Meeting
Minutes 11/23/08
Attendees: Bharath, Ganesh, Gaurav, Halley, Jith, Murali, Rahul
1. Gnanodaya
–Bharath
2. Treasurer post -Bharath
3. Meeting location
4. General
5. Year-end progress review -Rahul
1. Gnanodaya
-Bharath
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-All children in the school are healthy
-They have 203 children at the day school, 115 live in hostel
-Children do not have to pay any expenses
-DIK is the main donor for Gnanodaya
-See
update: http://www.ashanet.org/
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Haven’t
been able to find support for the van from
- Why do we have leprosy colonies?
Because of government schemes supporting leprosy affected patients, they band together to avail of these schemes as a group
- Send the second installment of $7500 for this year
Action Items:
-Scan the pictures and receipts and upload online
Questions:
-Is the community strength (50 families) the same?
2. Treasurer post -Bharath
- Arvind Rao and Bharath are currently the treasurers
- Arvind wants to step down, need a new volunteer
- Major activities: collect checks, deposits, receipts, chapter accounting/financials, project
disbursals, validate matching donations, event expenses
-We should also have SAC donor accounting
-Credit card donations need to be accounted for properly
-Time commitment: averages about 2 hours/wk
Action Items:
-Set up nominations for treasurer and fundraising coord (Gaurav)
3. Meeting location
- We have RLM 6.112 reserved until Dec 7
- Advantages of UT: central location, projector facilities etc, a single location known to all volunteers, formal atmosphere gets work done
- Disadvantages of UT: parking
4. General
-We will have a meeting next Sunday (Thanksgiving weekend)
5. Year-end progress review
-Rahul
- Set up a meeting when we can review the progress through the year in Dec (Rahul)