Hi Jayaprakash, What is different about this group? How MAD is Different from the other 30,000 NGO's listed?
Ans: This group contains Krishna :) Regards Krishna 9247180489 --- In [email protected], JP Chilumula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this group is about making a difference, I have some questions: > > How is this different from a few thousand others, lets say like: http://www.rebuildindia.org > > There are 30,000 NGOs listed with giveindia.org and there are a lot more. All of them seem to be doing the same thing. > > What is different about this group? What is its core competency? What is the one thing that this group does best that other groups cannot do? How productive is this group? On the website, there are several places where you ask for help, but I don't see how that money is allocated for various projects and for administrative overhead. Perhaps that part is not uploaded yet. What are the strengths of the core group? By core, I mean the half dozen or so committed people. > > Warmest Regards, > JP. > > ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Friends, > > Greetings. > > This mail is about our agenda for the August meetup. > > Come up with the topics. > > What I feel is Guidelines part is most crucial. > > I spoke for quite sometime with Pavan yesterday night and found out > that: > > 1. There are two govt. schools in Jalamangala -- One is primary and > the other is upper primary. > > Primary school needs stationary - like books, bags, pens, pencils > etc., > > Upper Primary School needs infrastructure - Tables, Chairs. > > As it is a govt. school, they get text books. > > What I felt is, we can arrange for the stationary provided we get the > approximate estimate. Coming to the furniture, we cannot do that > through MAD fund. But if we can prepare a report on how useful they > are, how much does that cost, what would be the impact etc., we can > post them on our website. (We will have a separate section with > respect to our studies, reports and requirements). > > The projects/assignments for which we do not receive funding from > others, we will spend from our MAD fund. For other projects wherein > we are sure we will get outside support, we rely on them. > > US members take up the responsibility of highlighting these projects > and forwarding them to people who are non-MAD members. > > Members of all chapters, we need to register ourselves as Eye and > Organ Donors. Work on it. Let us all be registered as early as > possible so that we can mention about it in our website. > > Coming to Hyderabad exclusive, I think in July's meetup, we proposed > to undergo Thalassemia test for ourselves. If you can let me know the > number, I have to inform Dr. Suman Jain and also need to fix an > appointment for the same. > > Thank you. > > with regards, > Prasanthi. >
