May 2022 Newsletter
EnE May 2022 Newsletter
“Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love.” – Anonymous
We hope all the wonderful Mother’s out there had a fantastic Mother’s Day. Words cannot express how much we value our volunteer mom’s and lead moms for all the support they provide. Thank you for all you do!
Now for a Quick Recap of Our May 2022 Activities
Volunteer of the Month: Srihari Kothapalli
Srihari has been tutoring those who were struggling with reading and writing. Students’ parents are happy about the progress their kids making. They were worried that their child will not make it to the next grade level. But with just a few sessions, the child picked up and made it to the next grade. Srihari played a key role to make this happen. We are proud to see how this young generation is supporting each other.
Beautiful handmade greeting cards for children at hospitals and disabled children at shelters.
Our team has been working so hard to make beautiful blankets for the families in low-income communities. Adult volunteers made the fabric ready with the right measurements for youth volunteers to pick up and complete the blanket. Thanks to all those wonderful moms for taking the time to support this project. Thanks to our lead parent volunteers putting so much effort to prep the material and making videos for kids to follow on how to make the blanket. The team made 19 Minky Fabric Baby blankets, 68 flannel fabric baby blankets, 40 pillows for the homeless, 35 double layer blankets for the homeless, and 16 double layer mats for the homeless.
Volunteers helped to pick up food for the elderly from restaurant.
Volunteers attended Jeena’s annual event at Robert Smithwick Theater to support and help. It was inspiring to see special needs spectacular performances.
Young tutors had fun teaching their little tutees different subjects, chess, and art. Our volunteers ensure that tutoring programs are culturally responsive and tailored to meet the unique needs of student populations.
Happy to receive the following message from HUB one of our partnered organizations on this project:
“It is my sincere pleasure to express my appreciation for the truly commendable contribution you have made to the success of The MH HUB. Your dedication and support assisted is providing youth a safe space that focuses on academic support, specialized tutoring, job search, positive adult role models, relationship building, mentoring and resources around emotional support as well as resource linkage.
You all are amazing! I appreciate you and your time, and each of you have played a positive role in each of the youth lives.
I’ll be reaching out regarding starting back in Aug, through Oct. Off Nov, Dec back in Jan through May.
Thank you again!
Thank you-
Dori Ann Prado”
Thank you volunteers family for cooking delicious dinner for patients families in Santa Clara.
Little bakers baked 100’s of goodies for the community
Our volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities. It’s great to see kids having fun. We had raffles and fun incentives and Lunch for participants.
EnE volunteers made healthy hot breakfast for the unhoused population in East Bay.
Volunteers cooked delicious food for the unhoused populations in South Bay, East Bay, and Santa Cruz areas.
Volunteers distributed food packages, care packages, and sanitary napkins, to the unhoused population in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Cruz, and Fremont.
- 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, Ojas Gupta, Trivedi Family, Kolluru Family, Potula Family, Cheruvu Family, Fotedar 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
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.
