Small Steps towards a better future
The SSF board has selected ‘Hema Talreja’ as a Treasurer to the board on December 1st, 2011. Please join us in congratulating her for this position.
Name: Hema Talreja
Qualification/Work: Masters degree in Accounting, Working at Alameda County Tax Collector's Office.
Designation at SSF: Treasurer
Why Volunteer : I believe that a girl educated is a family educated. I've always had the desire to help the underprivileged children in India & Small Steps Foundation has very minimum admin costs, so the donations go to deserving children everytime.
Request a Matching Gift from your company
As companies are getting ready to reconcile with their targeted calendar donations, this is a refresher from Reena's workshop on how to request corporate donations:
- Matching Donation
- Specific Event Donations
- Compensation for employee's volunteer hours
- Donation on Employee's request
- Matching Donation
Many of us donated to SSF in small amounts here and there. This donation can still be typically matched by the company. For example, if you have given $20 in march08 and $30 in july08, you can get consolidated receipt from SSF (If you already do not have these 2 receipts) and send it to your HR and they might send a matching check to SSF.
Update from SSF Executive Team
All the executives met on November 13th and presented their functional area to discuss the plan for next six months, immediate backup and team and frequency of team meetings.
The Project team is working very actively in doing the due diligence for project selection and approval. They are also evaluating the options of setting up some way of transitioning the raised funds smoothly from here to our well deserving projects/schools in India.
The executive team also took the time to recognize all the new volunteers and thank the existing volunteers for a successful 2011!!!!
Small Steps Foundation Diwali Dandia Nite 2011 - Oct 8th
Small Steps Foundation Presents SSF Dandia Nite 2011 in Fremont,Bay Area on Oct 8th 2011 By Dimple Patel & Troupe.
Education is a fundamental universal human right and the first building block of sustainable human development upon which everything else - health care, social development, employment rests.
“If Not Us, Then Who? If Not Now, Then When?”
These were the guiding priniciples of the founders of Small Steps Foundation to take a collective action, our first step to make a positive difference in the lives of millions of helpless children who are deprived of their basic universal human right: Right to Education.