Minutes of the Meeting held on June 18th 1996.

Gopi, Murali, Shamik, Siva and Amol were present at the meeting.

Events:

Summer Picnic:<pgopi@microsoft.com >

Gopi went over his thorough Plans for the Summer Picnic. He needs Help in the following items:

(1) MOST IMPORTANT: if you have not done an RSVP for the picnic and plan to make it to the Picnic. please do so as soon as possible to Gopi at pgopi@microsoft.com

(2) Sign-Boards need to be made.(2 People)

(3) Please Bring Water Jugs if you have one to the Picnic. Quiz:<gopalp@microsoft.com >

Gopal Sent this email as an update: "Regarding the Quiz I have not much info to add at this stage. I am in the process of collecting the names of potential quiz Masters and getting some contact info. The next thing is to find a person who will take over from me in Aug.( I will be in India for three weeks). Tentatively, the quiz is scheduled for the first half of October 96."

Informational Night: Amol, said that since we were busy with our exams in the mid-end of june, it was decided to postpone the informational night for people outside Asha to Fall. It was also suggested that we do it along with the Quiz in October.

Projects:

Site-Visit

(1) Murali gave a vivid description of his Site-Visit. He has since posted the detail site-visit report on Asha-core.

(2) Siva read out his friends site visit report of the Champa Mahila

Society project. There were two main issues:.
(i) Their continuance of funding. Asha had promised them 2yrs of funding and the time to decide whether to review funding for them is coming up soon.
(ii) Asha-La had written to them and Siva had got an email from Asha-LA.Saying "They had a project among themselves to get projects from India so they picked organisations at random and wrote to them."

(3) Checks for various projects have been sent. Padsare 1/2 payment was being sent and the other 1/2 will be sent by Stanford.

(4) Prerna Dham -project was not yet reviewed by the project focus group.

(5) Asha-PPI project was at the initial stages. PPI was reluctant to co-sponsor a project. We might have to ask the organization in India to present 2 proposals..?

(6) Date on evening to view the videos of Prachiti-projects and the other correspondence has not moved yet.(still to be decided).

Other issues:

Future Funding of Projects, Future Payment Schedules for them. It was decided that the project Focus group shall discuss the same.

SAC:

Shamik had sent this mail a few days back. He said that nothing much has happened Since. Here is the email :" We got a reply from Each one Teach One(EOTO) organization in Bombay. They have answered all the questions we had about organizational overheads and it seems like a pretty efficient organization. They don't have any infrastructure costs because they get a room in the 5 Schools in Bombay where they do their work. They have 5 People who work as paid co-ordinators but all the other social workers are volunteers. Even the meals they provide the children are cooked by the mothers of the kids so we have to pay just the actual food cost. Their detailed and prompt reply makes them seem like a very focused organization. They have also contacted Rajini's Friend in Bombay so we should have a site visit report pretty soon. I have written back to them asking for some more sponsorship forms so we can start finding sponsors in Seattle."

Corporate Focus Group:

This is an update from Gagan's email to me" In short there is nothing new to report from the corporate focus group. We have not met since the last meeting . The activity in progress is the brochure......"

University:

Ragamala Tea and Tutoring are going on. Kid-care tutoring is short of volunteers and we might not be able to keep it going.

Finance:

A decision on STOCKS donated was still pending and it was not decided this time due to small number of people attending the meeting.