The LIGHT MILLENNIUM
A Global Charitable - Public Benefit Multi-Media and Culture Organization
"The Light Millennium is <http://www.lightmillennium.org> a non-religious, non-politicial, not-for-profit (501-c-3), non-governmental (NGO), and independent public benefit multi-media and culture organization, has become associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations effective on December 12, 2005. Formed in 2001, based in Queens, New York. On the Web since August 1999... "YOU ARE THE SOUL OF THIS GL OBAL PLATFORM. & WE ARE FOR THE GREATNESS IN HUMANITY."
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The Light Millennium hold its latest Board of Directors Meeting at the Baruch College
on Monday, June 27, 2011.
Listed below are the New Term Board of Directors and decision-makers of the Light Millennium. For the New Term, there are some newly joined and also continuing members. The New Term is approved based on the actual attendance to the last meeting of the Board of Directors, which took place at the Baruch College in New York City.
Based on our latest Board of Directors Meeting (MINUTES of the June 27, 2011 Meeting), although we have gained some new members, still we are seeking ways to expand and empower the BoD with more diverse representations. Thus, we welcome new participants from various cultural and professional backgrounds in order to establish diversity within the governing body of the organization. In conjunction to that we also aim to increase the sustainability of the organization with a diverse participations from different professional disciplines and cultural backgrounds globally.
If you are interested in joining the organization: you may take part in the Governing Body, or the Advisory Board; you may serve as a Pro-Bono Professional, a Volunteer Representative, a Volunteer Staff Member, a Translator, or get involved in the Production/Program aspects of the organization, or in one of its Committees. If you would like to be a part of the LM, please send us an email indicating your interest area in the subject line along with your resumé to: contact@lightmillennium.org
We are looking forward to gaining your participation and support.
We WELCOME all new and potential members, volunteer representatives, staff members, and participants to The Light Millennium Organization.
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Founding President:
Bircan Ünver, Independent TV Producer, On-Line Publisher & Freelance Writer
Vice President:
Sultan Catto, Professor and Executive Officer - Natural Sciences of the Baruch College
General Secretary:
Melda Akansel, General Secretary, Teacher in English Second Language
Treasurer: Zeynep Anar Ulu, Treasurer
2011 - New Term BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
-For Description of the Advisory Board, please see the June 6, 2006 MINUTES:
* Bircan Ünver, President (continuing)
* Prof. Sultan Catto, Vice President
* Melda Akansel, General Secretary, Teacher in English Second Language
* Prof. Surendra Kauchik, Active Member, Professor in Finance, Pace University
* Selçuk Acar, Active Member, Editor of the TurkishJournal.Com
* Ummuhan Unlu, Active Board Member, Retired Teacher
2011 - New Term ON-LINE Members (based on the Minutes of the September 30, 2009 Board Meeting):
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Isa Alemdag, Horon Networks, as IT Consultant, London, England.
* Dr. Gül Celkan, Georgia, Atlanta, for potential event collaborations in between NY and Atlanta.
- ADVISORY BOARD:
-For Description of the Advisory Board, please see the June 6, 2006 MINUTES:
* Figen Bingül, Translator (Turkish-English), Editor, New York.
* Etem Erol, Professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University, CT.
* Edward Foster, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
* Talat S. Halman, Professor in Literature Department of the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
* Akif Kireççi, Associate Professor, Bilkent University.
* Stephen Kinzer, Former New York Times Foreign Correspondent, Author and Professor, Boston University, MA.
STAFF:
Executive Producer & Director: Bircan Ünver
Editor to the Executive Producer & Director: Emily Joyce
Assistant: Cora Fernandez (August 1 - December 31, 2011)
Cora Fernandez, Volunteer, on-line volunteer effective on March 19, 2012
The Light Millennium's representatives to the Department of Public Information of the United Nations (UN/DPI-NGO) 2011: |
* Bircan Ünver, Permanent Representative
* Kaushalliya Siriwardane, 1nd Alternate Representative, (Helping Hands Inc. TX)
* Cem Zorlular, 1st Youth Representative
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Andrea Sophia Viejo, 2nd Youth Representative
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COMMITTEES:
*EDITING, COPY EDITING & PROOFREADING COMMITTEE:
Figen Bingul, Emily L. Joyce, Melda Akansel
*TRANSLATION COMMITTEE (From Turkish to English; English to Turkish; or from any other language to English or Turkish):
Figen Bingul, Fatos Simsek
*TRANSCRIPTION COMMITTEE (transcribing audio or video interviews as verbatim for the LM or Isikbinyili e-publications):
Cora Fernandez
* GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING & GRANT SEARCH COMMITTEE:
Bircan Ünver, Emily L. Joyce, Figen Bingul
* EVENTS & FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE (combined with "fundraising")
Sultan Catto, Bircan Ünver
* SUPPORT GROUP & $1 OPEN ON-LINE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (through NYCharities.Org):
Bircan Ünver
*MEDIA & OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Figen Bingül, Fatos Simsek, Bircan Ünver
* INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE with NGOs, CSOs, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, and PRIVATE SECTOR:
Bircan Ünver
*WEB DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN & INTERNET PROMOTION COMMITTEE:
Bircan Ünver
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Banner & Logo for both Lightmillennium.org & Isikbinyili.org; LMTV Logo & Seal Designed by:
Ayhan M. Duman, Istanbul, Turkey.
- For the October 13, 2010 MINUTES of the LMBoD
- For the April 24, 2010 MINUTES of the LMBoD
Ongoing Projects:
- LM Website - 11th Anniversary, 2011, Issue#26
- LMTV Series - Upcoming: "2011 Solar Decathlon - emPowerhouse";
"2015 and Beyond in Science and Arts"; UNNGO Profiles: Anuvrat Organization - Non-Violent Life Style
- The 130th Birth Year of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- The SPEECH - On Line Open Class
- PARADE OF FACES: Who Speaks for Turkey? With Stephen KINZER
A Six Part of Documentary Project
ASSOCIATION:
* Department of Public Information of the United Nations effective on December 12, 2005.
* MEMBER: Non Profit Coordination Committee of New York effective on February 2008 to June 2010.
DISCLOSURE:
1: All manuscripts submitted
become the property of the Light
Millennium, Inc. Contributers
are solely responsible for the
content of their own works.
2:
Once ideas/manuscripts have been
submitted and have appeared on
the organization's web site/s,
these ideas/manuscripts CANNOT
BE REMOVED from the organization's
Web site/s AT ANY TIME. The organization
has aimed to create an "archive
of our time". From the inception
of the Light Millennium until
the present, all submitted ideas
and written works have been presented
on the Web, including the Introductory
Issue. These are all available
from the organization's Web ARCHIVE.
(Please also read the "Letter
of the Summer-2006 Issue")
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