October 2021 Newsletter
EnE October 2021 Newsletter
“Volunteering is at the very core of being a human. No one has made it through life without someone else’s help.” – Heather French Henry
Volunteer of the Month : Soham Pinapala
Soham Pinapala has been volunteering with E&E for more than year. Soham has been consistently participating in every possible activity every weekend and enjoying the experience of giving back to the community. He and his family step up whenever we are short of volunteers. They do not even hesitate to drive 2 hours one way to serve the needy.
Now for a Quick Recap of Our Oct 2021 Activities
Halloween
So proud to see our volunteers in full swing: Making blankets for the unhoused population in Bayarea. Thanks to the lead volunteers for taking time to shop the fabric and presetting for volunteers to finish blanket making.
One of kind hand-made cards by our young volunteers to lift patient’s spirits at hospitals.
Volunteers in action with community gardening activity
Every Saturday in Oct, our volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities. We had raffles and fun incentives and Lunch for children who participated. We gave away a lot of Halloween costumes as prizes and had Halloween theme craftwork for fun.
Volunteers made Babyblankets for new borns in low-income communities.
Volunteers made delicious breakfast for Eastbay unhoused friends.
EnE volunteers made hot meals and sandwiches for the unhoused population in East Bay, South Bay, and Santa Cruz.
Little bakers baked 100’s of goodies for the community
Volunteers distributed lunch packages to the unhoused population.
Young tutors had fun teaching their little tutees different subjects, chess, and art.
EnE’s Global Volunteer Initiatives: Supporting ASHA JYOTHI
- EnE volunteers and their families have been wholeheartedly supporting AshaJyothi, a shelter for abandoned special needs kids in India through their generous donations and meal sponsorships.
- A BIG Thank You to Kavitha Durgi, Shweta & Megha Nelluri, Aneeja Abbas, Trisha Garud, Giri Chodavarapu, Usha Kolluru, Madav Family, and an anonymous donor for food sponsorships to disabled orphan children.
- Please sign-up here if you are interested in sponsoring meals for ~70 special needs kids and their staff of 15 people. We are very happy to share that our anonymous donor is matching two meals for every meal sponsored in the year 2021. Cost: $200 for full-day meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), $80 for just Lunch or Dinner, $40 for breakfast: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090948afae2aaaf49-2021
- Payment Info: Use one of the methods below to make a payment (Please note that online transaction fees are charged to E&E, so please include those fees as well.). Please do company matching wherever possible. (Tax-id: 47-3656395)
- Pay online at: https://empowerexcel.org/donate/
- Zelle transfer to: empowerandexcel.np@gmail.com
- Mail the check, payable to ‘Empower and Excel’ to: Empower and Excel, P.O. Box 21555, San Jose, CA, 95151 U.S.A
- By Cash
Important Monthly Reminders:
Instructions on How to Check your Event Sign-up on DonorView:
- Log on to E&E volunteer DonorView
- Click on the “Events” button
- Click on the “print ticket” button
Please Remember the following
- Please sign in to your DonorView account before you sign up for an event. (The advantage of signing in to your account first is that the attendant fields will be auto-filled for you, making your signup process a lot more efficient. Also, it will avoid the creation of multiple accounts.)
- Make sure to check your email for sign-up confirmation and event ticket.
- In the event that an update is required we will post it on the group chat and send Donorview update email.
- The event sign-up page also has the latest info. Please check there first if you have any questions.
- Please Note: Deleting a sign-up requires admin intervention so please only sign up when you are certain of your availability.
- We announce new events on the WhatsApp group first as events become available. If you have recently joined E&E, it’s best to sign into your Donorview account to see ongoing events. Click on the “event” icon. In the upper- right hand corner you will see a pull-down menu for ongoing events. Here is a short info document on Donorview:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XnpAMjnXXaVjcqG27_WW2tnnFMX8dJoSvXK139z0j_0/edit
* Please Enter Your Volunteer Hours as soon as you are done with your activity
Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA):
- To learn more about hours required to earn PVSA awards in each age group, go to: https://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/eligibility
Shopping on Amazon:
- Please use the following link to shop on Amazon.com: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-3656395. When you shop using this link, Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to EnE.
