August 2023 Newsletter
“As September arrives, let us embrace the season of giving and make a positive impact in our communities through acts of kindness and compassion.” – Unknown”
August – EnE focused on equipping children from low-income communities to provide basic tools like backpacks and school supplies to go to school.
EnE volunteers workee on providing fun activities to the underprivileged, warm food, hygiene products & warm clothing for the unhoused population.
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
- Stay tuned to EnE:
- Website: https://empowerexcel.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Empowerandexcel/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empower-and-excel/
Handmade bookmarks by our young volunteers. It was a great opportunity for volunteers to relax, show their creativity, and show their love to the book readers. All these beautiful bookmarks were distributed to kids along with backpacks.
Empowering and supporting students from vulnerable Communities to go back to the school!!!
Unfortunately, there are a lot of families who live on the edge of survival. Many families struggle to make ends meet. They struggle to provide basic school supplies and backpacks. Lacking these supplies can lower students’ confidence and self-esteem when they walk into those classrooms.
We are happy and feel proud to support 1,000 students from low-income communities in San Jose, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy cities to be equipped with backpacks and school supplies. Our sponsor’s support helped to relieve the financial burden on parents.
Crafty bakers of EnE baked hundreds of homely decadent muffins, cookies, and brownies for East bay 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.
EnE volunteers prepare the first meal of the day, a balanced hot breakfast for Eastbay unhoused.
EnE volunteers making and distributing 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. EnE volunteers hand out fresh handmade lunch packs to the homeless and destitute, in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Cruz.
Volunteers prepared baked goods and meals and dropped off at Fremont, Family Supportive Housing and JW house.
EnE volunteers made greeting cards for children at the hospitals featuring friendly birthday wishes and new year wish cards for underprivileged children.
True methods of introducing the gardening concept to children. EnE Volunteers at the Gardening event.
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.
Supporting ASHA JYOTHI Handicapped Welfare.
Our main sponsor visited Ashajyothi India shelter. Inaugurated Solar water heater donated by Srikanth and Sreedevi Yellamraju. Freezer donated by Namrita Grover parents donation. Another set of solar panels donated by Giri to lower the powe bills for the shelter. Thanks to our generous donors for contributing to make life better to the disabled children who are living at the shelter.
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, Aneeja Abbas Family, Yanamandra Family, Damera Family, Masson Family, Madhavan Family, 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 2023. Cost: $200 for full-day meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), $80 for just Lunch or Dinner, $40 for breakfast:
- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090948AFAE2AAAF49-2023
- 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.
