A private nonprofit organization founded in 1959, the mission of CAL is to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture. The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) facilitates the work of the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages (http://www.cal.org/heritage/about/index.html) by maintaining the Alliance Web site and by collecting and compiling new profile data to add to the Online Collection of Heritage Language Program Profiles.

www.asiasociety.org, www.asiasociety.org/education, www.asiasociety.org/chinese

Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. It seeks to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture. Founded in 1956, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, DC.

The Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region. Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia.

http://www.chinese4kids.org/DispCataMessages.asp?Category=03

http://www.californiatomorrow.org/index.php

California Tomorrow's mission is to help create a just and inclusive multiracial, multicultural and multilingual society by promoting equal access to social, economic and educational resources and equal participation in major institutions, and by embracing diversity as a great strength.

Equity & Diversity in After School and Youth Programs Initiative

Chinese heritage language school association, establishedin 1994 with 410 member schools across 43 states.

Advocacy group focused on promoting language and international education. Website includes links, advocacy guides, and information on grants, government programs, legislation, etc.

Chinese heritage language association.

An organization that represents the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) in the United States. Its website is designed to address the communication and information needs of the members of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (the Council), as well as those of other organizations, institutions, and individuals interested in the teaching and learning of the LCTLs in the United States. Online language teaching courses for teachers of less commonly taught languages are available.

Research institute of the University of Maryland, dedicated to promoting a language-competent America by developing and disseminating information that informs policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels.

Its projects STARTALK and LangNet include rich resources of Chinese educators and learners.

Read Chinese http://readchinese.nflc.org/?page=home

One of 15 National Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The Center focuses on the language development of heritage language learners and defines such learners as those students who speak another language but are dominant in English --an increasingly common type of student in "foreign" language classrooms throughout the U.S.

The National Language Service Corps is a new initiative to create a network of Americans who are bilingual in English and another language and are willing to help the country in times of need. Do you speak Hindi, Hausa, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Marshallese, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Thai, or Vietnamese?