Asha Meeting minutes 06/12/05

Attendees: Anita,Sanjeev,Raman,Santhosh,Radhakrish,Vinod,Shree,Savitha,Harpreet

Everest Fundraiser- Santhosh
-Santhosh and Gaurav attended the conference call with Asha wide Everest fundraisers team on last week.
-Need 3 to 4 volunteers for this fund raising
-Creating texas regional team(Asha Dallas,Houston,Austin) to raise funds for basecamp mountaineering.
- Gaurav to ask the Asha SV -How much funds need to be raised per climber like $100 per foot for the base camp?
- Santhosh to send email to Asha austin group  to idenitfy the volunteers interested this program
- Everest Fund raiser generates more profit 10 time as investment

Asha Wide Conference -Chicago- Minutes by Sanjeev

-Right to information law Org offers all citizen to get any information on government projects/procedures/processes,
Citizenship education,Awareness etc

GSK project evaluation- Unable to discuss as murali was not available at the meeting

Support a teacher program- Vinod
-Discussed the website for the SAT program
-This program supports a teacher from "Shristhi"school that works on Autism
-Publicity coordination
- Vinod to send email flyers to all groups
-Vinod to add banner on the Asha main website as well as other links.
-Santosh to prepare list of schools for autistic children and related orgs
-Santhosh to get booklets about the Asha and other programs.
 -Voting on Financial details for Support a Teacher program outcomes with 100% positive results
- Agreed to raise $3600 for 6 months for 5 teachers.

BJSA Project coordinator - Gaurav and Harpreet singh would replace Raman and sriram ,though sriram would be still in loop with the donors

ASS project coordinator- Need to get one more volunteer apart from neelima.

Banyan - Santhosh need to setup conference call to get more information on the Block printing/Tailoring unit as part of Asha sponsored vocational training program. Invite sanjeev to the call.

Treasurer- Anita will be the Asha Austin treasurer , starting from this week onwards. Raman to update Asha Treasury group and AMD/DELL/MICROSOFT matching org with these changes.

WAH updates- Anita to send minutes to the group.