Meeting date: Nov 19, 2006.

Thanks to Parthiv for providing the meeting minutes

Attendees: Parthiv, Amy, Arindham, Hitesh, Payal, Priya, Yogi, Kishore,
Aditya, Parthiv, Pradeep, Gyanshyam, Neelesh, Murali, Rajeev, Aparna,
Kishore, Sanjay, Guru, Anjula

Introduction & generic discussion:

After a round of introductions, there were a brief overview of Asha followed
by general questions. Aparna's question: Currently 2 MIT students working on
the project on development of a curriculum for kids – TB challenge as part
of the MIT IDEAS competition. can that be incorporated into Asha projects?
Parthiv/Amy to put her in touch w/Dr. Balu of SVYM.

Main Agenda

1) Fund disbursal is the current challenge at the Asha central level. There
was a request for to shift volunteer bandwith from fundraising to working
with Asha central to help with this. Working on this. Interested folks
please get in touch.

2) Newsletter - Need to get the newsletter out by mid-december.Arindham and
Hitesh agreed to be the point persons. Need help with writing articles,
finding advertising revenue, formatting, editing, folding and mailing.

Hitesh -– has experience with formatting newsletter.Pradeep will send past
newsletter copies and contacts for local businesses that have advertised in
past.

Other Discussion

Hitesh - – how can we meet the project stewards if we want to get involved
with projects quickly?Ans: After volunteers attend a couple of meetings and
express the interest, we add them to the asha_strategy mailing list and put
them in touch with them. There was brief overview provided on past events
and the need to focus on small scale events.

Following are the tasks where the chapter could use more help. Please email
mit@... if you are interested in participating in any of these tasks.
- Tsunami Rehabilitation project
- Employment guarantee scheme
- Right to Education Bill
- General website coordination
- newsletter
- Asha central
activities

Pradeep
Asha MIT/Boston