You might have heard the buzz by now - Asha for Education is gearing up for a shot at $500,000 grant as part of Round 2 of the Chase Community Giving program!
Every year Chase donates 5 million USD to various charities and you can help make Asha one of the top recipients ((in round 1 we came in at rank 33 and won $25K given to the top 100).
Chase relies on Facebook users to vote for their favorite charities and the non profit with the highest votes is selected for the donation. Voting has already started and will end on May 25. We are targeting getting upwards of 150,000 votes which is a tall order. Your vote and every vote you can help Asha get from your friends and contacts will allow 3000 underprivileged youth in urban India to find skilled jobs and 750 people in rural India start and nurture small businesses as part of our BIG IDEA submission (http://www.ashanet.org/bigIdea/)
This is the time to show your love and support Asha for Education by VOTING by following the steps below. Spread the word and get your friends / family / neighbor / co-workers to vote for Asha and help us get to the top of the Leader Board and stay there!!
Instructions on How to Vote:
1. Open the URL http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/770459884-asha-for-education
2. Click on ‘Vote and Share’
3. You will see a message saying ‘Chase Community Giving is requesting permission to do the following : Access my basic information (Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone)’.
4. Click on Allow
5. You should see ‘You must like Chase Community Giving to Vote’. Click on Like
6. Click on Vote and Share
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Chase Competition:- Less than 24 hours left - lets finish strong!!
Friends,
We've almost hit the 3000 vote mark. A lot of us have worked very hard for getting us this far. With less than 24 hours to go, lets make one final push and finish strong!!
STEP 1: Visit and "Like" the Chase Community Giving App on Facebook -http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/
STEP 2: Visit the ASHA Chase page and click on "Vote and Share" - http://tinyurl.com/voteAsha (You'll be asked to allow permission. Click "Allow" and then click on "Vote and Share")
STEP 2: Visit the ASHA Chase page and click on "Vote and Share" - http://tinyurl.com/voteAsha (You'll be asked to allow permission. Click "Allow" and then click on "Vote and Share")
STEP 3: Confirm that you see a "Thanks for your vote" message next to number of votes that Asha got so far. If you still see "Vote & Share", click on it again.
Those who haven't voted :
Here's your last chance to get your vote in. Please show your support and help us finish as high as possible.
Those who have already voted:
We are very grateful for your enthusiasm and support. Your support is a big source of encouragement and motivation for us volunteers :-)
Those who voted and got their friends, family and coworkers to vote:
You're super awesome!! :-)
Everyone, please check one final time that your vote actually went through at http://bit.ly/kbMAxn (you should see a "Thanks for your vote" message next to the number of votes that Asha got so far. If you still see "Click and Vote", your vote hasn't registered yet - so pls click on "Vote & Share" one more time).
Everyone, please continue to encourage your coworkers, friends and family to support a good cause and vote for us.
Cheers,
Chase Competition Team
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Asha for Education - Vote for Hope!
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Chase Community Giving
I am helping a non-profit called Asha for Education (100% volunteer driven org focused on education of the underprivileged in India for the last 20yrs with 400 project partners, 73 worldwide chapters) that is competing for the Chase community giving challenge (for $500,000 or Rs. 2.2crores) awarded to the non-profit that gets the most votes on Facebook (in round 1, Asha came in at rank 33 and won $25K given to the top 100!).
Asha could really use your help in winning this – all they need is your vote! Voting starts on May 19 and ends on May 26. Your vote will allow 3000 underprivileged youth in urban India to find skilled jobs and 750 people in rural India start and nurture small businesses.
Please consider support the very important cause by voting for Asha at (it takes less than a minute!):
*http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/770459884-asha-for-education*
Who is Asha for Education?
Asha for Education (Asha) is a 100% volunteer driven non-profit that has been dedicated to improving the lives of the underprivileged in India since the last 20year through education with 73 chapters worldwide.
What does Asha do exactly?
Asha has developed a strong network of 400 project partner non-profits / organizations in India – Asha’s individual chapters raise funds, spread awareness and collect best practices to enable the project partners to the real work of educating children and youth from marginalized segments.
Why you should vote for us?
If you help Asha win this great prize of $500k, you will take Asha’s efforts to the next level - you will help 3000 underprivileged youth in urban India to find skilled jobs through career guidance and training in computer skills and spoken English and 750 people in rural India start and nurture small businesses through a customized “mini-MBA” program.
You can learn more about this challenge & about the organization at http://www.ashanet.org/bigIdea/
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Asha for Education–next BIG Idea
I am working on a campaign for a non-profit that I support and actively volunteer for, called Asha for Education (100% volunteer driven org focused on education of the underprivileged in India for the last 20yrs with 400 project partners, 73 worldwide chapters). We are competing for the Chase community giving challenge (for $500K) awarded to the non-profit that gets the most votes on Facebook (in round 1 we came in at rank 33 and won $25K given to the top 100!).
Voting starts on May 19 and ends on May 26. We are targeting getting upwards of 150,000 votes which is a tall order. Your vote will allow 3000 underprivileged youth in urban India to find skilled jobs and 750 people in rural India start and nurture small businesses.
Here’s where we could really use your help:
1) Will you please consider giving us your support by voting for Asha at (it take less than a minute!): http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/770459884-asha-for-education
2) We will be extremely thankful if you can help spread the work amongst your friends / co-workers / networks to help us win
Just in case you need some convincing, here’s is why you should vote for Asha for Education –
In the last 20 years, Asha for Education has raised over $21million to support multitudes of education initiatives in India – as a result, Asha had helped change lives of children and youth born to highly impoverished families in rural and urban India, discriminated castes, slum dwellers, prostitutes, the disabled – the list goes on. Asha has achieved this through its a strong network of 400 project partners and is 100% volunteer run which ensures that nearly every dollar raised goes to who it was raised for. If you help us win this great prize of $500k, you will take Asha’s efforts to the next level - you will help 3000 underprivileged youth in urban India to find skilled jobs through career guidance and training in computer skills and spoken English and 750 people in rural India start and nurture small businesses through a customized “mini-MBA” program.
I am clearly sold… are you?
You can learn more about this challenge & the organization at http://www.ashanet.org/bigIdea
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Chase Community Giving
Asha Volunteers/Supporters/Donors,
Congratulations on helping Asha win the 25 K grant through Chase Community Giving (CCG) campaign (http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/770459884-asha-for-education). Your vote helped Asha take #33 in the leader board and with your help we have $25,000 more for empowering children through Education.
But this is just the beginning for a bigger opportunity. Starting May 19th, through Round -2, we will have another chance to show the world how passionate Asha is towards our mission. I would like to invite volunteers to form a local CCG Co-ord team with a goal of getting as many people as possible to vote for Asha on CCG Round 2. The voting opens up for a week starting May 19th. You would be driving the online and offline marketing this for one week while closely working with the central team.
Additionally, one of the requirement for CCG is presenting a "BIG IDEA" on how we would spend the 500 K, should be win the grant. Please send your suggestions by end of Monday for the central team to consolidate the ideas.
Many thanks again for making Round 1 successful and I know together we CAN show the world we are #1 non profit committed to bringing change in India.
Regards,
Congratulations on helping Asha win the 25 K grant through Chase Community Giving (CCG) campaign (http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/770459884-asha-for-education). Your vote helped Asha take #33 in the leader board and with your help we have $25,000 more for empowering children through Education.
But this is just the beginning for a bigger opportunity. Starting May 19th, through Round -2, we will have another chance to show the world how passionate Asha is towards our mission. I would like to invite volunteers to form a local CCG Co-ord team with a goal of getting as many people as possible to vote for Asha on CCG Round 2. The voting opens up for a week starting May 19th. You would be driving the online and offline marketing this for one week while closely working with the central team.
Additionally, one of the requirement for CCG is presenting a "BIG IDEA" on how we would spend the 500 K, should be win the grant. Please send your suggestions by end of Monday for the central team to consolidate the ideas.
Many thanks again for making Round 1 successful and I know together we CAN show the world we are #1 non profit committed to bringing change in India.
Regards,
Vyas (on behalf of the Asha Co-ord team)
Monday, May 02, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Historic Boston Guided GPS Tour
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
To my wife with love...
It's an uncertain world that we live in
where so much keeps changing so fast
and that we thought we could count on
too soon become things of the past...
So with all my life I feel grateful
for the precious part of my life
that is there for me always, no question -
my wonderful beautiful wife
What better day than today to tell you
how much I appreciate your understanding and support
you always give me.
The way you put up with my faults and
still love me inspite of them!
You bring so much joy to my life
just by being the beautiful,
caring person you are
I am a very lucky man to be your husband.
Monday, February 28, 2011
It pays to know your customer
A disappointed salesman of Coca-Cola returned from his assignment to Saudi Arabia.
A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Saudis?"
The salesman explained, "When I got posted, I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch.
But I had a problem. I didn't know how to speak Arabic. So I planned to convey the message through three posters.
First poster : A man lying in the hot desert sand totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster : The man is drinking Coca-Cola.
Third poster : Our man is now totally refreshed.
And then these posters were pasted all over the place.
"Terrific! That should have worked!" said the friend.
"The hell it should have!" said the salesman. "No one told me they read from right to left!"
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Greetings from Asha for Education
As the 2010 comes to an end, we at the Asha-Boston/MIT chapter wanted to reach out to you and provide some quick insight into our work & the impact it has made in several people's lives – none of which would be possible without your support! Here are a few examples of the amazing work that has been done through your support and the relentless efforts of our volunteers.
Deenabandhu Girls Home: An environmentally friendly home, with a generous grant from Alstom foundation was inaugurated in April. It houses 30 girls, and plans to grow to 50 girls. These girls have no parents to care for them, and many were found destitute on the streets with a bleak future ahead of them. At the Deenabandhu home they are able put their harsh years behind them and embrace a life of affection and caring in a home filled with laughter and light, and have the opportunity to lead a successful and fulfilling life.
Defining Success: Success can be scoring 98%. It can also be something very different. This year, Seed Narpanigal, who has several students who come to the center without even knowing the alphabet fully (even when they are enrolled in primary or middle school), shared with us their success this year: all class X students are continuing on to class XI, all class XII students are continuing on to college, dropouts happen in class IX and retaining every one of them is a success. Students who come to the center ashamed to show their class books and marks get the confidence to speak, to learn, and to stay on in school.
Defining Success: Success can be scoring 98%. It can also be something very different. This year, Seed Narpanigal, who has several students who come to the center without even knowing the alphabet fully (even when they are enrolled in primary or middle school), shared with us their success this year: all class X students are continuing on to class XI, all class XII students are continuing on to college, dropouts happen in class IX and retaining every one of them is a success. Students who come to the center ashamed to show their class books and marks get the confidence to speak, to learn, and to stay on in school.
Growing strong: Asha-Boston supported three residential schools run by Navsarjan, a grassroots organization dedicated to upliftment of the Dalit people. With help of Asha-Boston, Navsarjan is expected to triple enrollment of girl students from 2007-2008 to 2010-2011. At these residential schools, teachers and staff do "more with less": multi-functional rooms are used classrooms during the day and as lodging during the night. A student's typical day includes activities such as prayer, sports, exercise, in addition to education. In 2010-2011, Navsarjan enrolled girl students earlier than other students to ensure a higher percentage of female students.
Your support: As you know, Asha is truly a grass-roots organization; from fund-raising to project management through thousands of well-wishers, donors and volunteers. A lot has been done in the last few years with this support but a lot still needs to be done. This is only possible through a continued support and commitment from your end. If you wish to make a charitable contribution and know more about Asha please visit:
Please note: Your donation is fully tax-deductible.
Volunteers: Last but certainly not the least, kudos to all the volunteers who have done an amazing job running this institution ensuring minimal overhead so that every dollar you donate can create the maximum possible impact. Special thanks to the Marathon runners this year who have raised a record amount - highest in the last 7 years. Thank you all for your support and best wishes for the new year!
Asha For Education
PS: Please pass this along to your friends/families who are interested in participating or donating for a great
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Indian Domestic cricket season
Ever wondered why people do not care for domestic season in India - cause they do not necessarily go for the win : http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2010/engine/current/match/465452.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2010/engine/current/match/465457.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2010/engine/current/match/465496.html
I have no clue why the team batting third did not declare early. Granted they are the group leaders but I would go for victory as opposed to match practice and personal records.
Here is the points table : http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranjisuperleague2010/engine/current/series/465376.html?view=pointstable
http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2010/engine/current/match/465457.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2010/engine/current/match/465496.html
I have no clue why the team batting third did not declare early. Granted they are the group leaders but I would go for victory as opposed to match practice and personal records.
Here is the points table : http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranjisuperleague2010/engine/current/series/465376.html?view=pointstable
Rendezvous with cricket
About 18 yrs back I had watched my first Test match : http://bit.ly/fg3Yxj. It was Ind v SA. Ind lost the series disastrously
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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