Attendees : Kumar, Amrish, Deepali, Uday, Rohini,
Vikas, Sudhakar, Vinay, Amit, Sumathi, Krishna,
Varsha, Rajesh, Himanshu

Discussion Topics :
1. Sponsorships/Tickets pricing/Program Name
2. WAH 2002.
3. Vasundhara New Proposal .. responses to earlier
questions.

Discussion Details :

1. Fundraiser -- Sponsorships/Tickets pricing/Program
Name
Kumar presented the sponsorship schemes they had used
in Asha-Indianapolis. 
Individual sponsorships  at different levels; - $100 -
2 adult tickets. The donation part in this will be $70
for which the donor will get a receipt. Other levels
are $200, $300, $400+ . They will get 4, 6 and 8
tickets respectively. Child tickets purchased at $10
each.
Corporate Sponsorships also at different levels :-
$500,$1000, $2000, $5000 . They get 'complimentary'
tickets proportionate to their donation. 
Kumar will shortly send the sponsorship letters to the
mailing list.
We will have one level ticket prices, as it best suits
individual
and corporate sponsorships. 
The program name will be 'Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani'
. 
The venue will be decided by the end of the week.

2. Projects for WAH 2002 : We will submit 2 projects
to WAH(Work An Hour - the Internet-based project-wise
fundraising program) this year. Kajurdaha and
Vasundhara-Eureka Hall(This was submitted last year
too, and it just missed making it to the 5 projects
selected). Vikas is preparing the Vasundhara
proposal.. Sridhar and Shanmuga are preparing the
Kajurdaha proposal. The deadline for submission is
March 15th.

2. Vasundhara New Proposal - answers to questions
raised earlier.
 
The proposal is to extend reach from 40 to 60 schools,
expand experiments to help 5th-7th grade children,
conduct regular teacher training workshops, extend
experiments to Maths and geography. The funds
requirement is $16,000.
Vikas had presented this proposal several weeks ago
and several questions were raised at that meeting. In
this meeting, Rohini and Vikas presented the answers
provided by the Vasundhara group. 
The proposal and the responses can be found at : 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ashaprinceton/files/Vasundhara/

Rohini has visited the project several times and said
that the people who run the Vasundhara program were
highly motivated and have made good use of the funds
we have provided so far. They are also capable of
handling the new expansion. 
Given these above factors, and our own funding
situation, we decided to fund them with $10,000 which
would cover everything except expanding to 5th-7th
grades. However, we will try to find alternate funding
sources., like other Asha chapters(Seattle/Silicon
Valley) or some other agency for charity like the
Melinda-Gates Foundation.

Of course, we now have to raise all the money we have
committed for, which amounts to $26,000 . Friends,
lets put in all the efforts we can.. and make our
fundraiser on May 18th, a grand success!

Best Wishes,
Sumathi