SATS Chennai Flood Relief Fund Report
Due to the heavy cyclonic rains resulting in severe floods across the entire city in Chennai, there has been lot of chaos and people have been stranded. They do not have essential needs such as food, clothing and shelter.
A BIG Thanks to all SATS members, patrons, sponsors, and volunteers for supporting the SATS fundraise.
Please find the details of projects that SATS contributed.
1.Project Blanket: 2000 USD
Manavata - US Chapter
Cheque to be in favor of: Manavata Inc.
ADDRESS: 4221 Shelter Bay Ave,
Mill Valley,
CA 94941-6016.
Phone: +408 242 9851
http://www.manavata.org/organization/org-home/18
2. Hope kids project: 4000 USD
Larencce Charitable Trust
Cheque to be in favor of: Larencce Charitable Trust
ADDRESS: No. 2/4, 1st Cross Street,
3rd Avenue, Ashok Nagar,
Chennai - 600 083.
Phone: 044-32536575
http://larenccecharitabletrust.com/about-trust/
3. Sewa International - San Antonio, Texas: 1500 USD
Cheque to be in favor of: Sewa International
http://www.sewausa.org/san-antonio-tx
Thank You So Much For Your Generous Donation.
| S.No | Full Name | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akila Dharani | 50 |
| 2 | Anuradha Lakshminarayanan | INR 1000 |
| 3 | Badrinath Lakshmanaswamy | 96.4 |
| 4 | Biju Chandroth | 100 |
| 5 | Dawn Elmore | 10 |
| 6 | Debra E. Sevening | 100 |
| 7 | Dineshkumar Balaguru | 50 |
| 8 | Ganesh Muthuvelu | 50 |
| 9 | Ganesh Ramu - Chithra | 200 |
| 10 | Gunasekar Rajavel | 20 |
| 11 | Gurunathan Thangavelu | 100 |
| 12 | Internet Profit Web Solutions | 25 |
| 13 | Kalicharan Sundram | 30 |
| 14 | Kannan Paramasivam | 50 |
| 15 | Karthik Govind | 50 |
| 16 | Karthikeyan Subbahnaidu | 151 |
| 17 | Kishore Srinivasan | 50 |
| 18 | Kumar Sasi | 100 |
| 19 | Mukund Dayal | 101 |
| 20 | Nageswararao Thummapudi | 50 |
| 21 | Pavana Annalur | 50 |
| 22 | Prakash Thangamuthu | 50 |
| 23 | Prasanna Ramamoorthy | 50 |
| 24 | Praveena Iruku | 50 |
| 25 | Raja Pitchiah | 96.8 |
| 26 | Rajaguru Paramasamy | 150 |
| 27 | Rajakumar Mariappan | 200 |
| 28 | Ramani Ragunath | 100 |
| 29 | Ramesh Kanumuri | 80 |
| 30 | Rhodes Driving School Inc | 200 |
| 31 | Saravanan Sadasivam | 50 |
| 32 | SSundar Kothandaraman | 25 |
| 33 | Suresh Kumar | 100 |
| 34 | Swati | 30 |
| 35 | Vidya Farook | 100 |
| 36 | Vijay Valli | 50 |
| 37 | Vidya Farook – Kids Birthday Party Gift | 600 |
Refer this PPT link - Click Here
http://www.dinamalar.com/news_detail.asp?id=1401144
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s5tnkEa-g4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udw2zGCAYq4
Thoughts from Dr. Venkat Srinivasan
MISSION: This should be taken by all of us as an opportunity to give back to our beloved city/sister city.
GOAL: Let us aim high-One crore can be a target to shoot for. "Ulakathin oru kodiyil irunthu oru kodi"
INSTITUTIONS: This should be done under the umbrella of institutions rather than individuals-ANUJA as we can then involve the non-Indian public also (since SA is Chennai's sister city) and SATS to co-ordinate with the Tamil community
TANGIBLE TARGET RECIPIENTS: We need to identify the recipient organization quickly. The credibility of the fund raising efforts will depend on this. If possible, identifying a specific task like buying medicines or creating shelters etc. would be even better.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: We need to get the message across the city that Anuja SA/SATS would be spearheading the efforts. Otherwise, many individuals might end up contributing to various entities and the efforts may get fragmented.
COMMUNICATION: A team should be sending communications directly to the Indian public as well as the local press, TV stations, etc. of the devastation that has happened, the scale of the loss and the scope of our fund raising efforts. Images and crisp writing are necessary.
FUND RAISING IDEAS:
1. Ayirathial Oruvar: Identify 100 people who can raise/contribute $1000 each-$100,000
2. Oru Naal podhuma?: Contribute one day's earnings-Have people sign up for this. Identify one day, say, Pongal, Jan 14 as the day we work for Chennai.
3. Raffle:
Research Legal requirements
Get a good prize-Flight tickets, vacation packages, etc.
Tickets- Fewer number of high priced ($100) tickets or a larger number of $1 tickets. Distribute $200 worth tickets to 200 people- $40,000
4. Chillarai from children: All children should collect small change from each household-usually $10 worth-$2000. Small amount but gives sense of participation to children
5. Contribution jars in grocery stores, MD offices, restaurants with pictures on the jars
6. A community Pooja on New Year's eve- $100 / family x 200 families-$20,000. coordinate with HTSA
7. Tap big donors who can contribute or match-10 donors who can give $5000 each?
8. Involve other organizations
TIPPS-request them to apportion from their Gala coming up shortly
IASA
TASA
HTSA
9. Fund raising banquet/silent auction
10. Charity walk
11. Request each performance on Pongal celebrations to have a sponsor
12. Calendar-with each page sponsored as an advertisement. Can be linked to idea #7- distributed to all members of the community
