Subject: Minutes of ASHA meeting with CRY(NY) on 2/27/99
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:56:28 PST

Agenda:  Presentation by CRY members

Attendees:  Sridhar, Giri, Venu, Srimal, Ashvin, Sai, Shanmuga,
and Raman Nageswara(new ASHA-Princeton member)

Guests: Rajib and Chhavi of CRY(New York).

Minutes:

Meeting started around 4:40 or so.  Chhavi had come prepared to make a
formal presentation, but we decided to have an informal discussion as
there were not too many of us at the meeting.

CRY has been active since 1995 in the tri-state area.  It
mainly consists of professionals in New York City, New Jersey and
Philadelphia area.

CRY (Child Relief and You), as most of you know, is an organization
dedicated to children's issues, including education.  They have a
widespread presence in India and the USA.  In its 20-year history,
approximately 650,000 children have benefited from CRY's support.
CRY in the USA (CRY Inc.) is mainly dedicated towards raising awareness
about the cause and does  fundraising for projects in India.   Their
1997 annual budget was  approximately  $135K with 90% expenses spent on
projects.  Projects  supported by CRY Inc. are evaluated and decided for
funding by a central project review committee in India. 10% of the money
raised go towards  projects based in the US. For more info, please visit
their website at http://www.cry.org.

Rajib and Chhavi expressed interest in getting exposure for CRY amongst
the Princeton student community.  The fact that CRY has
mostly working-professional members, and ASHA-Princeton has a
fairly diverse mix of both Princeton students as well as working
professionals, seems to provide tremendous opportunities for synergy. We
agreed to exchange our mailing lists so that we can expand our
target audience.  Also, we agreed to pool our resources together for
fundraising activities, specifically for a fundraising concert in
September, as well as publicity activities, that tie in with the
any fundraising activity carried out by both organizations.  The details
regarding the concert (like date, place, ticket price, and individual
responsibilities) were not discussed.  We also agreed to plan the event
so it would target a broad based audience. Chhavi also mentioned about
the possibility of a joint movie screening in NYC/ Jersey area.

One more area of collaboration would be in the project monitoring area.
CRY, with its extensive volunteer base can act as our liaison for some
of our projects in India.  ASHA Princeton can work with CRY-NY if they
would like reports on their projects.

We thank Rajib and Chhavi for taking their time to visit us and make the
presentation.  We look forward to working with CRY-NY towards
achievement of our common goals.

Sridhar/Giri
ASHA Princeton