By Chinmaya Gogineni - iNERDE | Project Leader
Dear Nerdy Supporters,
The iNERDE family members hope you had a relaxing wonderful time with your family and friends over the holidays. We also hope that all of you beckoned a happy and prosperous new year.
I wanted to take the time to thank you on behalf of iNERDE Inc. and share some exciting updates with you regarding our organization and the project. Our GlobalGiving challenge ended on December 31st 2014. We raised $5,230 from 80 donors like you, who believe in our cause and want to enable/empower kids through foudational education.
Your support and asssistance helped us become permanent partners with GlobalGiving. This will enable us to benefit from their year round program of corporate promotion and matching funds. In addition this has also helped us become a Microsoft YouthSpark supported orgnaization. This will enable us to get matching funds from Microsoft YouthSpark foundation if we have any fundraising drives by the end of the year 2015.
Your generous contribution also enabled us in procuring two grants - A $15,000 grant from EMC Corporation, and a $500 from Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
We could not have won these awards without your contributions. Foundation grants typically require that 40-50% of project funding comes from grassroots support. YOU are this support system of ours, so THANK YOU very much for your continued support to iNERDE and it’s endeavors.
While we are grateful for your contributitons towards our organization, we would like your assistance in spreading the word about iNERDE and it’s work amongst your network. We are still looking to add more summer camps to our 2015 across more African countries, as more funds are available to iNERDE via future donations. All donations to iNERDE are tax deductible and we would love you to spread the words and to help us generate more funds to aid our 2015 summer camp plans.
In addition here is the latest state of affairs as far as the upcoming 2015 summer camps are concerned:
- We are still on target logistically for the projected 4 camps in Mali,
- In addition we are looking to confirm a pilot camp in another West African country,
- The Founder is going to be making a trip in the next week for a duration of 10 days to Mali and the other country,
- This it to both create awareness, presence and spread the word in those countries to a wider audience about the work iNERDE is doing in the country,
- In addition on the trip we are sitting down with Minister of youth, Mali for a meet and greet to identify partnership possibilities with the local government to ensure we have a more stream lined process and on the ground support from the local administration for out efforts.
Stay tuned as we turn around in about a month and create more information packets for your knowledge of how our camps' prep is coming along as we inch closer to the summer.
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