History of Good Tidings Charity
Introduction . History . FAQ . Management

        GTC was founded by Thomas A. T. Nguyen in 2004 to continue the tradition of the Tà Áo Sinh Viên (TASV) Calendar in building futures in Vietnamese orphans and impoverished children.
        The TASV Calendar was created by Thomas A. T. Nguyen back in 1999 when he was the Founder/President of the Vietnamese Students Association at the University of St. Thomas. The following year, Mr. Nguyen founded Vietnamese Students Associated Charities (VSAC), Inc., and continued the TASV Calendar project under VSAC until 2002.
        In 2002, Mr. Nguyen restructured and renamed VSAC to a new name he came up with, Hope Initiative (HI), Inc., to further expand its appeal to the community. The TASV Calendar project was under HI until 2005. The 2005 Tà Áo Sinh Viên Calendar was the last TASV Calendar under HI.
        In the Fall of 2004, Mr. Nguyen left HI and formed Good Tidings Charity to continue the TASV Calendar tradition. The release of the 2006 Tà Áo Sinh Viên Calendar marked a new beginning for the calendar project under GTC to fund Project Good Tidings (PGT). GTC formed the program Project Good Tidings in collaboration with the Vietnamese Dominican Sisters to bring good tidings to the Vietnamese orphans and impoverished children in a more efficient, fruitful, and direct way.
        In the Summer of 2005, Mr. Nguyen called upon Quoc Anh Nguyen to join Good Tidings Charity in an effort to strengthen Vietnamese college organizations by establishing a project that will provide scholarships for the educational advancement of Vietnamese college students. As a result of this collaboration, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Thomas A. T. Nguyen founded and created a Vietnamese scholarship pageant called Hoa Hậu Trưng Vương (HHTV) to resurrect the tradition first began by the Vietnamese Students Association at the University of Houston-Downtown approximately half a decade ago.
        For the purpose of promoting education advancement in young Vietnamese in the community, GTC adopts the HHTV to establish scholarships for academic excellence and financial needs in Vietnamese college students. In addition, by providing scholarships to the participating Vietnamese college organizations to award their members, GTC's goal is to encourage young people to be active in their Vietnamese college organizations, schools, and their community in a positive way. The HHTV also serve as a cultural endeavor that aims to preserve the Vietnamese language and the Ao Dai in the Vietnamese community as a whole.
        The pageant was named after the two most famous Vietnamese Heroines and Queens, Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, who led an insurrection against the Chinese, winning national independence for Vietnam in the year 40 AD. For their courage and determination, Good Tidings Charity celebrates their strengths and beauty within our Vietnamese women in the Hoa Hậu Trưng Vương.