November 2021 Newsletter
EnE November 2021 Newsletter
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
~Oscar Wilde
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends.
May the holiday season fill your home with joy, your heart with love, and your life with laughter.
Stay safe and healthy!
E&E Team.
Volunteer of the Month : Bhavya Yanamandra
Bhavya has been volunteering with E&E for more than a year. Past few months she picked up every activity possible to serve the community. She is been such a devoted and hardworking volunteer in furthering our E&E’s efforts.
Now for a Quick Recap of Our Nov 2021 Activities
On Nov 20th, we distributed 100 winter care kits to un-housed friends with the support of Santa Clara County supervisor Otto Lee’s support. Warm double-layer blankets, scarfs, beanies, masks were made by our young volunteers. Kits included hands and foot warmers, ear warmers, hygiene kits, undergarments, sanitary napkins, lip balms, socks, and winter jackets along with lunch kits.
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.
Youth efficiently making hot meals for patients’ families at JW House. Kids made delicious full-course meals.
Volunteering packaging STEAM kits at RAFT.
Youth volunteers collected hundreds of winter jackets, showed off their laundry skills by washing and packing by size for unhouse population to pick up.
At Food Pantry packaging thanksgiving food.
Little bakers baked 100’s of goodies for the community
One of kind hand-made cards by our young volunteers to lift patient’s spirits at hospitals.
Our volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities. We had raffles and fun incentives and Lunch for children who participated.
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.
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, Sasha Masson, Trisha Garud, Kohli, Trisha Dharmapuri, Aneeja Abbas, Giri Chodavarapu, 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.
