor Mu-ming Poo of UC, Berkeley.  He is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology in the Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.

     He donated $10,000 in lump sum earlier.  Yesterday, in addition, he donated  $5,000 per year for 5 year.  Just that is the equivalent of $25,000 over 5 years.  He helped 80-20 achieve its one-day-goal of besting the $24,000, raised in one day, established 2 days ago.

     Many of our community's rich and powerful don't identify with the Asian American community any more.  What a shame!  America may look at such folks and silently mull: "If these folks can so heartlessly UN-identify themselves with their own people, could they just as easily UN-identify themselves with the USA, when their self-interests suit them?"  

   

    Professor Mu-ming Poo*,world renowned as he is, cares about Asian Ams who are struggling to win equal opportunity.  Just that outlook, perhaps more than his donation, benefits our community greatly.  

     On the above happy note,

                                  Happy Holidays, Asian Americans.

                          DONATE here till it hurts.

    

    Bear in mind that the Jewish American AIPAC has a $67 million per year budget as opposed to 80-20's $100,000 - a difference of 67,000%! 

SB Woo

President, 80-20 Educational Foundation

A Volunteer 

* Is he unique?  Not quite.  Alice Huang, past Chairman and President of the AAAS, which is world's largest scientific organization;  Chenming Calvin Hu, retired Distinguished Chair professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Berkeley, also known as the father of 3-D transistor; and Yu-Chi Ho , who used to have TWO endowed chairs at Harvard all served on 80-20's

Board and donated most generously.

 Published on Wednesday, 12/24/2014

$24k Raised in 1 Day, but...

Thank you. Yesterday, our BIG-HEARTED supporters, instead of resenting our blunt message, poured in with $24,000 in lump sum.     The bad news is that 80-20 is still dying, unless the rate of $24k per day is kept up for another 150 days.   To keep things in perspective, $185k per day was spent by the Jewish AIPAC org. Q:  I don't feel discriminated, why should I donate to 80-20? A: You have been subtly discriminated all the time in the most important ways.  Few people will discriminate you to your face, because it is against the law. But winning equal application of law requires political clout. Here are some examples.            You work so hard, but you only have half the chance as others to be promoted                                    to high positions.        Your kids work so hard, but they need to walk on waters to be admitted to elite                                             colleges.        You are successful in business, but you couldn't get the big government                                                         contracts.        You are a great scholar/professor, but you were overlooked in college                                                             administrative jobs.      You have superb business acumen, but you couldn't get invited to serve in                                                                 Fortune 500 Boards.      You have a great judicial mind, but you couldn't get appointed to a judgeship,                                                          until 80-20 fought for you.      You are an exceptional leader, but you couldn't get appointed to cabinet level                                                        positions, until 80-20 fought for you. YOU have been subtly discriminated all the time!                              DONATE here till it hurts.        Will you help break the record of $24k donation of yesterday please?   80-20* loves to be around to help you fight the above subtle discrimination.   SB Woo President, 80-20 Educational Foundation A Volunteer  * Could there be a better replacement for 80-20 in the future?  You judge.  Judge carefully! You are betting on your offspring's destiny.  We sincerely apologize for sending such a blunt message.  However, hiding the sad truth will probably be a bigger offense.

80-20 is Dying

Most Asian Am wish to have Jewish community's political clout.  

Most Asian Americans overlook that

(1) AIPAC has a $67 million per year budgetas opposed to 80-20's $100,000 - a difference of 67,000%! 

(2) wealthy Jewish-Am merchants, sensing their responsibility, raised a 140 million endowment for AIPAC as opposed to 80-20's desperate effort to raise $1 million/yr for 5 years.  

Even for the puny $1 m/yr for 5 yrs sum, 80-20 needs to get $1,400 per year committed for 5 year EACH DAY.  However, in the last 3 months, 80-20 didn't even raise that much per week.  

If SELF succeeds, how will 80-20 spend that money?  see Footnote.

(3) a huge number of Jewish Americans TITHE for a Jewish cause.  Do you?

IT IS TIME to share the unpleasant but honest truth -  80-20 is dying*.   

     

Asian Americans, you need to give till it hurts, if you don't want to be stepped on politically as in the past.

Look, the currently leaders of 80-20 don't get to spend the money raised in SELF.  Most of the top leadership will be retiring within the next years.  S.B. Woo will retire by the end of 2016.  Some days, he wished that he had retired yesterday.   :-)

 DONATE HERE!

When our community does its part, 80-20's leaders will try do their part!  That is a pledge. 

SB Woo

President, 80-20 Educational Foundation

A Volunteer 

Footnote: 80-20 will spend about $0.5 million per year, if SELF reaches its goal.

(1) $100,000 for forging unity - to be in control of the Board of Donors

(2) $ 300,000 for 3 staff: one Executive Director at about $150k level, one Assoc. Exe. Dir. at about $100k and one secretary at about $50k per year.

(3) $100,000 for office expenses, including cyberspace expenses.

* Could there be a better replacement for 80-20 in the future?  You judge.  Judge carefully!  You are betting on your offspring's destiny.  

S. B. Woo wants to thank and apologize to all those, who supported 80-20 and him greatly, for sending the above blunt message.  It's crunch time now.  :-(  If he doesn't send the truth to you, he probably commits a bigger mistake.

AsAms, courage is your name

BACKGROUND 

   

This e-newsletter will illustrate the value of 80-20, made possible by your courage,support and sacrifice. 

Time was from Nov., 2007 to Jan., 2008.   80-20 fought two pitched battles with 2 leading Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton & Sen. B. Obama. 

  

Result?  3 AsAm cabinet members were appointed in 2009. AsAm federal judges tripled in the last 6 years.  The U.S. Labor Dept. stated in writing to 80-20 that EO 11246 appliedto AsAms as well -- something that Elaine Chao heartlessly refused to do when she was the Labor Secretary.

                  

Take a look at the titles of the e-newsletters, shown below, that 80-20 sent during that period. Where did we get such COURAGE?  FROM YOU!  

80-20 sent a questionnaire to presidential candidates, because each election was an opportunity to get the next president's promise to help our climb to equal citizen-ship.  Easy to get them to reply?  NO!  It'd take great courage, skill & sacrifice. 

The First Battle

By Nov., 2007, candidates like Sens. Biden, Dodd and Gravel had answered 80-20's questionnaire  with 6 yeses.  Unfortunately, the apparent "leading" candidate Sen. H. Clinton didn't.  After behind the scene pleading with Clinton had failed, 80-20went public with a "call to action" asking the AsAm public to tell Clinton how we felt. That didn't work either.  A battle unfolded.  Happily, Sen. Clinton saw our plight.  She graciously replied with 6 yeses.

   

• 11/27/2007   Call To Action - Write to Sen. Clinton's Campaign
• 12/01   Clinton's Statement Versus 80-20's 6 Questions
• 12/03   Faxes from Asian Ams to Sen. Clinton
• 12/05    Spreading Outrage Against Sen. Clinton (80-20 asked "Does Sen. Clinton have the courage to stand up for America's core value -- equal opportunity?)
• 12/10/2007  Sen. Clinton Replied to 80-20's Questionnaire with All Yeses

 

The Second Battle

Sen. Edwards & Gov. Richardson followed with 6 yeses, but NOT Sen. Obama.  Behind the scene pleading occurred.  That didn't  work.  80-20 again went public and issued a "call to action' asking the AsAm public to fax Obama.

That didn't work either.  The 2nd battle unfolded.  80-20 called to defeat Obama twice!  We endorsed Sen. Clinton in CA's primary, and bought newspaper and radio ads in CA asking AsAm to vote for Hillary.  Our message got through.  Sen. Obama also graciously answered with 6 yeses.  In return, 80-20 deleted the contents of all e-newsletters with a * to the left, because those were words of anger said in a fierce fight.

 

• 12/17/2007  *Call To Action -- Fax Sen. Obama
• 12/20  * Fax from Asian Ams to Sen. Obama
• 12/27  * Call To Action - Defeat Obama
• 12/28  * Reactions to "Call to DEFEAT Obama"
• 12/31  * Defeat Obama
• 1/02/2008  * GOOD NEWS
• 1/07  * Are the promises Really Iron Clad
• 1/08    Important Reminder - CA Voter Registration Deadline
• 1/12  * An Open Letter to Sen. Obama
• 1/13  * Fantastic Reaction to "Letter to Sen. Obama"
• 1/18  * A Historic Fight Begins in California (80-20 endorsed Hillary in CA's Democratic primary against Obama)
• 1/19  * Feedback: We'll Fight This Historic Battle (rooting for Hillary)
• 1/21  * Victory Now & For Future Generations (rooting for Hillary)
• 1/23  * Great News!  Must read (rooting for Hillary)
• 1/25  * Higher College Admission Bars for Asian Ams (rooting for Hillary)
• 1/27  * How close is the race btwn Clinton & Obama (Polls showed AsAms voting 3 to 1 for Sen. Clinton)
• 1/29  * Why? Why? Why? Political Insight! (rooting for Hillary)
• 1/31/2008     Sen. Obama Replied with all Yeses

                                                 

The titles of above e-newsletters can ALWAYS be seen on our website.  Click here, & go to Blog Archive on the right to click on 2008 January, 2007 Dec. & 2007 Nov.

                     

 Who But 80-20?

Two great battles fought.  Friendship from two political leaders won!  Who supplied the COURAGE? YOU!    Who but 80-20 is so dedicated to you?  Will you children want you to help make 80-20 stronger? 

FORWARD this email to our young people who are NOT aware of your courage & to AsAm Republicans, some of whom still think that 80-20 is a Democratic front.  

Click here to DONATE.  Together, we'll overcome.

S. B. Woo, a volunteer

President, 80-20 Nat'l AsAm Educational Foundation, Inc.

http://www.80-20EF.org

PS:  Know a few wealthy AsAms to donate a million dollars or two to SELF?