Minutes of the meeting on April 06, 2002 - by Sumathi

Attendees :  Vikas, Rajesh, Pranshu, Vinay, Kumar,
Amit, Uday, Depali, Amrish, Sumathi; Ashwini - Asha
CNJ, (Purvesh, Aarti, Roopa) - Nagar Youth Forum

1. Fundraiser UPDATE (as of saturday) : 
Ticket sales :  Less than 50 
Individual Sponsorships : 1050 (approx. 10 sponsors)
Corporate Sponsorships : $1000 ( 2 sponsors)
Sovenir Sponsorships : $250 ( 1 sponsor)

We need to do far better folks! 

1. Please pick up the phone and tell your
friends/acquaintances about Asha Princeton's program..
urge them to buy tickets/be individual sponsors.
2. Please call companies and try to get them to be
corporate sponsors..
Corporate sponsorships are OUR only way to achieve our
goal of $26,000. 
3. Go to your nearby grocery store, post a poster of
the program there. Convince the owner to place an ad
in the brochure.
4. On April 20th we will try to sell as many tickets
as possible on Oak Tree Road, Edison. PLEASE TRY TO
ATTEND IT. (More details of the 'Oak tree Pitch' will
be announced in the days to come)

You may download all the forms
(Individual/Corporate/Sovenir(Brochure) sponsorships)
from the Files area of ashaprinceton at
www.yahoogroups.com .

The tickets can be collected from - Amit Sahai
(sahai@cs.princeton.edu)
Please don't hesitate to give me a call/email me if
you need any help or clarifications.. Phone : (W) 609
734 9478/(H) 609 720 1202; Email :
sumathivinay@yahoo.com

Other things discussed during the meeting :
1. Meeting with Nagar Youth Forum members who are
organizing 'Endowment for Light' on May 12th. : They
requested Asha Princeton's support for their program
by passing on the word about their program. They gave
us postcards of their program to distribute. Asha
CentralNJ Chapter is workng with them right now.

2. Work An Hour 2002 : Currently there are 18 projects
submitted to WAH 2002. The procedure involves every
chapter to evaluate and rank each of the 18 projects..
based on the overall ranks of the projects, 5 will be
selected to be WAH2002 projects. People will then be
approached to donate to these projects.
Each chapter will have to spend atleast 3 of their
meetings reviewing the projects! Given that this too 
time consuming, the WAH2002 committee has decided to
bring down the number of projects to 8 or 9. There
will be a series of conference calls reviewing each
project, considering critics so that 9-10 projects can
be eliminated. Asha Princeton has submitted two
projects to WAH2002 - Vasundhara Eurekha Hall project
and Kajurdaha's  II phase Proposal II. Vasundhara's
conference call is on Sunday at 10PM. Vikas, Rohini
and Vinay will be in the call in order to best
represent the project. 

3. Election of "Asha for Education"'s  governing
committee comprising of President, Secratary,
Treasurer and 3 Directors.

Nominees : 
Melli Annamalai (President) 
Yash Warke (Secretary) 
Ram Tekumalla(Treasurer)
Arun Vadlamani(Director) 
S. Sunder Kumar Iyer  (Director) 
Jayashree Janardhan(Director)
Milind Mehere(Director)

Details of the nominees can be found at :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asha-wide/message/2956

The Princeton Chapter GAVE a YES vote to all the
nominees.