Project Approval Process and Guidelines for Volunteers

Project Approval Process
  • Take a look at the sample project details on our web pages under the projects section and ensure that all these questions have been answered. If not, write to the project and ask them to fill out our application.
  • Create a website for the project using the ashanet database. Ask project coordinator for the username/password. More details on how to use the database available at DB.doc in the yahoogroups file section.
  • Post on asha-seattle with the project web link asking volunteers to review the project and send any questions.
  • Discuss at the meeting and collect questions/impressions.
  • Write to the organization and get questions clarified.
  • Arrange site visit for the project and get site visit report.
  • Discuss again at Asha meeting and post on asha-seattle and get the project voted.
  • Change the status of the project in the project website>
  • Add a row in the Project Funding table for this project with complete funding details.
  • Send email to project coordinator to co-ordinate finance for the project.
Guidelines for Approving Projects
  • Asha-Seattle will only work with non-sectarian groups having no religious and/or political affiliations and which do not discriminate on the basis of caste, creed, religion or sex.
  • The project proposal must describe in detail, its objectives, plan of action, number of children covered, number of people involved in its implementation, an itemized budget, and any other relevant information.
  • The project must be planned, managed and sustained by the group itself with little outside help.
  • The project must improve the general welfare of the community, emphasizing education related aspects.
  • The benefits of the project must be fairly distributed and should reach a maximum number of children.
The group will be required to provide complete financial and narrative reports (and photographs, if possible) on the progress of the project, when requested by Asha-Seattle (not more than 4 times a year). Members of Asha-Seattle will try to maintain a close personal involvement with the organizations and projects that are sponsored.

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