Diaspora in the US

From Pakistan

Contents 1 Data 2 Organizations 2.1 Community 2.1.1 Organizations 2.1.2 Mailing Lists 2.2 Alumni 2.3 Charity 2.4 Political 2.4.1 National 2.4.2 Regional/Local 2.5 Profession-Based 2.5.1 Business and Enterpreneurship 2.5.2 National 2.5.3 Regional/Local 2.6 Students 2.7 US-Pakistan Relations 2.8 US-Pakistan Business 3 See Also

[edit] Data

• Survey on Philanthropy: http://www.pcp.org.pk/research.html#diaspora (Survey report released mid 2006, see: http://ifaqeer.blogspot.com/2006/05/survey-of-pakistani-american-community.html)
• Data: http://www.apiahf.com/cic/index.asp

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Community

[edit] Organizations

• Boston: PAGB
• Phoenix: PA
• PASFBayArea
• SV-PAC
• Southern Cal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sc-pak/

[edit] Mailing Lists

• SV-Pak
• SV-Pak-Forum
• MiPakis

[edit] Alumni

Various alumni associations have chapters around the US--and often the biggest chapters or headquarters are in the US. See Alumni Groups for details. This includes alumni groups for Pakistani students at US universities.

[edit] Charity

See also Philanthropy

• Hidaya Foundation, USA - http://www.hidaya.org
• Koshish - http://www.koshish.org

[edit] Political

[edit] National

• Pakistan American Congress, or PAC:
• PADF

[edit] Regional/Local

• PADF CA
• PAPA (Phoenix Arizona) website?
  • PADC (confirm name and website)
  • PARC (confirm name and website)

[edit] Profession-Based

[edit] Business and Enterpreneurship

• OPEN
  • National: http://www.open-us.org
  • New England
  • New York
  • Silicon Valley: http://www.opensiliconvalley.com
  • Washington DC

[edit] National

• APSENA, the Association of Pakistani Scientists and Engineers of North America: http://www.apsena.org/
• APPNA, the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America: http://www.appna.org
• IOPWE, the International Organization of Pakistani Women Engineers is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley Area: http://www.iopwe.org

[edit] Regional/Local

• SCOPE: Southern California Organization of Pakistani-American Engineers: http://www.pakscope.com/

[edit] Students

• Rensselaer: http://paksa.union.rpi.edu/

[edit] US-Pakistan Relations

See Image#Diaspora Efforts in the US

[edit] US-Pakistan Business

See International Business

• American Business Council of Pakistan: http://www.abcpk.org.pk/
  NOTE: This is based in Pakistan, but might be of use to Diaspora.
• OPEN
  • National: http://www.open-us.org
  • Silicon Valley: http://www.opensiliconvalley.com

[edit] See Also

• Diaspora
• Image