Attendees : Santhosh, Vijay, Gaurav, Savitha, Anita, Ram, Gowri, Sanjeev, Sriram
 
1. Fund-raising:
 a) Cricket telecast: It was decided that we need more volunteers from UT.
 Action items:
 - Santhosh has to contact Lalit's friend from CMU who
proposed this idea.
 - Gowri has to contact ISA/other UT orgs that
organized screening of world cup
 - Sanjeev has to contact Ganesh
 b) Concert: Felt like it might be too early for us. We've to keep
looking for opportunities.
 c) Tennis: Need more vols.
 d) Children-at-risk event: Suggested by Sukhant.
 - Whoever is interested in this, please come to the
meeting on June 4th.
 e) Picnic:
 
 Date: June 4th Saturday 4pm - 9pm
 Place: Zilker Park/Emma Long Park or any other suitable place
Santhosh has to contact Zilker, Sriram to contact Emma Long Park.
 
We could play volleyball, water volleyball (in Emma Long Park),
frisbee, etc.. We could also resue the children games used in the
pervious event.
 
Plan is to make some chaat-type food.
 
Sanjeev, Anita - Puffs
Gaurav, Savitha - Pav Bhaji
Santhosh - Bhel Puri
Gowri - Grilling, BBQ-ing stuff
Vijay, Sriram - Pani Puri
Raman, Karthik - Chirps, Drinks
Vinod - icecream
 
We could charge $5-$10.
 
2. Santhosh has to send a mail about the book club organized by AID.
 
3. Update by Sanjeev on the agenda for the Asha Conference & on Asha
fellowships:
 
More details about the conferece could be found at:
http://www.ashanet.org/conferences/asha-14/
 
Asha Fellowships:
- Asha chapters provide personal financial support to some grassroots
social workers. But, over the years, due to various reasons, these
volunteers (including Sandeep Pandey, an Asha founder) have fallen
through the programme & are not receiving any support from the
chapters.
 
There is going to be a discussion during the conference to set up an
Asha-wide fellowship programme with guidelines similar to ones
currently present for projects. This programme needs to be set up to
take over the funding of these volunteers once the chapter has decided
not to.
 
Sidhamma is one such Asha fellow (supported by Asha) whom Austin Asha
is considering to support. She has been working as a grassroots
volunteer for many years with little support from outside. Her husband
supports her currently. She has worked with the Irula Bharati Trust.
More info about this organization could be found here:
 
http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=79
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4511639.stm
 
Sanjeev has to coordinate with Sidhamma & give a proposal. Once the
process is in place, Asha Austin will have a discussion about this.