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MISSION
STATEMENT
Our mission is to develop a community of Canadians and Friends-of-Canadians
in San Diego.
MEMBERSHIP
Our membership is open and free to all Canadians, and Friends-of-Canadians,
who are interested in connecting socially, professionally, and culturally.
WHO
WE ARE
CanDiego.org was founded in 2006 by
a San Diego-based group of
graduates from various Canadian Universities. CanDiego is actively organized
by Thor Berggren, a Vancouver native and the current SFU
volunteer alumni representative
in San Diego. He can be reached by email at thor@candiego.org.
CanDiego is incorporated and has filed its Non-Profit application with the
IRS and the State of California Franchise Tax Board.
CanDiego's Honourary Board
CanDiego's Volunteers
CanDiego has over 60 volunteers who participate in special planning and general membership events. If you would like to join the volunteer group there are likely roles to match your time availability and interests. Please click here to read information on the current volunteers and openings.
THE ALUMNI CONNECTION
Most of the CanDiego founders are alumni representatives of Canadian universities. They are based in San Diego and decided to connect their memberships of hundreds of Canadians also living in San Diego. Additionally, they keep other Canadian universities informed on CanDiego events in order to ensure that the word gets around to alumni who do not have representatives here.
INSTANT ONLINE COMMUNITY
To
join the network of Canadians who have already connected online in San Diego,
please click Online Community. Once you do this,
you will find that you are only one link away from Canadians and Friends-of-Canadians
throughout San Diego.
EVENTS
As a growing organization, our events are designed to provide opportunities
for connecting professionally and socially at varying San Diego locations.
Please check the
Events page for details and to register.
HOW
AND WHY IT STARTED
"Since
the number of alumni in San Diego from any specific Canadian university is
typically too small to maintain its own alumni association, I saw an opportunity
to connect Canadian university alumni in San Diego through one consolidated
professional network" explains Thor Berggren, the San Diego-based
volunteer alumni representative of Simon Fraser University. "I spoke
with other local Canadian university alumni and alumni representatives including
Julie Wright, Chris Montgomery, and Beth Collins. They
also saw the opportunity and offered to help, and so CanDiego was formed.
In fact, the organization is open to anyone interested in Canada and we have
many honourary Canadians in the group as well."
