1. Basic information

2. The Founder

3. Work aspects
     Arts and Culture    Business    Politics  

4. Oscar Wilde Award
    Description   The Major Sponsor 

5. Nominees

6. Criticism

7. George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program
    Scholarship Criteria  About this program 

8. The comments of US-Ireland Alliance

9. References

US-Ireland Alliance is a non-profit, proactive and neutral{{Clarify|reason=neutral with respect to what?|date=January 2019}} organization focusing on strengthening the existing relationship between the United States and the island of Ireland and aim to build up the future relationship between these two countries. This organization are now working on several spheres such as politics, education, International business, and the general arts. Through these activities and movements, the US-Ireland Alliance is seeking mutual benefits for both countries.

Basic information

The Alliance was founded by Trina Vargo in 1998. During that period, the relationship between the United States and the island of Ireland was under a dramatic and unstable condition and experienced an extreme transformation according to her observation. At the end of the last century, Ireland gradually developed into a modern, confident and developed European country who stand on it own feet. The original purposes of creating this organization were to take advantages and benefits of this dynamic signification period.^[1]

The organization was based in several different cities like Washington, D.C., Dublin, Ireland. Moreover, the organization absorbed the members from both the United States, Ireland, UK and more countries beyond.

The purposes of this organization are aimed at educating the American public about contemporary Ireland and help them drop off the prejudice. Under this circumstance, a robust and vibrant historical bound is expected to be built by in the future. The organization ensures its membership across the public, artists, officials, educators and the business communities in both countries and working on the mutual interests from two sides of the Atlantics. Through a series of activities and transnational projects among different areas including media, education, culture, and the business corporation, the US-Ireland Alliance engaged in developing the existed potential boundaries between these two countries and hope to create new opportunities in the future.

The Founder

Trina Y. Vargo is the founder and the current president of the US-Ireland Alliance,^[2] she created the organisation in 1998.^[3] In that capacity, she created the George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program in the recognition as one of the most prestigious scholarships for study abroad for young Americans to explore the contemporary the island of Ireland. In general arts and culture aspects, she also help the Alliance to hold an annual event in Hollywood, the Oscar Wilde Award in order to honour the Irish contributors in film and entertainment industries.

Her career were focusing on the political sphere before establishing the US-Ireland Alliance. From 1987 until May 1998, Vargo served as a Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) in Washington, D.C.. During her years with Senator Kennedy, she worked directly with political leaders in Northern Ireland and the Irish Government under the Clinton administration, serving as a key behind-the-scenes player in the Northern Ireland peace process.^[4] She significantly contributed in negotiating a visa for Gerry Adams for visiting the United States in 1994.^[5] In 1993, Vargo assisted Ambassador Madeleine Albright in preparation for her Senate confirmation hearings for the Cabinet post of United States Ambassador to the United Nations and helped to prepare the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith with her confirmation Senate Hearing in June 1993. She has briefed all subsequent US Ambassadors to Ireland, Democrats and Republicans. In a personal capacity, Vargo became the Irish-issue adviser for the U.S. presidential campaign teams since 1998. Most recently, she served as the Obama campaign's adviser on Irish issues in 2008.

Work aspects

Arts and Culture

The Alliance absorbs the creative inspiration from both American and Irish artists. The sufficient funds of the US-Ireland Alliance allows them to support and promote arts and culture events on Irish-related areas and hold a variety of events for those Irish films and theatres who made a significant contribution in the arts industries. The US-Ireland Alliance hold the Oscar Wilde Award in Los Angeles, the United States since 2001 to honor those Irish contributors in American entertainment industries. They also organize various culture-related events throughout the year and make connections and interview with prominent Irish artists in podcast programs online.^[6]

Business

Under the modern globalization, the business corporations between the United States and Ireland have become tighter than ever before. The Alliance helps to promote and develop the Irish business into an international scale. Moreover, the Alliance contributed to the developing and enlarged the business scale of the corporations from the United States in the island of Ireland. They work with direct business plans and projects in both countries.^[7]

Politics

After the end of the violent conflict in Northern Ireland, started from the mid-1990s, the number of Irish emigration to the US passed the peak period and experienced a dramatic downward trend. The financial situation in Ireland implies that Ireland could not comfort the 'developing countries’ benefits, but the economy of Ireland still experienced some difficulties at a certain level. Under this circumstance, the US-Ireland Alliance aims at alternating the current relationship between Ireland and the United States to fit the reality. Moreover, the goal of this modern relationship will be combined with various spheres including education, culture, general arts, and business. Also, there is a responsibility for both Irish and non-Irish American to put efforts in this new historical period.^[8]

Oscar Wilde Award

Description

The Oscar Wilde Award is the award for cinematic contribution of Irish-Americans in the entertainment industries within United States of America. This award is hold by US-Ireland Alliance since 2006 before the Oscar season of each year. The event usually hold at the beginning of the year and never show the shortage of the star-power.^[9] The nominees are usually the Irish talents who have impact on the entertainment industries in music and performing areas. In the early years were held at the Ebell on Wilshire Boulevard. Some Irish celebrities become the regular supporters and share their stories and experiences with others. One of the activists of this non-profit organisation, director J. J. Abrams offered an opportunity for holding this event at Bad Robot in Santa Monica since 2012.^[10]

The Major Sponsor

Bad robot is an American film and television production companied founded by one of the activists of the US-Ireland Alliance, J.J. Abrams. The company led to The company located in Santa Monica. The ceremony have held in Santa Monica since 2012.^[11]

Accenture is a worldwide management consulting company provide professional business-related services such as providing strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.

Nominees

Criticism

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George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program

As part of its mission of educating the American public and encouraging the future American leader to pursue a year of education in Ireland and Northern Ireland to strengthen the connection between the United States and Ireland, the US-Ireland Alliance set up George J. Mitchell Scholarship program. In nearly two decades, this program has helped the future leaders to experience the culture of Ireland and provided them a thorough understanding of, and an affinity for the island of Ireland.

Scholarship Criteria

According to the official website of George Mitchell Scholars, there are 12 seats annually this year for the applicator who aged between 18 and 30. This program provides a one-year postgraduate program in any discipline offered by institutions of higher education in both Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Applicants will be censored on the following three criteria

a sustained commitment to community and public service.

The Mitchell Scholarship program will cover the fee of tuition, accommodations, a stipend for living expenses and travel cost.^[16]

About this program

The organization are opened to everyone and especially welcome to those future leaders who have interested in our programs. Since 2001, the first class who received this scholarship showed their ambitious and responsibility of the characteristics of this program. Leadership and the active wished in taking part in public services and serve the community. These characteristics are considered as the core value and hallmarks of Senator Mitchell as well as this scholarship which is named after him.

Those who attended the previous programs will give some advice about the field they choose to work on and pieces of information about the undergraduate institutions or hometown they came from. These volunteers work with potential candidates to help them get to know the island of Ireland. Potential candidates will also benefit from those scholars who have the academic experience in the island of Ireland and learning more about the program directly from them.

The more information about the experience and life of scholars who anticipated in the program are usually highly demanded by the potential candidates. The scholars will also share the fields they study, higher education institutions and the specific life experiences of a university on the island of Ireland. They would also share their personal information and reflections online to help those who are interested in George Mitchell Scholar Program to get famililar with the system.

The official website of George Mitchell Scholars provide thoroughly information about the programs, including the various field they previously working on, the class note, and blogs to record their life during the year they spent on the island of Ireland as a scholar.^[17]

The comments of US-Ireland Alliance

In the website ‘charity Navigator’, US-Ireland Alliance rated 84.98 out of 100 in the overall score and rate, in which the financial permanence received a 90.53 out of 100, and the accountability and transparency received an 81.00 out of 100. Moreover, the US-Ireland Alliance's score is relatively lower than other organization in a similar type of work and same area.

CharityNavigator.org shows FYE 2016 Revenues of $1,085,468 of which $485,000 comes from government grants.  Trina Vargo, President is paid $248,281 as compensation (23.58% of total expenses). https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5497 retrieved 3/10/2019

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