Hope all of you are staying warm and safe from winter weather and COVID.

• 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 Masson Family, Narayanam Family, Yerra Family, Ojas Gupta, Potta Family, Trivedi Family, Govindu Family, Palivela Family, Cheruvu Family, Anumolu Family, Fotedar Family, Chodavarapu Family, Madhav Family, Gopu 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/4090948AFAE2AAAF49-2022
  • 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

Instructions on How to Check your Event Sign-up on DonorView:  

1. Log on to E&E volunteer DonorView
2. Click on the “Events” button
3. 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.