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Leaps & Bounds
Newsletter
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JANUARY 12, 2007 |
Volume 1, ISSUE 4 |
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President’s Corner
Wish you all a Happy New Year 2008 filled with Love,
Ambition and Happiness!! We were busy filing tax returns last December so we
couldn’t send out the newsletter before, but we are back on track with the
New Year and a New Look. Our Diwali Dandia in November 2007 was a MEGA SUCCESS.
We all are very proud, jubilated and delighted at the wonderful job we all
did as an excellent team. The event put us all in the great festive spirits
and energies to enjoy DIWALI. I would like to share with all of you some facts about SSF’s operations and figures, revenues generated due to
donations, ticket and dandia sales, sponsorships, etc. To ensure accountability
and transparency, Small Steps Foundation maintains two bank accounts. 1)
Donation bank account - 100% of all individual
contributions, corporate matching donations, ticket sale and other sale
proceeds go to this account. Only projects checks are written from this
account. We raised the following amounts, ticket sales: $6400(including
Sulekha=$1319) Dandia sticks sale:$550
Snacks & Drinks sale: $600, Donations:$60 2)
Administrative bank account – Combined pooled
donations of Directors and other donors who specifically donate to Administrative
expenses plus all the sponsorships that we receive from the local small
businesses. The cost of the Dandia event was totally covered by Sponsorships
and this account was used to write check to the Live Band Artist and the
FUSD, school authorities. We raised
the following amounts Food Sponsorship(Chaat Café) = $300, and rest of
sponsorships=$3600. We received a refund check of 175 dollars from Sulekha
which covered the cost of our advertising on Sulekha, and we still have a
check of $250 pending from DirecTV. Diwali Dandia
SSF Diwali Dandia Nite on November 3rd in the Gymnasium of
Centerville Junior High School at 7:30pm was a Grand Success with the
recorded attendance of more than 900 people not counting kids under 5 and
presence of folks from all over the bay area Livermore, Tracy, Menlo Park,
San Jose, Sunnyvale and Berkeley as well as from the Tri-City area. Kudos and
hats off to SSF Volunteers for accomplishing a Super Amazing feat with no
prior experience!! Here are few glimpses http://www.smallstepsfoundation.org/events/dandia2007/glimpses/index.html Grantee Update
Sshrishti, KishanGarh, New Delhi SSF had sent a
check to our first grantee, Sshrishti in October’07. But based on the
confirmation from Sshrishti’s representative, Ms. Sanghamitra Bose they
haven’t received it yet. SSF put a stop order on the check as it might be
lost in mail. SSF sent another check
of 1000 USD to Sshrishti through Shaloo Jeswani who visited Sshrishti in
December 2007. Mahita, Chikkadpalli, Hyderabad SSF project team
has put this project on hold based on our project team’s decision and the
project proposal that Mahita submitted. Mahita’s (www.mahita.org)
project is for Community Based Learning Centers (CBLC) for children in
the slums located in the Begumpet area of Hyderabad, the
capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Surana Village, Jaipur Rajasthan The SSF Project
team has decided to go ahead with the next step which is Site Visit for the
project VH Adarsh Vidhya Mandir-Uchch Prathamic Vidhalaya, Parichay, Bhajanpura, Delhi We are currently considering this NFE (non-formal
education) project for 45-50 children conducted in remote area of East Delhi.
Parichay started its Bal Vikas Kendra (Child Development Center) in April
2000 with the help of some like minded people. It selected an area called
Tukhmirpur near Bhajanpura in East Delhi, where 50% of the population is
living under unfavorable living conditions. Started with 9 children now
Parichay is a family of 56 kids and their family members. This project has a
self sustainable model where more than 40% of the income is generated by sale
of Handicrafts and Spices. Small Steps Foundation News Small
Steps Foundation has started planning for the HOLI Event in March 2008. We
are planning to have an Art Competition for kids on a big scale, much more
formal and professional. Please let us know if anyone of you would like to be
part of the event and can share ideas and devote some time. Small
Steps Foundation received Quick Books 2007 Premier edition – non-profit
edition “Donation in Kind” from
Abhinav Mittal who works at Intuit. Thanks Abhinav for your generous donation!! Small
Steps Foundation has filed Tax returns in December, with the IRS, as well as
the CA Secretary of state for its financial year ending July 31st 2007. We also plan
to mail in the receipt in the next month to all donors for their
contributions & donations made to
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