海外华人理事会(以下简称COCS)于10月17号在三藩市举办主题为 “Tie It Together”-领结同心的2009年度筹款时尚一系列活动。这次筹款活动主要是为四川地震致残儿童的长期康复募捐，以领带为主题贯穿10月,11月和12月的时尚系列活动：

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 The Council of Overseas Chinese Services (COCS), INC is a 501(c) 3 tax exempt not-for-profit organization founded in New York City, U.S.A. in September 2005, which is established on independence and self-governance of Chinese young professionals from diverse backgrounds and locations. On January 2009, as more and more our members moved from West to East coast, COCS extend our services into San Francisco bay area. Our services are unique – no other NGO in the NY or San Francisco area has the similar focus or provide the similar services: We are volunteer basis organization and organized our event on project basis. 

During the summer of 2005, with the funding from US-China Legal Cooperation Fund, COCS initiated its first Pre-employment Training program (PET) for migrant workers in the Pearl Delta are of, Guangdong Province of China, and served over 200 pre-employed migrant workers.  COCS recruited volunteers from the local colleges and organized and trained them to provide training for the migrant workers in the areas of labor law issues, protection from work related injury and illness, sex education and general health issue, adapting to the city life. The program was a huge success, both whole-heartedly welcomed by the migrant workers and highly regarded by the academia. 

In 2006, COCS organized a conference in Beijing to promote the PET program. Representatives from over 20 universities and colleges attended the conference.   Out of all the schools that had attended the conference, COCS selected four to be its long-term cooperative partners for promoting and implementing the PET program in the other parts of China. The four schools are China Youth University of Politic Science (CYUPS) in Beijing, Guangdong University of Business Studies (GUBS) in Guangzhou, Southwest University for Minority Nationalities (SUMN) in Chengdu and South-Central University for Nationalities (SCUN) in Wuhan. In 2007, COCS worked with these four universities to provide PET program in the four cities and collectively, COCS and the participating volunteers from these four schools had served over 1,000 pre-employed migrant workers. Along the way, COCS have trained more than a hundred university law and social work students to be volunteers capable of working for the PET program and provide other services to the migrant workers in need after the completion of the PET program.   

Immediately after the earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province in May of 2008, COCS raised relief funds in the NY area and organized, coordinated and funded the volunteers from the aforementioned universities to provide relief and services to the victims of the disaster. COCS also rises funding for and sponsor activities that service the Chinese community in the NY area. Such as hosting nutrition and parenting education workshops to improve the quality of life for new immigrants.