January 2023 Newsletter
EnE January 2023 Newsletter
“Treat every day like it’s a new year because it is. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.”
We at EnE wish you all a very Happy New Year 2023!
January – EnE volunteers working on providing fun activities to underprivileged, warm food & warm clothing for the unhoused population in the chilly winter times.
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 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.
- Stay tuned to EnE:
- Website: https://empowerexcel.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Empowerandexcel/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empower-and-excel/
Now for a Quick Recap of Our January 2023 Activities
True methods of introducing the gardening concept to children. EnE Volunteers at the Gardening event.
EnE volunteers prepare the first meal of the day, a balanced hot breakfast for Eastbay unhoused.
EnE volunteers 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.
Crafty bakers of EnE baked hundreds of homely decadent muffins, cookies, and brownies for East bay and south bay unhoused.
Volunteers prepared baked goods and meals and dropped off at Fremont, Family Supportive Housing and JW house.
Addressing hunger is a moral imperative! EnE volunteers handed out fresh handmade lunch packs and much-needed double no-sew fleece blankets to the homeless and distributed them in San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Santa Cruz.
STEAM for kids develops creators, thinkers, problem solvers, doers, innovators, and inventors. Exposing kids to simple STEAM activities at an early age today sets a foundation for higher learning tomorrow. Our EnE volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities in San Jose and Gilroy cities.. It’s great to see kids having fun. We had raffles and fun incentives.
Knitting caps for cancer patients continues by our young volunteers.
EnE volunteers made greeting cards for children at the hospitals featuring friendly birthday wishes and new year wish cards for underprivileged children.
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.
Supporting ASHA JYOTHI Handicapped Welfare
EnE’s Global 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 Masson family, Fotedar family, Rachapalli family, Yanamandra family, Nair family, Katakam family, Cheruvu family, Vinjamuri family, Chodavarapu family, and an anonymous donor for food sponsorships to disabled orphaned children.
If you are interested to sign-up in sponsoring meals for ~70 special needs kids and their staff of 15 people please email us at empowerandexcel.np@gmail.com for more information. We are very happy to share that our anonymous donor is matching two meals for every meal sponsored in the year 2023.
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
