Building on the success of previous Passing the Torch of Success events, PAAIA San Diego will be hosting the Passing the Torch of Success at UC San Diego Manderville Auditorium on Sunday, January 29, 2012. The event, which is being co-sponsored by the Iranian Student Association, is hosted by comedian Maz Jobrani and Fox News [...]
To start off the season of giving this year, the PAAIA Bay Area chapter partnered with the Excelsior Community Food Pantry in San Francisco to distribute donated food to the families in need. According to San Francisco Food Bank, one in six residents of the Excelsior community live with the daily threat of hunger. Excelsior Community Food [...]
When PAAIA’s New York/Tri-State NexGen chapter planned their involvement in Persian Thanks, its leaders decided that they would maximize engagement if they offered those who were giving back a meaningful experience as well. With that mission in mind, the inspiration for a Persian cooking class was born. Leila Makarechi and Ali Geramian and other NexGen [...]
The Houston PAAIA Chapter had two events that helped give back this Thanksgiving. On November 19th & 20th they helped create a donation drive for SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES in Houston. They collected canned foods, clothes, hygiene products, and monetary donations to give to the organization. The following week PAAIA & PAAIA NexGen members came out at 7am Thursday November 24th, Thanksgiving [...]
Washington, DC—The third week of September 2011 marked the first annual PAAIA NexGen retreat where NexGen members from across the nation representing the San Francisco/Bay Area, Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Chicago, Daytona Beach, New York, and Washington, DC gathered for a full weekend of events around Washington, DC’s Passing the Torch of [...]
August proved to be a successful “NexGen Membership Month” and chapters across the country engaged and involved our local Iranian American communities. The PAAIA NexGen DC Chapter had a successful and memorable launch event on Thursday, August 18, 2011. By teaming up with Shabeh Jomeh DC, we hosted nearly 100 attendees for a reception at the PAAIA [...]
September 14, 2011, Houston, TX - September 11th, 2011 was a day of remembrance, reflection, and community service. PAAIA Houston observed the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as the National Day of Service by taking Persian Food to three fire stations and thanked over forty firefighters for their service. PAAIA NexGen volunteers also provided help to the [...]
September 11th, 2011 was a day of remembrance, reflection, and community service. In the spirit of observing 9/11 PAAIA NexGen chapters from all across America came together to serve their communities. This year’s NexGen NDS project focused on the issue of hunger in America and in many ways America is the land of plenty, but [...]
On August 27th, 2011 PAAIA Nexgen along with Iranian Student Association (ISTA) at UCSD organized the first ever organized professional and social networking event at the University of California, San Diego. The event invited influential Iranian Americans in the community from diverse background to share their experiences. Doctors, lawyers, scientists, accountants, professors, and executives from various companies [...]
This Fall, PAAIA’s Washington, D.C. Chapter hosts the Passing the Torch of Success event on Sunday, September 18, 2011. By sharing their stories of success with the audience, the speakers at the Passing the Torch hope to inspire and empower the next generation of Iranian Americans. This Passing the Torch event also serves as the [...]
