September 2022 Newsletter
EnE September 2022 Newsletter
“Act as if what you do makes a difference! – It does.”
– William James
We hope all kids are off to a great start at school.
We are officially in the month of the autumn equinox. Hope you all enjoy the remainder of the warm days of the year.
Important Reminders:
- Volunteer Hours Recording: Please make sure you continue to record your volunteering hours by logging into our new system.
- Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA): To learn more about the 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.
Now for a Quick Recap of Our September 2022 Activities
Volunteer of the Month: Rishit Agrawal
Rishit has been volunteering with E&E for 2 years and we are proud to see his consistent efforts to serve the community by involving in a variety of activities. He has become one of the most dependable volunteers. We can’t appreciate enough his willingness to share both his time and his talent by volunteering to make life better for those who are in need.
Please take a moment to listen to Kaveri, JEENA coordinator who talks about her association with E&E and requests/elaborates requirements for volunteers to help with special needs children.
Volunteers participated in community gardening activities. It was a great activity for kids as it taught eating healthy veggies and fruits.
Crafty bakers of E&E baked hundreds of homely decadent muffins, cookies, and brownies for Eastbay unhoused and Family Supportive Housing.
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.
E&E volunteers prepare the first meal of the day, a balanced hot breakfast for Eastbay unhoused.
E&E volunteers in action making hearty delicious lunches and dinners (that include, pasta, veg/non-veg/pb&j sandwiches, fruit, snack bars, juice/water) for the needy in our local community.
Addressing hunger is a moral imperative! E&E volunteers hand out fresh handmade lunch packs to the homeless and destitute, in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Cruz, & Family Supportive Housing, and JW House in Santa Clara.
STEM for kids develops creators, thinkers, problem solvers, doers, innovators, and inventors. Exposing kids to simple STEM activities at an early age today sets a foundation for higher learning tomorrow. Our E&E volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities in San Jose. It’s great to see kids having fun. We had raffles and fun incentives and lunch for participants.
Knitting caps for cancer patients continues by our young volunteers.
E&E volunteers made greeting cards for children at the hospitals featuring friendly birthday wishes.
EnE’s Global Volunteer Initiatives:
Supporting ASHA JYOTHI Handicapped Welfare
- 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 Fotedar Family, Gadagkar family, Pinapala Family, Grover, and an anonymous donor for food sponsorships to disabled orphaned 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 2022. 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:
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
