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Welcome to our new Estonian American National Council website.  We hope you will find it useful!  Links to pages or websites are in blue and underlined.


News Highlights:  

  • JBANC Action Alert --- Please Urge Your Member of Congress to Co-Sponsor the Magnitsky Act: Support Needed to Stop Human Rights Abuses in Russia.  See News and Events.
  • Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Chicago for NATO summit this week, visits Eesti Maja. See News and Events.
  • Pillerkaar folk-dancing performance at 2012 NATO Festival in Norfolk VA.  See video on Pillerkaar website.
  • On June 12, 2012, in Washington DC, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will commemorate the fifth anniversary of the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial to the more than one hundred million victims of communism.  See News and Events.

  • KLENK- "Kesk-Lääne Eesti Noorte Koondis-Midwestern Estonian Youth Assn- will be held in Dearborn, Michigan, August 10-11, 2012.  See News and Events.
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  •  EANC is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2012!   Highlighting this historic occasion will be a gala in Washington DC on September 29, 2012.   Details of this and other EANC activities will be posted on this website as they are finalized.  
  • The 30th West Coast Estonian Days/ESTO will be held in San Francisco on June 28-July, 1, 2013.  Estonians from San Francisco and West Coast invite you to join them for the West Coast Estonian Days (LEP) and the world-wide ESTO joint festival from June 28th to July 1st 2013.  See News and Events; also the Link at the right sidebar.
  • European Innovation Academy takes place this year at Tallinn University of Technology. See News and Events.
  • Estonian short film competition! For details, click here.

 For more news, events and activities listings, see the News and Events tab.

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Kiri ERKÜ esimehelt:

Teretulemast meie uuele koduleheküljele!  Palun tutvuge Eesti Rahvuskomiteedega Ühendriikides ja meie tegevusega.  Olles üle-riigiliselt valitud ameerika eestlaste keskorganisatsioon, soovime jagada informatsiooni mitte ainult meie enda tegevusest, vaid ka ameerika eestlaste uudistest, üritustest ning organisatsioonidest. 

Soovime edestada allikaid ja linke mitmesuguste valdkondade kohta, kaasarvatud Eesti, eestlased välismaal, ning kasulikku ja praktilist informatsiooni, näiteks stipendiumi võimalustest ja eesti-aineliste ostude allikatest.

Veebileht on veel arendamisel ning ootame teie kommentaare ja soovitusi lisa linkide, allikate, uudiste ja ürituste ning formaadi ja kasutamise suhtes.  Mõned allikad on eestikeelsed, mõned ingliskeelsed ja mõned mõlemas keeles. Leiate sama keelte valiku veebilehel.  Kuigi teatud informatsioon esineb koduleheküljel kahes keeles, olenedes olukorrast, enamus ilmub ainult ühes keeles. Andkem teada, kuidas see sobib.

Võite kasutada “Contact” lehekülge või saata e-mail erku@estosite.org aadressile, kui teil on soovitusi informatsiooni lisamiseks estosite.org-ile.  Aidakem teha www.estosite.org kasulikuks ja informatiivseks ressursiks kõigile Ameerika eestlastele!  

Kaks ERKÜ Esinduskogu liiget, Kersti Linask ja Monika Orumaa Craig, mõlemad Floridast, on vabatahtlikult ERKÜ veebilehte arendanud.  Kersti Linask on eriti palju aega ja energiat projektile pühendanud.  Linda Rink, ERKÜ tegevjuht, on alustanud veebilehe informatsiooni uuendamisega. Suurim tänu nendele!

Loodan, et külastate ERKÜ veebilehte tihti ja leiate, et see aitab täita ühte meie sihtidest – parem kommunikatsioon ameerika eestlastega!

Lugupidavalt,

Marju Rink-Abel, esimees


Letter from the EANC President:

Welcome to our new website!  Please take time to look around and become familiar with the Estonian American National Council (EANC) and what we do.  As the nationally-elected, central Estonian-American organization, we wish to share information of interest to all our constituents – about the EANC, of course - but also about Estonian-American news, events, and organizations.

We also want to point you in the direction of resources and links on a variety of topics, including information about Estonia, Estonians in other countries, and practical information, such as sources of scholarships and grants, and where to buy Estonian-related items.  

The website is a work in progress, and we look forward to receiving comments and suggestions for additional links and sources, postings about current news and events, and format and ease-of-use enhancements.  Some sources listed are in Estonian, some in English, and some in both languages – and you will find the same language mix on this website.  We will provide selected information in both Estonian and English as time and resources allow, but you will also find information in only one of these languages.  

Let us know how this is working for you.

If you have suggestions for additional links or information, you can let us know by email at erku@esto.org or going to the “Contact” page.  Help make www.estosite.org a useful and valuable resource for all Estonian Americans.

Finally, I want to thank two EANC elected members for volunteering to develop this website for us – Kersti Linask and Monika Orumaa Craig, both in Florida.  Kersti, in particular, has devoted considerable time and energy on the project, and has done a tremendous job for us!  Linda Rink, our new executive director, will be in charge of updating the website.  Many, many thanks to all of you! 

I hope that you will visit the website often, and find that it helps fulfill one of our goals – better communication with the Estonian American community.

With best wishes, 

Marju Rink-Abel, EANC President

 

And now, a brief word about the EANC:

The Estonian American National Council, Inc., (EANC), is the nationally-elected central organization of Estonian Americans.  EANC helps support and maintain our Estonian heritage and language, Estonian American cultural activities and organizations in the U.S., and works to create awareness of, and support for, Estonia among all Americans.   EANC also works in Washington with other like-minded organizations, such as the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) and the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) to inform the U.S. Congress and Administration of issues of concern.  Read more about EANC’s history and Mission Statement on the “About” page of this website.

EANC is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization sustained by voluntary, tax-deductible contributions from the Estonian American community and others.  These contributions provided support to such Estonian American institutions, activities, and projects as:

* The Singing Revolution documentary, and upcoming films, Songs of Defiance, about the history of Estonian song festivals, and In the Crosswinds, about Soviet-era deportations in Estonia
* Vaba Eesti Sõna / The Free Estonian Word newspaper published in New York
* The Estonian Archives in the United States
* Long Island Estonian Children’s Summer Camp
* Estonian American girl guides and boy scouts
* Estonian American festivals and get-togethers, such as ESTO (the world-wide Estonian festival), and KLENK (Mid-West Estonian Days). 

For more details on recent recipients of EANC’s monetary support, read the page “EANC Activities” on this website.
 
If you wish to apply for monetary support on behalf of an Estonian American organization, institution or group, or for a project, please fill out the application form via the link on the “EANC Activities” page of this website.

Interested in learning more about EANC and how you can help? Get in touch via the “Contact Us” page of this website. 



To enable future support of the many worthwhile endeavors initiated by organizations and individuals throughout the United States in support of Estonian culture, please contribute to EANC in 2012.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Update:  May 25, 2012