Hi Nachaki, It is indeed a good idea. But I think it is very laborious process. It is not as easy as we supposed. Ofcourse anything cannot be difficult either if we are very confident and determined.
Personally what I feel is, we need committed members who stick to the group and be with it, own it. If we can form volunteers of 25 in each place who are willing to spend as much time as possible (no restriction or compulsion but just out of sheer interest and possibility), then it would be fine. I remember Mr. Sai Gollapudi's words to me. (Sai Gollapudi is the site manager of Nokia, Hyderabad and is a dedicated social worker. He heads the Satya Sai Seva Organization and he spends almost 4 hrs a day on social work related things inspite of his busy professional schedule.) "There is more and more money with the people. But they need volunteers. One should prove oneself as a good volunteer and should show determination to serve the causes. Once we are in our work and do it with utmost dedication, money will pour in itself". I remember Prasad sir and Samuel sir saying, some foundation (I don't want to disclose its name) has got 25 lakhs with it but they need people whom they can trust. I also read somewhere in Ryze that two donors are interested to donate some million rupees to Indian NGOs (I very much remember that I forwarded this mail to Chandrareddy). Money is required. No doubt about it. But we need people, clear cut goals, milestones, roadmap and the will to work on our objectives. Felt like sharing it. At the end, I am much more confident and happy that our group is all set to move ahead. Thank you. --- In [email protected], NaChaKi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to Sree Suresh for jotting down the minutes too, while also being active and attentive during the conference call session. > > By the way, Teja (Hyderabad) among the attendees is a non-member and a friend of mine whom I could connect through his company's USA phone number (vNet, it's called, I think). > > While Teja and I discussed more fund-raising options after the conference call, he suggested that the software professionals among our members (I don't know how many are) can possibly create little pieces of software applications that we can possibly sell for a nominal price and that money (or a part of it) may be used for our organization. Here, extending this a bit more, I add this: we could make software applications such as database management systems for charity-minded schools or other educational institutions, and sell them the application for a nominal price (say, about 10-25% of what the commercial market suggests) and use that money for charity too. This way, we could help motivate some schools by easing up their record maintenance while also earning money for our other purposes. > > Please comment. > > NaChaKi >
