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  • Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visit 2026! Students Apply Today! (4/15/2026) - Dear friends! Greetings from Portland! May this Poila Boisakh / Bohag Bihu / Puthandu / Vishu bring abundance, light, and auspicious beginnings to you and your family! We’re excited to announce that applications for CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2026 are now open for students! To ensure the best experience for everyone involved, please take […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visit 2026! Chaperones Apply Today! (3/10/2026) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2026 #CHAPERONES #SUMMER2026 Dear friends! Greetings from Portland! May this Holi remind us to burn negativity and celebrate the colors of divine love and harmony! We’re excited to announce that applications for CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2026 are now open for chaperones! To ensure the best experience for everyone involved, please take note of […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2025 – Chaperones apply today! (10/17/2025) - Dear Friends, Greetings from Portland! May the light of Diwali bring joy, peace, and success to you and your loved ones.  We’re delighted to share that applications for the CORD USA Winter Service Visit 2025 are now open for chaperones! To ensure the best experience for all participants, please review the important details below:  Location: CORD Sidhbari, India  Dates: December […]
  • A sneak peek at the upcoming CORD USA Winter 2025 Service visits for Chaperones & High School students… (10/16/2025) - Dear friends, Get your schedule lined up and be ready to apply online! The application forms will go live in the next few days. CORD USA Winter Service Visit 2025 Age group: High School students, age 15 and above. Where: CORD Sidhbari, Himachal Pradesh Dates: December 22nd, 2025 – January 3rd, 2026 Details: We will […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visit 2025! (3/14/2025) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2025 #CHAPERONES #SUMMER2025 Greetings from Bharat! Wishing you a Holi filled with colors of joy, love, and laughter! We’re excited to announce that applications for CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2025 are now open for chaperones! To ensure the best experience for everyone involved, please take note of the following important information: Details of the […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Winter Service Visit 2024! Students Apply today! (9/28/2024) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2024 #STUDENTS #WINTER2024 Dear Friends, Greetings from Portland! Wish you a joyful and vibrant Navaratri. May the strength, wisdom, and prosperity of the Goddesses grace your life abundantly! We’re excited to announce that applications for CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2024 are now open for students! To ensure the best experience for everyone involved, please […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2024! Chaperones Apply Today! (9/11/2024) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2024 #chaperones #STUDENTS #WINTER2024 Dear Friends, Greetings from Portland! Wishing you a life filled with happiness, prosperity, and endless joy on this auspicious Ganesha Utsav! We’re excited to announce that applications for CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2024 are now open for chaperones! To ensure the best experience for everyone involved, please take note of the […]
  • Applications are now open for students to participate in CORD USA’s Summer Service Visits for 2024! (3/29/2024) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2024 #STUDENTS #SUMMER2024 Dear Friends, Wishing you a joyous Spring! CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2024, applications are now open for students!  Participation in the entire program is mandatory; attending only part of the service visit is not possible. Details of the visit: Where: CORD Siruvani, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Dates: 14th July to 27th July […]
  • Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2024! Chaperones Apply Today! (3/4/2024) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2024 #CHAPERONES #SUMMER2024 Dear Friends, Wishing you an auspicious Mahashivratri! Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2024! Please note that student applications will be accepted only after chaperone requirements are fulfilled. Participation in the entire program is mandatory; attending only part of the service visit is not possible. Details of the visit: Where: CORD Siruvani, Coimbatore, […]
  • A sneak peek at the upcoming CORD USA Summer 2024 Service visits for Chaperones & High School students… (2/21/2024) - Dear friends, Get your schedule lined up and be ready to apply online! The application forms will go live in the next few days. CORD USA Summer Service Visit 2024 Age group: High School students, age 15 and above. Where: CORD Siruvani, Tamil Nadu Dates: 14th July to 27th July 2024 Details: We will open for […]
  • #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2023 #CHAPERONES #WINTER2023 Application Now Open (9/27/2023) - #CORDUSAServiceVisit2023 #Chaperones #Winter2023 PLEASE NOTE: Due to a number of requests from potential chaperones, we have made a modification to the dates, please see the updated information below. Greetings from Portland! Wishing all of you a wonderful Ganeshotsav celebration! The Winter Service visit 2023 is scheduled: Time: December 23, 2023(Saturday) to January 7, 2024 (Sunday) […]
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  • Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2023 – Students apply today! (3/6/2023) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2023 #STUDENTS #SUMMER2023 Dear Friends, Wishing you a Holi filled with love and laughter! Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2023! Please note at this time applications are open only for students (grades 10-12). Chaperones and students must be present for the entire span of the program, not possible to attend only part of the […]
  • #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2023 #CHAPERONES #SUMMER2023 Application Now Open (2/17/2023) - #CORDUSASERVICEVISIT2023 #CHAPERONES #SUMMER2023 Dear Friends, Wishing you an auspicious Mahashivratri! Announcing CORD USA Summer Service Visits 2023! Please note at this time applications are open only for chaperones. It will open for students only after we fill chaperone requirements. Please do not submit the application form now if you are a student, it will not […]
  • News from #CORDSiruvani (9/6/2022) - Click here to subscribe to receive CORD USA news! Dear friends! Here are some snippets from CORD Siruvani. Click on “read more” to get detailed information. CORD workers attended a 2-day seminar on Aatma Nirbhar Bharat organized by Amrita University in collaboration with the Indian Council of Social Science Research in New Delhi. There were […]
  • #CORDUSAServiceVisit2022 #Highschool #Winter2022 (8/25/2022) - #CORDUSAServiceVisit2022 #Highschool #Winter2022 Greetings from Portland! Pre-celebrations for Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the grandest festivals of India, must be going on now! CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2022 applications are now open for students! Chaperones and students must be present for the entire span of the program, not possible to attend only part of the […]
  • CORDUSA Winter Service Visit now open! (8/13/2022) - #CORDUSAServiceVisit2022 #Chaperones #Winter2022 Greetings from beautiful Portland! Wishing all of you a wonderful Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations! Announcing CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2022!  Please note at this time applications are open only for chaperones.  It will open for students only after we fill chaperone requirements. Please do not submit the application form now […]
  • Be a CORDUSA Ambassador! (3/22/2022) - Click here to subscribe to receive CORD USA news! Dear All, With the start of spring and the hope that the pandemic is behind us, we are renewing our CORDUSA activities and looking forward to getting out and helping our community in all ways we can. We are expanding our community service projects (check out […]
  • Announcement: Changes to CORDUSA Board of Directors (2/18/2022) - Click here to subscribe to receive CORD USA news! Friday, February 18, 2022 Announcement: Changes to CORDUSA Board of Directors Dear all, Please note the changes to the CORDUSA Board of Directors After 13 years of service as directors, Vijaya Cherukuri and Pranji Lodhia have retired from CORDUSA board. The current board of directors of […]
  • COVID19 Relief #BoundToEachOther – updates at your fingertip! (7/16/2020) - Dear Friends! A lot has happened and changed in the world over the past months since #COVID19 #pandemic erupted. #CoronaVirus shows how vulnerable we remain. This #pandemic has had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease itself and efforts to quarantine it. As the health and human toll grows, the economic damage is already evident and represents the largest economic shock the world has experienced in decades. Stunning, staggering, mind-numbing, call it what you will, the COVID-19 pandemic’s crushing impact on the job market is inescapable.
  • The #COVID19 Pandemic in the US #BoundToEachOther #CORDUSA (7/2/2020) - Dear friends! COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact has taken a terrible toll globally. It is particularly sad that our country has not been spared either; despite its economic might.    As of this month, US COVID-19 related unemployment claims hit a staggering 26.4 million, the five-week total has now surpassed all of the job gains since the Great Recession. Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March - The latest official figures highlight the devastating economic impact of this pandemic on the American economy, with the numbers growing every day. All 50 states reported a rise in unemployment, with widespread layoffs reported in almost all sectors of the economy.
  • Information regarding #CORDUSAServiceVisit2020 #Highschool #Summer2020 (2/27/2020) - Information regarding #CORDUSAServiceVisit2020 #Highschool #Summer2020 Greetings from our beautiful Portland! Hope you all had a chance to see the video made by our recent service visit participants.  We have been receiving emails and voicemails asking about the Summer service visit opportunities in 2020. I want to update all of you regarding this. Because of the current travel adversaries and unknown health risks, we have decided not to conduct a Summer service visit this year.
  • Announcing CORD USA Winter Service Visits 2019 (8/12/2019) - Service Visit for High School students #CORDUSAServiceVisit2019 #Highschool #Winter2019 CORD USA Service Visits: Winter 2019 CORD Siruvani & Deuladiha: December 22nd, 2019 to January 3rd, 2020 Application is now closed. We will notify the applicants regarding their selection before August 31st. Thank you for your interest! Please sign up to receive our emails directly so that you will not miss the announcements
  • February 2016 CORDUSA News & Summer Service Visit announcement! (2/15/2016) - In December, our High School children and CHYKs were very busy.  They visited 3 different CORD centers in India and Sri Lanka.  They all had amazing experiences to share with you.  I am very happy to give you a bird's eye view of these trips and I will also give you the details of our upcoming High School service visits.  Stay tuned! First group took off to CORD Deuladiha on December 19th 2015.  Seven boys from Houston, Dallas, Princeton and Portland started their trip with their chaperone.  During their fund raising efforts for "Light up a Village", they raised over $6,000 and took the solar lanterns to the deepest tribal areas of Odisha.  Kishore, chaperone for this trip jotted down their adventures and he concludes his blog "So, would I do this again? The answer is YES, in a heartbeat.  I encourage all of those who feel that they would like to pursue such an opportunity to consider doing this, not so much for others but more for their own personal experience and growth." Read his blog & enjoy pictures here
  • December 2015 CORDUSA News (11/25/2015) - Please signup to receive news and updates for CORD USA. GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations announced that CORD USA, Inc. has been honored with a prestigious Top-Rated award for 2015.  We are proud to receive this award for the fourth consecutive year! We are also the proud recipients of grant from Hindu American Foundation on our work on Bhutanese Refugees Empowerment Program (BREP) this year. Since the inception of CORD USA, we have sent many groups of high school students for service visits to our CORD facilities in India. They reside and work at these centers; returning from their trips inspired by seeing CORD’s work in action.
  • May 2015 CORDUSA News (5/8/2015) - Please signup to receive news and updates for CORD USA. Wish you all a Blessed Gurudev Jayanti! The encouragement and support that we receive continues to inspire us. The biggest proof is that GreatNonprofits; the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations, has again named http://greatnonprofits.org/org/cord-usa-1 us a Top-Rated 2014 Nonprofit for the 3rd consecutive year! It is that time again.  Please help us keep our streak alive by getting a 2015 @GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Award. You can help by writing a review of your experience with us at Our CORD USA-CHYK (Chinmaya Yuva Kendra) West partnership team has been very busy this year.  We have setup an online store where you can purchase various items with all the proceeds going to support CORD USA.  Buy beautiful all purpose greeting cards and support our cause! All the proceeds from greeting card sales will go to CORD USA! Please see: http://www.chykwest.com/shop/
  • January 2015 CORDUSA News (1/31/2015) - Please signup to receive news and updates for CORD USA. As 2014 has come and gone we wanted to share with you all that transpired with CORDUSA last year. In the year 2014, the children across Chinmaya Mission Centers in North America  conducted 14 CORD USA Fundraisers and raised $124,000!  There are 4 active University chapters of CORD USA interacting with different CORD centers.  A number of children went above and beyond this; offering their own graduation, collections, Arangetram and artistic performance gifts to support our cause. You can get more detailed information about these events through our website and Facebook page. The GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations announced that CORD USA, Inc. has been honored with a prestigious 2014 Top-Rated award.  We are proud to receive this award for the third consecutive year!
  • October 2014 CORDUSA News (10/11/2014) - Please signupto receive news and updates for CORD USA. It has been a while since I have written to you about CORD happenings around the world, so we have much to catch up on! CORDUSA would like to request you to write a review of CORD to raise visibility for our work. GreatNonprofits is honoring highly reviewed […]
  • May 2014 CORDUSA News (5/7/2014) - Please signup to receive news and updates for CORD USA. Service Visit applications are pouring in!  If you haven’t already, you might want to look online to see if you are eligible.  You might meet the two children pictured here, I met them at Deuladiha last May. GlobeMed Boston College (BC) partners led a panel at MIT during the Grassroots Initiatives for […]
  • January 2014 CORDUSA News (1/28/2014) - Please signup to receive news and updates from CORD USA. Last December, I traveled to Sri Lanka and spent a few days with Mrs. Gowrie Mahenthiran, CORD Sri Lanka’s Director, and her team. It was an amazing trip! I was able to experience first-hand the kind of work that CORD Sri Lanka was able to […]
  • September 2013 CORDUSA News (9/24/2013) - Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA   Last blog, I mentioned the two CORDUSA service visits, one to Sidhbari and the other to Kaza. Here is what the participants had to say…   Hiren Gihwala, a high school student, who went on this year’s service visit to CORD Sidhbari writes "This past summer 25 students, including myself had the opportunity of a lifetime. We all came from different parts of the United States and made our way to Sidhbari, Himachal Pradesh, India. Some students came from California, some from Chicago, some from New Jersey, and one from North Carolina. 　As we made our journey to India, we all knew that this trip would be a chance for us to have an impact on this world. But, little did we know that this trip would do and be much more than that. Over the three weeks, we formed lasting relationships and experienced the impact that CORD is having on a daily basis. We had the wonderful opportunity to learn from Dr. Kshama Metre and see the message and hope that her and her constituents have been spreading among the villagers for the last 28 years.  Read more… 
  • June 2013 CORDUSA News (6/15/2013) - Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA. In the middle of May, in the heat which felt like a thousand degrees, but in fact was 110 degrees; I ventured to the heart of Odisha to two of our CORD centers in Deuladiha and Lathikata.  Mona Malkani, CORD India's Secretary and I had a fun, interesting, eventful and educational trip.  I will write all about it, but first let’s cover the major events this quarter. First and foremost, I am so proud to announce that CORD USA, Inc. has been honored as a 2013 Top-Rated Non-Profit!  The GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations announced on June 12th, 2013 that CORD USA, Inc has been awarded the prestigious 2013 “Top-Rated” award. “Savvy donors want to see the impact of their donations more than ever,” said Perla Ni, CEO of GreatNonprofits, “People with direct experience with CORD USA Inc. have voted that the organization is making a real difference.”  A big THANK YOU to all who wrote the raving reviews!
  • March 2013 CORDUSA News (3/18/2013) - Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA. We have always looked for ways to get people of all ages involved with CORDUSA.  Towards this, CORDUSA has been organizing once-a-year service visits to one of the CORD Centers in India or Sri Lanka.  All of our service project visits have been very successful, creating a […]
  • December 2012 CORDUSA News (12/18/2012) -   Please sign upto receive news and updates from CORDUSA. As the nation has become well aware, a tragedy occurred in Newtown, Connecticut when a heavily armed 20-year-old gunman forced his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary school, and opened fire. Twelve girls, eight boys and six women were shot and killed. This act of violence […]
  • September 2012 CORDUSA News (9/13/2012) - Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA  My son Kapil and I had an amazing trip this summer that took us into the heart of rural communities in India.  Kanchana We met a 17-year-old girl who is a little taller than 3 feet and looks like a toddler because of nutritional issues […]
  • June 2012 CORDUSA News (6/27/2012) -   Summer is in full swing and roses are in full bloom here in Portland. What a spectacular sight!  Hope you are all having a great summer so far too. Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA This quarter we have a lot to talk about the CORD activities around the world.  […]
  • March 2012 CORDUSA News (3/23/2012) - Please sign up to receive news and updates from CORDUSA.  After the December newsletter went out, we announced the 2012 Summer Service visit in January.  This summer the children and the parent chaperones are going to CORD Sidhbari to volunteer for 2 weeks.  We were overwhelmed with the enthusiastic responses we received!  The slots got […]
  • December 2011 CORDUSA News (12/9/2011) - Hope you are all having a great time decorating your home to bring holiday cheer! We, at CORDUSA also did some holiday decorations. We redesigned our web site! Please check out the new design at  http://www.cordusa.org. CORDUSA New website In fact, I started redesigning the site as a distraction, to get my mind away from […]
  • September 2011 CORDUSA News (9/28/2011) - Dr. Meera Krishna “The Village Doctor” – The Hindu Hello there! There is a lot happening with CORDUSA, and we want to bring it all to you. Here is my first trial through the blog. I would appreciate your feedback on this. A big thanks to Shabana Dipchand for helping me with it. Let us […]