Minutes of the Fundraiser/Projects Meeting
Held on Saturday, June 7, 2003.
Minutes by Amrish

In attendance were:

Shankar Krishnan
Avani Tailor
Amrish Garg
Sridhar Desikan
Manoj Prabhakar
Uday Jain
Hansa Shah
Himanshu Bhagat
Sumathi Iyengar
Vinay Iyengar
Subadhra Seetharaman

New members Avani and Subadhra were welcomed.

Pending items in the fund-raising categories were
identified as Utsav account-closing, feedback forms,
thank-you letters/receipts, lessons learned and
database.

Discussion on "lessons learned" was postponed as many
people who played significant roles in putting
together the Utsav were not present. It was felt that
the other items, though important, could be addressed
off-line.

The project-related items were listed by Sridhar and
are reproduced here.

WAH 2003 Voting (Hansa)
Aaj project review
Asha-12: Action items for our chapter
Ambattur project proposal
Update from Khajurdaha
ANAWIM visit (Kumar)
Asha Sanctuary Initiative (Hansa)
Asha Lalpur
DPEP Discussion (Nina)
Invited speakers schedule
Learning Network Initiative (Ranjani)
Shankar's visit to India

Out of the above, WAH 2003 discussion was considered
to merit an urgent consideration because our chapter
vote is due on June 20. The others also need to be
discusssed ASAP. Avani and Subadhra have got off to a
flying start by getting involved in the WAH 2003
selection process.

Hansa led the discussion on the mechanics of getting
the viewpoints of our chapter members (the process has
been set into motion).

Thereafter, Hansa spoke eloquently on the Asha
Sanctuary initiative. No action is required from our
chapter except active coordination on Hansa's part to
bring the stakeholders together.

Guest speakers, Prashanth and Pankaj, from Asha-CNJ
joined us and presented the details of the
long-distance running program for fund-raising.

On June 14, Asha-CNJ has organized an indoors Mela
from 2 PM to 8 PM. Please show your support by
attending and having fun. The asha website has the
details.

In order to clear up pending project-related matters,
we will have a meeting at the E-Quad on Sunday, June
15 at 2:00 PM.

Thank you.

Amrish