Brandon Nguyen
North Hollywood Chapter
California, USA
"At first, I joined mostly on a whim...
however, realizing the huge difference
one person could make, I found myself
going to meetings for the next few years."
Read the rest of Brandon's answers.
Richard Liang is from Fremont, California. He actively participates in the arts program at his school, playing cello in his school’s orchestra and percussion in the jazz band. Richard founded and led the VAMS Chapter at Mission San Jose High School. During the end of his junior year in high school, he was selected as our Director of Growth and Development. He likes that VAMS not only serves the community, but also encourages student leadership. He hopes to "learn a lot from VAMS, including communication, writing, and leadership skills."
Privacy Policy
When you are making a donation, purchasing a product, or subscribing to our online newsletter, we ask you for personal contact information such as your name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address. We may use this contact information to provide you If you make a donation, we may contact you from time to time (in writing only, never by telephone) to offer y From time to time, VAMS International may rent or exchange its list of supporters with other trusted organizations to benefit the organization's programs and Personal contact information may also be shared with our agents, i.e., reputable companies we use for services such as shipping VAMS International products or sending VAMS International mail. We have confidentiality agreements in place with all such agents to protect your privacy. Finally, in some cases when you wish to make a donation to your local chapter or ask for local chapter information, your contact information may be passed on to your local chapter. In addition to personal contact information, we ask for billing information, such as your billing address and credit card number, when you make a donation or purchase a product. We use secure servers to gather and process your billing information. These secure servers are hosted by PayPal. Your billing information is not shared with any other organizations, and your credit card number is not retained once your transaction has been authorized and processed. In some instances, we ask for contact information for people other than yourself including, for example, e-mail addresses of friends to whom you send e-cards or a copy of one of our Web pages, or the mailing address of someone you wish us to notify of a donation you have made. The information we collect is used to send the donation notification or information you requested and/ If you do not wish to participate in our list rental or exchange activities, or if you wish to modify the With the exception of credit card numbers, which are not retained, you can view and request changes to all the VAMS International
Personal Contact Information
Personal Billing Information
Other Contact Information
Viewing or Changing Your Information
Attention: Donor Care
19225 Index Street #3
Northridge, CA 91326
In addition, if you have subscribed to our online newsletter, you can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link featured at theend of the newsletter.
Your IP Address, Cookies and Plug-ins
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes the visitor's IP address, although no personally identifiable information (such as e-mail addresses) is recognized by the server. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information. Occasionally, we may use session cookies to improve content, provide easier access and understand how visitors use our Web site. Session cookies are also used to support our e-commerce pages. Our Web site does not include stand-alone or plug-in applications that report individually identifiable information back to us or to any other organization.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites, including ones that may gather personal contact information. VAMS International is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such Web sites. However, any personal information obtained by us through other sites is treated as if it was gathered on our site and our privacy policy applies.
Changes to this Policy
Our privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. Any changes to this privacy policy will be posted on this Web page, and we will mark the link to our privacy policy from our Internet home page to note the date of any changes so that you will always know what information we collect, how we use it and what choices you have.
June 6, 2006
Amended January 3, 2010
Ian Clarke received a full ride to Indiana University, where he studies music composition. He has also been selected as a Berklee College of Music presenting film score composer, and earned recognition from the Beverly Hills Literary Society and the Kauai Peace Project. In high school, Ian studied the piano, flute, piccolo, guitar, and Indonesian gamelan. He used his expertise to reach out to the community through VAMS. What does this musician have to tell us about music? "One of the most important things to understand about creating music is that, regardless of how much music theory you know, or how much technical ability you possess, your music will be hollow and uninteresting if you lack emotional integrity."
